Prize Prince Asturias

Santiago Calatrava architect, engineer and sculptor Prize Prince Asturias of Arts 1999. Each project is conceived as a work alive related between each of the parts that compose it. He designed his works such as containers and aesthetic elements of life, on the basis for his design in the human skeleton. Awarded the prestigious MIPIM award for best residential building in the world for his work Turning Torso, built in the Swedish city of Malmo. The structure of Turning Torso, is based on a sculpture by the architect himself, is inspired by the human torso a rotary motion, which gives it a unique design in the world, they explained. The American architects Institute (AIA) awarded gold 2005 Santiago Calatrava thus placing it in the Olympus of the gods of the world architecture, to equate his talent with the of visionaries like Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan, Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn. The AIA recognizes with the gold medal the trajectory of individuals whose work has had a lasting theory and practical influence of the architecture.Architect specializing in large structures that are characterized by an extraordinary beauty and harmony. Calatrava makes structures in essential elements and works of art…