Alberto Campo Baeza has been named winner of the Piranesi prize for professional achievement 2018. The prize will be awarded by the Scientific Committee of Piranesi Prix de Rome, in collaboration with the L’Ordine degli Architetti Paesaggisti, Pianificatori e Conservatori di Roma e provincia and with the Polo Territoriale di Mantova del Politecnico di Milano.
The Accademia Adrianea di Architettura di Roma has awarded the Piranesi Prize 2018 to the spanish architect Alberto Campo Baeza for his career.

The Spanish architect will collect the prestigious award for high classical culture in architecture, Friday, March 16, 2018 at the Casa dell'Architettura - Roman Aquarium of Rome, where he will offer a lectio magistralis in which he will talk about an ancient architecture that has been a constant presence in his design reflection, the Pantheon, and will retrace, in succession, the highlights of his professional career, which began in 1978.

In this case, the Piranesi Prize to the Career makes reference to the qualities of the work of an architect and his approach to the classic.
 
"Architecture has been, is and will be the result of combining reason and intuition. Or as Vitrubio demanded, comply with the Utilitas and the Firmitas and the Venustas. In any case, look for Beauty", says architect Alberto Campo Baeza.
 
"I believe that this search for Beauty is what comes to recognize this Piranesi Award", underlines Campo Baeza about this award, whose award ceremony will take place on March 16 in Rome on the occasion of the opening of the Academic Course of the Accademia Adrianea.

Piranesi Award

It is an important international recognition, sponsored by the Accademia Adrianea, l´Ordine degli Architetti de Roma and Casa dell´Architectura awarded by competition to a unique work related to the Historical Heritage and also to a distinguished professional career.

In this second modality, in addition to Alberto Campo Baeza, previously this Prize has been awarded to Rafael Moneo (2010), David Chipperfield (2012), Peter Eisenman (2013), José Ignacio Linazasoro (2014), Bernard Tschumi (2015), Yoshio Taniguchi (2016) and Eduardo Souto de Moura (2017).

Campo Baeza has recently obtained the 2017 COAM Award and the Attolini Award from the Anahuac University of Mexico, and has just been named in 2018 Doctor Honoris Causa by the San Pablo CEU University.

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Casa dell'architettura, Acquario Romano. Manfredo Fanti Square, 47, Rome, Italy
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16:00h. March 16th, 2018
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Alberto Campo Baeza. Born in Valladolid (1946), where his grandfather was an architect, from the age of two he lived in CADIZ where he saw the LIGHT. From his father he inherited a spirit of ANALYSIS and from his mother the determination to be an ARCHITECT.

He lives in Madrid, where he moved to study Architecture. His first professor was Alejandro de la Sota, who instilled in him the ESSENTIAL architecture that he is still trying to erect. He is a PROFESSOR at the Madrid School of Architecture, ETSAM, where he has been a tenured professor for more than 25 years.

He has taught at the ETH in Zurich and the EPFL in Lausanne as well as the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. And in Dublin and Naples, Virginia and Copenhagen. And at the BAUHAUS in Weimar and at Kansas State University. He spent a year as a research fellow at COLUMBIA University in New York in 2001 and again in 2011. He has given many lectures and has received many awards like the TORROJA for his Caja Granada building. And he was awarded the Buenos Aires Biennial 2009 for his Nursery for Benetton in Venice and his MA Museum in Granada. He has recently been nominated by the American Academy of Arts and Letters for the prestigious Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize of 2010.

His works have been widely recognized. From the single family houses Casa Turégano and Casa de Blas, both in Madrid, to Casa Gaspar, Casa Asencio and Casa Guerrero in Cádiz. And the Olnick Spanu House in Garrison, New York, the Centro BIT in Inca-Mallorca, the Caja de Granada Savings Bank and the MA, the Museum of Andalusian Memory, both in Granada, and a nursery for Benetton in Venice. And Between Cathedrals in Cádiz, and just recently a building for Offices in Zamora (2012). And the construction of the new Offices for Benetton in Samara, Russia, which is about to begin.

And more than 20 editions of a BOOK with his texts “LA IDEA CONSTRUÍDA” [THE BUILT IDEA] have been published in several languages. A fourth edition of “PENSAR CON LAS MANOS”, a second compilation of his writings, has just been published. And just now “PRINCIPIA ARCHITECTONICA”, a collection of his texts written during his sabbatical year at Columbia University in New York in 2011.

He believes in Architecture as a BUILT IDEA. And he believes that the principle components of Architecture are GRAVITY that constructs SPACE and LIGHT that constructs TIME.

He has exhibited his work in the CROWN HALL by Mies at Chicago’s IIT and at the PALLADIO Basilica in Vicenza. And in the Urban Center in New York. And at the Saint Irene Church in Istanbul. In 2009 the prestigious MA Gallery of Toto in Tokyo made an anthological exhibition of his work that in 2011 was in the MAXXI in Rome.

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Published on: March 9, 2018
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