SPAIN - MOROCCO 2000
Spain 
represents the finest in the world's contemporary architecture IMHO. Those Spaniards just have the daring that the rest of the world just is too afraid to venture into. Antonio Gaudi is the genius that the fearful or ignorant or both irresistably mock. Seriously... Casa Mila or some sheet rock and stucco monstrosity?
Even the great architects from American have to go there ply their trade. Bilbao was the site of the new Guggenheim which is simply breathtaking. This was our first Frank Gehry other than his home in Santa Monica.
Even the EMP in Seattle is a mere Target store compared to this.
represents the finest in the world's contemporary architecture IMHO. Those Spaniards just have the daring that the rest of the world just is too afraid to venture into. Antonio Gaudi is the genius that the fearful or ignorant or both irresistably mock. Seriously... Casa Mila or some sheet rock and stucco monstrosity?
Even the great architects from American have to go there ply their trade. Bilbao was the site of the new Guggenheim which is simply breathtaking. This was our first Frank Gehry other than his home in Santa Monica.
Even the EMP in Seattle is a mere Target store compared to this.
Morocco in the pre 9/11 world revealed some truths to us even then. Rather than build a fresh water system, this culture would rather spend their time praying that someone else will provide it.
Some women are kept in absolute ignorance thinking that the United States is just miles away and is fully inhabited by criminals as seen only in Walker Texas Ranger reruns.
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