He has beennoted by some as part of a group of designers associated with Minimalism in architecture, together with architects such as David Chipperfield and John Pawson.

[citation needed] Alberto Campo graduated from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in 1971 and received his PhD in 1982.

Campo Baeza was the recipient of two awards at the Biennial of Buenos Aires, one for the MA Museum in Granada and the other for the Nursery for the children of the Benetton Group in Ponzano-Treviso, Italy in 2009.

His MA Museum, in 2011, and the Offices for the Junta Castilla y León, in 2012, have been nominated to the Mies van der Rohe Award.

[3] In 2013 Campo Baeza was awarded the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize[4] of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Heinrich Tessenow Gold Medal[5] of Hamburg University, the UPM (Polytechnic University of Madrid) Award for Excellence in Teaching.,[6] and the RIBA International Fellowship 2014 of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

A book of his collected writings, La idea Construida, is in its 10th edition and a monograph of his work, "Campo Baeza 1971-1996", was published in Spain by Ed.

A DVD with 3,333 drawings and sketches was edited by Fundación COAM for the Exhibition of the work of Alberto Campo Baeza in 2006.

A newer version of the same DVD including the recent drawings by Alberto Campo Baeza was also published by Fundación COAM in 2008.

The Exhibition “Alberto Campo Baeza: The Complete Collection of Drawings” was shown at the COAM Foundation in Madrid in 2006.