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A Plural Spain

The articles gathered here, almost all of them originally published in El País and Arquitectura Viva, offer an architectural chronicle of post-1992 Spain. Excluding Madrid, which a previous book already tackled, the territory is grouped in four sections. The first looks at Catalonia, especially on its capital, Barcelona, which went from the admired architectural and urban model of the Olympic Games to the more debated one of the Universal Forum of Cultures, two events that transformed the city; the second travels to Jacobean Galicia and the Santiago de Compostela experience to a Basque Country summed up through the revamp of Bilbao, with the Guggenheim icon crowning it all; the third visits Castilian and Aragonese lands to present a landscape, some extraordinary works in Burgos and León, and the rather forced Expo 2008 of Zaragoza; and the fourth and last section starts in the Valencia of the America’s Cup to pass through the Andalusia of the years after the Seville Expo and end the journey in the Canarian archipelago.

Collection ‘Balances’, 2023
Language: Spanish
Soft cover
128 pages