SANTIAGO CALATRAVA

Marbin quezada spring 2005Architecture 71- architecture history (renaissance to 21st century)

Rolando Gonzalez m.arch., architect aiaCollege of the sequoias – division of industry and technology

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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.

Winery complex for the Bodega & Bebidas GroupLaguardia, Alava, Spain, 1998-2000

The building is conceived as an element that isintegrated into the powerful, surrounding landscapewhile being somehwat autonomous at the same time,in the manner of a site-specific sculpture. Calatravaadopted the strategy of giving a volumetric treatmentto the roof and walls, physical limits of the landscapeoutside and the winery within, so that continuitybetween the two spaces is achieved not throughtransparency but through the"static movement" of the enclosures

The following structures are calatrava’s most recent and famous structures.

San Sebastian - Bodegas Ysios

Wisconsin Avenue,Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA 1994 – 2001Expansion of the museum complexInvited competition

The new pavilion-like construction features a spectacularkinetic structure: a bris-soleil with louvers that openand close like the wings of a great bird

M I L W A U K E E A R T M E U S E U M

SOUTH CSTREET TOWER TENERIFE OPERA HOUSE

WTC PATH TERMINALVALENCI CITY OF ARTS AND SCIENCE

LYON AIRPORT STATION BARCELONA COMUNICATION TOWER

THESE ARE SOME OF CALATRAVAS MOST FAMOUSE STRUCTURE ALL AROUND THE WORLD.

THESE ARE SOME OF CALATRAVA’S MOST FAMOUSE BRIDGES ALL AROUND EUROPE

ALAMILLO BRIDGE AND LA CARTUJA VIADUCT

PONT D’ ORLEANS, FRANCE

SUNDIAL BRIDGE AT TURTLE BAYLUSITANIA BRIDGE

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

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

2004Doctor Scientaiarium Honoris Causa conferred by the Technion (Israel's Institute of Technology), Haifa, IsraelGolden Plate Award of the Academy of Achievement, presented at the Academy's annual dinner by composer and music producer Quincy Jones, Chicago, Illinois2003Medalla al Mérito a las Bellas Artes, Real Academia de San Carlos de Valencia, ValenciaGrande Médaille d’Or, Architecture, Académie D’Architecture, Paris2002Prize Best of 2001 for the design of the Milwaukee Art Museum Extension, Time Magazine, New YorkPrize «Il Principe e L’Architetto» for the design of the Quattro Ponte sul Canal Grande in Venice, Architettura e Design per la Città, BolognaPrize The Sir Misha Black Medal, Royal College of Art, LondonPrize 2002 The Best Large Structural Project for the Milwaukee Art Museum Addition, The Structural Engineers Association of IllinoisThe Leonardo da Vinci Medal, by the SEFI for having made an outstanding contribution of international significance to engineering education, SEFIRENZE 2000, Florence.2001Prize Exitos 2000 to the best architectural work for the Science Museum in Valencia, MadridAward for Excellence in Design for the Time Capsule, American Museum of Natural History, New YorkEuropean Award for Steel Structures for the Europe Bridge over the Loire River, Orléans2000Doctor Honoris Causa of Architecture, Università degli Studi di Ferrara«Das Goldene Dach 2000», The Golden Roof, Structural Completion of the «Pfalzkeller», St. GallenGuest of Honour, Mexico City, D.F. Government2000 Algur H. Meadows Award for Excellence in the Arts, Meadows School of Arts, DallasGold Medal, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Valencia

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