The architect Alberto Campo Baeza (1946) awarded with the Gold Medal of Architecture, the most prestigious recognition of the profession in Spain, granted by Spanish architects since 1981. In an unanimous decision, the jury highlighted the "coherence of the professional career" of the architect and his teaching work.
Instituted by the Superior Council of the Colleges of Architects of Spain (CSCAE), the Gold Medal recognizes the efforts of the people and institutions that ennoble the architectural work with their work.

The jury, which has unanimously decided, has been formed by Juan Antonio Ortiz, Pedro Joaquín Navarro, Moisés Castro, Juan Navarro Baldeweg, Dolores Alonso Vera, Francisco Jarauta Marión and Laureano Matas.

Campo Baeza will receive his prize on November 28 at a gala at the Zarzuela Racecourse in which the Spanish Architecture and Spanish Urbanism and the International Spanish Architecture awards will also be awarded.

The winner is Professor Emeritus of Projects at the School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM), where he has been a professor for over 35 years.

Among its buildings are those of Caja Granada, which won the Eduardo Torroja Prize; the Casa Turégano or De Blas, both in Madrid; the Gaspar, Asencio and Guerrero houses, in Cádiz; the Museum of the Memory of Andalusia, also in Granada; the Plaza Between cathedrals, in Cádiz, and the Moliner houses, in Zaragoza; Rufo, in Toledo; the Olnick Spanu house, in New York, and the nursery for Benetton, in Venice.

The architect, who in 2015 won the First Ex Aequo Prize for the Conservation Center for the Louvre Museum in Lievin (France), is developing the contest won for the extension of the French Lyceum of Madrid.

As a teacher, he has taught at universities such as the ETH in Zurich and the EPFL in Lausanne; the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia; the Bauhaus, from Weimar (Germany); the Kansas State University, the CUA University of Washington and l'Ecole d'Architecture, in Tournai (Belgium).

In 2018-2019, Campo Baeza, who has published more than thirty editions in several languages ​​of his book «The Idea Built», has been visiting professor at the School of Architecture of Barcelona. In addition, he has given lectures all over the world.

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Alberto Campo Baeza. Born in Valladolid (1946), where his grandfather was an architect, from the age of two he lived in CADIZ where he saw the LIGHT. From his father he inherited a spirit of ANALYSIS and from his mother the determination to be an ARCHITECT.

He lives in Madrid, where he moved to study Architecture. His first professor was Alejandro de la Sota, who instilled in him the ESSENTIAL architecture that he is still trying to erect. He is a PROFESSOR at the Madrid School of Architecture, ETSAM, where he has been a tenured professor for more than 25 years.

He has taught at the ETH in Zurich and the EPFL in Lausanne as well as the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. And in Dublin and Naples, Virginia and Copenhagen. And at the BAUHAUS in Weimar and at Kansas State University. He spent a year as a research fellow at COLUMBIA University in New York in 2001 and again in 2011. He has given many lectures and has received many awards like the TORROJA for his Caja Granada building. And he was awarded the Buenos Aires Biennial 2009 for his Nursery for Benetton in Venice and his MA Museum in Granada. He has recently been nominated by the American Academy of Arts and Letters for the prestigious Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize of 2010.

His works have been widely recognized. From the single family houses Casa Turégano and Casa de Blas, both in Madrid, to Casa Gaspar, Casa Asencio and Casa Guerrero in Cádiz. And the Olnick Spanu House in Garrison, New York, the Centro BIT in Inca-Mallorca, the Caja de Granada Savings Bank and the MA, the Museum of Andalusian Memory, both in Granada, and a nursery for Benetton in Venice. And Between Cathedrals in Cádiz, and just recently a building for Offices in Zamora (2012). And the construction of the new Offices for Benetton in Samara, Russia, which is about to begin.

And more than 20 editions of a BOOK with his texts “LA IDEA CONSTRUÍDA” [THE BUILT IDEA] have been published in several languages. A fourth edition of “PENSAR CON LAS MANOS”, a second compilation of his writings, has just been published. And just now “PRINCIPIA ARCHITECTONICA”, a collection of his texts written during his sabbatical year at Columbia University in New York in 2011.

He believes in Architecture as a BUILT IDEA. And he believes that the principle components of Architecture are GRAVITY that constructs SPACE and LIGHT that constructs TIME.

He has exhibited his work in the CROWN HALL by Mies at Chicago’s IIT and at the PALLADIO Basilica in Vicenza. And in the Urban Center in New York. And at the Saint Irene Church in Istanbul. In 2009 the prestigious MA Gallery of Toto in Tokyo made an anthological exhibition of his work that in 2011 was in the MAXXI in Rome.

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