Projects & realities

From the 22th of Septembre 2006 till the 14th of January 2007 in the pavilion Villanueva in the Royal botanic Gardin (Real Jardín Botanico) of Madrid

Commmissioner: Terence Riley, commisioner chief of Arquitecture and Design of the Museum of Modern Art,MOMA


Work: 53 buildingprojects in construction or are constructed recently

The current arquitectural vision realized in Spain is concentrated in the expositions which you can find in Madrid these days in the newest exposition since the first exposition in the museum of modern art (MOMA) of New York, which got more than one million visiters between February and May of 2006. 53 Spanish arquitectural project and also projcts from other countries of Europe, Asia and America, which were finished in the last 8 years or are being constructed in different cities of Spain.

With the expositions of the economic and social development in Spain and the introduction of the democracy, the arquitectural fenomenon and the public constructions show an exceptional leadership which nowadays converted the Spanish production in one of the richest and most exceptional ones in this moment. Because of the experimentacion and excellenceness, there are many projects which demonstrate this progress, design and technology with the realization of new constructions.
When Spain joined the European Union in 1986, it brought about a big progress because of the new source of income, allocated to the constrution of motorways, bridges, stations and civil infrastructure.

Houses, hotels, airports, health centres, schools, hospitals, markets, museums and arquitactural landscape, varied and more and more sophisticated.
The exposition also shows two Spanish projects which were awarded the Europan (competition which started in 1989 for European arquitectures under 40). The projects are about las Viviendas Sociales Junto a la SE-30, from Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano and the "Estadio de Fútbol of Eduardo Arroyo" from outside Bilbao.

The fact that Spain is different from other countries has been the slogan of many public campaigns and it has been something that characterized the particular way of learning the life and wealth of Spain. However, nowadays it seems to be the tendency that more and more, in the lenght and breadth of the western world, we are all more the same. The so called globalization which also affects the arquitecture is conducted by the big business and institutions which all want their building to be a reflection of their company. This is not a bad thing because we all want to live and work in beautifull and well-designed buildings but in this there is the risk to be classified, when you say who constructed it and I tell you who you are, or there is the risk that the company doesn´t emphasize the most important things of a good construction.
It´s a deed and an honor for the best Spanish arquitects of which a few are very young, to be the object of expositions in museums like MOMA, but they still make it, where the other Spanish people just live and work in the general Spanish cities, to settle a longwaited development.