Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos
Type	private = S.L.P / GmbH
Founded	1984
Founders	Fuensanta Nieto, Enrique Sobejano
Headquarters	Madrid, Spain and Berlin, Germany
Website	www.nietosobejano.com

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos was founded in 1984 by Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano and has offices in Madrid and, since 2007, in Berlin.

Partners

Enrique Sobejano (Madrid, Spain, 1957) 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 1981. He is professor at the Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK), where he holds the chair of Principles of Design. He has been a visiting critic and lecturer at various international universities worldwide. From 1986 to 1991 he was co-director 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.

Fuensanta Nieto (Madrid, Spain, 1957) 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 1981. She is a founding partner of Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos and a professor at the Universidad Europea de Madrid. Fuensanta Nieto lectures on architecture and participates in juries and symposia at various institutions around the world. From 1986 to 1991 she was co-director of the architectural journal ARQUITECTURA, published by the Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid.

Studio

Along with being widely published in international magazines and books, the firm’s work has been exhibited at the Biennale di Venezia in 2000, 2002, 2006, and 2012, at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, in 2006, at the Kunsthaus in Graz in 2008 and at the MAST Foundation in Bologna in 2014. They are the recipients of the 2007 National Prize for Restoration from the Spanish Ministry of Culture and the 2010 Nike Prize issued by the Bund Deutscher Architekten (BDA), as well as 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), AIA Honorary Fellowship (2015) and the Alvar Aalto Medal in 2015. Their major works include the Madinat al-Zahra Museum, the Moritzburg Museum, the San Telmo Museum, the Joanneum extension in Graz, and the Contemporary Art Centre in Córdoba. Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos currently have projects in Germany, Spain, Austria, Estonia and Morocco. Two monographs have been recently published about their work: "Nieto Sobejano. Memory and Invention" (Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, Germany, 2013) and "Fuensanta Nieto, Enrique Sobejano. Architetture" (Mondadori Electa Spa, Milano, Italy, 2014).

Awards

Honorary Fellowship of the American Institute of Architects 2015, USA
Short Listed and Nomination Mies van der Rohe Award 2015
Alvar Aalto Medal 2015, Finland
AIT Award 2014 - Global Award for the very best in Interior and Architecture, Germany^[1]
Short Listed and Nomination Mies van der Rohe Award 2013 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture, Austria, Spain^[2]
Hannes-Meyer Award 2012, Germany
Award of the VIII BIENAL Iberoamericana de Arquitectura y Urbanismo 2012, Spain
European Museum of the Year Award, Museum es:Madinat al-Zahra, 2012
AIT Award 2012 - Global Award for the very best in Interior and Architecture, Germany ^[3]
Piranesi Prix de Rome 2011, Italy
Finalist XI Bienal Española De Arquitectura 2011, Spain
WAN Awards 2011, 21 for 21, Great Britain ^[4]
Short Listed Mies van der Rohe Award 2011 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture, Spain^[5]
Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2010, Switzerland
Award for Excellence in Architecture of the State of Saxonia 2010, Germany^[6]
Ecola Award 2010, Germany^[7]
Via Arquitectura’s Award for excellence in national and international architecture 2010, Spain
German Steel Construction Award 2010, Germany^[8]
de:Nike (Architekturpreis) BDA 2010, Germany
Short Listed Mies van der Rohe Award 2009 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture, Spain^[9]
The International Architecture Award, 2009, 2008
Finalist - The best 26 buildings of Germany

Exhibitions

2014: Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, MAST Foundation: Galleria dell’architettura, Bologna, Italy
2013: Nieto Sobejano: Memory and Invention, Architekturgalerie München e.V., München, Deutschland^[10]
2008: Nieto Sobejano: arquitectura concreta, de:Architekturforum Aedes, Berlin, Deutschland^[11] und Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Österreich^[12]
2006: On Site: New Architecture in Spain, MoMA, New York City, USA^[13]

Publications

Fuensanta Nieto, Enrique Sobejano (Hrsg.): Monograph N.S. 2014. Electa Architecttura, Mailand 2014, ISBN 978-88-9180-228-6.
Fuensanta Nieto, Enrique Sobejano (Hrsg.): Nieto Sobejano: Memory and Invention. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2013, ISBN 978-3-7757-3619-0.
de:Jürgen Tietz: Nieto Sobejano - Das neue Kunstmuseum in Halle: de:Stiftung Moritzburg. Hirmer, München 2008, ISBN 978-3-7774-5075-9.
Oscar Rueda: Sobejano Nieto: 1996–2001 Displacements. Rueda, Madrid 2002, ISBN 978-84-7207-131-5.

External links

Official webpage of Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos
de:competitionline Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

References

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 4/2/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.