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Spain Expands on Its Sense of PlaceWhen "On-Site: New Architecture in Spain" first appeared on the Museum of Modern Art's calendar, it seemed unlikely to accomplish much more than anointing the latest national hotbed of architectural experimentation.
Did we really need a big, expensive show mounted just to let us know that Spain is the new Holland, just as Holland was the new Japan a couple of years before that?
"On-Site," which opened Sunday, certainly includes enough evidence of Spain's architectural and cultural vitality three decades after the fall of the Franco regime to make packing up and moving to Barcelona, Valencia or Seville seem not just an attractive option, but also dreamily inspired.
But it has a good deal more to offer than cheerleading or trend-spotting.
Organized by Terence Riley, the longtime MoMA curator who is leaving next month to become director of the Miami Art Museum, "On-Site" is at its best a sophisticated essay on the idea of architectural middle ground, particularly between youth and experience and between globalization and regional context.
It uses Spain to make a timely larger argument that the most significant architecture of the coming decade, all over the world, will combine a cosmopolitan, Modernist-inspired sensibility - and the advanced engineering that has made radical forms increasingly buildable
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