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Issue 30-31

Bilbao
Exploring the City You Grew Up In Chronology Behind the Bilbao Effect: An Overnight Success in 20 Years 20th Century Architecture: Through the Lenses of Seven Projects The American Houses of Bilbao A Bastion of Design Bilbao and the Magazine Nueva Forma The Vizcaya Amusement Park: A Story of Broken Dreams Turning Point One: 1983 Flooding Bilbao’s Strategic Evolution: The Metamorphosis of the Industrial City Three Key Organizations: Bilbao Metrópoli 30, BILBAO Ría 2000, and the Bilbao Bizkaia Water Consortium Men of Steel in a Grey Landscape Apoptosis The Alhóndiga Cultural Center and Other Architectural Dreams The Abando Passenger Interchange: A Project Traveling Over Eighty Years Metro Bilbao Building the Symbol of a Remarkable Transformation Turning Point Two: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Setting Up New Relationships Between City and Nature Zigzags in Mina del Morro IDOM Offices Lasesarre Football Stadium Jesús Galíndez Slope and Paul Casals Square Reurbanization of the Nervión River Docks The Many Effects of the Guggenheim Effect A Disappearing Bilbao A City in Film Botxero Stores The Second Strategic Plan for Bilbao Landscapes and Networks in the the City-Region: The Basque City A Place in Transition A New Zorrotzaurre Perfect Future Architects’ Role in the Future City Words, Desires, and Memories Postcards from Bilbao

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Chronology

March 27, 2017

A partial chronology of Bilbao and its architecture by Iker Gil.

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Iker Gil

Iker Gil is a founding partner at MAS Studio, editor in chief of the nonprofit MAS Context, and executive director of the SOM Foundation. Iker has edited or coedited several books including Radical Logic: On the Work of Ensamble Studio and Shanghai Transforming. He has curated multiple exhibitions including Nocturnal Landscapes, Poured Architecture: Sergio Prego on Miguel Fisac, and BOLD: Alternative Scenarios for Chicago, part of the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial. He was Associate Curator of the US Pavilion for the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale and cocurator of Exhibit Columbus 2020–2021. He was the 2024 Morgenstern Visiting Chairs at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), and the Escola da Cidade (São Paulo).