Alberto Campo Baeza

He has been a professor of projects for more than 30 years at the Madrid Higher Technical School of Architecture (ETSAM). He has taught at ETH Zurich and EPFL Lausanne, the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, the Bauhaus Weimar, Kansas State University, CUA University in Washington and L'Ecole d'Architecture in Tournai, Belgium and has been Clarkson Visiting Chair in Architecture at the University at Buffalo. In 2018-2019, he was a visiting professor at the Barcelona School of Architecture. From 2017 to 2020, he was Emeritus Professor at the Polytechnic University of Madrid. In 2021, he was a visiting professor at NYIT in New York.

He has received awards such as the Torroja Prize from Caja Granada bank and the Award for Teaching Excellence from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. In 2013, he received the Heinrich Tessenow Gold Medal of the Tessenow Society, Hamburg, the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the International Award Architecture in Stone of Verona. In 2015, he was awarded the BigMat Awards Berlin and the International Spanish Architecture Award. In 2018, he received the Honorary Doctorate Degree from the San Pablo CEU Universidad and in 2020, the Honorary Doctorate Degree from the Lusíada University in Lisbon and the National University of Rosario in Argentina. He has lectured all over the world, and at Columbia University in 2022.

In 2014, he was elected a full member of the Architecture Section of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Spain, and an International Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). In 2018, he received the Piranesi Prize in Rome for his career. In 2019, he was elected Honorary Fellow by the American Institute of Architects and was awarded the Gold Medal of Architecture by the Higher Council of Associations of Architects in Spain.

His works have been widely recognised. From the Casa Turégano or De Blas, both in Madrid, to the Gaspar, Asencio and Guerrero houses in Cádiz. And the Caja de Granada bank and the MA Museum, both in Granada. And the Entre Catedrales Square in Cádiz and the Moliner and Rufo houses in Zaragoza and Toledo. And the Olnick Spanu House in New York and the Nursery for Benetton in Venice. In 2012, he completed an office building in Zamora, in 2014, the House of the Infinity in Cádiz, and in 2015 the Cala House in Madrid. In the same year he won the First Prize Ex Aequo for the Conservation Centre for the Louvre Museum in Lievin, France. In 2017, the Francisco de Vitoria University Sports Centre was completed. In 2018, he won the competition for the extension of the Lycée Français in Madrid and in 2020 the competition for a new bridge over the Piave River in Belluno, Venice.

More than 30 editions of his book of texts "La Idea Construida” (The Built Idea) have been published in several languages. In 2009, a second collection of his texts "Pensar con las Manos” (Thinking with your Hands) was published, in 2012, "Principia Architectonica” (On Architecture), and in 2014, ¨Poetica Architectonica¨ (Architecture as Poetry). In 2015, his book "La Idea Construida" was republished in English and Chinese, and the publishing house Los libros de la Catarata, published "Quiero ser arquitecto” (I want to be an architect). His complete works have been collected in a book published by Thames & Hudson. In 2016, he published "Varia Architectonica”, in 2017 "Teaching to teach" and in 2018 "Palimpsesto Architectonico” (Architectural Palimpsest). In 2020, he published "Rewriting" and "Trece trucos de Arquitectura” (Thirteen Tricks of Architecture). In 2021, he published "Sapere Aude. Rewriting 2" and "Festina Lente! Rewriting 3".

He has exhibited his work in Mies' Crown Hall at IIT Chicago and in the Palladio Basilica in Vicenza. At the Urban Centre in New York and at St. Irene's Church in Istanbul. And in San Pietro in Montorio in Rome, in the prestigious MA Gallery of Toto in Tokyo or in the MAXXI in Rome. Most recently at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York and at the Pibamarmi Foundation in Vicenza. In 2015, at the Official Association of Architects of Cádiz. . In 2017, at the Buffalo School of Architecture and the Patio Herreriano in Valladolid. In 2018, at the Museum of the University of Alicante. In 2019, at the Fundação EPD in Lisbon. And in 2020, at the Oris House of Architecture in Zagreb and the Museo Novencento in Florence. In 2022, the prestigious publishing house Rizzoli New York published a monograph on his entire work. In 2021, he received the Spanish National Architecture Award from the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and the Urban Agenda.