Santiago Calatrava Valls is a Spanish architect, structural design and analyst engineer, sculptor and painter, particularly known for his bridges supported by single leaning pylons, and his railway stations, stadiums, and museums, whose sculptural forms often resemble living organisms Date of Birth: 28th July, 1951 Country: Spain Education: He pursued undergraduate studies at the Architecture School and Arts and Crafts School. Following graduation in 1975, he enrolled in the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland, for graduate work in civil engineering. In 1981, after completing his doctoral thesis, "On the Foldability of Space Frames", he started his architecture and engineering practice Santiago Calatrava Valls is an internationally recognized and award-winning Valencian Spanish architect, sculptor and structural engineer. Gained international celebrity for structures that suggest the shapes and the motion of organic entities

2. About
Calatrava
 Date of Birth:
28th July,
1951

3. INSPIRATION
 Inspired from traditional Spanish architect
Félix Candela and Antonio Gaudi
 He is an organic architect who finds his inspiration in
the human body and in nature and, because of his
background in
both architecture and engineering, he has learned to combine
sculptural
concepts with technology to create designs that are both
visually striking
and structurally daring etc

4. philosophy
 Blend of architecture and engineering
 Encompassing of both structure and art
 He carried out extensive studies of anatomy
of human, birds and animals and truly so his designs reflected
his
philosophy.
 Traditional practice in both architecture and engineering.

5. Works
 Florida Polytechnic University
 Turning Torso
 Chicago Tower
 Museum of tomorrow
 Athens Olympic sports complex
 Chords bridge
 Auditorio de tenerife

6. Florida polytechnic university
 The two-storied building
 clad in white grating promotes
natural ventilation and day
lighting and lies on the northern
edge of campus.
 Functional design

7. True to his penchant for bridges, Calatrava
created a series of small pedestrian bridges
linking either edge of the water

8. Turning torso
 Sweden's tallest residential building
is the HSB Turning Torso, a sculptural
sustainable skyscraper that gently
 Santiago Calatrava, the gigantic tower stands
54 floors high .
 The fantastic tower is completely
powered by renewable energy, and
it twists a full 90 degrees from top
to bottom.

9.  Twists 90 degrees from ground level to top floor

10.  Inspired by human body in movement.
 The glass facade features a complex
double-curved shape.
 The residential tower has nine segments
of five-story floors that form an irregular
pentagon layout
 The sculptural tower is supplied with
100% locally produced renewable energy

11. CHICAGO TOWER
 A helical seashell shaped structure.
 2000 ft. Chicago Spire will be the
world’s second tallest building
 The halcyon monolith is beautiful example
of bio mimicry, taking cues from the spiralling
structure
of the nautilus.
 LEED gold rating.

12.  Fluid facade shrouded
in glass.
 All landscaping is
maintained via a rainwater
recycling system.

13. Museum of
tomorrow Features a distinct cantilevering roof that
stretches 75-meters over the museum's 7,600-
square-meter plaza and
45-meters towards the sea.
 Gardens, bike paths, leisure areas and massive
reflecting pool surround the 18-meter-tall
museum, providing new amenities to the public
and giving the sensation that the building is
floating on the water.

14.  "The idea is that the building feels
ethereal, almost floating on the sea,
like a ship, a bird or a plant. Because
of the
changing nature of the exhibits, we
have introduced an
archetypal structure inside the
building.
 The permanent exhibition space is
housed in the building's top floor. It
features a 10-meter-high roof.

15. More of his Works
Auditorio de tenerife
Montjuic Communications towerChords Bridge