The architecture that is not produced in the centers of the country (Barcelona, Madrid and Seville) is, in general, almost unknown, by Valencian institutions have been launched to promote theirs.
Last year, the Spanish House in Holland hosted an exhibition on Valencian architecture. The purpose of this exhibition was to inform the Dutch investor and the Dutch architecture professional of the decisive contribution of the Valencian architects' association to the rehabilitation process of the Levantine coast, the impulse given to the urban development plans of the Generalitat and the works in Alicante, Castellón and Valencia, as well as a series of conferences.
The selection of the most representative works of the Community, made by the curators Carlos Campos and Manuel Valdés, was very similar to the one made for the exhibition held at the IVAM that year.
In Holland, all kinds of projects were included: collective housing, industrial and single-family buildings, the Valencian pavilion for Expo 92 and the two most representative buildings of the latest Valencian architecture: the IVAM, by Emilio Giménez and Carlos Salvadore, and the Pueyo de Octubre itself, by Santiago Calatrava. On this occasion, no regionalist or historicist section was included.
The texts are by Emilio Giménez and are dedicated to assess, after presentation, by Camino Gracia, president of a collegiate organization.
For its part, the Valencian Institute of Modern Art (IVAM) has also made a notable effort to publicize the latest architecture produced in the Valencian Community, and it has been worth it.
The large exhibition that has brought together the most representative of the architectural production of the last decade (see Arquitectura Viva 17), now closed, has been a great success with the public.
A previous work by Pilar Insausti and Tito Llopis, referring to the last twenty years, served as a starting point for the selection of works, made by Insausti, Llopis and Víctor Pérez Escolano, curators of the exhibition.
The catalog can draw the following conclusions from the exhibition: the decentralized model of the autonomous regions has favored the proliferation of public architecture, as in the rest of the country; however, secondly, there is also a whole generation of architects trained in the school of Valencia.
Housing, new buildings, restoration and public buildings are the four sections in which a total of 51 works have been arranged. The catalog - which includes biographies of the architects and a bibliography by works and general order - remains a source of information for the proper dissemination of Valencian architecture.
