Juan Navarro Baldeweg (11 June 1939,
Santander
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Places
* Santander, Spain, a port city and capital of the autonomous community of Cantabria, Spain
* Santander Department, a department of Colombia
* Santander State, former state of Colombia
* Santander de Quilichao, a m ...
) is a Spanish
architect
An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...
and professor at the
Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM). He is currently retired from architectural practice.
![Human Evolution Museum](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Human_Evolution_Museum.jpg)
Baldeweg studied at the San Fernando School of Fine Arts of Madrid, and the School of Architecture of the
Technical University of Madrid
The Technical University of Madrid or sometimes called Polytechnic University of Madrid ( es, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, UPM) is a public university, located in Madrid, Spain. It was founded in 1971 as the result of merging different Te ...
, where he graduated in 1965. From 1977 to 2014 (year when he retired) he was appointed as teacher of the
ETSAM
The Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid ( es, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, ETSAM) is the school of architecture of the Technical University of Madrid (UPM), Spain. It trains future architects and grants the ...
, though for more than 20 years he was hardly ever seen in the school.
Throughout his career Baldeweg won numerous
architectural design competition
An architectural design competition is a type of design competition in which an organization that intends on constructing a new building invites architects to submit design proposals. The winning design is usually chosen by an independent panel ...
s, including for the Castilla y León Convention Center in Salamanca (1985), Olympic Village Training Pavilion in Barcelona (1988), Congress and Convention Center of Cádiz (1988), Ministry Buildings for the Regional Government of Extremadura in Mérida (1989), Congress Center of Salzburg (1992), Museum for the Salvador Allende Collection in Santiago de Chile (1993),
Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Rome (1995), Cultural Center in Benidorm (1997), Canal Theatres in Madrid and
Museum of Human Evolution
The Museum of Human Evolution (Spanish: ''Museo de la Evolución Humana - MEH'') is situated on the south bank of the river Arlanzón, in the Spanish city of Burgos. It is located roughly 16 kilometers west of the Sierra de Atapuerca, the loca ...
in Burgos (2000). In 1990, he received Spain's
National Award for Plastic Arts.
Projects
* Castilla y León Convention Center, Salamanca, 1985–92
*
National Museum and Research Center of Altamira, Santillana del Mar, Cantabria, 1995–2000
* Martos Mill restoration, Córdoba, 2001–05
* Cultural Centre in Benidorm, Alicante, 1997–2006
* Centre for the Stage Arts - The Canal Theatre, Madrid, 2000
* Kunsthal KAdE library and museum, Amersfoort, Netherlands, 2005–09
*
Museum of Human Evolution
The Museum of Human Evolution (Spanish: ''Museo de la Evolución Humana - MEH'') is situated on the south bank of the river Arlanzón, in the Spanish city of Burgos. It is located roughly 16 kilometers west of the Sierra de Atapuerca, the loca ...
, Burgos, 2000–11
References
External links
Paintingsby Baldeweg at Marlborough Gallery
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1939 births
Living people
People from Santander, Spain
Architects from Cantabria
Artists from Cantabria
Spanish architects
20th-century Spanish painters
20th-century Spanish male artists
Spanish male painters
21st-century Spanish painters
Members of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
21st-century Spanish male artists