page_title: Alberto Campo Baeza
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Alberto Campo Baeza / Biography
caption_attribution_description: Español: Vista de la Casa Olnik Spanu
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: Alberto Campo graduated from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in 1971 and received his PhD in 1982.
  Campo Baeza taught at the E.T.H. in Zurich in 1989 and 1990; The Architecture Winter School in Dublin in 1992; Domus International Courses in Naples in 1993; and Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia; at The Royal Academy in Copenhagen in 1996; at the EPFL Ecole d’Architecture of Lausanne in 1997; the University of Pennsylvania in 1986 and 1999; the Bauhaus University in Weimar in 2002; the IIT in Chicago in 2003 and at Kansas State University in 2005. He had a visiting fellowship at Columbia University, New York, in 2003. He has given lectures at Harvard University, University of Miami and Columbia University in 2002; the IIT in Chicago in 2003; the Basilica Palladiana in Vicenza, in 2004; the CA Group in Beijing, Porto and Mendrisio in 2007; Katowice, Poland and Panama City in 2008; Monterrey Mexico, the Washington National Museum, and Tokyo University in 2009; Bergen and Weimar in 2010; Paris- Belleville and Aachen in 2011; in IUAV Venice and the Catholic University of America (Washington, DC) in 2012.
caption: Exterior view of the Olnik Spanu House (New York) Photo: Miguel Quismondo
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