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Santiago Calatrava Valls
Personal Information
Name Santiago Calatrava Valls
Nationality Spanish
Birth date July 28, 1951
Birth place Valencia
Working Life
Practice Name Santiago Calatrava
Significant Buildings Ciutat de Les Arts i Les Ciències
Significant Projects Athens Olympic Sports Complex
Awards and Prizes See below


Santiago Calatrava Valls (born July 28, 1951) is a Spanish architect and engineer whose work has become increasingly popular worldwide.

Calatrava was born in Valencia, Spain, where he pursued undergraduate studies at the Architecture School and Arts and Crafts School. Following graduation in 1975, he enrolled in the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich, Switzerland for graduate work in civil engineering. Calatrava was influenced by the French/Swiss architect Le Corbusier, whose Notre Dame du Haut chapel caused Calatrava to examine how complex form could be understood and generated in architecture. Many of his structural forms (parabolic arches, branching columns, ruled surfaces) appear to be inspired by fellow countryman Gaudi with obvious homages paid in his Bodegas Ysios and his unrealized design for the completion of St. John the Divine in Brooklyn. In 1981 after completing his doctoral thesis, "On the Foldability of Space Frames", he started his architecture and engineering practice.

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Calatrava's unique, creative, and highly influential style combines a striking visual architectural style that interacts harmoniously with the rigid principles of engineering. His work often draws on form and structure found in the natural world, and can be described as anthropomorphic. His works have elevated the design of some civil engineering projects such as bridges to new heights. He has designed numerous train stations, heralded for their bright, open, and easily-traveled spaces.

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While he is primarily known as an architect, Calatrava is also a prolific sculptor and painter, claiming that the practice of architecture combines all the arts into one.

Calatrava's first United States work was the Quadracci Pavilion addition to the Milwaukee Art Museum.

One of his newest projects is a residential skyscraper named "80 South Street" after its own address, composed of 10 townhouses in the shape of cubes stacked on top of one another. The townhouses move up a main beam and follow a ladder-like pattern, providing each townhouse with its own roof. The "townhouse in the sky" design has attracted a high profile clientele, willing to pay the hefty US$30 million for each cube. It will be built in New York City's financial district facing the East River.

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He has also designed a skyscraper for 400 North Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, (formerly known as the Fordham Spire). Originally commissioned by Chicagoan Christopher Carley, Irish developer Garrett Kelleher purchased the building site for the project in July of 2006 when Carley's financing plans fell through. Kelleher is currently in negotiations with Carley and Calatrava to purchase Calatrava's design for the building. Kelleher's close working relationship with the Anglo Irish Bank, and his own wealth which will allow him to personally finance 100 percent of the equity in the project, will make it easier for Kelleher to build this project than it was for Carley. Kelleher plans to begin construction of the building in Spring of 2007 for completion in 2010. When completed, 440 North Lakeshore Drive will, at 2,000 feet tall, be the tallest building in North America.

Calatrava has also designed three bridges that will eventually span the Trinity River in Dallas. Construction of the first bridge, named after donor Margaret Hunt Hill, has been repeatedly delayed due to high costs, a fact that has sparked much controversy and criticism. If and when completed, Dallas will join the Dutch county of Haarlemmermeer in having three Calatrava bridges.

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Calatrava was awarded the Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts. The Award is among the country's most esteemed arts awards. Established to honor Eugene McDermott, founder of Texas Instruments and long-time friend and benefactor to MIT, the award was created by the Council for the Arts at MIT in 1974, and further endowed by Eugene's wife, Margaret. Since its inception, the Council has bestowed the award upon 31 individuals producing creative work in the performing, visual and media arts, as well as authors, art historians and patrons of the arts.

His nephew Alex Calatrava is a professional tennis player.

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[edit] Under construction/Proposed

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Calatrava has also submitted designs for a number of notable projects which were eventually awarded to other designers, including the Reichstag in Berlin and the East London River Crossing.

View of the proposed bridge at the entrance to Jerusalem, currently under construction as part of the Jerusalem Light Rail (Mass Transit) Project. Proposed completion: 2008
The future transit hub at the World Trade Center site in New York City, to be completed in 2009. This is an early rendering. The project being built has much shorter spires.
Calatrava's 2,000 feet (610 m) tall skyscraper the Chicago Spire in Chicago, formerly named the Fordham Spire, will be the tallest building in North America when it opens in 2010.

[edit] Never Built

  • A campus building for Ryerson University in Toronto Canada. His design was dropped for a less expensive design.

[edit] See also

[edit] Awards

[edit] Exhibits

A special exhibition has been presented at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through March 5, 2006 [2]. Images from the exhibition.

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[edit] References

  • Tzonis, Alexander (1999). Santiago Calatrava: The Poetics Of Movement. Universe. ISBN 0-7893-0360-4.
  • Tzonis, Alexander (2004). Santiago Calatrava: The Complete Works. Rizzoli. ISBN 0-8478-2641-4.
Persondata
NAME Calatrava, Santiago
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION engineer, architect
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Valencia, Spain
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH
bs:Santiago Calatrava

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