SANTIAGO CALATRAVA

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SANTIAGO CALATRAVA
Marbin quezada spring 2005 Architecture 71-
architecture history (renaissance to 21st
century) Rolando Gonzalez m.arch., architect
aia College of the sequoias division of
industry and technology
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A r c h I t e c t A r t I s t E n g I n e e r
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.
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Winery complex for the Bodega Bebidas
GroupLaguardia, Alava, Spain, 1998-2000The
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 throughtransparenc
y but through the"static movement" of the
enclosures
The following structures are calatravas most
recent and famous structures. San Sebastian -
Bodegas Ysios
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Wisconsin Avenue,Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA 1994
2001Expansion of the museum complexInvited
competitionThe 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
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THESE ARE SOME OF CALATRAVAS MOST FAMOUSE
STRUCTURE ALL AROUND THE WORLD.
LYON AIRPORT STATION
BARCELONA COMUNICATION TOWER
VALENCI CITY OF ARTS AND SCIENCE
WTC PATH TERMINAL
SOUTH CSTREET TOWER
TENERIFE OPERA HOUSE
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THESE ARE SOME OF CALATRAVAS MOST FAMOUSE
BRIDGES ALL AROUND EUROPE
ALAMILLO BRIDGE AND LA CARTUJA VIADUCT
PONT D ORLEANS, FRANCE
SUNDIAL BRIDGE AT TURTLE BAY
LUSITANIA BRIDGE
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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
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A W A R D S
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 dOr, Architecture,
Académie DArchitecture, Paris2002Prize Best of
2001 for the design of the Milwaukee Art Museum
Extension, Time Magazine, New YorkPrize Il
Principe e LArchitetto 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
FerraraDas 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