Juan Navarro Baldeweg

Juan Navarro Baldeweg (born June 11, 1939 in Santander , Cantabria ) is a Spanish architect and painter.

biography

Baldeweg studied architecture at the Technical University in Madrid (graduated in 1965) and received his doctorate there in 1969. Today Baldeweg gives lectures on architecture at this university. Prior to that, he lectured at the Universities of Philadelphia, Yale University , Princeton University , Harvard University and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona .

In 1974 he was given a chair at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge (Massachusetts) in the Center for Visual Advanced Studies . In the 1980s he began to realize his own architectural style in the Madrid area. At the moment he is mainly painting and living in seclusion in Jalón (Alicante).

Works

Theater on the Canal of Isabella II in Madrid

Museum of Human Evolution in Burgos

Entrance to the Museum and Research Center in Altamira

Architecture:

• Museum and Research Center of the Altamira Caves ( Santillana del Mar )
• Museum of Human Evolution in Burgos
• University Clinic in Asturias
• Theater on the Canal of Isabella II in Madrid
• Pedro Salinas City Library in Madrid
• Presidential Office in Mérida
• Villanueva de la Cañada cultural center in Madrid
• New courthouse in Maó (Menorca)
• Extension for the library of the music faculty at Princeton University
• Bibliotheca Hertziana , library of the Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome
• House of Rain in Santander
• Festival hall in Salamanca
• Congress Center Salzburg
• Salvador Allende Cultural Center ( Santiago de Chile )
• Office building on the Novartis Campus in Basel
• Headquarters of the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed in Amersfoort

Painting:

• Exhibition Luz y Metales (1976)
• Hidráulica Doméstica (Milan, 1986)
• Abrazo, Aro, Cuna, Gota y Pájaro (Madera)
• Figuras en la copa de cristal art series
• Manos art series
• Tríptico de Bizhad (1999)

Prizes and awards

• National Fine Arts Prize (1990)
• Heinrich Tessenow Medal (1998)

literature

• Francesco Dal Co, Juan José Lahuerta, Ángel González García: Juan Navarro Baldeweg. Le opere, gli scritti, la critica. Electa, Milan 2012, ISBN 978-88-370-7462-3 .

Web links

Commons : Juan Navarro Baldeweg  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Literature by and about Juan Navarro Baldeweg in the catalog of the German National Library
• Interview with Juan Navarro Baldeweg (English subtitles)