On the occasion of the exhibition "One Zodiac. Juan Navarro Baldeweg" held at the Museum ICO from 8 October to 1 February, the Spanish architect he met in the rooms of this exhibition, curated by himself.

During the interview, Navarro Baldeweg reveals the keys to its architecture, faithfully reflected in the sample, with comments from some of the projects in the exhibition.

When contemplating this collection of works, I think it is relevant to establish connections between them, no matter how far in time or different they may be, as if they were part of a zodiac, a ring of constellations, a ring of rings. If we adopt the appropriate perspective, we easily find a common determination, which is the essence and purpose of my work: making space visible, which in its deeper sense is nothing, and sharing that experience. The space lacks qualities. Its properties are explained by what happens in it: light in light; support in gravitation and balances; the expanded body, the hand in space; doing and undo  ing, the conscience of building, which is also destroying... and by our experience linked to those essential coordinates in which things are harbored. A common determination governs the interrelation among paintings, projects, sculptures and installations, and goes and is transferred from one work to another.

Juan Navarro Baldeweg. Exhibition catalog.

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Juan Navarro Baldeweg was born in Santander in 1939, where he studied drawing and painting. He studied engraving at the San Fernando School of Fine Arts starting in 1959. The following year, he held his first exhibition in the Fernando Fe Gallery, also in the Spanish capital city. In 1974, a grant from the Juan March permitted him to travel to the Centre for Advanced Visual Studies at the Massachussets Institute of Technology, to complete and develop his research. He has taught at the universities of Harvard, Pennsylvania, Yale and professor at the School of Architecture of Madrid. He has been a permanent member of the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts since 2003.

Main awards:
2014 National Architecture Award.
2012 Premio a la Trayectoria Profesional en la VIII Bienal Iberoamericana de Arquitectura y Urbanismo.
2012 Premio Tomás Francisco Prieto 2012.
2010 Premio Juan de Herrera del Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Cantabria.
2009 Premio X Bienal Española de Arquitectura.
2008 Medalla de Oro de la Arquitectura, Consejo Superior de Arquitectos de España, 2008.
2007 Medalla de Oro al Mérito de las Bellas Artes 2007.
2005 Premios Villa de Madrid 2005. Premio de Escultura “Mariano Benlliure” a Juan Navarro Baldeweg por la exposición Esculturas realizada en la Galería Marlborough, Madrid.
2003 Premio a la actuación temporal por la Exposición Universo Gaudí en el Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. XVII Premios de Urbanismo, Arquitectura y Obra Pública correspondiente al 2002. Ayuntamiento de Madrid Académico numerario de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.
2001 Honorary Fellow of The American Institute of Architects.
2000 Académico electo de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid. Homenaje a Juan Navarro Baldeweg en ARPAfil 2000, XIV Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.
1998 Premio Heinrich Tessenow 1998.
1990 Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas.

Calle de Carbonero y Sol, 14, 13 - 28006 Madrid, Spain.
http://www.navarrobaldeweg.net

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Published on: October 31, 2014
Cite: "One Zodiac. Juan Navarro Baldeweg [VIDEO]" METALOCUS. Accessed
<http://www.metalocus.es/en/news/one-zodiac-juan-navarro-baldeweg-video> ISSN 1139-6415
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