Favorite+architects


 *  One of our favorite architects is Santiago Calatrava, who is able to turn a contruction`s structure in a piece or art!

Santiago Calatrava Valls (born July 28, 1951) is an internationally recognized and award-winning Valencian Spanish architect, sculptor and structural engineer whose principal office is in Zurich, Switzerland. Classed now among the elite designers of the world, he has offices in Zurich, Paris and Valencia .** **Calatrava's early career was dedicated largely to bridges and train stations, the designs for which elevated the status of civil engineering projects to new heights. His elegant and daring Montjuic Communications Tower in Barcelona, Spain (1991) in the heart of the 1992 Olympic site was a turning point in his career, leading to a wide range of commissions. The Quadracci Pavilion (2001) of the Milwaukee Art Museum was his first US building. Calatrava’s entry into high-rise design began with an innovative 54 story high twisting tower, called Turning Torso (2005), located in Malmö, Sweden.**
 * Calatrava is currently designing the future train station - World Trade Center Transportation Hub - at Ground Zero in New York City.**
 * Calatrava’s style has been heralded as bridging the division between structural engineering and architecture. In this, he continues a tradition of Spanish modernist engineering that includes Félix Candela and Antonio Gaudí. Nonetheless, his style is very personal and derives from numerous studies he makes of the human body and the natural world.**




 * Source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago_Calatrava**

**Other interesting** **architects are:**

**Richard Meier**



**Tadao Ando**


 * You can also check on this videos about Calatrava! **

[|**http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXpmN011XNU**] [|**http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3769776017572021052**]