The Doctor Honoris Causa by the
University, architect Alberto Campo Baeza, has examined the projects of the
Transversal Workshop regarding natural pools in the Hoz del Río Júcar (Cuenca),
of the students of the Higher Polytechnic School, in the Final Critical Session
of the Semester of Architectural Projects I. The second-year architecture
students have shown him their projects and have listened carefully to the
teacher's advice.
“We make architecture to make
people happy; to make life easier for others; so that they enjoy the spaces in
which they live or practice their professions”, the architect highlighted. In
this sense, Campo Baeza has pointed out that “architecture is the most
beautiful work in the world. We are lucky. To be able to dream and build those
dreams”.
Since September and after
previous work in anthropometry, the group has worked in Cuenca, on the banks of
the Júcar, recovering the area and designing natural pools. At the same time
that Campo Baeza analyzed the models and drawings presented, he made reference
to the timeless themes of Architecture: the person as the epicenter, order and
hierarchy, proportion, limits, the landscape and the adaptation to the place,
the materials, light, gravity ...
Alberto Campo Baeza is an
architect and, since 1986, Professor of Projects at the Polytechnic University
of Madrid, at ETSAM; he has been a teacher at many of the best Architecture
Schools in the world, such as the ETH in Zürich, the EPFL in Lausanne, or PENN
in Philadelphia, among others. He is currently Emeritus Professor at UPM, where
he continues to teach. Likewise, he is a full member of the Real Academia de
Bellas Artes de San Fernando and has received numerous awards, including the
Arnold Brunner from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; the Tessenov
Medal of the Germans; the Attolini Prize; and the Piranesi of the Accademia
Adrianea in Rome.