Juan Navarro Baldeweg

There, he focused on the translation of technological processes into the social and urban planning sphere, continuing with the research line of his doctoral thesis.

He has been a visiting professor in Philadelphia, Yale, Princeton, at the Graduate School of Design of Harvard University - like Kenzō Tange - and in Barcelona.

He has combined his career as an architect with the study and practice of painting, sculpture, and works that art critics like Ángel González, Juan José Lahuerta, or William Curtis have related to the connections of 20th-century artistic avant-gardes with lines of archaic tradition.

He is a Numerary Academician of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, where he succeeded the also architect and painter Joaquín Vaquero Turcios.

His inaugural speech, titled "The Horizon in Hand," contained a reflection on artistic and architectural creation as the encounter of two impulses: the gaze towards the limit where objects reconcile with the contexts they activate, described by Navarro Baldeweg with the metaphor of the horizon; and desire as a driving force, described by Navarro with the image of Picasso's blind minotaur reaching out to perceive the object of his desire.