The Architect of Motion: The Visionary World of Santiago Calatrava Valls To witness a structure by Santiago Calatrava Valls is to observe a moment of frozen movement. Born on July 28, 1951, in the Spanish town of Benimamet, near Valencia, Calatrava did not merely study architecture; he sought to master the very language of skeletal grace and structural tension. His journey began in the academic halls of the Polytechnic University of V…