Campo Baeza

As the architect behind some of the most iconic houses in Spanish architecture – such as the Turégano, the Gaspar, and the Casa del Infinito – Alberto Campo Baeza has also designed such significant works as Caja Granada Headquarters, the Museum of Memory, the Zamora Advisory Council, and, more recently, the Olnick Pavilion in New York and the Lycée Français Madrid Library. Arquitectura Viva brings together in a new hardcover volume of 168 pages, published in Spanish and English, some thirty buildings realized by the architect from his small Madrid studio, whose practice he has combined with teaching for five decades. With an introduction by Luis Fernández-Galiano and an accompanying article by Alejandro Cervilla on the poetic sensibility underlying the design of his homes, the book includes a section featuring sixteen projects, among them his latest international commissions, such as a colossal cultural space in Mexico, a Smart Center in Armenia, and a tower in New York. The publication concludes with a reflection by Kenneth Frampton on the fundamental themes that define an architecture built with geometry and light, at once tactile and visual, massive and immaterial.