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Calatrava Research Paper

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Bringing together technology alongside with art and science, Calatrava’s works transcend what is known and common to a new level of sophisticated architecture, combining the traditional aspect of life with new modern world.
Calatrava’s work has been widely controversial, creating strong reactions from being loved and adored to hated and loathed nevertheless with undeniable uniqueness and creativity.
He was born in Spain. July 28, 1951, in a small village called Benimamet, where he studied painting and drawing in a very young age and continued his higher education in architecture after spending one year studying “arts and crafts”, in 1974 he traveled to Zurich and enrolled in the civil engineering department as a postgraduate after finishing

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