Transcript Slide 1

El País Vasco
EL PAÍS VASCO. (Éuskadi)
• Bilbao, an industrial city, is the capital of the Basque Region of
Guipúzcoa and the home of the new Guggenheim Museum by
American architect Frank Gehry.
• Unique ethnic group, with own local language, Éuskara (Basque
language).
• Strong independent autonomous Comunidad.
• 2/3 of the Basques live in Spain (Basque Region and Navarra), 1/3
live in the SW of France.
• Home of E.T.A., Basque violent terrorist group fighting for
independence from Spain
• The game Jai-Alai originated from this region.
• Iñaki Urdangarin, handball player, husband of the Infanta Cristina,
was born in that Comunidad.
Bilbao - Panorama
Bilbao - Vista aérea
Bilbao - Guggenheim
L
a
E
n
t
r
a
d
a
The Guggenheim
Museum Bilbao opened
in the Basque city of
Bilbao, Spain, in
October 1997. Located
on the city’s waterfront,
the modern art
museum offers a
dramatic contrast to
Bilbao’s industrial
setting
Frank Owen Gehry
Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate
1989
Frank O. Gehry
• American Architect
• The Guggenheim
Heart of Titanium/Glass/Limestone
• Complementing the works from the Guggenheim Foundation, the
Bilbao Museum’s own collection comprises creations by leading
artists of the second half of the 20th century, others specifically
commissioned for the Museum, and works by contemporary Basque
and Spanish artists.
• Eduardo Chillida
Sp.
• Antoni Tapies
Sp.
• Richard Serra
US
• Jenny Holzer
US
El Interior
El Atrium - Vista Interior Arriba
The Terrace
The Puppy
Jeff Koons,
Belgium
Frank Gehry at the Los Angeles Music Center
October 2003
Designed by internationally
renowned architect, Frank
Gehry, the 293,000-square-foot
Concert Hall features a wavy,
steel exterior designed to look
like a ship with its sail at full
mast. Gehry wanted to create
the feeling of traveling along a
ceremonial barge to music.
Los Angeles - Walt Disney Concert Hall
Walt Disney Concert Hall
Bilbao – La Plaza Elíptica - Moisa
F
0
S
T
E
R
I
T
O
On June 7, 1999
Sir Norman Foster
received the
Pritzker
Architecture
Prize
Sir Norman Foster
Arquitecto británico
Pritzker Laureate / Foster 8/25/00
EL PUENTE DE CALATRAVA
CAMPO VOLANTIN FOOTBRIDGE
Bilbao, Spain 1994 – 1997
River Pedestrian crossing
Total length and maximum span
75 m (246 ft)
Depth of arch 15.3 m (50 ft)
Concrete abutments and ramps
with inclined steel arch and cradle deck
The tilted steel arch of the bridge with
its sweeping parabolic form appears
graceful and slim.
http://www.calatrava.com/
BIOGRAPHY
Architect, artist, and engineer Santiago Calatrava was born on July 28, 1951, in Valencia, Spain. His
background was eclectic. Calatrava is an aristocratic name, passed down from a medieval order of knights. The
family on both sides was engaged in the agricultural export business, which gave them an international outlook
that was rare during the Franco dictatorship.
Calatrava attended primary and secondary school in Valencia. From the age of eight, he also attended the Arts
and Crafts School, where he began his formal instruction in drawing and painting. When he was thirteen, his family
took advantage of the recent opening of the borders and sent him to Paris as an exchange student. He later
traveled and studied in Switzerland as well. Upon completing high school in Valencia, he went to Paris with the
intention of enrolling in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts; but since he arrived in June 1968, he found his plan was
unworkable. He returned to Valencia and enrolled in the Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura, a relatively new
institution, where he earned a degree in architecture and took a post-graduate course in urbanism. While at the
school, he also undertook independent projects with a group of fellow students, bringing out two books on the
vernacular architecture of Valencia and Ibiza.
Attracted by the mathematical rigor of certain great works of historic architecture, and feeling that his
training in Valencia had given him no clear direction, Calatrava decided to pursue post-graduate studies in civil
engineering and enrolled in 1975 at the ETH (Federal Institute of Technology) in Zurich. He received his Ph.D. in
1979. It was during this period that he met and married his wife, who was a law student in Zurich.
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. He also
began to enter competitions, believing this was his most likely way to secure commissions. His first winning
competition proposal, in 1983, was for the design and construction of Stadelhofen Railway Station in Zurich, the
city in which he established his office.
In 1984, Calatrava, designed and build the Bach de Roda Bridge, commissioned for the Olympic Games in
Barcelona. This was the beginning of the bridge projects that established his international reputation. Among the
other notable bridges that followed were the Alamillo Bridge and viaduct, commissioned for the World’s Fair in
Seville (1987-92); Campo Volantin Footbridge in Bilbao (1990-97); and Alameda Bridge and underground station in
Valencia (1991-95).
