Architect Alberto Campo Baeza has obtained the Premio Nacional de Arquitectura, Spain’s most prestigious structure award.
The accolade, identified in English because the Spanish Nationwide Structure Prize, was awarded to Campo Baeza by the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and the City Agenda, together with a prize of €60,000.
It recognises a profession of spectacular tasks, together with the sports activities corridor at Francisco de Vitoria College, the Workplaces for Junta de Castilla y León in Zamora and varied minimalist properties.
The award additionally acknowledges the architect’s contribution to architectural schooling. Campo Baeza is professor emeritus at ETSAM, the structure college on the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, the place he has taught for the previous 50 years.
Álvaro Siza and Carme Pigem on jury
Campo Baeza was chosen by a jury that included Pritzker Prize winners Álvaro Siza and Carme Pigem of RCR Arquitectes. Different jury members included architects Manuel Gallego, Elisa Valero and Lucía Cano of SelgasCano, plus writers Estrella de Diego and Inmaculada Maluenda.
The judges paid tribute to the coherence of the architect’s work all through his profession, his artistic independence and his dedication to educating the following technology of architects.
He turns into the 14th particular person to obtain the Premio Nacional de Arquitectura since 2001, when the standards was modified from that of a person constructing to a whole profession’s work.
Earlier winners of the prize embody jury members Siza and Gallego, in addition to Santiago Calatrava and Rafael Moneo.
Campo Baeza expresses “profound gratitude”
Campo Baeza’s studio has put out a press release expressing the architect’s “profound gratitude” for the popularity, “which he says owes extra to the generosity of the judges than to his personal deserves”.
“He says that he’s completely happy and may solely thank God for all the pieces,” reads the assertion. “And he claims that these closest to him, his collaborators and his mates, are all higher than him.”
The architect is predicated in Cadiz, the place he has lived because the age of two. He joined the structure occupation after being impressed by his grandfather, who labored as an architect within the metropolis of Valladolid.
Campo Baeza is famend for his pared-back fashion, as evident in tasks corresponding to Home of the Infinite and Casa Rufo.
In addition to his place at ETSAM, he has additionally taught at establishments together with ETH Zurich, the EPFL in Lausanne and the College of Pennsylvania. He’s about begin a brand new tenure, on the New York Institute of Know-how.