A comprehensive survey of the work of a master of modernist design today.\nAlberto Campo Baeza, one of contemporary architecture’s most distinguished voices, is renowned for a body of work that exudes the power of radical simplicity. The architectural ideas expressed in his buildings have ranged in scale from such small but beautiful residential structures as the Turégano, Gaspar, and De Blas houses to cultural facilities such as Andalucia’s Museum of Memory in Granada, an addition to his earlier achievement, the Caja General Bank Headquarters. All share an uncompromising dedication to simple composition and demonstrate the ways in which he so brilliantly deploys disciplined restraint to achieve architectural silence in the face of the clamor of the modern city.\nThis monograph features projects spanning four decades of international architectural practice. Contributions by Richard Meier and David Chipperfield offer critical commentary on Campo Baeza’s persistent quest for beauty and relevance through his adherence to simplicity and a deeply felt devotion to modernist principles of architecture.

Campo Baeza: Selected Works

Arts & Photography

Campo Baeza, Alberto

History & Criticism

Rizzoli

Campo Baeza: Arquitectura 2015- 2022

General de Ediciones de Arquitectura, S.L.

PRINCIPIA ARCHITECTONICA

Ediciones Asimétricas

Product Description \nAGOTADO / OUT OF PRINT\nThe architects Francisco and Manuel Aires Mateus occupy an important and well-deserved place on the current Portuguese architecture scene. The sheer quantity of their public and private commissions, the competitions won over the last few years, the countless prizes received and the publicizing of their buildings at the international level are all signs of the recognition of their work.\nThis issue of 2G is the first monograph on the work of these Lisbon brothers and opens with a text by the critic João Belo Rodeia, a commentary by Alberto Campo Baeza on the house in Alenquer and an "informal conversation" with their teacher Gonçalo Byrne and Valentino Capelo de Sousa. Among the buildings presented one might single out the magnificent students' residence on the Coimbra University campus, the Universidade Nova de Lisboa rector's office or their splendid experiments in single-family housing, plus the rehabilitation of a ruined house in Alenquer, the Alvalade patio-house, the weekend house on the coast at Alentejo or the conversion of a former wine warehouse into housing in Brejos de Azeitão, all of these in Portugal.\nExcerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. \nUn puñado de aire Extracto del texto de Alberto Campo Baeza "Para hacer una casa, se coge un puñado de aire y se lo sujeta con unas paredes". Pareciera que los hermanos Aires Mateus hubieran cumplido puntualmente con las palabras de este proverbio nazarí, pues eso, sujetar con unas paredes el aire, es lo que han hecho en esta casa, hermosísima, levantada fuera del tiempo y dentro del espacio de la belleza. Ruina sublimada. Las cajas vacías Dicen los arquitectos, en su escueta memoria, que sólo han consolidado y reparado los antiguos muros de la vieja casa. Yo creo que han hecho mucho más: los han sublimado. La doble caja abarcante era al inicio una ruina silenciosa. Y la han hecho hablar. La han puesto en valor manipulándola, abriéndola, cerrándola y unificándola con un color blanco radiante. Y le han colocado un suelo de madera, a modo de bandeja, de manera que las piezas cobran así una mayor presencia. Y al final se ha llenado de luz. Tiene, así, todo ello un cierto aire metafísico que trae a nuestro recuerdo algunas imágenes de Giorgio de Chirico. Con una tremenda fuerza. Cuando una ruina conserva sus muros con una materialidad tal que es capaz de atrapar el aire y la luz, cuando todavía en ella la gravedad construye el espacio, se nos muestra a las claras la arquitectura, despojada de todo, en su forma más radical. La pura desnudez de la estructura suele tener la poderosa fuerza de la arquitectura más esencial. Así lo hacen algunos muros de muchas ruinas romanas que nos conmueven. Así lo hacen los muros de las cajas vacías de esta casa. El cielo enmarcado. La casa del agua Quizás la cualidad más destacada de estos espacios es la verticalidad, que se ha acentuado como atributo de esas dos cajas que antes sostuvieron más de una planta y ahora están libres en toda su altura. La proporción desusada, nunca pensada por el primitivo constructor de esos muros, nos produce una cierta fascinación. La alta caja de la piscina, como un joyero del agua allí contenida, nos produce, ya sea por el reflejo sobre el agua o por su transparencia, un efecto de máxima verticalidad. La proporción es todavía hoy, y lo será siempre, un instrumento eficaz con el que trabajar en arquitectura. Aunque alguien pudiera creer que, en este terremoto pasajero con que se agitan las que dicen llamarse hoy arquitecturas de vanguardia, este atributo, la proporción, puede haber desaparecido. La proporción que es dominio de la escala. Quisiera observar aquí cómo la caja vacía de la piscina parece más alta que la otra, donde la desproporción de los espacios intersticiales podría hacer pensar que en ellos hubiera más verticalidad. Por el contrario, sentados dentro de la caja del agua, la mirada se nos va hacia arriba, hacia el c

2G N.28 Aires Mateus

Belo Rodeia, João

Architecture

Editorial Gustavo Gili, S.L.

Quiero ser arquitecto

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“Architects reveal the keys to Architecture in their drawings, their floor plans, sections and also in their writings. It is important to appreciate the concise texts of Mies Van der Rohe or the more passionate expressions of Le Corbusier. And that is how I would like these texts, published here today, to be understood.” Alberto Campo Baeza (born Valladolid, Spain, 1946) is one of the most important architects of the modern period. The Built Idea presents a series of seminal texts in which he conveys his most deeply-held architectural ideas and convictions, exploring and explaining his foundational influences and subjects such as the importance of light, the work of his contemporaries, and the future of architecture, as well as accounts of his own work and personal anecdotes from a rich and successful life in architecture. “To use words that express one's intentions clearly is not just a convenience for architects. One wants to let people know the meaning behind the things that are being made. My aim in publishing these texts is precisely that.” This book also includes a photographic documentation of Campo Baeza's greatest works along with architectural sketches, plans and models to provide a privileged insight into one of the greatest architectural minds working today. “And the reasoning on which one bases one's work in their attempt at Architecture is what is going to be reflected here in these texts, some of it consciously, some unconsciously. Realizing the ideas expressed in these words in built works is of course the best proof that the ideas are valid and the words true.”

The Built Idea: Alberto Campo Baeza

Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers

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