Calatrava established his firm’s second office, in Paris, in 1989, when he was working on the Lyon Airport Station
(1989-94). He opened his third office, in Valencia, in 1991 to facilitate work on a competition, a very large cultural
complex and urban intervention, the City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia (ongoing). Other large-scale public
projects from the late 1980s through the mid-1990s include the BCE Place mall in Toronto (1987-92); the Oriente
railway station in Lisbon (1993-98, commissioned for Expo ’98); and the winning proposal in the design
competition to complete the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City (1991), a project that has not been
realized.
Exhibitions of Calatrava’s work were first mounted in 1985, with a showing of nine sculptures in an art gallery in
Zurich. A new stage in recognition was marked by two solo exhibitions: a retrospective at the Royal Institute of
British Architects, London, in 1992, and the exhibition Structure and Expression at The Museum of Modern Art,
New York, in 1993. The latter exhibition included an installation in the museum’s Sculpture Garden of Shadow
Machine, a large-scale sculpture with undulating concrete “fingers.” The most complete exhibition yet mounted of
his work was Santiago Calatrava: Artist, Architect, Engineer, presented at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, Italy
(2000- 2001). Similar exhibitions were mounted in 2001 in Dallas, Texas (to inaugurate the new Meadows
Museum) and in Athens, at the National Gallery, Alexandro Soutzos Museum.
Major projects that were recently inaugurated include Sondica Airport, Bilbao (2000); The Bridge of Europe,
Orléans, France (2000); the Bodegas Ysios winery in Laguardia, Spain (2001); and Calatrava’s first building in the
United States, the acclaimed expansion of the Milwaukee Art Museum (2001). Among the projects that are
currently coming to completion are Blackhall Place Bridge, Dublin, Ireland (early 2003); Tenerife Auditorium, Santa
Cruz, Canary Islands (September 2003); Petach Tikvah Bridge, Tel Aviv, Israel (spring 2003); Quatro Ponte sul
Canal Grande, Venice, Italy (late 2003/early 2004); Turtle Bay Bridge, Redding, California (summer 2004); the
Athens Olympic Sports Complex (summer 2004); and the Valencia Opera House (2004), the last major building in
his City of Arts and Sciences.
Among his major recent commissions, Calatrava has been selected to design Christ the Light Cathedral for the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland, California; and Symphony Center for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in
Atlanta, Georgia.
Honors and awards given to Santiago Calatrava include the Gold Medal of the Institute of Structural Engineers,
London; the City of Toronto Urban Design Award; designation as a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World
Economic Forum in Davos; the Creu Sant Jordi, Barcelona; the Gold Medal for Merit in the Fine Arts, Ministry of
Culture, Spain; membership in Les Arts et Lettres, Paris; the Algur H. Meadows Award for Excellence in the Arts
(Meadows School of the Arts); the Gold Medal of the Circulo de Bellas Artes, Valencia; Time Magazine’s “Best of
2001” designation for the expansion of the Milwaukee Art Museum; the Sir Misha Black Medal, Royal College
of Art, London; the Leonardo da Vinci Medal, Société pour la Formation des Ingénieurs; and the Principe de
Asturias Art Prize; the High Gold Medal of Architecture of L’ Académie d’Architecture, Paris. In addition, Santiago
Calatrava has received 12 honorary doctorates to date.
Santiago Calatrava’s opera house at Santa Cruz de
Tenerife in the Canary Island - 2003
New York Times Art & Leisure 10/26/03
Calatrava Wave in Tenerife
It was originally intended to
be a simple concert hall, but
the multifunction building for
the city of Santa Cruz,
Tenerife, in the Canary
Islands, also promises to be
a landmark. The distinctive,
overhanging "wave" curving
out over the white concrete
Auditorio de Tenerife is the
latest creation of renowned
Spanish architect
Photo: Jordi Verdes Padron
Santiago Calatrava.
The building will serve
Santa Cruz, population
250,000, as an opera
house and a venue for
the Santa Cruz
Symphony Orchestra,
for chamber music
groups, and for
performances of
dance, theater, and
zarzuela (Spanish
operetta). International
conferences will also
be held there.
It is Calatrava's first
performing arts
building.
Photo: Jordi Verdes Padron
La Casa
Montero
Grupos de Tuna de la
Universidad de Bilbao
Resultado de la Consulta
3 grupos en total ( 3 tunas, ):
•
Tuna de Distrito Universitario
de Vitoria-Gasteiz
•
Tuna Universitaria de VitoriaGasteiz
•
Tuna Universitaria del Gran
Bilbao