Calatrava: Complete Works, 1979-2007

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Reviews:

Vanity Publication
I received this book as a gift from much cherished colleagues - and I very much appreciate their generosity.
While the book does offer a comprehensive overview of Calatrava's work I would say this is a book for the lay reader, not the professional. Firstly there is not enough technical information in the form of plans, sections, elevations. Secondly, the amount of real estate allocated to Calatrava's sketches of the human body not to mention the post hoc sketches of his designs suggest a somewhat vain and spurious connection with the architectural work itself. And thirdly, the book is grossly oversized - and overpriced - to be a really useful addition to the office library. In short this is not even a coffee table book, it is a work of overweaning self-regard. not an unimportant lesson for today's architects, but perhaps not the intended message.


Calatrava's Artistic Side
this a very good book, and of course the price for such a luxury edition is more than reasonable. the only drawback is the lack of planimetric information, which for me as an architecture student is basic if you want to fully understand a work of such complexity....
anyway, the watercolors are pretty good, and as my title in this review inferred, this is obviously a more artistic focused book rather than architectural.
so be warned, the book and the whole presentation are breathtaking, but the content is more artistic than architectural, so be prepared not to find blueprints of various of the works presented in this book.

XD


Great book, fast shipping, full satisfaction
This book has everything you need to know about this amazing architect.
maybe it lacks floor plans, other than that the study sketches reveals a lot of informations on the buildings.


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A huge coffee table book
Santiago Calatrava is an architect, astounding a technical assistant and an artist. Its job ravvivato the organic tradition of frank Lloyd Wright and Bruce Goff. The job of the Calatrava ricompensando is on a scale to macroinstruction that on micro the scale because it lend the equal attention to the particular of the construction and its vision all-comprising (like expressed more well to the city of the limbs and complex sciences to Valencia). It would have to be declared clearly that this is a book of the coffee table and not a book from student. The emphasis is clearly on the photos and the watercolors of the Calatrava. An other point that must be made is that the title it of this book is rather deceptive. It includes only a directory of the coffins-bones of all the its job and regards one hardly deepened selection of its constructed of main, unbuilt and imminent plans. For that reason, this is fine adding to a collection of Calatrava, but it is not be-all or extremity-all.



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