Main entry:

Calatrava, Santiago, 1951-

Title & Author:

Santiago Calatrava's creative process / [translation of the dissertation text into English: John Dennis Gartrell].

Publication:

Basel : Birkhäuser, 2001.

Description:

2 volumes (463 ; 367 pages) : illustrations (some color) ; 25 x 29 cm

Notes:
Vol. 1 is the Engl. translation of his unpublished doctoral dissertation at the ETH Zurich (1981).
Includes bibliographical references.
v. 1. Fundamentals / edited and introduced by Alexander Tzonis : Methodological hypothesis: analysis and analogy / Liane Lefaivre and Alexander Tzonis -- Santiago Calatrava's creative process, part I: analysis / Alexander Tzonis -- On the foldability of frames -- Projects -- V. 2. Sketchbooks / edited by Liane Lefaivre ; Santiago Calatrava's creative process, part II: analogy / Liane Lefaivre and Alexander Tzoni -- Santiago Calatrava Valls : Sketchbook I -- Sketchbook II -- Secret sketchbook -- Projects.

Summary:

"Provide a comprehensive documentation of the creative processes which underlie Santiago Calatrava's diverse and prolific architectural output, featuring his personal thoughts, unique documents and analyses. The first volume presents Calatrava's doctoral thesis which combines the varying disciplines of engineering, mathematics and architecture. In the second volume, three of Calatrava's key sketch books are presented, capturing the essence of his more experimental, biomorphic, surreal, metaphorical, and analogical thinking"--Book jacket (v.1)

ISBN:

3764363231 (cl.in sl.cs.)
9783764363239 (cl.in sl.cs.)

Subject:

Calatrava, Santiago, 1951- Catalogs.
Calatrava, Santiago, 1951- Catalogues.
Calatrava, Santiago, 1951-
Calatrava, Santiago.
Calatrava, Santiago Architektur.
Calatrava, Santiago Architekturtheorie.
Calatrava, Santiago Werkverzeichnis.
Architecture, Modern 20th century Catalogs.
Architecture Technological innovations.
Architecture 20e siècle Catalogues.
Architecture Innovations.
Architecture, Modern
Architects Spain 20th century.

Form/genre:

Sketchbooks.
Theses.
Catalogs

Added entries:

Gartrell, John Dennis, translator.
Tzonis, Alexander.
Lefaivre, Liane.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 223696
Call No.: NA44.C143.A35 2001
Copy: pt. 1
Status: Available

Location: Library main 223697
Call No.: NA44.C143.A35 2001
Copy: pt. 2
Status: Available

Location: Library main 223702
Call No.: NA44.C143.A35 2001
Copy: slipcase
Status: Available