Transcript SANTIAGO CALATRAVA - College of the Sequoias

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
ArchItect
ArtIst
EngIneer
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 postgraduate course in urbanism. Being attracted by
mathematics, calatrava decided to pursue postgraduate 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.
The following structures are calatrava’s most
recent and famous structures.
San Sebastian - Bodegas Ysios
Winery complex for the Bodega &
Bebidas Group
Laguardia, Alava, Spain, 1998-2000
The building is conceived as an
element that is
integrated into the powerful,
surrounding landscape
while being somehwat autonomous
at the same time,
in the manner of a site-specific
sculpture. Calatrava
adopted the strategy of giving a
volumetric treatment
to the roof and walls, physical limits
of the landscape
outside and the winery within, so
that continuity
between the two spaces is achieved
not through
transparency but through the
"static movement" of the enclosures
MILWAUKEE
T MEUSEUM
AR
Wisconsin Avenue,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
USA 1994 – 2001
Expansion of the
museum complex
Invited competition
The new pavilion-like
construction features a
spectacular
kinetic structure: a
bris-soleil with louvers
that open
and close like the
wings of a great bird
THESE ARE SOME OF
CALATRAVAS MOST FAMOUSE
STRUCTURE ALL AROUND THE
WORLD.
LYON AIRPORT STATION
BARCELONA COMUNICATION
TOWER
WTC PATH TERMINAL
VALENCI CITY OF ARTS
AND SCIENCE
SOUTH CSTREET TOWER
TENERIFE OPERA HOUSE
THESE ARE SOME OF
CALATRAVA’S MOST
FAMOUSE BRIDGES ALL
AROUND EUROPE
ALAMILLO BRIDGE AND LA CARTUJA
VIADUCT
LUSITANIA BRIDGE
PONT D’ ORLEANS, FRANCE
SUNDIAL BRIDGE AT TURTLE BAY
Currently there are some of calatrava’s
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
A W A R D S
2004
Doctor Scientaiarium Honoris Causa conferred by the Technion (Israel's Institute of
Technology), Haifa, Israel
Golden Plate Award of the Academy of Achievement, presented at the Academy's
annual dinner by composer and music producer Quincy Jones, Chicago, Illinois
2003
Medalla al Mérito a las Bellas Artes, Real Academia de San Carlos de Valencia,
Valencia
Grande Médaille d’Or, Architecture, Académie D’Architecture, Paris
2002
Prize Best of 2001 for the design of the Milwaukee Art Museum Extension, Time
Magazine, New York
Prize «Il Principe e L’Architetto» for the design of the Quattro Ponte sul Canal Grande
in Venice, Architettura e Design per la Città, Bologna
Prize The Sir Misha Black Medal, Royal College of Art, London
Prize 2002 The Best Large Structural Project for the Milwaukee Art Museum Addition,
The Structural Engineers Association of Illinois
The Leonardo da Vinci Medal, by the SEFI for having made an outstanding
contribution of international significance to engineering education, SEFIRENZE 2000,
Florence.
2001
Prize Exitos 2000 to the best architectural work for the Science Museum in Valencia,
Madrid
Award for Excellence in Design for the Time Capsule, American Museum of Natural
History, New York
European Award for Steel Structures for the Europe Bridge over the Loire River,
Orléans
2000
Doctor Honoris Causa of Architecture, Università degli Studi di Ferrara
«Das Goldene Dach 2000», The Golden Roof, Structural Completion of the
«Pfalzkeller», St. Gallen
Guest of Honour, Mexico City, D.F. Government
2000 Algur H. Meadows Award for Excellence in the Arts, Meadows School of Arts,
Dallas
Gold Medal, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Valencia