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"Santiago Calatrava's architectural designs are fantastical, almost alien forms that interrupt the typical boxy urban landscape. But his seemingly free-spirited works ascribe to a rather specific set of guidelines: the shapes and movements of the human body and other natural forms. Calatrava's vision for the new World Trade Center transit hub, for example, might call to mind either a bird in flight or some prehistoric beast lumbering through lower Manhattan. There's not a rectangle or flat plane to be found.\n\nPinterestFacebookTurning Torso, Malm\u00F6, Sweden, 1999-2005. Photo: \u00A9 Barbara Burg &amp;amp; Oliver Schuh\n\nIn Assouline's new book Santiago Calatrava, art curator and critic Cristina Carrillo de Albornoz Fisac first examines the various mediums and muses that influence the architect's work, including the paintings of Paul C\u00E9zanne and the sculptures of Auguste Rodin. (It's nearly impossible not to see the latter's influence on Calatrava's Turning Torso skyscraper in Malm\u00F6, Sweden.)\n\nPinterestFacebookL'Assut d'Or Bridge, Valencia, Spain, 1992-2008. Photo: \u00A9 Barbara Burg &amp;amp; Oliver Schuh\n\nThe second half of the book beautifully captures Calatrava's extensive catalogue raisonn\u00E9, pairing completed projects with early sketches and inspiration. The photographs of white steel structures set against deep-blue skies could be fine-art prints on their own. The volume's $695 price tag seems to make the same point.\n\nPinterestFacebook*Santiago Calatrava* (Assouline, $695). Photo courtesy of Assouline"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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