Alberto Campo Baeza Received Heinrich Tessenow Gold Medal 2012

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Alberto Campo Baeza Received Heinrich Tessenow Gold Medal 2012

January 29th, 2013 by Sumit Singhal

Article source: Estudio Arquitectura Campo Baeza

The Spanish architect Alberto Campo Baeza has been awarded the HEINRICH TESSENOW GOLD MEDAL 2012. Among the distinguished architects to have received the award are the Portuguese architect, Eduardo Souto de Moura, Peter Zumthor from Switzerland and the Norwegian Sverre Fehn, all laureates of the Pritzker Architecture Prize.

2001 Caja Granada : Image Courtesy Estudio Arquitectura Campo Baeza

Architects: Estudio Arquitectura Campo Baeza

2006 Olnick Spanu House, New York : Image Courtesy Estudio Arquitectura Campo Baeza

The HEINRICH TESSENOW GOLD MEDAL was created in Hamburg in 1963 in honor of the German architect Heinrich Tessenow (1876-1950) a key figure in the history of contemporary architecture both for his ideas and his works. He always repeated: “the simplest form is not always the best, but the best is always simple”. He studied in Munich and was professor in Dresden, Vienna y Berlin.

2009 Andalucia Museum of Memory : Image Courtesy Estudio Arquitectura Campo Baeza

The award is conferred on architects whose architectural oeuvre is as uncompromising, sober and essential as that proposed by the work, the projects and the writings of Heinrich Tessenow.

Alberto Campo Baeza is an architect and professor at the Madrid School of Architecture, ETSAM. He has taught at the ETH in Zurich and the EPFL in Lausanne, at the Universities of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and the CUA in Washington as well as numerous other prestigious schools of architectures around the world.

2009 Between Cathedrals, Cadiz : Image Courtesy Estudio Arquitectura Campo Baeza

His work has been widely recognized and acclaimed, with exhibitions at CROWN HALL by MIES in Chicago, PALLADIO’s basilica in Vicenza, the Urban Center in New York, the Basilica Santa Irene in Istanbul, the prestigious Gallery Toto in Tokyo, and the Tempietto by Bramante in Rome. And at the MAXXI in Rome in 2011.

2012 Offices in Zamora : Image Courtesy Estudio Arquitectura Campo Baeza

Alberto Campo Baeza : Image Courtesy Estudio Arquitectura Campo Baeza

: Alberto Campo Baeza : Image Courtesy Estudio Arquitectura Campo Baeza

: 2012 Offices in Zamora : Image Courtesy Estudio Arquitectura Campo Baeza

: 2009 Between Cathedrals, Cadiz : Image Courtesy Estudio Arquitectura Campo Baeza

: 2009 Andalucia Museum of Memory : Image Courtesy Estudio Arquitectura Campo Baeza

: 2006 Olnick Spanu House, New York : Image Courtesy Estudio Arquitectura Campo Baeza

: 2001 Caja Granada : Image Courtesy Estudio Arquitectura Campo Baeza

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