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Santiago Calatrava: Secret Sketchbook (Hardcover)

by Santiago Calatrava (Author), Mirko Zardini (Editor), Paolo Rosselli (Photographer)

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Hardcover: 96 pages
Publisher: The Monacelli Press (30 May 1996)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1885254334
ISBN-13: 978-1885254337
Product Dimensions: 27.8 x 23.9 x 1.5 cm

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,670,705 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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In this work, Santiago Cavatrava provides an analysis of his projects. The book also contains supporting critical essays by two design critics - Pierluigi Nicolin and Mirko Zardini.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The modernity of beauty, 6 May 2009

By	Serghiou Const (Nicosia, Cyprus) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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Santiago Calatrava is an unusually talented architect. His architectural creations possess an awe inspiring beauty, elegance and purity.

The richly illustrated slim volume had on me an immense aesthetic and emotional impact. The spare text was insightful.

The book comprise an Introduction and the main body with the description of 19 projects illustrated with magnificent photographs but also sketches of the projects along with textual description of the underlying philosophy and guiding principles for each project.

The introduction includes information on the training of the architect comprising Art and Architecture in Spain and a Ph.D degree in civil engineering from the prestigious Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. As the architect explains, his creations emanate from a fusion of his three capacities namely those of the artist, architect and engineer. In an interview he describes his work as an "interwinement of plastic expression and structural revelation, producing results that possibly can be best described as a synthesis of aesthetics and structural Physics."

The architect acknowledges that his taste for simplicity in engineering otiginates from his observation of the work of the Swiss engineer Robert Maillart. With simple forms Maillart showed that it is possible to create a strong content and to elicit an emotional response. But though the architect admires the work of Maillart, still he differentiates his own work and particularly bridges. Maillart's bridges, observes Calatrava, are often set in a beautiful mountain scenery. His achievement was to introduce successfully an artificial element into such magnificent locations. Today, he observes, I believe that one of the important tasks is to reconsider the periphery of cities. Most often public works in such areas are purely functional, and yet even near railroad tracks, or spanning polluted rivers, bridges can have a remarkably positive effect. By creating an appropriate environment, they can have a symbolic impact whose ramifications go far beyond their immediate location. Calatrava's works are uplifting and even in purely fubctional projects such as a railway station or an auditorium he has the ability to add a dimension of spirituality.

Works presented include a number of bridges which constitute something of a signature design of the architect with an elegance bordering on the ethereal belying their underlying solidity; railway sations including the World Trade Center Transportation Hub, New York; Airport Communication Towers; the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee; the Tenerife Auditorium, Santa Cruz de Tenerife; and the Olympic Sport Complex, Athens.

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