Queríamos un Calatrava. Viajes arquitectónicos por la seducción y el repudio.

Queríamos un Calatrava. Viajes arquitectónicos por la seducción y el repudio.

Non-fiction , 2016

Crónicas Anagrama

Pages: 344

"Moix’s books portray the whole cultural scene, are a pleasure to read and model of journalistic biography" Julià Guillamón, La Vanguardia

This journalistic report explores why Santiago Calatrava went from being one of the world’s most distinguished architects, with unmistakable buildings around the globe, to being hated and condemned by many of the politicians and business leaders who hired him. The Spanish public also came to view Calatrava as a symbol of the wasteful, megalomaniacal governing class of the years leading up to the crisis.

Through an analysis of his most famous constructions, many of which display countless structural deficiencies, and testimony from collaborators, engineers and clients, Llàtzer Moix paints a vivid portrait, with light and shadow, of a controversial architect, as seductive with his original, innovative projects as he is problematic and evasive with clients who won’t submit to his demands and massive cost overruns.