Symphony Center's core design team includes:

• Santiago Calatrava - Architect
  
• Cesar Pelli & Associates - Master Planner
  
• Kirkegaard Associates - Acoustician
  
• Auerbach Pollock Friedlander - Theatre Consultant

Perhaps the first thing to say about Symphony Center is that Allison Vulgamore, Robert Spano and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra have been truly visionary clients. From the beginning, the Symphony and its community volunteers have known what they want to achieve for the Orchestra, for the city of Atlanta and for the people of Georgia: to create the most modern concert hall possible.

- Statement by Santiago Calatrava
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Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava is world-renowned. His first building in the United States, the Quadracci Pavilion at the Milwaukee Art Museum, opened in October 2001 to widespread acclaim – “a thing of pure, exhilarating joy

- Chicago Tribune

Calatrava is a lyricist…His architecture soars, and it celebrates light, transparency, and soft, sensuous curves.

-Paul Goldberger, The New Yorker architecture expert

He is one of the world's most innovative designers of urban infrastructure…and has redefined our conceptions of what urban public spaces can become.

– William Mitchell, MIT Dean of Architecture