Santiago Calatrava (natural July 28, 1951) is a Spanish architect whose work has get progressively popular worldwide.

Calatrava was natural around Valencia, Spain, where he pursued undergrad studies at a Architecture School & Arts & Crafts School. Ensuing graduation within 1975, he enrolled in the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich, Switzerland for graduate work around civil engineering. Calatrava was influenced per French designer Le Corbusier, whose Notre Dame du Haut chapel caused Calatrava to examine how else complex form can be understood & generated around architecture. Inside 1981 when completing his doctorial thesis, "On the Foldability of Space Frames", he started his architecture & engineering practice.

Calatrava's unique, originative, & extremely influential style combines a striking ocular architectural style that interacts harmoniously using the rigid information of engineering. His functiin typically draws on form & structure detected in the natural globe, & may be described when anthropomorphic. His works keep close at hand elevated a project of occasionally civil engineering projects like bridges to new heights. He has designed many train stations, heralded for their bright, open, & well-traveled spaces.

When he is primarily referred to as an designer, Calatravthe is likewise a prolific sculptor and painter, claiming that the practice of architecture combines all the arts into 1.

One of his recently projects occurs as residential skyscraper composed of 12 townhouses in the shape of cubes stacked in top of 1 an additional. the townhouses move higher the independent beam & watch a ladder-such as pattern, providing apiece townhouse using its have roof. A "townhouse in the sky" project has attracted a high profile business, uncoerced to pay the hefty US$30 million for each cube. It is built within New York City's financial territory facing a East River.

He has besides designed a Fordham Spire, a projected skyscraper to become built within Chicago.

Calatrava has too designed deuce-ace bridges that may in time span a Trinity River in Dallas, Texas, the first one bridges may begwithin construction in December, 2005. Once completed (target date 2010), Dallas might join a Dutch city of Haarlemmermeer in having ternion Calatrava bridges.

Notable works
Completed
Trinity Bridge, footbridge above River Irwell, Salford, England Oberbaumbrucke, Berlin, Germany Alameda Bridge and metro station, Valencia, Spain 1983-1984, Jakem Steel Storage warehouse, Munchwilen, Switzerland 1983-1985, Ernsting Storage warehouse, Coesfeld, Germany 1983-1988, Wohlen High School, Wohlen, Switzerland 1983-1990, Stadelhofen Railway Station, Zürich, Switzerland 1983-1989, Medicago sativa Station Hall, Lucerne, Switzerland 1984-1987, Bach de Roda Felipe II Bridge, Barcelona, Spain 1984-1988, Barenmatte Community Center, Suhr, Switzerland, 1986-1987, Tabourettli Theater, Basel, Switzerland, 1987-1992, BCE Place, Toronto, Canada, 1989-1994, TGV Station, Lyon, France 1992, Puente del Alamillo, Seville, Spain 1992, Montjuic Communications Tower at the Montjuïc Olympic Plaza, Barcelona, Spain 1992, World's Fair, Kuwaiti Pavilion, Seville, Spain 1994-1997, Campo Volantin Footbridge, Bilbao, Spain 1996, Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències, Valencia, Spain 1998, [http://www.calatrava.com/search_cat.html?iid=l14a&lang=1&a=10&p=T&s=T&id=15&iid2=l11a1b2c2d2e&r=2 Estação do Oriente] or even (Gare do Oriente), Lisbon, Portugal 1998, Puente de la Mujer, in the Puerto Madero barrio of Buenos Aires, Argentina 2001, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA 2003, James Joyce Bridge, bridge over River Liffey, Dublin, Ireland 2004, redesign of Athens Olympic Sports Complex, Athens, Greece 2004, Sundial Bridge at Turtle Bay, Redding, California, USA 2004, 3 bridges (called Harp, Cittern and Lute) spanning the main canal of the Haarlemmermeer, Netherlands 2005, Turning Torso, Malmö, Sweden

Under construction
World Trade Center Transportation Hub, New York City, USA Atlanta Symphony Center, Atlanta, Georgia, USA TGV Station, Liège, Belgium Palacio first state Congresos, Oviedo, Spain Fordham Spire, Chicago, USA

Calatrava has too submitted designs for a total of notable projects which were sooner or later awarded to more designers, including the Reichstag in Berlin and a East London River Crossing. the East London Flow of any stream Crossing, particularly, was the super elegant & bold project which was considered by virtually all to become a far additional worthy project to the 1 actually built.

Awards
2005 AIA Gold Medal