Individual Architects, Designers, & Planners, Europe - Spanish Architecture, Postmodernism Architecture

Santiago Calatrava

Name: Santiago Calatrava
Author: Dennis Sharp
ISBN: 9780419195702

by Dennis Sharp

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Overview

This fully illustrated monograph includes three critical essays and features all Santiago Calatrava's major projects. It has been revised and updated for this new edition and includes four new projects: Reichstag conversion, Berlin; St John the Divine, New York; London underground stations project, London and Trinity Bridge, Salford.

About the Author, Dennis Sharp

DENNIS SHARP is a well-known architect, writer, historian, and critic who has worked closely with Calatrava on his British projects. He curated and designed the 1992 Calatrava exhibition at the RIBA, London, and the 1994 Spanish Festival Exhibition. He has been a Director of CICA (International Committee of Architectural Critics) since 1979. His awards include the French Academy of Architecture's Medaille d'Argent, 1991 and a UIA Jean Tschumi award in 1994. He has been editor of AA Quarterly and World Architecture, and currently edits International Architecture. His books include: 20th Century Architecture: A Visual History; The Rationalists and Bauhaus: Dessau. ANTHONY TISCHHAUSER trained as an architect at the Architectural Association School in London. He works as an architect and architectural writer and has taught at the Swiss Institute of Technology in Zurich. From 1987-91 he edited the Swiss architectural journal archithese. He has conducted research into the work of the Expressionist artist and architect Wenzel Hablik, the Hungarian architect Imre Makovecz and Santiago Calatrava.