Baeza Field
Introduction
Alberto Campo Baeza (Valladolid, 1946) is a Spanish architect, who was professor of Projects at the Madrid School of Architecture from 1986 to 2017,[1] and professor at the ETH Zürich, EPFL in Lausanne and PENN in Philadelphia; as well as in Dublin, Ithaca, Paris, Naples, Kansas and Washington.
Biography
He was born in Valladolid in 1946, where his grandfather, Emilio Baeza Eguiluz was a municipal architect-author of the Círculo de Recreo of Valladolid; But from the age of two he lived in Cádiz, where his father worked as a surgeon.
He moved to Madrid to begin his architecture studies at the Higher Technical School of Architecture. He was a student of other architects such as Javier Carvajal, Alejandro de la Sota Martínez, Moneo, Aburto and Cabrero. He began as a professional in Julio Cano Lasso's studio and as a professor at the Madrid School of Architecture, ETSAM, together with Javier Carvajal.
He has taught at the ETH in Zurich, the EPFL in Lausanne, or the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, in Dublin, Naples, Virginia, Copenhagen, at the Bauhaus in Weimar, at Kansas State University during the 2005-2006 academic year, occupying the Regnier Distinguished Visiting Chair,[2] and at CUA University in Washington. He was a visiting researcher at Columbia University in New York. In 2016 he served as a visiting professor at L'Ecole d'Architecture de la UC Louvain" in Tournai, Belgium. In 2017 he was named Clarkson Visiting Chair in Architecture by the University at Buffalo. In 2018, he taught at the University of Vienna.
He has given multiple lectures around the world, and has been awarded many prizes, such as the TORROJA" prize by Caja Granada or those at the Buenos Aires Biennial in October 2009 for his Nursery for Benetton in Venice and by the Museum of the Memory of Andalusia in Granada. In 2010 he was a finalist in the FAD awards with his work Entre Catedrales. In 2011 he was named Honorary Member by the College of Arquitectos de Cádiz. In 2012 he was nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award[3] for the Office building for the Junta de Castilla y León in Zamora and received the Teaching Excellence Award from the Polytechnic University of Madrid.[4] And in 2013 he received the Heinrich Tessenow Gold Medal[5] from the Tessenow Society, the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize") from the American Academy of Arts and Letters,[6] the International Award Architecture in Stone of Verona and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) International Fellowship 2014. In 2015 he was awarded the BigMat Awards in Berlin and the International Spanish Architecture Prize (PAEI 2015). In 2018 he was named an doctor by the CEU San Pablo University, he has received the Piranesi Prize in Rome for his career and has won the competition to build the new French Lyceum in Madrid. And in 2019 he was elected Honorary Fellow by the American Institute of Architects and received the Gold Medal for Architecture awarded by the Superior Council of the Colleges of Architects of Spain. He has obtained the 2020 Spanish National Architecture Prize.