Santiago Calavatra is a Spanish architect born in 1951. He knew he wanted to draw from an early age and began to study art at the age of 6. Finished with art school at the age of 17, he stumbled upon an architecture book and realized his future was in this profession. He received his diploma as an architect from the Polytechnic School of Valencia and soon realized an education in civil engineering would allow him to become a better architect. By 1981 he received his doctorate in architecture from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at the age of thirty.
All of this education served him well. He opened his first office in Zurich and was soon on his way to having structures built all over the world. He is best known for bridges, museums, railway stations, and stadiums, having designed the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Velodrome for the 2004 Summer Olympics.
