Santiago Calatrava

Santiago Calatrava One of Spain's most famous mode architect Santiago Calatrava, bo in Valencia on 28 July 1951. He studied first at the grassroots level to which the architecture and art and vocational schools. After only a year to study architecture at the Escuela T? cnica Superior de Arquitectura de Valencia. "He extended his studies and we did a postgraduate course in urbanism. As a result, he moved to ETH Zurich, Switzerland to start the construction and civil engineering diploma. In 1981, after completing his doctorate, Calatrava opened his first practice of architecture and engineering in Zurich. His first project was carried out Jakem the factory in 1983, Münchwilen, Switzerland. Calatrava is known for its distinctive, original and highly influential style that combines striking visual style and the strict rules of technique. A large part of his work is inspired by the natural world - and is influenced mainly by the shapes and structures that are in them. E 'il Bio Calatrava-style, which in addition to many of his contemporaries. Even after a relatively short career so far, so he with his breathtaking design of bridges and stations, and radical ideas, including the proposed "Townhouse in the Sky", in which the parties would be willing to part with $ 30million a pending 12 houses stacked one above the other in a head impact. Calatravas existing work is too large to go much deeper, his work throughout Europe and North and South America is far-reaching and eclectic. Some of his most famous works are his great contribution to the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004, which included the addition of the suspension of the roof in the main stadium for athletics, as well as many other projects around the site. In Malmö, Sweden, Calatrava has built a high rise apartment block, 50-story building is the second highest home - structure in Europe and is based on a sculpture by Caltrava, "Tuing Torso". This will of course sculptural elements in its architecture Calatrava - for him, are one and the same. Although Calatrava is now a family for his drawings, it is less known is that he is also a very talented painter and sculpture - two skills he leaed while a course. Calatrava is the view that architecture is simply a practice that unites all the arts in a matter of fact at the end of 2005, the Museum of Mode Art is an exhibition on the work of Calatrava called "Sculpture in Architecture." In practice, almost 20 years, Santiago Calatrava has won numerous awards, including 1987 "Auguste Perret UIA Prize," 1992 "Gold Medal of the Institute of Structural Engineers and in 2005 a gold medal from The American Institute of Architects. " With its unique design and one of the best reputation in the business community, Calatrava has been on the map as one of the leading companies worldwide in his field, and perhaps one day ea him famous, that of Spain is the great architect, Antoni Gaudi.