Authors:Santiago Calatrava, Cecilia Lewis Kausel,
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Keywords: mit, lectures, students, conversations, calatrava, santiago
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2002-07-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1568983255
ISBN-13: 9781568983257

"This is the first time that I have made the commitment to give a series of talks with the specific intention of communicating my experience. The things I am saying, I am saying for the next generation-people who will set and invent other styles and who will find their own way, just as I have integrated the works of those who have been working before me."-from Santiago Calatrava: Conversations with Students With these words, Santiago Calatrava launched a recent series of lectures at MIT filled with insight, anecdote, and hard information about the practice of design. As the most important f

Author: Spiro N. Pollalis
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: bridge, seville, making, calatrava
Number of Pages: 199
Published: 2002-09-09
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0262661349
ISBN-13: 9780262661348

Author in the News: On July 31, 2003, the architect Santiago Calatrava was chosen to design a new PATH railway terminal on the site of the World Trade Center in New York City. Calatrava is internationally noted for his accomplishments in transportation architecture; The New York Times’s Herbert Muschamp writes that he has "taken this genre of design to the level of genius." Calatrava’s reputation is largely the result of several distinctive bridge projects, all of which exhibit both his singular design style and his engineering acumen. The Alamillo Bridge in Seville, Spain, is one