page_title: Alberto Campo Baeza
section_title: Awards, publications and exhibitions
hierarchical_section_title: Alberto Campo Baeza / Awards, publications and exhibitions
caption_attribution_description: Español: Vista del mar sobre la plataforma
context_page_description: Alberto Campo Baeza is a Spanish architect, Full-Time Design Professor at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid ETSAM from 1986 to 2017, year when he retired. He has built a selected number of awarded buildings. His work has been exhibited and has been published in major architectural magazines around the world.
  He has been considered part of the group of designers who introduced Minimalism in architecture, together with architects such as David Chipperfield and John Pawson. Campo defends the elimination of color in architecture, as a mean to maximize the expressivity of natural light.
context_section_description: The work of Alberto Campo Baeza has won many awards. He won first prize for the Spanish Pavilion at the Biennial of Venice in 2000; first prize at the Biennial of Miami in 2000; the COAM Award for the Blas House in 2002; the COAB Award and the COAAO Award for the Centre BIT in Mallorca in 2003; The Award of Architecture in Stone for the Almería Offices in Verona in 2003; and the prestigious Eduardo Torroja Award for the Headquarters of the Caja de Granada in 2005. Campo Baeza was the recipient of two awards at the Biennial of Buenos Aires, one for the MA Museum in Granada and the other for the Nursery for the children of the Benetton Group in Ponzano-Treviso, Italy in 2009. In 2010 his work "Between Cathedrals" was a finalist in the FAD Awards. His MA Museum, in 2011, and the Offices for the Junta Castilla y León, in 2012, has been nominated to the Mies van der Rohe Award. In 2013 Campo Baeza has been awarded the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Heinrich Tessenow Gold Medal of Hamburg University, the UPM (Politecnic University of Madrid) Award for Excellence in Teaching., and the RIBA International Fellowship 2014 of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Also in 2014 he has been elected Full Member at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando of Spain
  A book of his collected writings, La idea Construida, is in its 10th edition and a monograph of his work, "Campo Baeza 1971-1996", was published in Spain by Ed. Munilla Lería, Madrid in 1996. "Campo Baeza" was published by Rockport Publishers Massachusetts and Graphic-Sha Publishers, Tokyo in 1997. The English edition of the monograph “Alberto Campo Baeza” was published by Gustavo Gili Publisher, Barcelona 1999 and translated in Italian by Edizioni Electa, Milano in 2004. A DVD with 3,333 drawings and sketches was edited by Fundación COAM for the Exhibition on the work of Alberto Campo Baeza in 2006. A newer version of the same DVD including the recent drawings by Alberto Campo Baeza was also published by Fundación COAM in 2008. In 2009, Campo Baeza 2, Munilla Lería Publisher, was published in Madrid. Alberto Campo Baeza, Idea, Light and Gravity was published in Japanese and English by TOTO Publishers in Tokyo. In 2009 was published “Pensar con Las Manos”, and in 2012 the new collection of his writings Principia Architectonica.
  Campo Baeza's work has been exhibited in many major cities and he has been published in major architectural magazines around the world. In 2003, an exhibition of his work took place at the Crown Hall at the IIT in Chicago, organized by the Spanish Instituto Cervantes. The same exhibition was shown later in the fall of 2003 at the Urban Center in New York City. A selection of his work was exhibited at the Basilica del Palladio in Vicenza, Italy in 2004. The same exhibition was shown in Istanbul, at the Hadja Irene in 2005. The MA Memory of Andalucía Museum in Granada, then just under construction, was exhibited at MoMA in New York in 2006. The Exhibition “Alberto Campo Baeza: The Complete Collection of Drawings” was shown at the COAM Foundation in Madrid in 2006. The Exhibition “On Site” was at the Royal Botanic Garden, in Madrid in 2007. A retrospective of his work was shown June–October 2009 in Tokyo at the MA Gallery. And in 2010 in the National Glyptoteque in Athens, in the Tempietto de San Pietro in Montorio in Rome, and in the Salón de Reinos in Madrid. In 2011 his work was exhibited in the Central House of Artists in Moscow and in the MAXXI in Rome. In 2012 he designed a little pavilion at the Venice Biennial. And in 2013 his work has been exhibited in the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, and in the Pibamarmi Foundation in Vicenza.
caption: Between Cathedrals. View of the sea over the platform. Photographer: Javier Callejas
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