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	Santiago Calatrava - Great Buildings Online
		Santiago Calatrava was born in Valencia, Spain in 1951.
		Calatrava opened his own architecture and engineering office in Zurich.
		Zurich: SANTIAGO CALATRAVA SA Höschgasse 5 8008 Zurich SWITZERLAND
	www.greatbuildings.com /architects/Santiago_Calatrava.html (369 words)

	The Bird Man - The New York Review of Books
		Calatrava is the first to admit this, as he often cites his debt to Antoni Gaudí, although he clearly has no affinity for the eccentric, handmade quality of the Catalan master's buildings, with their bizarre admixtures of materials, textures, and colors.
		Calatrava's confident and awe-inspiring public works tap into a deep-seated desire for a future quite different from the one we are facing, a yearning that does much to explain his extraordinary success.
		Calatrava, for his Planetarium of 1991– 1996 at the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia, took designs by both architects and altered them in a way, it is safe to venture, that no other architect of his stature today would dare.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/18554 (5027 words)

	Santiago Calatrava - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Calatrava, Santiago, born in 1951, Spanish architect and engineer, known for creating graceful and dynamic structural forms, especially bridges.
		Santiago (Chile), capital city of Chile, on the Mapocho River, in the central part of the country.
		Santiago is situated at an elevation of 520 m...
	encarta.msn.com /Santiago_Calatrava.html (139 words)

	Fred A. Bernstein: Santiago Calatrava, from the Canary Islands to Manhattan Island
		Santiago Calatrava's opera house at Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canary Islands is dominated by a winglike canopy nearly 200 feet tall.
		Calatrava is an engineer by training, and that makes it possible for him to construct the ambitious buildings he calls "penetrable sculptures." When his addition to the Milwaukee Art Museum was in trouble a couple of years ago — no one could figure out how to build the movable "sunshades" that Mr.
		Calatrava's mother (still living in Valencia) believes she is descended from the rabbi; Santiago grew up knowing that his family had been chuetas, from the Spanish word for pig: Jews who "proved" they weren't Jews by eating pork in public.
	www.fredbernstein.com /articles/display.asp?id=14 (1887 words)

	Art/Museums: Santiago Calatrava at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Santiago Calatrava in recent years has ascended to the pantheon of internationally acclaimed architects and his fame now is exceeded only by Frank O. Gehry (see The City Review article).
		Calatrava is the first to admit this, as he often cites his debt to Antoni Gaudí, although he clearly has no affinity for the eccentric, handmade quality of the Catalan master's buildings, with their bizarre admixtures of materials, textures, and colors.
		Calatrava's confident and awe-inspiring public works tap into a deep-seated desire for a future quite different from the one we are facing, a yearning that does much to explain his extraordinary success.
	www.thecityreview.com /calatrav1.html (3166 words)

	Santiago Calatrava – Spain’s greatest, modern architect
		Calatrava is well known for his distinctive, original and highly influential style, which blends impressive visual style and the strict rules of engineering.
		Although Calatrava is a now a household name for his designs, it is less well known that he is also very talented painter and sculpture – both skills he learned whilst an undergraduate.
		Calatrava believes that architecture is simply a practice that combines all arts into one, indeed late in 2005 the Museum of Modern Art will be hosting an exhibition on Calatrava’s work called “Sculpture in Architecture”.
	www.babylon-idiomas.com /eng/htm/resources-santiago-calatrava.htm (468 words)

	Santiago Calatrava - MSN Encarta
		Calatrava draws inspiration from forms in nature—for example, wings, flower petals, waves, and animal skeletons.
		Calatrava was born in Benimamet, near Valencia, Spain.
		This project brought Calatrava a number of bridge commissions that established his reputation.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_701610428/Santiago_Calatrava.html (261 words)

	INgeniUS: Santiago Calatrava \| Metropolis Magazine \| June 2001
		Since Calatrava's complex feats of engineering are often described as cathedral-like (perhaps because the ribs of his structures resemble Gothic buttresses), it is fitting that he won the competition to design the Christ the Light Cathedral in Oakland, California.
		Calatrava wandered about the site for two days and sketched.) They talk of his lack of grandstanding and his willingness to adapt to a site change for the cathedral project after a property developer poached one earmarked for the diocese.
		Calatrava has prospered on this hunger for conspicuous greatness, and his Milwaukee project in particular is a composite of his most spectacular devices.
	www.metropolismag.com /html/content_0601/cal (2894 words)

