Santiago Calatrava Valls was born in 1951 in Benimamet near Valencia [Valence], Spain. He started his studies in 1968 at the school of arts in Valencia. From 1969 to 1974, Calatrava studied architecture and urbanistics at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectur de Valencia, then civil engineering at Switzerland's Federal Institute of Technology [Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, ETH] in Zurich, finishing with a doctorate in technical sciences in 1981. Santiago Calatrava realized a number of projects in Switzerland and though he has been working all around the globe in recent years, he still lives in Zurich and has offices there (as well as in Paris and Valencia). Calatrava combines a strong sense for art and beauty - he also works as a sculptor and a painter - with a profound knowledge of engineering allowing him to construct metallic structures that seem to defy the laws of gravity. His major works of architecture include bridges and train stations

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The Alamillo Bridge in Valencia:

Turning Torso, de Santiago Calatrava, es una torre de 190 metros de altura y 54 plantas situada en Malmö. Es el edificio residencial más alto de Suecia y fue inaugurado en agosto de 2005. La feria de la construcción de Cannes del mismo año lo premió como mejor edificio residencial del mundo.

The Puente del Alamillo in Seville 1992

Famed Spanish Architect, Santiago Calatrava, known for such buildings as the recent Milwaukee Art Museum, has moved further down the lake to Chicago to create what might be his most enduring work in a long career of enduring works

Soldier Field, Chicago

Wellness Center, Switzerland,

Morse U.S. Courthouse,

TEN ROW HOUSES IN RUGINELLO-MILAN

REHABILITATION OF SANTA CATERINA MARKET

Barcelona, Spain

FEDERATION SQUAREMelbourne, Australia

"Shard of Glass Tower," London,

THEATRE STUDIO FOR UNIVERSITY Brno, Czech Republic

Milwaukee Art Museum

Vatican Jubilee Church 2004

Tenerife Concert Hall, Santa Cruz de Tenerife,

NEW YORK Chicago

Planetarium of the Valencia

Alamillo Bridge/Cartuja Viaduct, 1987-92Seville, Spain

Lyon Airport Railway Station, 1989-94Satalas, Lyon, France

Communications Tower, 1989-92Barcelona, Spain Santiago CalatravaOriente Station, 1993-98Lisbon, Portugal

Wingspan of the Milwaukee Art Museum

designed bridge-Bilbao

Wohlen High School

Peace. All best wishes for the Holidays and the New Year

Communications Tower, Barcelona

Quadracci Pavilion

Ciudad de las Artes y la Ciencias

La disco en Puerto Madero

ITALIA - Ponte di Calatrava al casello autostradale di RE

Milwaukee Art Museum

The official ceremony opening the light rail bridge in Jerusalem

Sevilla

Gare do Oriente, Lisboa

Zurich University Law Library, Zurich, Switzerland

Cierro los ojos...

Turtle Bay - Redding, California

Sundial Bridge

New York World Trade Center Site Transit Station