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Recently completed buildings, including the Milwaukee Art
Museum and the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia, Spain,
have given Santiago Calatrava increased exposure internationally.
His recognizable, unique structures, like Frank Gehry's, have
the potential to attract attention to their locales and their
companion cultures. This trend toward architecture as attractor
to improve economics via tourism has its good and bad points.
The emphasis on architecture is refreshing with a potential
to educate the public about their surroundings, though the
importance of "cutting edge" architecture may detract
from the importance of a building's relationship to the greater
context and intelligent thinking about urban design.
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