In case you’ve been out of town for a while, Dallas City Council awarded a design contract to world-renowned bridge designer Santiago Calatrava in January 2002. In February 2005, Hunt Petroleum Company of Dallas generously donated $12 million to the Trinity River Corridor Project. The City of Dallas in turn granted them naming rights to the Woodall Rodgers Extension Bridge. It is now named the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, in honor of the matriarch of the Hunt family. But who is this man behind the design?

Spanish-born architect Santiago Calatrava has achieved considerable international acclaim with his breathtaking feats of architecture and engineering in the service of elegant and humanistic modern forms. This updated volume comprehensively examines this contemporary master’s career, including the architect’s furniture designs, sculpture, and drawings. His spectacular cultural and civic projects have secured Calatrava’s place in the pantheon of world-class 21st-century architects. The book opens with a photo anthology of Calatrava’s greatest works and then follows the development of his vision from 1979 to his 2004 design for the World Trade Center Transportation Hub.