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Clockwise from top Alberto Campo Baeza’s ‘buildings exemplify the spiritual qualities of daylight and thus expand the understanding of the values of daylight beyond the current scope of science’


DAYLIGHT IN ARCHITECTURE AWARD


The 2024 biennial Daylight in Architecture was given to Spanish architect Alberto Campo Baeza. His work, said the jury, is ‘a celebration of the silent miracles of daylight in buildings of widely differing functions. His buildings exemplify the spiritual qualities of daylight and thus expand the understanding of the


values of daylight beyond the current scope of science.’ Campo Baeza is an internationally recognised and widely published minimalist architect, who also served as a professor at the Escuela Technica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid from 1986-2017. His buildings –


invariably brilliantly white,


both inside and outside – continue the vernacular of white-washed houses around the Mediterranean. Based on a simple, regular, rectangular and repetitious structure they ‘heighten the presence and healing power of natural light,’ said the jury.


They may appear as a single white rectangle in the landscape (Casa


Guerrera), or, by the ocean, a mysterious white horizontal roof plane with carefully positioned apertures (House of the Infinite). ‘Even windows appear as mere rectangular openings or narrow horizontal slits cut into the walls, instead of being presented as technical devices,’ commented the judges.


‘Campo Baeza has numerous brilliant


examples of architectural light as directed and focused beams of light creating a sense of focus, drama and significance,’ concluded the jury. ‘But the uniqueness


of his architecture is to make us aware of the presence of daylight around us.’


ANDERS SUNE BERG


THE DAYLIGHT AWARD


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