Juan Navarro Baldeweg (11 June 1939, Santander) is a Spanish architect and professor at the Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM). He is currently retired from architectural practice.

Teatros del Canal, Madrid
Museum of Human Evolution, Burgos

Baldeweg studied at the San Fernando School of Fine Arts of Madrid, and the School of Architecture of the Technical University of Madrid, where he graduated in 1965. From 1977 to his retirement in 2014, he was appointed as teacher of the ETSAM, though for more than 20 years he was hardly ever seen in the school.

Throughout his career Baldeweg won numerous architectural design competitions, 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 in Burgos (2000).[1] In 1990, he received Spain's National Award for Plastic Arts.[2]

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
  • Governmental agency for Cultural Heritage, Amersfoort, Netherlands, 2005–09
  • Museum of Human Evolution, Burgos, 2000–11

References

  1. ↑ Biography Archived 4 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine in El Croquis nr. 133, 2006
  2. ↑ Samaniego, Fernando (5 December 1990). "Navarro Baldeweg recibe el Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas por sus 'nuevas aportaciones'" [Navarro Baldeweg Receives the National Award for Plastic Arts for His 'New Contributions']. El País (in Spanish). Madrid. Retrieved 21 June 2019.

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