Santiago Calatrava
Council Role
Lynn S. Beedle Lifetime Achievement Award
Company
Calatrava International
Architect, Artist, and Engineer
Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
About
Architect, Artist, and Engineer Santiago Calatrava was born in 1951 in Valencia, Spain. He attended primary and secondary school in Valencia and, from the age of eight, he also attended the Arts and Crafts School, where he began his formal instruction in drawing and painting. Upon completing high school in Valencia and following a period spent in Paris, he enrolled in the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura in Valencia where he received a degree in Architecture and took a post-graduate course in Urbanism. Attracted by the mathematical rigor of certain great works of historic architecture Calatrava decided to pursue post-graduate studies in Civil Engineering and enrolled in 1975 at the ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) in Zurich. He received his Ph.D. in 1981 presenting a thesis concerning the Foldability of Space Frames. After completing his studies, he opened his first office in Zurich in 1981 and took on small engineering commissions. He also began to enter c
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