Architect-engineer-artist Santiago Calatrava, FAIA, whose soaring structural poetry in bridges and buildings has garnered international acclaim, was selected December 2 by the AIA Board of Directors to receive the 2005 AIA Gold Medal. The highest honor the Institute confers to an individual, the Gold Medal recognizes an individual whose significant body of work has had a lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture. Calatrava will be presented with the medal at the 2005 American Architectural Foundation Accent on Architecture Gala, February 11, 2005, at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.

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