The candidacy of Campo Baeza, which will fill the vacancy left by José Luis Picardo, was proposed on December 9, 2013 by academics Francisco Calvo Serraller, Tomás Marco and Alfredo Pérez de Armiñán, who read the architect's praise.
The architect Alberto Campo Baeza was elected as a numeraire.
Alberto Campo Baeza (Valladolid, 1946) was trained in Madrid with Alejandro de la Sota, Julio Cano Lasso and other prestigious architects of ETSAM. Since 1986 he is projects professor of the School of Architecture of Madrid.
An architect with extensive experience and international recognition, his work has been exhibited in Chicago, New York, Vicenza, Istanbul, Tokyo, Athens, Rome, Moscow, Madrid and other cities around the world. He has taught at the ETH in Zurich and the EPFL in Lausanne, as well as at the University of Pennsylvania, the PENN in Philadelphia, the Bauhaus in Weimar, the Kansas State University, the CUA University in Washington, and in the universities of Dublin, Naples, Virginia and Copenhagen. In 2003 and 2011 he was assigned as a researcher at the Columbia University of New York.
Campo Baeza has won numerous national and international awards. Among them, in 2009, the Torroja Award in Granada and the Biennial Award in Buenos Aires for its Benetton Nursery in Venice and for the Memory Museum in Andalusia. Also in 2009 he was selected to the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2010 he was a finalist in the FAD awards for his work Entre Catedrales. In 2011 he was named honorary collegiate by the College of Architects of Cádiz. He received the nomination in 2012 for the Mies van der Rohe Award for the Office Building for the Castilla y León Regional Government in Zamora and the Teaching Excellence Award for the Polytechnic University of Madrid. In 2013 he received the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize, the Heinrich Tessenow Gold Medal from the University of Hamburg and the International Award Architecture in Stone of Verona.
Architect with a rigorous work, refined and of great personality, his book The idea constructed is one of the publications of reference in the Spanish architectural theory of the last decades, with nine editions, in several languages, since its original edition in 1996.
The American architect Richard Meier, Pritzker Prize, has defined the contributions of Alberto Campo Baeza:
"Since the beginning of his career there has been an understanding and a mastery of the history of architecture that provides a clear lucidity and substance to the work of Baeza field. In his projects there is a perfect articulation of the elemental tension between solid and empty, interior and exterior space, light and volume. Gravity, space, light and time are interconnected forces in his work. There is no more powerful way to mark time than the language of light. The light in the work of Campo Baeza, according to each moment, bathes, penetrates, flares and is always brilliant. His research on light and mass is vital, not only for the success of his own career, but also to identify what modern architecture continues to achieve. "
