Luis Fernández-Galiano   The work of Alberto Campo Baeza pursues purity. Striving to be soul without body, he expresses ideas through geometry and light, stripping the building of its material nature so that it levitates weightlessly, free from its earthly prison. Oblivious

Alejandro Cervilla García   In 1996, Editorial Munilla Lería published one of the first monographs on the work of Alberto Campo Baeza. Compact and practical in format (14x20 centimeters) and published in black and white, its nearly 250 pages summarized the first years of the ar

Kenneth Frampton   Undeterred by the vagaries of fashion, Alberto Campo Baeza has kept his faith for over half a century with the Platonic purity of his unique architectural vision, amplified of late by shifting his work to the time-honored paradigms of the temenos and

Alberto Campo Baeza   Spain   The turégano house is the result of a competition the owners called for amongst their architect friends. The topography, midway down a hillside, the rigorous compliance with building codes, and the maximum economy of means were compositionally resolv

Alberto Campo Baeza   Spain   This building, with its striking white facade looking seaward, is conceived as a continuation of the long, extensive walls of the old ‘maritime’ cemetery of Cádiz. The project works on the full volume, which mends the urban fabric within the limits m

Alberto Campo Baeza   Spain   At the client’s insistence on absolute independence, it was decided that the solution would be an enclosed space, a hortus conclusus. The house, bordered by four walls rising 3.5 meters, is an 18x18-meter square divided into three equal parts. Only t

Alberto Campo Baeza   Spain   On the south periphery of Granada, the new headquarters of the Savings Bank will finally gather the offices of this financial institution that were scattered all over the city. As against the variety of shapes that make up the museum of science and t

Alberto Campo Baeza   Spain   A corridor of offices runs round the triangular border of the site to create a travertine-paved garden with orange trees. This Project is the result of a competition that was held as part of the BIT (Balearic Information and Techn

Alberto Campo Baeza   Spain   A rugged spot in the province of Madrid, outlooking the Sierra de Gredos, was the site chosen by a family to build their house. Renouncing to transform the place into the tame landscape of grass fields common to residential developments, the project

Alberto Campo Baeza   United States   For an impressive spot along the Hudson River we established a plane, a platform facing the landscape spread out before us which would have the effect of enhancing it. A large box – 122 feet long, 54 wide, 12 high – was built with sturdy concrete wal

Alberto Campo Baeza   Spain   The Cádiz countryside provides the setting for this abstract volume, a box measuring 33x18x8 meters and formed by four pristine white surfaces that look like canvasses clean and prepared for a work of art. However, perhaps what increases the tension

Alberto Campo Baeza   Spain   Building a house for a poet. That was the starting point of the project, located on a plot of some 440 square meters in a residential development in the southwest of Zaragoza. The house follows a clear and simple scheme, occupying three rectangular f

Alberto Campo Baeza   Spain   The project ‘Between Cathedrals’ sought to carry out an intervention worthy of the most significant location in the history of Cadiz, the oldest city of the West: the empty space between the Old and New Cathedrals, facing the sea. The objectives were

Alberto Campo Baeza   Spain   The brief was to build a house on a hilltop outside the city of Toledo. The hill faces southwest and offers views of the distant horizon, reaching the Gredos Mountains to the northeast. The 60x40-meter site has a 10-meter drop. At the highest point w

Alberto Campo Baeza   Italy   A square composed of nine squares. The central one rises higher to bring light into the foyer. The classrooms occupy the rest. Everything is inscribed in a circular double wall. A box opening up to the sky that forms four courtyards, suggesting the f

Alberto Campo Baeza, Alfonso González Gaisán, Francisco Blanco, Pablo Fernández Lorenzo, Pablo Redondo Díez   Spain   A plot across from the Romanesque Cathedral of Zamora was the place chosen for the construction of the headquarters of the Advisory Board of the regional government of Castilla y León. The competition held produced a winning proposal that stems from

Alberto Campo Baeza   Spain   Located next to the central headquarters of the Caja Granada Savings Bank, a building by the same architect, right at the point where the River Genil and the Granada beltway meet, rises the new cultural complex of the financial institution. It is a c

Alberto Campo Baeza   Spain   In a marvelous place, a piece of earthly paradise, we have built an infinte plane facing the infinite sea, the most radical house we have ever made. Facing the Atlantic Ocean, on the very water’s edge on a beach of Cádiz, not far from the ruins of Bo

Alberto Campo Baeza   Spain   The new construction, containing a sports pavilion and a classroom building, is located in the campus of the Francisco de Vitoria University, in the city of Pozuelo de Alarcón, some 20 kilometers west of Madrid. The facility includes sports courts an

Alberto Campo Baeza   Spain   The site is a sloping plot with a far view of a landscape that is none other than Madrid’s western mountain range. It seemed logical to build a vertical house with the more public or shared spaces on top, framing stunning views to enjoy. An eye over

Alberto Campo Baeza, Gilberto L. Rodríguez   Mexico   Built as the prize in the traditional annual Tec lottery of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM) with the purpose of raising funds for projects as grants for its students, this house is a tribute to Mexican architecture.

Alberto Campo Baeza   Italy   Heaven on Earth. That is how I have more than once described my intention when designing the houses I have built, every single one of them. This is the latest. All the more reason to make it a piece of Heaven on Earth. In Venice. It is an honor for a

Alberto Campo Baeza   Spain   On a hill north of Madrid, with the sierra as backdrop in the distance, a house for Ana. Once again, we try to build the loveliest house in the world. And to capture the 360º panorama of the landscape, we propose a belvedere at the top of the house

Alberto Campo Baeza   Spain   The steel structure rests on a stone podium with floors measuring 60x60m on an orthogonal 12x12m module until reaching a height of more than 350 m. Every 12 stories, a double mezzanine is resolved by large Vierendeel trusses...

Alberto Campo Baeza   Germany   In response to the intricate freeway junction, and with the idea of movement as central theme, the project includes a large podium. Its upper plane, over which a powerful helicoidal piece emerges, is reached by wide ramps... 

Alberto Campo Baeza   Spain   The proposed scheme articulates the natural landscape and stresses its value. An architecture of white walls along a north-south axis offers shade in summer on the northern side and winter sun on the southern side... 

Alberto Campo Baeza   Spain   Inspired by the legacy of César Manrique in Lanzarote, the center is designed as a dark, horizontal plane made out of the island’s volcanic ash, managing to merge the building with the terrain... 

Alberto Campo Baeza, Gabrion   France   Inspired in Rimbaud’s Le Bateau Îvre, the center is like a large ship sitting next to SANAA’s extension; the program is organized, like an assembly line, in two strata – a horizontal plinth from which a cubic volume emerges – wrapped in a black concr

Alberto Campo Baeza   Spain   Conceived as a ‘cascade of volumes,’ the building is staggered over four levels between the two streets to adapt to the steep site so that, from the sea, this new house is seen as just one more piece of the village...

Alberto Campo Baeza   United States   Sitting perpendicular to the main building of Magazzino Italian Art, which it completes and extends, the simple and sober volume of the new pavilion creates a unitary plane between both...

Alberto Campo Baeza   Mexico   As if it were the deck of a ship stranded between two beaches, a horizontal platform on a huge stone box that seems to have emerged from the bowels of the Earth offers views of the distant sea...