All Brooklyn news
Neighborhood Map
Bay Ridge
  • Bensonhurst, Dyker Heights
Brooklyn Heights
  • Downtown, DUMBO
Carroll Gardens
  • Cobble Hill, Red Hook, Boerum Hill
Fort Greene
  • Clinton Hill, Crown Heights
North Brooklyn
  • Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Bushwick
Park Slope
  • Prospect Heights, Windsor Terrace, Greenwood Heights
GO Brooklyn
Dining Guide
Where to GO
Events calendar
Classifieds
The Brooklyn Wire
Not Just Nets
Police Blotter
Perspective
Parenting
Politics
Transit
Podcasts
Brooklyn Cyclones
Special sections
About The Paper
Mobile site
Twitter
Facebook
RSS Feeds

Santiago Calatrava gives a master class at Pratt

By Meredith Deliso
The Brooklyn Paper

Tools

Print this story
Facebook this
Tweet this
Digg this
Del.icio.us

Santiago Calatrava has left his mark all across the globe, from Barcelona’s innovative Bac de Roda Bridge to the majestic Tenerife Opera House in the Canary Islands to the Alameda Bridge and Metro station in his hometown of Valencia, Spain.

The renowned architect and engineer also has an eye for art, with sculptures paintings exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

B&R Electronics

On April 22, the modern Renaissance man will speak about his work and nearly 30-year career at the Pratt Institute in Clinton Hill.

“Santiago Calatrava is one of the most innovative, accomplished, and influential architects working in the field,” said Thomas Hanrahan, dean of the School of Architecture. “His lecture is certain to inspire the next generation of architects, artists, and designers at Pratt.”

Calatrava’s gull wings and soaring cement aren’t for everyone, as he bends concrete and steel into dramatic arcs that follow form over function. But he has been praised for bridging the gap between engineering and architecture, creating structures that evoke the human body in their elegance.

Calatrava has more than a dozen projects in development or proposed, chief among them his design for the new World Trade Center transportation hub. In 2004, the bird-like station was unveiled with a flair befitting the design when the architect took to pastels and paper to explain his theme of flight, sketching the image of a child releasing a bird into the air on an easel before the crowd gathered.

When he takes to the podium at Pratt, we hope that someone makes sure this man has a pen and some paper.

Santiago Calatrava at Pratt Institute [200 Willoughby Ave. at Hall Street in Clinton Hill, (718) 636-3514], April 22 at 6 pm. Free. For info, visit www.pratt.edu.

©2010 Community Newspaper Group

←Prospect Heights: The Prospect Heights blotter is back!
→Greenpoint: ‘Union’ busters! City considers plan to demap street near McCarren Park

Reader Feedback

Enter your comment below

By submitting this comment, you agree to the following terms:

You agree that you, and not BrooklynPaper.com or its affiliates, are fully responsible for the content that you post. You agree not to post any abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening or sexually-oriented material or any material that may violate applicable law; doing so may lead to the removal of your post and to your being permanently banned from posting to the site. You grant to BrooklynPaper.com the royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual and fully sublicensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such content in whole or in part world-wide and to incorporate it in other works in any form, media or technology now known or later developed.

First name
Last name
Your neighborhood
Email address
Daytime phone

Your letter must be signed and include all of the information requested above. (Only your name and neighborhood are published with the letter.) Letters should be as brief as possible; while they may discuss any topic of interest to our readers, priority will be given to letters that relate to stories covered by The Brooklyn Paper.

Letters will be edited at the sole discretion of the editor, may be published in whole or part in any media, and upon publication become the property of The Brooklyn Paper. The earlier in the week you send your letter, the better.

Tomasos Restaurant

Links