SANTIAGO CALATRAVA

Marbin quezada spring 2005

Architecture 71- architecture history (renaissance to 21 st century)
Rolando Gonzalez m.arch., architect aia
College of the sequoias division of industry and technology
ArchItect
ArtIst
EngIneer
Santiago calatrava was born on july 28, 1951 in
a town of benimamet, near Valencia, Spain. He
attended primary and secondary school in
Valencia. From the age of 8, he also attended
the arts and crafts school, where he started his
formal instruction in drawing and painting. At
the age 13 he was an exchange student in
France and traveled to study in Switzerland. He
returned to Valencia and finished high and later
he was enrolled en escuela tecnica superior de
architectura. He earned a degree in architecture
and took a post-graduate course in urbanism.
Being attracted by mathematics, calatrava
decided to pursue post-graduate studies in civil
engineering, so he was enrolled in the federal
institute of technology in Zurich, Switzerland in
1975. he received his doctor rate in 1979,
during that period he met and married his wife,
who was a law student in Zurich.
The following structures are calatravas
most recent and famous structures.
San Sebastian - Bodegas Ysios
Winery complex for the Bodega
& Bebidas Group
Laguardia, Alava, Spain, 1998-
2000
The building is conceived as an
element that is
integrated into the powerful,
surrounding landscape
while being somehwat
autonomous at the same time,
in the manner of a site-specific
sculpture. Calatrava
adopted the strategy of giving
a volumetric treatment
to the roof and walls, physical
limits of the landscape
outside and the winery within,
so that continuity
between the two spaces is
achieved not through
transparency but through the
"static movement" of the
enclosures
 Wisconsin Avenue,
MILWAUKEE A Milwaukee,
RT MEUSEUM Wisconsin, USA
1994 2001
Expansion of the
museum complex
Invited competition

The new pavilion-

like construction
features a
spectacular
kinetic structure: a
bris-soleil with
louvers that open
and close like the
wings of a great bird
THESE ARE SOME OF
CALATRAVAS MOST FAMOUSE
STRUCTURE ALL AROUND THE
WORLD.

LYON AIRPORT STATION BARCELONA COMUNICATION

TOWER

VALENCI CITY OF ARTS

WTC PATH TERMINAL
AND SCIENCE

SOUTH CSTREET TOWER TENERIFE OPERA HOUSE

THESE ARE SOME OF
CALATRAVAS MOST
FAMOUSE BRIDGES ALL
AROUND EUROPE

ALAMILLO BRIDGE AND LA CARTUJA PONT D ORLEANS, FRANCE

VIADUCT

LUSITANIA BRIDGE SUNDIAL BRIDGE AT TURTLE BAY

Currently there are some of calatravas
structures yet to be seen like the 80th
south street tower.

The building will be Mr. Calatrava's first

residential project in the United States. The
principal units of the building are 45-foot glazed
cubes, each of which contains four floors of
residential space. Twelve cubes are
cantilevered, in steplike fashion, up the
building's vertical core, which in plan is a slender
concrete rectangle. The core contains the
building plant, main elevators, service elevator,
and emergency stair, so that usable space within
the cubes is maximized. The structure as a
whole rises from a 60,000 square foot base,
approximately 80 to 90 feet high, which Mr.
Sciame envisions as the home of a major cultural
institution. The 80 South Street Tower as a whole
is 835 feet high and will contain 175,000 square
feet of space
 A W A R D S
2004
Doctor Scientaiarium Honoris Causa conferred by the Technion (Israel's
Institute of Technology), Haifa, Israel
Golden Plate Award of the Academy of Achievement, presented at the
Academy's annual dinner by composer and music producer Quincy Jones,
Chicago, Illinois
2003
Medalla al Mrito a las Bellas Artes, Real Academia de San Carlos de
Valencia, Valencia
Grande Mdaille dOr, Architecture, Acadmie DArchitecture, Paris
2002
Prize Best of 2001 for the design of the Milwaukee Art Museum Extension,
Time Magazine, New York
Prize Il Principe e LArchitetto for the design of the Quattro Ponte sul
Canal Grande in Venice, Architettura e Design per la Citt, Bologna
Prize The Sir Misha Black Medal, Royal College of Art, London
Prize 2002 The Best Large Structural Project for the Milwaukee Art Museum
Addition, The Structural Engineers Association of Illinois
The Leonardo da Vinci Medal, by the SEFI for having made an outstanding
contribution of international significance to engineering education,
SEFIRENZE 2000, Florence.
2001
Prize Exitos 2000 to the best architectural work for the Science Museum in
Valencia, Madrid
Award for Excellence in Design for the Time Capsule, American Museum of
Natural History, New York
European Award for Steel Structures for the Europe Bridge over the Loire
River, Orlans
2000
Doctor Honoris Causa of Architecture, Universit degli Studi di Ferrara
Das Goldene Dach 2000, The Golden Roof, Structural Completion of the
Pfalzkeller, St. Gallen
Guest of Honour, Mexico City, D.F. Government
2000 Algur H. Meadows Award for Excellence in the Arts, Meadows School
of Arts, Dallas
Gold Medal, Crculo de Bellas Artes, Valencia