Alberto Campo Baeza wins Daylight in Architecture Award

To coincide with UNESCO’s International Day of Light celebration on May 16th, The Daylight Award has announced Spanish architect Alberto Campo Baeza and the German biologist Till Roenneberg as the respective honorees in this year’s Daylight in Architecture and Daylight Research categories.

Baeza, the designer of the new Robert Olnick Pavilion in New York’s Hudson Valley, was complimented for his "celebrations of the silent miracles of daylight in buildings of widely differing functions." The jury added that his designs "exemplify the spiritual qualities of daylight and thus expand the understanding of the values of daylight beyond the current scope of science."

"The architect's unwavering confidence in his essential style often projects an air of silent spirituality, which is a rare, but a highly valuable alternative to today's materialist, consumerist architecture," a press announcement reads further.

He joins Steven Holl, Álvaro Siza, Peter Zumthor, and SANAA's Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa on the list of past winners of the Daylight in Architecture prize. 

Photographer Iwan Baan and architect Dorte Mandrup were among the contest's seven jurors.