土木工程景觀之美-從Santiago Calatrava 的作品說起

CAREER• Calatrava's early career was largely dedicated to bridges and train stations, with designs thatelevated the status of civil engineering projects to new heights. His MontjuicCommunications Tower in Barcelona, Spain (1991) in the heart of the 1992 Olympics site, aswell as the Allen Lambert Galleria in Toronto, Canada (1992), were important works andturning points in his career, leading to a wide range of commissions. The Quadracci Pavilion(2001) of the Milwaukee Art Museum was his first building in the United States. Calatrava'sentry into high-rise design began with an innovative 54-story-high twisting tower calledTurning Torso (2005), located in Malmö, Sweden.Calatrava has designed a futurisitc trainstation, the World Trade Center Transportation Hub, at the rebuilt World Trade Center in NewYork City.Calatrava's style has been heralded as bridging the division between structuralengineering and architecture. In the projects, he continues a tradition of Spanish modernistengineering that included Félix Candela, Antonio Gaudí, and Rafael Guastavino. Nonetheless,his style is also very personal, and derives from numerous studies of the human body and thenatural world.On 10 December 2011 he was appointed a member of the Pontifical Council forCulture for a five year renewable term by Pope Benedict XVI.5