The Doctor Honoris Causa by the University, architect Alberto Campo Baeza, has examined the projects of the Transversal Workshop regarding natural pools in the Hoz del Río Júcar (Cuenca), of the students of the Higher Polytechnic School, in the Final Critical Session of the Semester of Architectural Projects I. The second-year architecture students have shown him their projects and have listened carefully to the teacher's advice.

“We make architecture to make people happy; to make life easier for others; so that they enjoy the spaces in which they live or practice their professions”, the ­­architect highlighted. In this sense, Campo Baeza has pointed out that “architecture is the most beautiful work in the world. We are lucky. To be able to dream and build those dreams”.

Since September and after previous work in anthropometry, the group has worked in Cuenca, on the banks of the Júcar, recovering the area and designing natural pools. At the same time that Campo Baeza analyzed the models and drawings presented, he made reference to the timeless themes of Architecture: the person as the epicenter, order and hierarchy, proportion, limits, the landscape and the adaptation to the place, the materials, light, gravity ...

Alberto Campo Baeza is an architect and, since 1986, Professor of Projects at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, at ETSAM; he has been a teacher at many of the best Architecture Schools in the world, such as the ETH in Zürich, the EPFL in Lausanne, or PENN in Philadelphia, among others. He is currently Emeritus Professor at UPM, where he continues to teach. Likewise, he is a full member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando and has received numerous awards, including the Arnold Brunner from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; the Tessenov Medal of the Germans; the Attolini Prize; and the Piranesi of the Accademia Adrianea in Rome.