 | Was Bilbao, as architects call the museum, a hard act to follow? Not if you were Enric Miralles, the most rambunctious—and most original—of Gehry's Spanish godchildren. Miralles, who died in 2000 when he was only 44, learned an important lesson from the magus of Santa Monica: Take risks. When he succeeded, as with the Igualada Cemetery Park in Barcelona (designed with Carme Pinós), the result was sublime, and even when he did not, as with his last project, the flawed new Scottish Parliament building in Edinburgh (designed with Benedetta Tagliabue and RMJM), the effort was nevertheless audacious. Miralles and Tagliabue are represented in the MoMA show by a rather forbidding office complex in Barcelona, and by the Santa Caterina Market in an old quarter of the same city (at right). The multicolored undulating roof, which envelops part of a rebuilt 19th-century building, would be obnoxious if it weren't so good-humored. |  |
Santa Caterina Market (EMBT Miralles Tagliabue Arquitectes Associats). Image courtesy MoMA, New York. |
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