As a guest city, Madrid will have an own pavilion of 1,800 m2, where there will be alternating literary forums, meetings of the publishing sector, gastronomic days and events of promotion of the capital. Under the title: Ganarás la luz, Campo Baeza, comments,
"A large black cylinder on the outside and white on the inside, with a ceiling full of light. Inside that large cylinder will rise some white bleachers, creating an amphitheater, an agora, crowned at its top with a band of full shelves Of books," said Alberto Campo Baeza, in the written presentation of the project, adding "it will be an agora full of light, the light that provides wisdom through books."
Light, as an essential argument in the work of this architect, is used as a chisel which forms the pavilion that he has designed to host the activities that the city of Madrid will perform, as guest of honor, in the next edition Of the FIL in Guadalajara, Mexico.
The design of Campo Baeza corresponds to the motto that the City of Madrid has chosen to present the city at the fair: Ganarás la luz. "It is the title of a book by León Felipe, a Spanish poet who died exiled in Mexico. And it works as a double metaphor. On the one hand, it expresses the victory of light in the face of darkness thanks to knowledge. And on the other, it refers to a physical fact well known by anyone who has visited Madrid: its light clean and bright. With the addition that our central square is called Puerta del Sol, which in some way also refers to light," said Luis Cueto, general coordinator of the Madrid City Council.
The commission process seemed to go to be torturous and entangle in a controversy similar to the previous Plaza de España contest, however, thanks to the generosity or intelligence of the architect, finally were solved all administrative complications, by Alberto Campo Baeza resigning to the € 60,000 of project fees. The construction will also be free because will be sponsored by the company Acciona.
