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