Alberto Campo Baeza

FOR AN ESSENTIAL ARCHITECTURE

On the architecture of Alberto Campo Baeza

This architect, at once convinced and convincing, radical, and profound, is like a volcano’s tongue and the water of a stream. Just as lava slowly, but rad-hot, moves down a hillside, this architect moves through the roads of architecture.

Without haste but with strength. At the same time with the freshness and tenacity of a stream. Like a flood. Capable of enlighting his students and fascinating the audience at his lectures. He only builds what he wants and finishes them as he would. And he wins every competition. Not only for the brilliance of his forms, which are always simple, but for the convincing power of the evidence of his logic. With strength and residue.

And like the volcanic tongue of fiery lava, bit by bit, he covers the hillside.