Issue 30-31
Bilbao
Issue 30-31
Welcome to our Bilbao issue. This issue explores the remarkable transformation of the city and the goals and needs driving it. Through insightful essays, personal photo essays, failed projects, exceptional successes, and open interviews, this issue provides a comprehensive look at a metamorphosis whose scope and complexity goes far beyond the construction of a single renowned building.
Exploring the City You Grew Up In
Issue statement by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context
Chronology by Iker Gil
Behind the Bilbao Effect: An Overnight Success in 20 Years
Essay by Koldo Lus Arana
20th Century Architecture: Through the Lenses of Seven Projects
Text and selection by García de la Torre Arquitectos with illustrations by Meneo
Essay by Patxi Eguiluz and Carlos Copertone
Project by Cini Boeri Architetti
Bilbao and the Magazine Nueva Forma
Essay by Lucía C. Pérez-Moreno and Elena Martínez-Litago
The Vizcaya Amusement Park: A Story of Broken Dreams
Essay by Tomás Ruiz with photography by Yosigo
Turning Point One: 1983 Flooding
Text by Iker Gil
Bilbao’s Strategic Evolution: The Metamorphosis of the Industrial City
Essay by Ibon Areso
Men of Steel in a Grey Landscape
Text and photographs by Fidel Raso
Text and photographs by Carlos Copertone
The Alhóndiga Cultural Center and Other Architectural Dreams
Essay by Patricia Sanz Lacarra and Lucía C. Pérez-Moreno
The Abando Passenger Interchange: A Project Traveling Over Eighty Years
Project by James Stirling Michael Wildford & Associates
Essay by García de la Torre Arquitectos
Building the Symbol of a Remarkable Transformation
Iker Gil interviews John Zils
Turning Point Two: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Text by Iker Gil
Setting Up New Relationships Between City and Nature
Iker Gil interviews Diana Balmori
Project by Eduardo Belzunce, Luis Díaz-Mauriño, and Juan García Millán
Project by IDOM
Project by NO.MAD
Jesús Galíndez Slope and Paul Casals Square
Project by IDOM
Reurbanization of the Nervión River Docks
Project by Juan Sádaba and José Luis Burgos
The Many Effects of the Guggenheim Effect
Essay by Koldo Lus Arana
Essay by Patxi Eguíluz
Iker Gil interviews Koldo Serra
Text and photographs by Diego Sanz
The Second Strategic Plan for Bilbao
Essay by Ibon Areso
Landscapes and Networks in the the City-Region: The Basque City
Essay by Alfonso Vegara and Juan Luis de Las Rivas
Essay by Iker Gil with photography by Aitor Ortiz
Project by Zaha Hadid Architects
Essay by Ruth Mayoral López
Architects’ Role in the Future City
Essay by JAAM
Text and photographs by Aitor Ortiz
Postcards from Meneo, Eider Corral, Vudumedia, Hopper Ink, and La Machine