In 1929, the founding year of The Museum of Modern Art, the city of Barcelona played host to the World's Fair, bringing the talents of many international design professionals to Spanish soil for the first time. Ludwig Mies van der Robe's masterful Barcelona Pavilion,dismantled after the exhibition and rebuilt fifty-seven years later, remains the seminal vestige of that event. In 1932, the Museum staged its first exhibition of architecture, which would become known as the International Style show, organized by Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson. Among the forty projects featured in the exhibition, just one was in Spain: Jose Maria Labayen and Joaquin Aizpuria's Club House in San Sebastian. In an opening text to the exhibition's catalogue, the curators remarked that in Spain "really modern architecture has only begun to appear."
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In recent years Spain has witnessed an extraordinary expansion of its built environment.On-Site: New Architecture in Spoin highlights thirty-five projects that are or soon will be in construction throughout the country, presented against a backdrop of eighteen recently completed buildings. This surge of creativity stretches from the Canary Islands to the Mediterranean to the Pyrenees, and can be seen in designs ranging from a single-family house--the universal crucible for radical experimentation--to what was until recently the largest construction site in Europe, Madrid's Barajas Airport Terminals. Such diversity is also evident in those designing this new landscape, from Spanish masters Rafae[ Moneo,Enric Miralles, and Alberto Campo Baeza to architects from abroad, including Zaha Hadid,Toyo Ito, and Jean Nouvel, as well as a number of emerging practitioners.
Foreword Glenn D. Lowry
Preface Luis Fernandez-Galiano
Contemporary Architecture in Spain: Shaking Off the Dust
Terence Riley
Projects With texts by Peter Christensen, Tina diCarlo,
and Alexandra Quantrill
Soccer Stadium Barakaldo, Vizcaya
Barajas Airport Terminals Madrid
Valleaceron Chapem Almadenejos, Ciudad Real
Museum of Cantabria Santander
City of Culture of Galicia Santiago de Compostela
EdificioZaida Granada
Metropol Parasol Sevilla
City HalI Facade Manresa, Barcelona
MunicipaITheater and Auditorium Torrevieja, Alicante
MuseumofAndalucia Granada
Woermann Complex Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Suciai Serviees Center Barcelona
Museo Nacionai Centre de Arte Reina Sofia Expansion Madrid
Relaxation Park Torrevieja, Alicante
House in a Cherry Orchard Granada
Arts Center LaCoruna
Hotel Habitat L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona
Parader Alcal& de Henares, Madrid
Tennis Center Madrid
Hotel at MarquGs de Biscal Winery Elciego, La Rioja
SE-3O Social Housing Sevilla
Museum of Contemporary Art (MUSAC) LeOn
Health Center Santa Eulalia, Ibiza
Athletics Stadium Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Casa Levene San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid
IVAM Expansion Valencia
SharingTower Valencia
National Museum of Marine Achaeology Cartagena, Murcia
La Ciudad del Flamenco Jerez de la Frontera, Cadiz
Bioclimatic Towers Vitoria-Gasteiz
Santa Caterina Market Barcelona
Access to the Paseo del 0vale Teruel
Town HallExtension Murcia
CentrodeTalasoterapia Gijon
Housing Tower Valencia
Congress Center Cdrdoba
Performing Arts Center Vitoria-Gasteiz
Theater and Auditorium La Vila Joiosa, Alicante
Euskotren Headquarters Development Durango, Vizcaya
University of Vigo New Campus Vigo
PerformiugArts School Santa Cruz de Tenerife
TorreAgbar Barcelona
BaluArte Congress Center and Auditorium Pamplona
Casa Rural Girona
Congress and Exhibition Center Avila
Gas NaturaI Headquarters Barcelona
Congress Center Badajoz
City Square and Mixed-Use Development Barakaldo, Vizcaya
Central Library Jerez de la Frontera, Cadiz
Public Housing Carabanchel, Madrid
Tenerife North Airport La Laguna, Tenerife
EdificioMirador Sanchinarro, Madrid
LaOranja Escalators Toledo
Selected Bibliography Peter Christensen
Acknowledgments
Trustees of The Museum of Modern Art
