The architect, sculptor and painter Juan Navarro Baldeweg, Academic of Bellas Artes of San Fernando and member of Academia Europea de Ciencias y Artes y Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas 1990, among other awards, comes to the Fundación Juan March on 30 of October in 2012 to present his biography intellectual, and will dialogue with Francisco Calvo Serraller.

Both his paintings and sculptures and their architectural works or writings are characterized by a profound reflection on the processes and ways of installing the man in the world. As architect (with commissions including the Museo de Altamira in Santillana del Mar or the Auditorio de Salamanca) Juan Navarro Baldeweg is one of the leading Spanish representatives architects.

Venue: Salón de actos. Fundación Juan March. C/ Castelló, 77. Madrid
Dates: 30 October 2012. 7.30 pm.

Admission free to fill seats.

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Juan Navarro Baldeweg was born in Santander in 1939, where he studied drawing and painting. He studied engraving at the San Fernando School of Fine Arts starting in 1959. The following year, he held his first exhibition in the Fernando Fe Gallery, also in the Spanish capital city. In 1974, a grant from the Juan March permitted him to travel to the Centre for Advanced Visual Studies at the Massachussets Institute of Technology, to complete and develop his research. He has taught at the universities of Harvard, Pennsylvania, Yale and professor at the School of Architecture of Madrid. He has been a permanent member of the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts since 2003.

Main awards:
2014 National Architecture Award.
2012 Premio a la Trayectoria Profesional en la VIII Bienal Iberoamericana de Arquitectura y Urbanismo.
2012 Premio Tomás Francisco Prieto 2012.
2010 Premio Juan de Herrera del Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Cantabria.
2009 Premio X Bienal Española de Arquitectura.
2008 Medalla de Oro de la Arquitectura, Consejo Superior de Arquitectos de España, 2008.
2007 Medalla de Oro al Mérito de las Bellas Artes 2007.
2005 Premios Villa de Madrid 2005. Premio de Escultura “Mariano Benlliure” a Juan Navarro Baldeweg por la exposición Esculturas realizada en la Galería Marlborough, Madrid.
2003 Premio a la actuación temporal por la Exposición Universo Gaudí en el Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. XVII Premios de Urbanismo, Arquitectura y Obra Pública correspondiente al 2002. Ayuntamiento de Madrid Académico numerario de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.
2001 Honorary Fellow of The American Institute of Architects.
2000 Académico electo de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid. Homenaje a Juan Navarro Baldeweg en ARPAfil 2000, XIV Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.
1998 Premio Heinrich Tessenow 1998.
1990 Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas.

Calle de Carbonero y Sol, 14, 13 - 28006 Madrid, Spain.
http://www.navarrobaldeweg.net

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