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Take a look inside Magazzino Italian Art's new minimalist Robert Olnick Pavilion

2023-10-05T12:26:00-04:00

Alberto Campo Baeza and Miguel Quismondo of MQ Architecture have delivered a new 13,000-square-foot expansion to the ten-acre campus of Magazzino Italian Art in Cold Spring, New York.

Sited on the grounds perpendicular to Quismondo’s existing L-shaped main museum building from 2017, the Robert Olnick Pavilion repeats the scale, cornice lines, layout, and materiality of the older structure while adding much-needed room for educational and events programming in time for the start of the fall arts season. The pavilion was inaugurated in September, joining OMA and Cooper Roberston’s new AKG Art Museum expansion in Buffalo as one of the most important American cultural and museum sector commissions of the year.

Photo by Javier Callejas. Courtesy Magazzino Italian Art.

The scheme is designed to showcase the museum’s arte provera, Murano glass, and ceramics holdings, with two airy, light-filled galleries complemented by another cube-like “isotropic room” from Baeza elevated above the main v...

Alberto Campo Baeza awarded 2020 Spanish National Architecture Prize

2021-01-07T13:50:00-05:00

Architect Alberto Campo Baeza has received the Premio Nacional de Arquitectura, awarded by the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and the Urban Agenda.

Known in English as the Spanish National Architecture Prize, the award recognizes Campo Baeza's impactful career as both a practitioner and educator. Previous winners include Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza (1946 y 1954), Alejandro de la Sota (1974), José Antonio Corrales and Ramón Vázquez Molezún (1948 and 2001), Miguel Fisac (2002), Juan Navarro Baldeweg (2014), Manuel Gallego Jorreto (1997 and 2008) and Rafael Moneo (1961 and 2015).

Campo Baeza expressed gratitude for the award in an online statement, thanking the generosity of the judges, which he says outweighs his own merit. He also said that he "is happy and can only thank God for everything."

Alberto Campo Baeza is Professor Emeritus at the ETSAM UPM, Member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Fine Arts, holder of the Tessenow Medal, the Arnold Brunner Prize of the American Academy ...

American Academy of Arts and Letters Unveils 2013 Architecture Award Winners

2013-04-22T19:20:00-04:00

The American Academy of Arts and Letters has announced the recipients of its 2013 architecture awards. Spanish architect Alberto Campo Baeza was awarded the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture in recognition of significant contributions to architecture as an art. American architects Teddy Cruz, Thomas Phifer, Barry Bergdoll, and Sanford Kwinter each won the academy's Arts and Letters Awards in Architecture.