- Hardcover: 200 pages
- Publisher: Birkhauser Verlag AG (1 Sep 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 376436548X
- ISBN-13: 978-3764365486
- Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 28.8 x 2.4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,571,211 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Drawings and sculptures as the basis for architectural design Over the last 20 years, Santiago Calatrava has made literally thousands of drawings and paintings and more than a hundred sculptures. Many of his drawings show the human body - often in motion - alone, or in groups, or in an architectural context. Others show preliminary ideas which lead to constructions, details, sculptures, and buildings. This book contains a selection of over 200 drawings, water colours and deplctions of sculptures, chosen by the architect and the author because they are particularly well-suited to showing the significance of his artistic work as the basis for his architectural designs. A drawing is always the starting point for an entire laboratory of ideas. Many of the themes and forms which Calatrava investigates and develops on this level are subsequently transformed into sculptures and go on to provide the inspiration for his bridges, railway stations, airports, museums and even dining tables. This volume analyses how Calatrava's creative ideas ripen and develop, from the initial drawings, to the sculptures, finally attaining completion in the realised buildings. At the same time, it examines the interfaces between the fine arts, engineering and architecture.
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Disappointing, 10 July 2009
By Christian Macnevin - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Santiago Calatrava: Art Works - Laboratory of Ideas, Forms and Structures (Hardcover)
Being a designer myself, I am very much interested in the thought process and preliminary drawings made by one of the great recent names in the field. I was definitely looking for inspirational drawings and to peer over the shoulder of a great in a similar field to see their process.
What I found instead was the disappointingly simple marks of a pretty amateur water colourist. I'm sure that this might be inspirational and interesting to people outside of visual arts and design, but compared to Arkitekture by Zaha Hadid, which has beautiful 3d renderings, models, pictures of her abstract scultptural work etc, it's woefully inadequate.
I won't be buying another book on his work without seeing it in the flesh and getting a good idea of what's really in there.
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