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A 21st Century Grand Tour | A photographic series by Ricardo Espinosa
In the twenty years after its accession to the European Union in 1986, Spain underwent unprecedented physical development that radically reshaped its major cities and metropolitan areas. From new housing to commercial and cultural facilities to infrastructure, Spain experienced a building boom of such remarkable proportions that by 2005 20% of the country’s GDP was attributable to construction-related activities. A year later, The New York Times celebrated Spain as “one of the great architectural success stories in modern history” in reviewing the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition On Site: New Architecture in Spain.
Today, as Spain teeters on the brink of bankruptcy with rising deficits and unemployment, the country is littered with unfinished, partially completed or abandoned developments. In Madrid, where the situation is at its most severe, over 25% of the urbanized land in and around the city is comprised of these partly vacant or incomplete developments.
A symposium co-organized by Christopher Marcinkoski and Javier Arpa, in cooperation with the Architectural League.
With speakers including Iñaki Abalos, Dominique Alba, Enric Battle, William Braham, Timur Galen, Rania Ghosn, Llàtzer Moix, Willie Van den Broek, and Daniel Zarza 5 AIA CEUs
Published in conjunction with the symposium of the same name, "The City That Never Was" offers evidence of the devastation left in Spain in the aftermath of the 2008 economic collapse and, in an essay by and conversation with symposium co-organizers Christopher Marcinkoski and Javier Arpa, begins to speculate on the possibilities for how future patterns of urbanization are conceived, financed, planned, and inhabited.
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Published: October 29, 2012 in:
http://archleague.org/2012/10/the-city-that-never-was/
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