	Santiago Calatrava - Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Calatrava is also known for his drawings and sculpture, which have been exhibited in numerous galleries since 1985.
		Architecture: Sweeping statement; Santiago Calatrava's latest tour de force is a stunning arts and conference centre in Tenerife.
		An artist rendering of the proposed Chicago skyscraper by Spanish architect and engineer Santiago Calatrava, designed to be built along the city's lake front.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Calatrva.html (788 words)

	Santiago Calatrava - The Milwaukee Art Museum:: arcspace.com
		The MAM project features the new Santiago Calatrava designed Quadracci pavilion, renovated and reinstalled galleries in existing Museum buildings designed by Eero Saarinen (1957) and David Kahler (1975), and an elegant network of gardens, hedges, plazas and fountains designed by landscape architect Dan Kiley.
		Calatrava's designs are often inspired by nature, featuring a combination of organic forms and technological innovation.
		Among the many maritime elements in Calatrava's design are: movable steel louvers inspired by the wings of a bird; a cabled pedestrian bridge with a soaring mast inspired by the form os a sailboat and a curving single-storey galleria reminiscent of a wave.
	www.arcspace.com /architects/calatrava/milwaukee_art_museum (503 words)

	Santiago Calatrava: Going Natural With High Tech - Thomas D. Sullivan
		Santiago Calatrava is one of the most remarkable and promising architects of our time.
		Calatrava has a penchant for dramatic gestures, too: His Alamillo Bridge, built for the 1992 World's Fair in Seville, is shaped like a harp and is held up by a pylon that rises 466 feet in the air.
		All of Calatrava's structures are in Europe (he has won a competition to complete the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York, but it is not yet certain whether his design will be...
	www.worldandi.com /specialreport/1994/january/Sa11800.htm (295 words)

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		Thus, in the dawn of the new millennium, Calatrava's work comes from the formal experimentation and development of structural ideas that are conceived and tested through his sculpture, just as the great sculptors and architects of the Renaissance, like Michelangelo or Sansovino, learned their trade by sculpting at the Medici Academy.
		Calatrava's poetic and visually refreshing architecture blends technical skills with the archetypical images, where the movement and views of each work become unusual protagonists, thus creating a language of their own in the panorama of contemporary architecture.
		Calatrava designs and creates with watercolours and his studies of the human body in movement are later transformed into communication towers, bridges or buildings.
	www.florence-concierge.it /earticoli/santiago.html (452 words)

	Amazon.ca: Santiago Calatrava: Complete Works: Books: Alexander Tzonis (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava has achieved considerable international acclaim in recent years with his breathtaking feats of engineering in the service of elegant and humanistic modern forms.
		Santiago Calatrava: Complete Works represents the first publication to comprehensively examine this contemporary master’s life and work, beginning with his childhood in Valencia and his education in Zurich and Paris, and continuing with the origins and development of his celebrated oeuvre.
		Other projects featured in Santiago Calatrava: Complete Works are the Bach de Roda Bridge in Barcelona, Lucerne Station Hall, BCE Place in Toronto, the Alamillo Bridge in Seville, the Oudry-Mesly Bridge in Paris, the Lyon Airport Railway Station, and the Orient Station in Lisbon.
	www.amazon.ca /Santiago-Calatrava-Complete-Alexander-Tzonis/dp/0847826414 (365 words)

	MIT Architecture: Santiago Calatrava Profile
		Calatrava was born in Spain and schooled first as an artist in Valencia.
		From 1975 to 1981, at the ETH in Zurich, Calatrava studied Civil Engineering, earning his doctorate with a thesis on the foldability of spaceframes.
		Calatrava's award-winning work, from sculptures to bridges, has been widely exhibited and published.
	architecture.mit.edu /people/profiles/prcalatr.html (120 words)

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		Santiago Calatrava's design for the Stadelhofen railway station in Zurich (Switzerland) draws its inspiration from the natural fall of the terrain.
		Designed almost entirely by Valencia born Santiago Calatrava L’Hemisfèric (Planetarium) was the first element to be opened to the public in April 1998.
		Calatrava’s use of pure white concrete and Gaudiesque fragments of shattered tiles, an important Valencian industry, tie all the structures together as a whole.
	www.lycos.com /info/santiago--santiago-calatrava.html (477 words)

	arts@MIT Press Release 2/2/2005: Santiago Calatrava receives MIT's McDermott Award
		Calatrava was recently a visiting professor of architecture at MIT, and his 1997 lectures at MIT, "Santiago Calatrava: Conversations with Students--The MIT Lectures," were published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2002.
		Calatrava is the 30th recipient of the McDermott Award, joining the ranks of such visionaries as sculptor Henry Moore, scientist and photographer Harold E. "Doc" Edgerton, architect I.M. Pei and composer Tan Dun.
		Calatrava has captured the hearts and imagination of the public and his clients as well as those of designers and engineers around the globe.
	web.mit.edu /arts/announcements/prs/2005/0202_calatrava.html (1483 words)

