Architect

Estudio Arquitectura Campo Baeza

Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Alberto Campo Baeza has given lectures worldwide and has received numerous awards, including the Torroja Prize for Caja Granada and the Excellence in Teaching Award from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. In 2013, he received the Heinrich Tessenow Gold Medal, the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the International Award Architecture in Stone from Verona. In 2015, he was awarded the BigMat Awards Berlin and the International Spanish Architecture Award. In 2018, he received an honorary doctorate from San Pablo CEU University, and in 2020, from Lusíada University in Lisbon and the National University of Rosario in Argentina. In 2023, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Università della Svizzera Italiana, the ACSF Award for Outstanding Achievement in New York, and the Arco Award from the Official College of Architects of Almería. In 2014, he was elected a full member of the Architecture Section of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Spain and an International Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). In 2018, he received the Piranesi Award from Rome for his career. In 2019, he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and received the Gold Medal for Architecture from the Superior Council of the Colleges of Architects of Spain. In 2021, he received the Spanish National Architecture Award from the Ministry of Transport, Mobility, and Urban Agenda. In 2022, he received the Gold Insignia from the Madrid College of Architects, and in 2023, he was named Honorary Member by the Official College of Architects of Madrid.***His works have been widely recognized, from the Turégano House and De Blas House in Madrid to the Gaspar, Asencio, and Guerrero houses in Cádiz, and the Caja Granada and MA Museum in Granada. Other notable works include the Plaza Entre Catedrales in Cádiz, the Moliner House in Zaragoza, the Rufo House in Toledo, the Olnick Spanu House in New York, and the Benetton Nursery in Venice. In 2012, he completed an office building in Zamora, the House of Infinity in Cádiz in 2014, and the Cala House in Madrid in 2015. That same year, he won the First Prize Ex Aequo for the Conservation Center for the Louvre Museum in Liévin, France. In 2017, he completed the sports complex for Francisco de Vitoria University. In 2018, he won the competition for the extension of the Lycée Français in Madrid, in 2020, the competition for a new bridge over the Piave River in Belluno, Venice, and in 2022, the international competition for the new school for COAF Children of Armenia Fund in Armavir, Armenia. In 2023, he completed the new Arquia Bank office in Burgos, and in 2024, he is expected to complete an office building in Miami Beach. He has published over 30 editions of his book "La Idea Construida" in several languages. In 2009, he published "Pensar con las Manos," in 2012, "Principia Architectonica," and in 2014, "Poetica Architectonica." In 2015, "La Idea Construida" was reissued in English and Chinese, and he published "Quiero ser arquitecto" with Los Libros de la Catarata. His complete works have been compiled in a book edited by Thames & Hudson. In 2016, he published "Varia Architectonica," in 2017, "Teaching to Teach," and in 2018, "Palimpsesto Architectonico." In 2020, he published "Rewriting" and "Trece trucos de Arquitectura." In 2021, "Sapere Aude. Rewriting 2" and "Festina Lente! Rewriting 3." In 2023, he published "Siete lecciones de Arquitectura," and Rizzoli New York published a monograph titled "Selected Works." His work has been exhibited at the Mies Crown Hall at IIT in Chicago, the Palladio Basilica in Vicenza, the Urban Center in New York, Santa Irene Church in Istanbul, San Pietro in Montorio in Rome, the prestigious MA Gallery of Toto in Tokyo, and the MAXXI in Rome. More recently, at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York and the Pibamarmi Foundation in Vicenza. In 2015, at the College of Architects of Cádiz. In 2017, at the School of Architecture in Buffalo and the Patio Herreriano in Valladolid. In 2018, at the University of Alicante Museum. In 2019, at the EPD Foundation in Lisbon. And in 2020, at the Oris House of Architecture in Zagreb, and the Museo Novecento in Florence. In 2024, his work was exhibited at IFEMA Madrid.