37 [i.e. Sketchbook 37]
Sketchbook
2010
2010
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Alberto Campo Baeza (b. 1946) is a prominent Spanish architect based in Madrid. Architecturally he is known for buildings that are based on minimal forms that are dramatic in their arrangements and richly expressed through materials, often stone. Campo Baeza’s most recognized buildings include a group of large houses ¬including De Blas House, Madrid (completed 2000) and the House of the Infinite, Cadiz (2014), and office buildings including Caja Granada Savings Bank, Granada (2001) and Junta Castilla y Leon, Zamora (2011).
The sketchbook is spiral bound, consists of pages odd numbered by the architect from 1 to 171. The contents are a flow of architectural sketches, personal notes and poems that are drawn and written mainly in black, blue and red ink. Although the language is predominantly in Spanish, there is much in English in which Campo Baeza is fluent.
On the cover, the sketchbook is numbered ‘37’ and dated from when he began using it, ‘3 julio 2010’. Five projects that the architect was working on at the time dominate the drawings in the sketchbook: Centre for Nature Interpretation, Lanzarote (unbuilt), an art museum for the collector Olnick Spanu in New York (unbuilt), Offices for Junta Castilla y Leon, Zamora (built), Entre Catedrales (Between Cathedrals) in Cadiz (built) and the House of the Infinite also in Cadiz (built). All of the three built projects are of great importance in Campo Baeza’s opus, making this a very fine record of an important period in his career. All of these projects are covered in the book on the architect Campo Baeza: Complete Works by Oscar Riera Ojeda (2015).
In preparation for giving the sketchbook, Campo Baeza identified each sketch with the initials of the project as well as supplied a written key for ease of identification.
The sketchbook is spiral bound, consists of pages odd numbered by the architect from 1 to 171. The contents are a flow of architectural sketches, personal notes and poems that are drawn and written mainly in black, blue and red ink. Although the language is predominantly in Spanish, there is much in English in which Campo Baeza is fluent.
On the cover, the sketchbook is numbered ‘37’ and dated from when he began using it, ‘3 julio 2010’. Five projects that the architect was working on at the time dominate the drawings in the sketchbook: Centre for Nature Interpretation, Lanzarote (unbuilt), an art museum for the collector Olnick Spanu in New York (unbuilt), Offices for Junta Castilla y Leon, Zamora (built), Entre Catedrales (Between Cathedrals) in Cadiz (built) and the House of the Infinite also in Cadiz (built). All of the three built projects are of great importance in Campo Baeza’s opus, making this a very fine record of an important period in his career. All of these projects are covered in the book on the architect Campo Baeza: Complete Works by Oscar Riera Ojeda (2015).
In preparation for giving the sketchbook, Campo Baeza identified each sketch with the initials of the project as well as supplied a written key for ease of identification.
Object details
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| Title | 37 [i.e. Sketchbook 37] (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | card, paper and plastic |
| Brief description | Architect's sketchbook |
| Physical description | black plastic spiral bound notebook consisting of front and back card covers and 88 paper pages |
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| Content description | Campo Baeza supplied the following description (key) to the sketchbook: Keys in the Notebook 37 by Alberto Campo Baeza This notebook contains the very first sketches, the beginning of the House of the Infinite. Every drawing marked with VT, means that it belongs to this house. Because the house is for the Van Thillo family. After a while, they asked for eliminate his name, neither his capital letters, and we used as new name the House of the Infinite. Other keys: LZ is about Lanzarote project. EC is about Entre Catedrales project (Between Cathedrals) in Cadiz. MOOS is about the Museum of Olnick Spanu in New York. Z is about Offices in Zamora. A lot of personal poems. A lot of notes about my life. The first lines about The House of the Infinite (VT) are on the page 15. After pages 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 51, 52, 53, 59, 61, 62, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 86, 87, 90, 92, 93, 95, 110, 111, 116, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 133, 134, 135, 136, 140, 146 Sketches 15, 53, 116 and 140 are showing my research for the most radical solution. |
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| Credit line | Given by Alberto Campo Baeza |
| Summary | Alberto Campo Baeza (b. 1946) is a prominent Spanish architect based in Madrid. Architecturally he is known for buildings that are based on minimal forms that are dramatic in their arrangements and richly expressed through materials, often stone. Campo Baeza’s most recognized buildings include a group of large houses ¬including De Blas House, Madrid (completed 2000) and the House of the Infinite, Cadiz (2014), and office buildings including Caja Granada Savings Bank, Granada (2001) and Junta Castilla y Leon, Zamora (2011). The sketchbook is spiral bound, consists of pages odd numbered by the architect from 1 to 171. The contents are a flow of architectural sketches, personal notes and poems that are drawn and written mainly in black, blue and red ink. Although the language is predominantly in Spanish, there is much in English in which Campo Baeza is fluent. On the cover, the sketchbook is numbered ‘37’ and dated from when he began using it, ‘3 julio 2010’. Five projects that the architect was working on at the time dominate the drawings in the sketchbook: Centre for Nature Interpretation, Lanzarote (unbuilt), an art museum for the collector Olnick Spanu in New York (unbuilt), Offices for Junta Castilla y Leon, Zamora (built), Entre Catedrales (Between Cathedrals) in Cadiz (built) and the House of the Infinite also in Cadiz (built). All of the three built projects are of great importance in Campo Baeza’s opus, making this a very fine record of an important period in his career. All of these projects are covered in the book on the architect Campo Baeza: Complete Works by Oscar Riera Ojeda (2015). In preparation for giving the sketchbook, Campo Baeza identified each sketch with the initials of the project as well as supplied a written key for ease of identification. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | CD.18-2016 |
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| Record created | March 31, 2016 |
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