In this post I will share with you why I think Santiago Calatrava
Is a “Conscious Inspiration Architect”
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Interesting to demonstrate the “conscious inspiration method” by tracking Calatrava’s career….
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Calatrava’s education career:
1/ Sudied art as a child and originally planned to study art in college.
2/Studied architecture five years at ‘Escuela TÈcnica 1969-1974.
3/studied civil engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich1975-1979.
4/Doctorate in Technical Science from the Department of Architecture ETH Zurich1979-1981.
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“WE ARE A SCIENTIFIC CIVILIZATION. THIS MEANS A CIVILIZATION WHERE KNOWLEDGE AND ITS INTEGRITY ARE CRUCIAL FACTORS. SCIENCE IS NOT MORE THAN A LATIN WORD MEANING KNOWLEDGE…” OUR DESTINY IS KNOWLEDGE”.
JACOB BRONOWSKI.
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Calatrava’s inspiration sources:
Calatrava takes his inspiration from natural and human forms
Calatrava’s Sketch of the Twisting Male Torso Sculpture and the HSB Turning Torso building in Malmo Sweden
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Santiago Calatrava’s work is inspired by the things he sees around him, momentary images and happenings
The smooth and sweeping flight of an elegant bird inspired the spectacular extension for the Milwaukee Art Museum (1994-2001)
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Caltrava’s Invention Architecture:
A cantilever spar cable-stayed bridge like in Alamillo Bridge in Seville is a modern variation of the cable-stayed bridge- Sanfrasico bridge, The “Golden Gate”.
This design has been pioneered by Santiago Calatrava.
San francisco bridge ,The “Golden Gate” (cable-stayed bridge)
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Santiago Calatrava Architect
The Alamillo Bridge (backward cantilever)
Seville,Spain 1992 (cantilever spar cable-stayed bridge)
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What were Calatrava’s inspiration sources when planning the next three “cantilever spar cable-stayed bridgethat only has one pylon “?
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“Puente de la Mujer” Bridge
Buenos Aires, Argentina (forward cantilever with gate-swing opening) 2002
Santiago Calatrava Architect
Sundial Bridge (backward cantilever with glass decking)
CA, USA 2004
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Samuel Beckett Bridge (single-sided forward curved bow, evoking a harp)
Dublin, Ireland 2009
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Eliinbar’s Sketches 2011 Santiago Calatrava’s cantilever spar cable-stayed bridges that only have one pylon
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Dear Ulysses,
My name is Belinda Winkler. I am completing a PhD thesis at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Theses published at RMIT are made digitally available on the Internet for public access via the RMIT Research Repository database at: http://raws.adc.rmit.edu.au/~e82877/blog2/?p=741
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