Illustrated by the architect and in his own words, this memoir features drawings never seen outside Santiago Calatrava’s studio. 
Santiago Calatrava is an intimate insight into one of the world’s most celebrated architects. Calatrava first made a name for himself in the late 1980s, with delicately designed structures in Zürich that seem to grow out of the earth. He went on to create a series of highly innovative, iconic bridges across Europe and, in recent years, has drawn attention for such large-scale projects as the City of Arts and Sciences in his birth town of Valencia, Spain, and the World Transportation Hub at Ground Zero in New York.
Written in the first person and accompanied by a wealth of sketches never seen outside Calatrava’s studio, this book reveals the breadth of his influences, and how they have combined with his background in engineering and architecture to inspire his signature buildings. Moving beyond a documentation of Calatrava’s architectural output, this book offers a rare opportunity for readers to explore the creative process of one of the world’s great architects. In this heartfelt memoir of an architect of singular conviction, Calatrava’s inspirations, lessons, and achievements will touch every reader, whether aspiring architect or lover of art and nature. c. 300 illustrations

Santiago Calatrava: Drawing, Building, Reflecting

Arts & Photography

de Albornoz, Cristina Carrillo

Calatrava, Santiago

History & Criticism

Thames&Hudson

City point: A new tower for the city

Book Art

"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 figure at the intersection of architecture and engineering, Calatrava reflects on his person path and ties it to his design work. Includes original sketches by Calatrava.

Santiago Calatrava: Conversations with Students -The MIT Lectures

Architecture

Princeton Architectural Press

The works of the Catalan Santiago Calatrava defy classification. Sculpture, architecture, engineering - all are combined in his unique structures. In fact, Calatrava is known worldwide for his synthesis of the disciplines. This volume reproduces his "secret sketchbook" - written and illustrated in January and February 1995 - which provides insights into his work and into the nature of the relationships between art, architecture, and engineering. The sketchbook is a retrospective exploration of the analogies within and connections between Calatrava's buildings and projects. A wealth of material - on the elements, on human anatomy, on natural and physical forces, on works of art - traces Calatrava's oeuvre, unencumbered by time, place, or function. Explanatory notes link the images on each page to particular projects; among the more than twenty-five included are Calatrava's spectacular bridges (those for the Barcelona Olympics and Seville World Expo), movable structures (like the 1993 sculpture for New York's Museum of Modern Art), railway stations, roof coverings, and telecommunications towers.

Santiago Calatrava: Secret Sketchbook

Individual Artists

The Monacelli Press

Santiago Calatrava is among the most important and influential architects of our times. His candid architecture is polarizing yet unmistakable. The trademark of the Spanish architect are sculptural bridge designs that gained international acclaim as a symbiosis of elegant shape vocabulary and engineering masterstrokes and that shape the cityscapes in locations such as Jerusalem, Venice, Dallas, and Buenos Aires. The book is a special homage to his work: Santiago Calatrava in persontalks about the visions on artistic-architectural philosophies behind his unparalleled bridge designs. He also contributes many descriptions of implemented and unimplemented works, which, together with first drafts, water color paintings, as well as high-quality photographs and renderings document the selected projects.

Santiago Calatrava: Bridges

Niggli

Berlin: Five Projects / Fünf Projekte (English and German Edition)

Science & Math

Birkhauser

Dynamische Gleichgewichte. Neue Projekte Dynamical Equilibrium. Recent Projects (German and English Edition)

Each issue of Opera Progeto deals with a recently completed architectural work and focuses on the place, intended not only as its physical location but also and above all as the cultural and historical background to the work, the project, or conceptual stages, revealed in a detailed interview with the author; the completed work, extensively illustrated by original drawings and photographs; reflections, the significance of the work in the light of the experience and critical approaches of other countries. This issue focuses on Santiago Calatrava, Quadracci Pavilion of the Milwaukee Art Museum.

SANTIAGO CALATRAVA. Quadracci Pavilion. Milwaukee Art Museum

Umberto Trame (editor)

Editrice Compositori

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