Clearly, there are interesting buildings going up on the Iberian peninsula, but it's a shame that "On-Site" provides so little information about the architecture. Rarely is the context mentioned, the plans are postage-stamp-size, the descriptions sketchy. Intricate designs, such as Peter Eisenman's ambitious 52-acre cultural complex in Santiago de Compostella, are presented so summarily that one is not enlightened, merely perplexed. The projects are paraded like models on a runway—they appear, walk, turn, disappear. The result is an unfortunate homogenization of radically different work. We are asked only to admire, not to think. The relationship—or its lack?—between the imported stars and local designers is left unexplored. It is unclear what guided the selection of the 53 projects. There's not one building by Santiago Calatrava, who is, after all, Spanish, but there is much work that, while it appears competent, does not break new ground (at right).