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| Gabriel Calatrava is one of the participants of the City Cortex by Amorim programme. |
| Gabriel Calatrava is the founder of CAL Studio, a design and architecture firm based in New York City, and graduated in both architecture and engineering from the prestigious University of Columbia. He is one of the most distinctive architects of his generation, not only due to this complementary education, but also for his innovative, experimental and fearless approach. |
| CAL Studio was responsible for designing the environment of a Calder exhibition that took place in the Dominique Lévy Gallery in New York in 2015. Here, a series of sculptures by the famous Pennsylvania-born kinetic artist were placed within a space that was especially conceived, highlighting their shape, colour and movement. |
| Gabriel Calatrava’s studio also designed an apartment for the MoMA towers in which walls can be moved, allowing for tremendous freedom in terms of space organization. |
| In 2016, revealing his interdisciplinary nature and interest in different creative areas, Gabriel Calatrava conceived a scenographic installation for a concert at 92Y, New York. Inspired by J. S. Bach’s Art of the Fugue, the structure consisted of a set of flexible textile ropes attached to two rotating wheels on the sides of the stage. Thanks to the wheels and the intervention of performers, the piece moved as if following with the rhythm of the music. |
| Gabriel Calatrava is on the board of directors of the Municipal Arts Society of New York, a non-profit organization that launches debates and several other initiatives that seek to improve the city’s urban planning – a concern that the City Cortex programme shares. Find out more about Gabriel Calatrava on the website. |
