Architect, Spain Santiago Calatrava studied art and architecture in Valencia and pursued a degree in civil engineering at Zurich’s Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule (ETH, or Federal Institute of Technology). After graduation, he worked at the ETH’s Institute for Building Statics and Construction and Institute for Plane Statics and Light Construction. In professional practice for just 20 years, he currently has offices in Paris, Zurich, and Valencia, where he works on a number of large-scale architectural projects, on establishing his work as a standard by which later engineering design will be measured, and on winning countless awards including the 1992 Gold Medal of the Institute of Structural Engineers and the 1987 Auguste Perret UIA Prize. Although Calatrava’s work might be best characterized by the futuristic forms of his famous bridge designs, his oeuvre spreads far beyond the engineering wonders he has built. The architect has written that his motto is “Nature is both mother a...