In the history of technology, Santiago Calatrava is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Santiago Calatrava as Spanish-Swiss engineer, architect, and artist (born 1951).
Santiago Calatrava was born at Benimàmet in 1951. His recorded nationality is Spain. He was educated at ETH Zurich and Technical University of Valencia.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
He worked as sculptor, architect and structural engineer.
His name is attached above all to bridges supported by single leaning pylons. Technology is judged by adoption: an invention nobody uses is a curiosity.
The surviving body of work includes ponte della Costituzione, Jerusalem Chords Bridge and City of Arts and Sciences.
His recorded fields of work are architecture.
Recognition followed: Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of Portugal.
That the work was done from Spain matters. Opportunity has never been evenly distributed, and where a person is based shapes which doors open and whose work gets seen.
Santiago Calatrava is still at work, and the final assessment has not been made - the ordinary condition of a living career.
Achievements
- Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of Portugal
- Notable work: ponte della Costituzione
- Notable work: Jerusalem Chords Bridge
- Notable work: City of Arts and Sciences
- Notable work: Brookfield Place
- Educated at ETH Zurich and Technical University of Valencia
- Worked as sculptor, architect and structural engineer
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