Nieto Sobejano

Enrique Sobejano graduated from the School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM) and holds a Master’s degree from Columbia University in New York. He is a Professor of Architectural Design at the Universität der Künste (UdK) in Berlin and has been a visiting professor and lecturer at numerous universities and institutions in Spain and internationally. From 1986 to 1991, he was co-editor of the journal ARQUITECTURA, published by the Madrid Association of Architects. He regularly chairs and participates in international juries and conferences. He is a member of the Bund Deutscher Architekten (BDA), an Honorary Member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), and, since 2016, a member of the Akademie der Künste Berlin.

Fuensanta Nieto graduated from the School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM) and holds a Master’s degree from Columbia University in New York. She has taught Architectural Design at various universities and institutions and lectures widely on architecture, participating in international juries and symposia around the world. From 1986 to 1991, she was co-editor of the journal ARQUITECTURA, published by the Madrid Association of Architects. She is a member of the Architecture Section of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, a member of the Bund Deutscher Architekten (Berlin), and an Honorary Member of the American Institute of Architects.

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, founded by Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano, is based in Madrid and Berlin. Their work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, Kunsthaus Graz, and the MAST Foundation in Bologna. They have received numerous awards, including the Spanish National Prize for Conservation and Restoration (Ministry of Culture, 2008), the Nike Prize of 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 the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts from the Spanish Ministry of Culture (2017).

Among their most significant works are the Madinat al-Zahra Museum; the Moritzburg Museum in Halle; the San Telmo Museum in San Sebastián; the Zaragoza Conference Center; the Martín Chirino Foundation in Las Palmas; the Joanneum Museum in Graz; the Córdoba Contemporary Art Center; the Arvo Pärt Centre in Estonia; the Montblanc Haus in Hamburg; the Archive of the Avant-Gardes in Dresden; and the extension of the Archaeological Museum in Munich. The practice is currently developing projects in several countries, including the Sorolla Museum in Madrid, the Vannes Museum in France, and the extension of the Dallas Museum of Art.

Monographs on their work include Nieto Sobejano. Memory and Invention (Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, Germany, 2013); Fuensanta Nieto, Enrique Sobejano. Architetture (Mondadori Electa, Milan, Italy, 2014); Nieto Sobejano Arquitectura 2004–2017 (TC Cuadernos 131/132, Valencia, Spain, 2017); Arvo Pärt Centre & Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos – A Common Denominator (ArchiTangle, Berlin, 2020); Nieto Sobejano 2012–2024 (AV Monographs 257–258, Madrid, Spain, 2023); and Nieto Sobejano Autorretrato / Self-Portrait (Madrid, Spain, 2023).