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Santiago Calatrava

1951– · Spanish architect and engineer · Spain/Switzerland

Bio

Combines architecture, engineering and sculptural structure in expressive large-scale works.

Key works

City of Arts and Sciences
Milwaukee Art Museum addition

THE RETHINK

Santiago Calatrava helps us rethink architecture as more than the production of buildings: their work shows how decisions about structure, space, materials, context or public life can change what a society considers possible.

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