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"The definitive study of the great Spanish architect whose soaring work is allabout openness, energy and aspiration." - Met Home Spanish-born architect Santiago Calatrava has achieved considerable international acclaim with his breathtaking feats of architecture and engineering in the service of elegant and humanistic modern forms. This updated volume comprehensively examines this contemporary master's career, including the architect's furniture designs, sculpture, and drawings. His spectacular cultural and civic projects have secured Calatrava's place in the pantheon of world-class 21st-century architects. Among these are the Athens Olympics Sports Complex; the Tenerife Concert Hall in the Spanish Canary Islands; the Valencia Science Museum, Planetarium, and Opera House, and the much-anticipated World Trade Center Transportation Hub. This newest edition introduces Calatrava's latest triumphs, including the expressive Turning Torso tower in Sweden and the Chicago Tower, the tallest skyscraper in the US when built. A catalogue raisonne, detailed biography, and bibliography complete this comprehensive monograph.

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In this book, Tzonis updates his Santiago Calatrava: The Complete Works (CH, Jun'05, 42-5676); it adds to that earlier work a handful of commissions that Calatrava has completed since 2004, most notably the 2000-foot Chicago Spire that, when built, will be the tallest building in America. Calatrava, born in 1951, is an architectural genius from Valencia, Spain, who enjoys enormous popular and professional appeal around the world. For example, Calatrava was commissioned in 2004 to design the World Transportation Hub of the Port Authority of New York at Ground Zero in New York, a spectacular combination of white winged shapes that alight (or take off) at Ground Zero, giving expression--and thereby relief--to the enormous anguish of the site--in one fell swoop, as it were. The ecstatic reception of this inspirational design, which manages to be both monumental and anti-monumental, confirmed Calatrava as a world-class designer. Calatrava is nothing less than a modern Leonardo da Vinci, abstracting elegant architectural signs from menial corporal imagery--wings, hands, gills, fins, lips, etc. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. P. Kaufman Boston Architectural Center

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Alexander Tzonis is professor of architectural theory at the Technical University of Delft. He is the author of Santiago Calatrava: The Complete Works , published by Rizzoli, and Santiago Calatrava: The Bridges , Santiago Calatrava: The Poetics of Movement , and Le Corbusier: The Poetics of Machine and Metaphor , all published by Universe.