Santiago Calatrava has become the best Spanish contemporary architect and one of the most appreciated in the World. Born at Valencia, in July 1951, he designed in 1991 the City of Arts and Sciences, a great complex that is now becoming finished in the Southern corner of that Mediterranean city.

The Calatrava's style mix the most advanced architectural design and use of building technology with the ancient European artistic traditions. As happened with the modernist Antonio Gaudí at the end of the XIX century, the shape of ... (more)