Juan Navarro Baldeweg facts for kids

Juan Navarro Baldeweg (born June 11, 1939, in Santander, Spain) is a famous Spanish architect, painter, and sculptor. He leads his own architecture company, Navarro Baldeweg Asociados, in Madrid.

About Juan Navarro Baldeweg

The Teatros del Canal in Madrid, designed by Navarro Baldeweg.

The Museum of Human Evolution in Burgos, another of his designs.

Juan Navarro Baldeweg started studying art in 1959. He learned engraving at the School of Fine Arts in San Fernando. Later, in 1965, he graduated from the School of Architecture at the Technical University of Madrid. He even earned his doctorate degree there in 1969.

From 1969 to 1971, he received a special scholarship from IBM. This allowed him to research how technology could help with city planning. He also taught at many famous universities. These include places like Yale, Princeton, and Harvard in the United States. He is now a professor at the same school where he studied architecture.

Juan Navarro Baldeweg has always combined his work as an architect with painting and sculpture. Art experts say his art connects old traditions with modern art styles.

Early in his career, he worked with another well-known architect, Alejandro de la Sota.

In 1974, he received another scholarship. This one sent him to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the USA. There, he studied with György Kepes. He learned to see objects as ways to show hidden qualities of their surroundings. He wrote about these ideas in his essays.

Juan Navarro Baldeweg is known for his unique architectural style. He often worked with other famous architects. He shared an interest with Álvaro Siza Vieira in making new buildings fit well into their surroundings. With Alberto Campo Baeza, he focused on how light and gravity are important in buildings. And with Rafael Moneo, he looked at older building styles from history.

Throughout his career, Navarro Baldeweg has won many architectural design competitions. Some of his winning designs include the Castilla y León Convention Center in Salamanca (1985) and the Museum of Human Evolution in Burgos (2000). In 1990, he won Spain's important National Award for Plastic Arts.

He has also written about the work of other architects. In 1998, he received the Tessenow Gold Medal for all his work. He is a member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando. In his speech there, he talked about how art and architecture combine looking at the horizon with a strong desire to create.

He is also a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

His Amazing Creations

Architecture

• House of the Rain, Liérganes, Spain (1978-1982).
• Mills of the Segura River, Murcia, Spain (1984-1988).
• Social Services Center and Library at Puerta de Toledo, Madrid, Spain (1985-1992).
• Congress and Exhibition Center of Castilla y León, Salamanca, Spain (1985-1992).
• Congress and Exhibition Center, Cadiz, Spain (1988).
• Training Pavilion in the Olympic Village, Barcelona, Spain (1988).
• Congress Center, Salzburg, Austria (1992).
• Headquarters for the Extremadura Regional Government, Mérida, Spain (1992-1995).
• Cultural Center, Villanueva de la Cañada, Spain (1992-1997).
• Museum and Cultural Center Salvador Allende, Santiago de Chile, Chile (1993).
• Hertziana Library, Rome, Italy (1995).
• National Museum and Research Center of Altamira, Santillana del Mar, Spain (1995–2000).
• Cultural Center, Benidorm, Spain (1997-2006).
• Center for Performing Arts of the Community of Madrid, Madrid, Spain (2000).
• National Research Center, Museum of Human Evolution and Congress Palace, Burgos, Spain (2000-2009).
• New Central University Hospital of Asturias, Oviedo, Spain (2013).
• Novartis Administrative Headquarters, Basel, Switzerland (2014).
• Headquarters of the Pasqual Maragall Foundation, Barcelona, Spain (2016).

Visual Arts

• "Light and Metals" (1976).
• "Domestic Hydraulics" (Milan Triennial, Italy 1986).
• The Resonance Box Recent Painting (Madrid 2000).
• Museum of Fine Arts (Santander 2001).
• Galician Center of Contemporary Art (Santiago de Compostela 2002).
• The Crystal Cup (Burgos 2004).
• Sculpture (Madrid 2004).
• Recent Paintings (New York, United States 2005).
• Light, balance and hand (Switzerland 2006).
• A resonance box (Granada 2007).
• To paint, To paint (Madrid 2010).
• Weightless or light (Navarra 2011).
• A Zodiac (Madrid, 2014).
• Two by Two (Madrid, 2016).
• To Do, Ways of Doing (Barcelona, 2018).
• Simultaneous Figures (Valladolid, 2019).
• In a Field of Energy and Process (Brescia, 2020).
• Then and Now (Madrid, 2022).

Special Awards

• National Prize for Plastic Arts (1990).
• Heinrich Tessenow Gold Medal (1998).
• Honorary Fellow of The American Institute of Architects (2001).
• Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts (2007).
• Gold Medal of Spanish Architecture (2008).
• X Spanish Biennial of Architecture Prize (2009).
• National Prize for Architecture of Spain (2014).

See also

In Spanish: Juan Navarro Baldeweg para niños