30-31 / Bilbao
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.
Contributions by Ibon Areso, Diana Balmori, Eduardo Belzunce, José Luis Burgos, Cini Boeri Architetti, Carlos Copertone, Juan Luis de las Rivas, Luis Diaz-Mauriño, Patxi Eguiluz, García de la Torre Arquitectos, Juan García Millán, Iker Gil, IDOM, JAAM, James Stirling Michael Wilford & Associates, Koldo Lus Arana, Elena Martínez-Litago, Ruth Mayoral López, Meneo, NO.MAD, Aitor Ortiz, Lucía C. Pérez-Moreno, Fidel Raso, Tomás Ruiz, Juan Sádaba, Diego Sanz, Patricia Sanz Lacarra, Koldo Serra, Alfonso Vegara, Yosigo, Zaha Hadid Architects, and John Zils.
With postcards by graphic design studios Meneo, Eider Corral, Vudumedia, Hopper Ink, and La Machine.
Cover and graphic design by Meneo.
Issue 30-31 Introduction
Issue statement by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context
Chronology
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. Illustrations by Meneo.
The American Houses of Bilbao
Essay by Patxi Eguiluz and Carlos Copertone. Photographs by Carlos Copertone.
A Bastion of Design
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. Photographs by Yosigo.
Turning Point One
1983 Flooding
Bilbao’s Strategic Evolution:
The Metamorphosis of the Industrial City
Essay by Ibon Areso
Three Key Organizations:
Bilbao Metrópoli 30, BILBAO Ría 2000, and the
Bilbao Bizkaia Water Consortium
Men of Steel in a Grey Landscape
Text and photographs by Fidel Raso
Apoptosis
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
Metro Bilbao
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
Setting Up New Relationships Between City and Nature
Iker Gil interviews Diana Balmori
Zigzags in Mina del Morro
Project by Project by Eduardo Belzunce Tormo, Luis Díaz-Mauriño, and Juan García Millán
IDOM Offices
Project by IDOM
Lasesarre Football Stadium
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
A Disappearing Bilbao
Essay by Patxi Eguiluz
A City in Film
Iker Gil interviews Koldo Serra
Botxero Stores
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
A Place in Transition
Essay by Iker Gil. Photographs by Aitor Ortiz.
A New Zorrotzaurre
Project by Zaha Hadid Architects
Perfect Future
Essay by Ruth Mayoral López
Architects’ Role in the Future City
Essay by JAAM
Words, Desires, and Memories
Text and photographs by Aitor Ortiz
Postcards from Bilbao
Postcards from Meneo, Eider Corral, Vudumedia, Hopper Ink, and La Machine