Santiago Calatrava, an internationally acclaimed architect, engineer and artist, will present a public lecture on Tuesday, March 8, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. in Room 10-250. While a visiting artist at MIT March 8-10, Calatrava will receive the 2005 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts from the Council for the Arts at MIT, and meet and work with architecture, civil engineering and computer science students. Established in 1974, the McDermott Award is given annually to a distinguished artist recognized for excellence and innovation in his/her field. Beginning this year, MIT has increased the award to $70,000 and raised the criteria, reflecting the award's growing status, as well as the heightened importance of the arts at MIT. Calatrava was named one of Time Magazine's Innovators of 2004. The magazine called him the "poet of glass and steel." Photo / Suzanne DeChillo, The New York Times

A version of this article appeared in MIT Tech Talk on March 2, 2005 (download PDF).