十大著名建筑师（Ten famous architects）.doc

十大著名建筑师（Ten famous architects） A, representative: Santiago Calatrava (Creative Architect Calatrava) Science City - Valencia Lisbon work station of Milwaukee Museum of Art Museum of the Athens Olympic Games home court Santiago Calatrava is one of the most famous innovative architects in the world and a controversial architect. Santiago Calatrava in the bridge construction art and design is famous in the world, he designed Venice, Dublin, Manchester and Barcelona bridge, also designed the Lisbon, Lyon, Zurich train station. The latest work is the famous home of the 2004 Athens Olympic games. Because Calatrava has dual identities as an architect and an engineer, he has a firm grasp of the interaction between structure and architectural aesthetics. He believes that beauty can be expressed by mechanical engineering design, but in nature, the shape of trees, insects and birds is beautiful, and it also has amazing mechanical efficiency. So he often uses nature as a source of inspiration for his design. The bridge he designed is famous for its elegant dynamics of pure structure, showing the logical beauty of technological reason, as if it were beyond the constraints of gravity and structural law. Sometimes, his design will inevitably remind of extraterrestrial visitors, the sudden beauty of technology seems to be completely contrary to the expectations of earth people. This, of course, is due to his expertise in structural engineering. Early since the beginning of twentieth Century, the design of the bridge has been entrusted to the Luqiao structural engineers, architects tuibisanshe seems to have become accustomed to. Because of the whole world architect Calatrava, who suddenly found a new topic, in 90s after the outbreak of the architectural design of the bridge boom, re start shaping the elements in the city from a new perspective, and the impact on the face of the city. In 2001, built the first Calatrava works in the United States, Wisconsin Milwaukee Art Museum expansi