Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos in Conversation with Carlos Jiménez
Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos was founded by Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano and has offices in Madrid and Berlin. Widely published in international magazines and books, the firm’s work has also been exhibited at the Biennale di Venezia, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Kunsthaus Graz, and the MAST Foundation in Bologna. The firm has received the National Prize for Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage from the Spanish Ministry of Culture (2008), the Nike Prize from the Bund Deutscher Architekten (2010), the Aga Khan Award for Architecture (2010), the Piranesi Prix de Rome (2011), the European Museum of the Year Award (2012), the Hannes Meyer Prize (2012), the Alvar Aalto Medal (2015), and a Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts from the Spanish Ministry of Culture (2017). Its major works include the Madinat al-Zahra Museum in Córdoba, the Kunstmuseum Moritzburg in Halle, the San Telmo Museoa in San Sebastián, Spain, the Palacio de Congresos in Zaragoza, the Fundación de Arte y Pensamiento Martín Chirino in Las Palmas, the Universalmuseum Joanneum extension in Graz, the Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía in Córdoba, the Arvo Pärt Centre in Laulasmaa, Estonia, the Montblanc Haus in Hamburg, the Archiv der Avantgarden in Dresden, and the extension of the Archäologische Staatssammlung in Munich. The firm is currently working on projects in several countries, including an extension of the Museo Sorolla in Madrid, the Museo Carmen Thyssen in Girona, the Cité du Théâtre in Paris, the Museo Pontevedra, and the Dallas Museum of Art.
Fuensanta Nieto has worked as an architect since graduating from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and the Graduate School of Architecture and Planning at Columbia University in New York in 1983. She is a founding partner of Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos and a professor at IE University. Nieto lectures on architecture and participates in juries and symposia at institutions around the world. From 1986 to 1991 she was codirector of the architectural journal ARQUITECTURA, published by the Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid.
Enrique Sobejano has worked as an architect since graduating from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and the Graduate School of Architecture and Planning at Columbia University in New York in 1983. He is a professor at the Universität der Künste Berlin, where he holds the chair in Principles of Design. He has been a visiting critic and lecturer at various international universities worldwide. From 1986 to 1991 he was codirector of the architectural journal ARQUITECTURA, published by the Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid. He chairs and participates in international conferences and juries and is a founding partner of Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos. He is a permanent member of the Akademie der Künste Berlin.