	CNN.com - Santiago Calatrava - Mar 14, 2006
		Although the Valencia-born Calatrava now works out of New York and has his main headquarters in Zurich, it has been his hometown that has inspired his most monumental and dramatic designs in the futuristic landscape of the Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias.
		Calatrava's latest addition to the complex, the Palau de les Artes concert hall, was described by one critic as "something Darth Vader might wear to a nightclub."
		Characterized by fluid forms and elegant asymmetric motifs, Calatrava's work is noted for its asymmetry and its referencing of natural shapes such as waves, shells, leaves and skeletal forms.
	edition.cnn.com /2006/TRAVEL/03/08/valencia.santiagocalatrava/index.html (336 words)

	Santiago Calatrava: The Architect’s Studio
		A videotape of the November 7 Santiago Calatrava exhibition is available through the Simpson Center for the Humanities.
		Santiago Calatrava: The Architect’s Studio highlights the work of one of the most celebrated and original architects of the present day.
		Santiago Calatrava: The Architect’s Studio is organized for the Henry Art Gallery by independent curator Kirsten Kiser with Curatorial Coordinator Jordan Howland.
	www.henryart.org /ex/calatrava.htm (309 words)

	MAM - The Building - Architect Santiago Calatrava
		After completing his studies, Calatrava took a position as an assistant at the ETH and began to accept small engineering commissions, such as designing the roof for a library or the balcony of a private residence.
		Calatrava established his firm’s second office, in Paris, in 1989, when he was working on the Lyon Airport Station (1989-94).
		Exhibitions of Calatrava’s work were first mounted in 1985, with a showing of nine sculptures in an art gallery in Zurich.
	www.mam.org /thebuilding/calatrava.htm (672 words)

	TIME Magazine: Innovators: Santiago Calatrava
		SANTIAGO CALATRAVA: "A tradition is always in evolution," says Calatrava, 53, who counts the architects Antonio Gaud’ and Eero Saarinen as major influences.
		As a boy Calatrava wanted to be a sculptor, but an early encounter with the work of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe sent him down the path of architecture (art is still his avocation—his Manhattan town house and his villa outside Zurich are filled with his abstract steel sculpture).
		Calatrava was chosen last year to design the $2 billion new terminal there for the PATH commuter line that connects Manhattan with New Jersey.
	www.time.com /time/2004/innovators/200403/calatrava.html (558 words)

	Santiago Calatrava at AllExperts
		Calatrava was born in Valencia, Spain, where he pursued undergraduate studies at the Architecture School and Arts and Crafts School.
		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.
		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.
	en.allexperts.com /e/s/sa/santiago_calatrava.htm (1192 words)

	Santiago Calatrava: a redefinition of 21st century urbanity Latino Leaders: The National Magazine of the Successful ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Santiago Calatrava: a redefinition of 21st century urbanity
		Calatrava's buildings and bridges have often been called true works of art, but that does not mean they are not functional: his complex, almost magical, designs are grated urban projects that deliver all the practical benefits for which they were planned in the first place.
		Calatrava's creations, now a powerful presence throughout the globe, have become a lot more than transportation structures or concert halls.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0PCH/is_5_5/ai_n6332916 (762 words)

	Santiago Calatrava : Complete Works Summary (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Using analogy as a creative tool, Calatrava has filled notebooks with bold sketches of lunging and leaping human bodies that mutate into arcing roof forms and bridge suspensions.
		Tzonis, an architecture professor whose writing is a model of clarity, leads the general reader through the intricacies of Calatrava's solutions for folding frames and new kinds of curved surfaces.
		Vastly superior in its depth of analysis to Philip Jodidio's Santiago Calatrava, Tzonis's authoritative text is accompanied by hundreds of glorious large-scale images of the work by numerous photographers.
	www.shvoong.com /books/218733-santiago-calatrava-complete-works (365 words)

	Santiago Calatrava, Architect and Engineer - mediainfo2004.gr
		Architects, meanwhile, fault his work for appearing to be stuck in the 20th century. But "the appeal of Calatrava's work, if you are susceptible to it, lies in its hybrid quality.
		Calatrava's impressive work includes a roof for the main Olympic stadium in Athens. This new design transforms the existing complex built in 1982.
		Calatrava's roof, spanning nearly 1,000 feet in length.
	www.mediainfo2004.gr /cgibin/hweb?-A=1253&-V=analysis&-w= (129 words)

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