Book review Calatrava Book gets an Updated Version

Book review: Calatrava Book gets an Updated Version – Santiago Calatrava is renowned around the world as an architect, structural engineer, sculptor, and artist. From the Athens 2004 Olympic sports complex to the World Trade Center Transportation Hub in Manhattan, he exhibits a remarkable aesthetic and engineering prowess with a simultaneous sensitivity for both the appearance and the anatomy of a structure.

Book review Calatrava Book gets an Updated Version

With influences ranging from NASA space design to da Vinci’s nature studies, Calatrava’s creations are at once aerodynamic and organic in their associations.

Book review Calatrava Book gets an Updated Version

Natural forms and human movements inform a number of his projects, with a particular interest in the meeting point of equilibrium and dynamism.

Book review Calatrava Book gets an Updated Version

This updated monograph includes all of Calatrava’s original collaborative input, as well as a number of new projects including the Peace Bridge in Calgary, Canada; the Conference and Exhibition Center in Oviedo, Spain; and the Mediopadana Station in Reggio Emilia, Italy.

Book review Calatrava Book gets an Updated Version

See also: BOOK REVIEW: SANTIAGO CALATRAVA – COMPLETE WORKS

The author

Philip Jodidio (born 1954) studied art history and economics at Harvard, and editedConnaissance des Arts for over 20 years. His books include TASCHEN’s Architecture Now! series, and monographs on Tadao Ando, Norman Foster, Renzo Piano, Jean Nouvel, and Zaha Hadid. He is internationally renowned as one of the most popular writers on the subject of architecture.

Book review Calatrava Book gets an Updated Version

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  • “This monograph, supported by an elegant and light layout, perfectly traces a career located between art, architecture, and engineering.”

    — Idéat, Paris
  • “This monograph, supported by an elegant and light layout, perfectly traces a career located between art, architecture, and engineering.”

    — Idéat, Paris

Book review Calatrava Book gets an Updated Version

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