Infinite plane facing the infinite sea. We have built the most radical house we have ever made, an infinite plane facing the infinite sea. A house facing the Atlantic Ocean, at the water’s edge on a beach of Cadiz, like a piece of earthly paradise, where the Romans once lived in nearby Bolonia. We built a powerful podium in Roman travertine whose upper horizontal plane becomes the protagonist of the space. Inside the podium, underneath this platform like a temenos, is the house. Above and behind the stony platform, we have erected stone walls to protect us from the strong prevailing winds. As if it were an acropolis. A temenos where the gods descend to converse with humans and toast with Sherry on this plane on high looking out onto the infinite sea. The house of the infinite.

• Foreword by Annemie Van Thillo
• Introduction by Marc Dubois
• Epilogue by Alberto Campo Baeza

Contributors Biographies

Alberto Campo Baeza is an architect (Escuela de Arquitectura de Madrid). He wrote his doctoral thesis with Javier Carvajal and was a professor at the ETSAM for more than twenty years. He has taught at the ETH in Zurich, EPFL in Lausanne; the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia; the BAUHAUS in Weimar; Kansas State University and other institutions in Dublin, Naples, Virginia, and Copenhagen. He spent a year as a research fellow at Columbia University in New York (2001). He has published two collections of writing: La idea construída and Pensar con las manos. He has also received many awards including the Torroja for his Caja Granada building, and The Buenos Aires Biennial 2009 for his Nursery for Benetton in Venice and his MA Museum in Granada. Recently, the American Academy of Arts and Letters nominated Alberto Campo Baeza for the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize of 2010. His work has been exhibited at the Crown Hall by Mies at Chicago’s IIT, the Palladio Basilica in Vicenza, the Urban Center in New York, the Saint Irene Church in Istanbul, and the MA Gallery of Toto in Tokyo. In 2010 his work was exhibited at the MAXXI Museum and in San Pietro in Montorio, both in Rome. He believes in Architecture as a BUILT IDEA, and that the principle components of Architecture are GRAVITY, which builds SPACE, and LIGHT, which builds TIME.

Marc Dubois received the degree of architect from the Hoger Architectuurinstituut Sint Lucas, Gent, Belgium in 1974. Since 1979 professor at the same school (WENK), now Faculty of Architecture KULeuven- Gent & Brussels. Emerita in 2015. Commissioner of the exhibition “Architects from Flanders”, Architecture Biennale of Venice (1991) and “Arquitectura de Flandes” in Barcelona (1997). He is the author of the books Albert Van huffel 1877-1935, architect (1983), Architettura, gli ultimi vent’anni (Electa, 1993), Álvaro Siza (Motta Milano,1996 & Whitney Library of Design New York, 1997), Architect Philippe Samyn (Birkhäuser, 1999), Lens°Ass architecten (Lannoo, 2003), Vincent Van Duysen – Complete Works (Thames & Hudson, 2010). He has articles in many architectural magazines: 10+1 (J), AMC Le Moniteur (F), Casabella (I), Contour (NL), Archis (NL), Architektur Aktuell (A), Architecture d’Aujourd’Hui (F), Architectural Review (GB), Arquitectura Viva (E), A&U (J), Baumeister (D), Bauwelt (D), Building Design (GB), Casabella (I), Contour (NL), De Architect (NL), Disenno Interior (E), Deutsche Bauzeiting (D), Domus (I), Forum (NL), Interni (I), Lotus International (I), Tefnos (GR), Wonen/ TABK (NL), Adato (L). Advisor for the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion Award Barcelona from 1992. Advisor Revista CASABELLA.