Alberto Campo Baeza: Works and Projects (Editorial Gustavo Gili 1999) presents a curated selection of architectural works by the Spanish architect. The volume includes an analytical essay by architectural historian Antonio Pizza that offers critical context for Campo Baeza’s design philosophy and contributions to contemporary architecture.
Eliminating the superfluous and doing everything possible to communicate what remains by means of essentiality – a more conceptual notion than minimalism in that it suggests simplification and purification, an expression of essence – is both the primary aim and the message of Campo Baeza’s architecture. The pure, dazzling whiteness to which his buildings and interiors aspire, and in many cases attain, is only the most obvious of the effects Campo Baeza is striving to achieve. What the architecture surveyed in this book conveys more than anything is a sense of timelessness and otherworldliness. Through his ability to reject the secondary features of what constitutes the essential fascination of the modern, Campo Baeza shows us that the present is essentially an inhospitable and uninhabitable place. It is this existential insight that achieves architectural form in his buildings.
– Alberto Campo Baeza: Works and Projects (Editorial Gustavo Gili, 1999),excerpt from the book description
The text is in English and Spanish. The book is profusely illustrated with photographs and architectural drawings.
Our copy is in very good condition. The pages are clean; no markings except for the architect’s inscription on the first flyleaf. The glueing of the binding is fine yet dry. The covers show only some minor traces of shelf wear.
