{"id":10017973,"date":"2024-09-17T09:12:14","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T08:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chapter.digital\/the-art-of-the-possible\/"},"modified":"2024-09-18T10:06:50","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T09:06:50","slug":"the-art-of-the-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chapter.digital\/en\/the-art-of-the-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of the possible"},"content":{"rendered":"

Santiago Calatrava’s neo-futuristic architecture, be it museums, churches, modern high-rises or his famous bridges, combines organic forms with advanced technical solutions and strives boldly into the future. \u00bbCalatrava.Complete Works 1979-Today\u00ab offers an all-encompassing insight into the vision of one of the most innovative architects of our time.\u00a0Published by Taschen Verlag.<\/p>\n

Since its founding in 1980 under the direction of Benedikt Taschen, Cologne-based Taschen Verlag has been regarded as instrumental in the emergence of the cult of the coffee table book and its rise to collector’s item status.\u00a0Not least as a beautifully designed interface between art and knowledge, the oversized XXL volumes of the art book publisher<\/a> offer an aesthetic and content-related framework for a broad spectrum of culturally and intellectually outstanding topics and personalities.<\/p>\n

In this spirit, the monograph now published by the architect, engineer and artist Santiago Calatrava, who was born in Spain in 1951 and lives in Switzerland, is dedicated to an impressive range of human creativity that breaks through genre boundaries, spans a network of old knowledge in new designs and bundles the power of personal expression.<\/p>\n

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Although he is primarily known as an architect, a closer look at his spectacular buildings reveals a deep, inherent creative streak.
\nCalatrava is a sculptor, painter, furniture designer and stage designer\u2013\u2013to name just a few of his fields of activity.\u00a0The book encompasses all areas of his work and is a testament to an inimitable talent for realizing the connection between space and form on the most diverse scales, and above all demonstrates Calatrava’s ability, which is always an indispensable prerequisite for his work\u2013\u2013the loosely taut red thread that connects the first page with the last.<\/p>\n

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\nHis architectural concepts thrive on overwhelming (spatial) impact and emotional depth.\u00a0One example of this is the spectacular subway station at the World Trade Center<\/i>, the \u00bbWorld Trade Center Transportation Hub\u00ab.\u00a0The dramatic futuristic aesthetics of the building with its striking roof, whose radial ribs are reminiscent of the wing bones of a soaring bird, Calatrava has not only created a roof for a functional transportation hub, but also a monumental sculptural composition.\u00a0The innovative, symbolic potential of the architecture embodies a new era of reconstruction and symbolizes the transition from destruction to a new beginning at Ground Zero<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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However, Calatrava’s architecture does not only thrive on monumental grandeur.\u00a0His buildings are the product of superior technological sophistication, complemented by a human-artistic sensitivity for materials, and push the possibilities of modern materials and their use to the limits of technical possibilities.<\/p>\n

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Whether the \u00bbMuseum of Tomorrow\u00ab in Rio de Janeiro (2015) or his most recent project, the \u00bbPavilion of the United Arab Emirates\u00ab for the Expo 2020<\/i><\/a> in Dubai, the \u00bbSt.Nicholas Greek Church\u00ab at Ground Zero <\/i>(2022) in New York or the sculpture \u00bbConstellation\u00ab in River Point Park<\/i> (2017) in Chicago\u2013\u2013Calatrava’s unmistakable signature is always characterized by aerodynamic elegance of originally organic forms as well as his sensitive feel for the interplay of aesthetics and structure.<\/p>\n

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Aesthetics and structure are also the keywords in relation to the comprehensive exhibition \u00bbCalatrava. Complete Works 1979\u2013Today<\/a>\u00ab\u2013\u2013a meticulously compiled collection that explores the universal artist’s unique creative vision through detailed entries, photographs and watercolor sketches.\u00a0Also available as a limited Art Edition of 300 copies with two signed lithographs by Santiago Calatrava and a custom-made box. [DM]<\/i><\/p>\n

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Calatrava. Complete Works 1979-Today
\nHardcover, printed on two different types of paper
\n30.8 x 39 cm, 6.79 kg, 688 pages
\ntaschen.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Santiago Calatrava’s neo-futuristic architecture, be it museums, churches, modern high-rises or his famous bridges, combines organic forms with advanced technical solutions and strives boldly into the future. \u00bbCalatrava.Complete Works 1979-Today\u00ab offers an all-encompassing insight into the vision of one of the most innovative architects of our time.\u00a0Published by Taschen Verlag. Since its founding in 1980 under the direction of Benedikt Taschen, Cologne-based Taschen Verlag has been regarded as instrumental in the emergence of the cult of the coffee table book […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10017964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[335,336,348],"tags":[414,391],"class_list":["post-10017973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-architecture","category-articles","category-latest","tag-architecture-en","tag-bookshelf-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapter.digital\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10017973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapter.digital\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapter.digital\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapter.digital\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapter.digital\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10017973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chapter.digital\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10017973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapter.digital\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10017964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapter.digital\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10017973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapter.digital\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10017973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapter.digital\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10017973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}