Juan Navarro Baldeweg

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Juan Navarro Baldeweg (born June 11, 1939, in Santander, Cantabria) is a Spanish architect, painter, and sculptor. He directs the architectural studio Navarro Baldeweg Asociados in Madrid.

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Teatros del Canal, Madrid
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Museum of Human Evolution, Burgos

Between 1959 and 1960, he studied engraving at the School of Fine Arts of San Fernando. He graduated in 1965 from the School of Architecture of the Technical University of Madrid, where he also obtained his doctorate in 1969. Between 1969 and 1971, he received a scholarship from IBM that allowed him to develop his research line at the Computing Center of Madrid. There, he focused on the translation of technological processes into the social and urban planning sphere, continuing with the research line of his doctoral thesis. He has been a visiting professor in Philadelphia, Yale, Princeton, at the Graduate School of Design of Harvard University - like Kenzō Tange - and in Barcelona. He is a professor in the Department of Architectural Projects at the same school where he graduated, and where as a teacher he introduced metaphorical visions of architecture compared to the materialistic approach of Professor Javier Carvajal or the tectonics of Professor Vázquez de Castro. He has combined his career as an architect with the study and practice of painting, sculpture, and works that art critics like Ángel González, Juan José Lahuerta, or William Curtis have related to the connections of 20th-century artistic avant-gardes with lines of archaic tradition.

In his early professional years, he worked in the studio of architect Alejandro de la Sota.

He was granted a scholarship by the Juan March Foundation in 1974 to pursue postgraduate studies at the Center For Advanced Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge (Massachusetts), where he was a student of György Kepes. It was during this time that he worked following Kepes's proposal to understand the object as a concrete visualizer of the invisible qualities of the context. This theme would be discussed in his essays "Complementary Geometry" and "An Object is a Section."

In his architectural work, he has been associated with his contemporaries Álvaro Siza Vieira, Alberto Campo Baeza and Rafael Moneo. With the first, he shared an interest in the formal and compositional integration of contemporary architecture into the scales and rhythms of the environments in which it was inscribed. With the second, he shared an interest in the importance of light and gravity in architecture. And with the third, he shared rationalist evocations of classical and Scandinavian historical contexts. Initially, however, Navarro's work sought a translation of figurations and formal systems from art, especially from the first half of the 20th century. Subsequently, he has evolved towards formal speculations, like those of other architects of his generation.

Throughout his career Baldeweg won numerous architectural design competitions, including for the Castilla y León Convention Center in Salamanca (1985), Olympic Village Training Pavilion in Barcelona (1988), Congress and Convention Center of Cádiz (1988), Ministry Buildings for the Regional Government of Extremadura in Mérida (1989), Congress Center of Salzburg (1992), Museum for the Salvador Allende Collection in Santiago de Chile (1993), Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Rome (1995), Cultural Center in Benidorm (1997), Canal Theatres in Madrid and Museum of Human Evolution in Burgos (2000). [1] In 1990, he received Spain's National Award for Plastic Arts. [2]

He has also intermittently undertaken historical critical work, providing interpretations of the work of Alejandro de la Sota, Heinrich Tessenow, Louis Isadore Kahn, or Konstantín Mélnikov. In 1998, he received the Tessenow Gold Medal awarded by the Alfred Toepfer Stiftung FVS for the entirety of his work. The medal allowed him to grant the Tessenow Stipend to architect Andrés Jaque, co-author with him in 2004 of the book on the Russian architect Konstantín Mélnikov. He is a Numerary Academician of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, where he succeeded the also architect and painter Joaquín Vaquero Turcios. His inaugural speech, titled "The Horizon in Hand," contained a reflection on artistic and architectural creation as the encounter of two impulses: the gaze towards the limit where objects reconcile with the contexts they activate, described by Navarro Baldeweg with the metaphor of the horizon; and desire as a driving force, described by Navarro with the image of Picasso's blind minotaur reaching out to perceive the object of his desire.

He is currently a member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando and of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.


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References

  1. Biography Archived 4 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine in El Croquis nr. 133, 2006
  2. Samaniego, Fernando (5 December 1990). "Navarro Baldeweg recibe el Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas por sus 'nuevas aportaciones'" [Navarro Baldeweg Receives the National Award for Plastic Arts for His 'New Contributions']. El País (in Spanish). Madrid. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
  3. National Prize for Plastic Arts. List of Awardees since 1994. Ministry of Culture, Spain. Retrieved on 2007-11-25.
  4. BOE June 9, 2007
  5. Jury Minutes Gold Medal of Architecture 2008

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