Explosive Valencia – futuristic imagination and the power of tradition in creating the image of urban spaces. Competition and conflict, or coexistence and praise of diversity? by Kaczmarska Elżbieta

“…The formulation of an appropriate strategy of action and the effect of an example that were initiated by the construction of the City of Arts and Sciences have broken through the stagnation in thinking about space. …”
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Aesthetics of bridging solutions of Santiago Calatrava by Jan Wrana

“…Santiago Calatrava, one of the leading Spanish architects and designer of, among others, the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia, is the creator of not only enclosed structures. …”
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KARAKTER ELEMEN PEMBENTUK BANGUNAN DALAM KARYA ARSITEK SANTIAGO CALATRAVA by , ASPIN, S.PdT, , Dr. Ing. Ir. Eugini Pradipto.

“…The results based on the parameters character-forming elements of buildings on five cases the object of research, namely-Satolas Lyon TGV Station, Valencia City of Arts and Sciences, Tenerife Concert Hall, Milwaukee Art Museum, and the Turning Torso showed that some of the character of the building forming element in the work of Santiago Calatrava , namely: (1) The structure used to generate architectural form and function as an architectural structure, is used to describe the relationship between structure and architecture in which the structural requirements are allowed to influence the shape of the building is very strong even though the structure is exposed, (2) the dominance of material concrete, steel and glass, which is processed by Calatrava is not common to produce a form corresponding with the analogy of form, (3) analogy as a thematic design, where form is present always monumental and iconic, (4) line element as an element and the shape of the building facade. …”