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Roger Wehrli - Bilbao: Photographs Since 1988
Roger Wehrli
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Hardback. The first publication of Roger Wehrli's long-term documentary project, following the transformation of Bilbao from an industrial urban area into a cultural hotspot, and one of Europe's most visited cities. Num Pages: 160 pages, 80 b&w. BIC Classification: 1DSE; AJB; AJC; AMVD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 170. .
In the 1980s, Bilbao, metropolis of the Basque Country in Spain, was considered the country's most polluted city and its mining and iron industries were in decline. In 1993, seven years after Spain joined the European Union, a radical transformation was initiated. Bilbao moved away from manufacturing to the service industries and, a key element of the process, towards contemporary culture. Celebrated architects such as Santiago Calatrava, Norman Foster, and Frank O. Gehry were commissioned with the design of public buildings, meant to become icons of the reinvented Bilbao. And it worked: Gehry's Guggenheim Museum has indeed become the modern ... Read more
In the 1980s, Bilbao, metropolis of the Basque Country in Spain, was considered the country's most polluted city and its mining and iron industries were in decline. In 1993, seven years after Spain joined the European Union, a radical transformation was initiated. Bilbao moved away from manufacturing to the service industries and, a key element of the process, towards contemporary culture. Celebrated architects such as Santiago Calatrava, Norman Foster, and Frank O. Gehry were commissioned with the design of public buildings, meant to become icons of the reinvented Bilbao. And it worked: Gehry's Guggenheim Museum has indeed become the modern ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Zurich, Switzerland
ISBN
9783858815354
SKU
V9783858815354
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Ref
99-15
About Roger Wehrli
Roger Wehrli lives and works as a freelance photographer in Switzerland. His reportages, documentaries, and portraits are regularly published in Swiss newspapers and magazines. Ibon Zubiaur, born in Gexto near Bilbao, Spain, lives and works as a writer and translator in Berlin.
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