Alberto Campo Baeza Born in Valladolid, Alberto Campo Baeza picked up the Tessenow Gold Medal in Hamburg. Created in 1963 as a tribute to the German architect Heinrich Tessenow (1867-1950), the medal commends the oeuvre of architects with a sober an
Alberto Campo Baeza of Spain has won the Tessenow Gold Medal, an award instituted in 1963 in memory of the German architect Heinrich Tessenow (1876-1950) to honor professionals who have achieved distinction for works characterized by sobriety. A nati
Sergison Bates The young architecture studio formed by Jonathan Sergison and Stephen Bates, both born in 1964, has made off with this year’s Tessenow Medal, awarded to those architects whose work emphasizes the synthesis between design and functional
Miroslav Sik There is a way of thinking known as “analogous architecture” that centers on and tries to get the poetic breath out of common and current things. One of the keys to this architectural sensibility is the tradition-modernity binomial, the
Gilles Perraudin Created in 1951 in tribute to the German architect of the in-between war period, this award yearly distinguishes the oeuvre of an architect whose work can be considered, to a certain extent, heir to that of Heinrich Tessenow. The aw
Mikko Heikkinen & Markku Komonen After the Portuguese Eduardo Souto de Moura and the Swiss Peter Märkli, the Finns Heikkinen and Komonen are the last awardees of the Tessenow Medal, with which the Foundation of the same name and the Alfred Toepfer of
Peter Märkli The Swiss Peter Märkli (Zurich,1953) received the Heinrich Tessenow medal, granted jointly by the Society by the same name and the Alfred Toepfer Foundation of Hamburg. The award, established in 1963, is given to figures of architecture,
David Chipperfield The Brit David Chipperfield is the recipient of this year’s Heinrich Tessenow Medal, created by Hamburg’s Alfred Toepfer Foundation to acclaim figures of architecture, industrial design and the teaching of both. In itself a declara
Juan Navarro Baldeweg The figure of the German architect, Heinrich Tessenow (1876-1950), is difficult to categorize in a time of avant-garde effervescence. His approach to rationalism was tempered by classicist and regionalist characteristics, in a
