A Spanish architect and structural engineer, born 1951 in Valencia, whose double training lets him treat structure itself as the architectural form. His bridges, stations and museums favor skeletal, bone-like assemblies that often move or appear to move, among them the City of Arts and Sciences in his native Valencia and the Turning Torso residential tower in Malmo, Sweden.
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Defining ContributionTrained as both architect and structural engineer, earning a civil engineering doctorate from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich in 1981; known for skeletal, organic forms in bridges, stations, stadiums and museums, among them the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia and the Turning Torso in Malmo, the first twisting skyscraper of its kind. 2 Connections
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AIA Gold Medal recipient 2005
Calatrava earned a doctorate in architecture from ETH Zurich in 1981 and opened his first office in Zurich that year.
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Calatrava's skeletal, bone-like forms are typically built from exposed structural steel, often paired with concrete.
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Designed by Santiago Calatrava.
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Designed by Santiago Calatrava.
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Calatrava was born on 28 July 1951, in Benimàmet, an old municipality now part of Valencia, Spain.
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bridges supported by single leaning pylons, and his railway stations, stadiums, and museums, whose sculptural forms often resemble living organisms
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Associated With: ETH Zurich Department of Architecture
In 1975, he enrolled in the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland for a second degree in civil engineering.
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It was designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava and composed of a train station with a large and open mezzanine under the National September 11 Memorial plaza.
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The new station, by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, was officially opened on 18 September 2009
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