Santiago Calatrava

''No Matter how significant mathematics and the science of engineering are in the work of Santiago Calatrava, it is art and emotion that drive him to creat works that far surpass the mundane calculation of forces.'' 

                                                                                                          Philip Jodidio

Santiago Calatrava is an artist, architect, and an engineer who has the ability to bring his paintings to live in large scales of structural sculptured architectural buildings. His works from figure paintings and drawings and become a inspirational architectural buildings. He believes Art gives the freedom in expressing feelings and been creative comparing it just alone architecture with less freedom and more boundaries to adjust to, and he just uses his engineering ability to bring his inspiring art and sculptural work to a real life form that functions.

Turning Torse - Malmo Sweden

The above drawing of the ''Turning Torse'' is completion of his strong attraction and interest in sculpture, an art he often treats as study in statics. At first Calatrava created and designed a sculpture in which seven cubes are set around a steel supported structure in order to create a spiral structure, which comparing it to his inspiration to the human body sculptural drawing features the twisting human spine. 

Satiago Calatrava defines the relationship between the sculptural human body drawing to the tower:

''In the Turning Torso building, the spiralling tower is composed of nine box units, each of five floors. The equivalent in the tower of the sculpture's steel support is the nucleus of internal elevators and stairs, through which the box units communicate.''

Since my art and design course in college I always found Calatrava's works are breath taking, his master mind behind his creativity and imagination he collaborates into his art drawings, then turns them in to architectural designs is very inspiring. His passion within his works are un-questionable, his background knowledge  within his work in architecture, art and engineering leads him into an successful architect.
I guess it is important to have a field, or some kind of a topic that your passionate about as your inspiration in order to create and combine it with landscape designsin order to have a stronger concept and design. It's like having some sort of precedent work that you can relate your design ideas back to, but rather than relating it to someone elses work, you can relate back to your own.