Santiago Calatrava Valls is a Spanish architect, sculptor and engineer born in 1951 in Valencia, Spain. He studied architecture and civil engineering in Valencia and Zurich, earning a doctorate in technical sciences from ETH Zurich in 1981. Calatrava has designed many bridges, train stations, and buildings around the world combining engineering and aesthetic beauty through his unique metallic structures. He maintains offices in Zurich, Paris, and Valencia.

1. Santiago Calatrava Valls was born in 1951 in Benimamet near Valencia [Valence], Spain. He started his studies in 1968 at the school of arts in Valencia. From 1969 to 1974, Calatrava studied architecture and urbanistics at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectur de Valencia , then civil engineering at Switzerland's Federal Institute of Technology [Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, ETH] in Zurich, finishing with a doctorate in technical sciences in 1981. Santiago Calatrava realized a number of projects in Switzerland and though he has been working all around the globe in recent years, he still lives in Zurich and has offices there (as well as in Paris and Valencia). Calatrava combines a strong sense for art and beauty - he also works as a sculptor and a painter - with a profound knowledge of engineering allowing him to construct metallic structures that seem to defy the laws of gravity. His major works of architecture include bridges and train stations Check these out. I think that Sanitiago Calatrava is one of the best, most original architects on the planet!

2. The Alamillo Bridge in Valencia :

3. Turning Torso, de Santiago Calatrava, es una torre de 190 metros de altura y 54 plantas situada en Malmö. Es el edificio residencial más alto de Suecia y fue inaugurado en agosto de 2005. La feria de la construcción de Cannes del mismo año lo premió como mejor edificio residencial del mundo.

4. The Puente del Alamillo in Seville 1992

5. Famed Spanish Architect, Santiago Calatrava, known for such buildings as the recent Milwaukee Art Museum, has moved further down the lake to Chicago to create what might be his most enduring work in a long career of enduring works

6. Soldier Field, Chicago

7. Wellness Center, Switzerland,

8. Morse U.S. Courthouse,

9. TEN ROW HOUSES IN RUGINELLO-MILAN

10. REHABILITATION OF SANTA CATERINA MARKET Barcelona, Spain

11. FEDERATION SQUARE Melbourne, Australia

12. "Shard of Glass Tower," London, THEATRE STUDIO FOR UNIVERSITY Brno, Czech Republic

13. Milwaukee Art Museum

14. Vatican Jubilee Church 2004

15. Tenerife Concert Hall, Santa Cruz de Tenerife,

16. NEW YORK Chicago

17. Planetarium of the Valencia

18. Alamillo Bridge/Cartuja Viaduct , 1987-92 Seville, Spain

19. Lyon Airport Railway Station , 1989-94 Satalas, Lyon, France

20. Communications Tower , 1989-92 Barcelona, Spain Santiago Calatrava Oriente Station , 1993-98 Lisbon, Portugal

21. Wingspan of the Milwaukee Art Museum

22. designed bridge-Bilbao

23. Wohlen High School

24. Peace. All best wishes for the Holidays and the New Year

26. Communications Tower, Barcelona

27. Quadracci Pavilion

28. Ciudad de las Artes y la Ciencias

29. La disco en Puerto Madero

30. ITALIA - Ponte di Calatrava al casello autostradale di RE

31. Milwaukee Art Museum

32. The official ceremony opening the light rail bridge in Jerusalem

33. Sevilla

34. Gare do Oriente, Lisbo a

35. Zurich University Law Library, Zurich, Switzerland

36. Cierro los ojos...

37. Turtle Bay - Redding, California Sundial Bridge

38. New York World Trade Center Site Transit Station