A serpentine construction area, whose layout reminds one of Le Corbusier’s plan for Algiers and Emile Aillaud’s large-scale developments in the Parisian banlieues, winds its way around the hills of Montecorvo and La Fonsalada in Spain’s La Rioja wine-growing region (ill. 4). Although some formal aspects are reminiscent of concepts from the 1940s to 1970s, MVRDV’s plans for a new...