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Today, there are 17 autonomous communities (15 are part of continental Spain and the other two are the Canary and the Balearic Islands), and two city enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla in North Africa. Each region manages its own schools, hospitals, and other public services. This makes Spain po...
Tatiana Bilbao, Mexican architect whose innovative works often merged geometry with nature. She was committed to collaboration as an essential feature of her work. Her projects included landscape planning, low-cost and mixed-income housing, and academic
Frank Gehry: Guggenheim Museum BilbaoGuggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain, designed by Frank Gehry, 1997. TheGuggenheim Museum Bilbaoopened in 1997 in the city of Bilbao as a cooperativeventurebetween the Guggenheim Foundation and the Basque regional administration of northwestern Spain. The museum complex,...
Chile’s Biblioteca Nacional (National Library), completed in 1924, has 1.8 million volumes and is the largest national library of a Spanish-speaking country outside of Spain.[2] Alonso de Ercilla, a Spanish solder-poet who fought against the Mapuche, authored South America’s first epic poem...
Those who refused had been drafted from barracks in Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, Valencia, and Malaga, showing that the ruling government still retained some loyalty in the face of rebellion. Some countries, such as the Kingdom of Italy, Nazi Germany, and Portugal, were in full support of the...
Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, is made oftitaniumand glass. Johann Adam Schall von Bell (1591-1669) was a german jesuit missionary. He supervised the manufacture ofbronze canonsfor the chinese emperor, equipped them with self-made gunpowder, and tested them with success to ...
The city of Bilbao, which had always been a stronghold of liberalism against the Carlists, became at the same time the centre of republican government and also of Basque nationalism. The fighting lasted until September 1937 and outside Spain is chiefly remembered for the bombing, supposedly by ...
Jeff Koons' work:PuppyPuppy, topiary sculpture by Jeff Koons; in Bilbao, Spain. American artist Print Written by Lisa S. Wainwright Lisa Wainwright has held several positions at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago: Dean of Faculty, Vice President of Academic Affairs (present); Interim ...
Siza continued to consider materials and form as the 21st century progressed. He added glossy tiles to the exterior of the Paraninfo de la Universidad delPaís Vasco(2010), an auditorium in Bilbao, Spain, and collaborated with architects Carlos Castanheira and Jun Sung Kim to build a curving ...