Fuensanta Nieto

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos was founded by Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano and has offices in Madrid and Berlin. Along with being widely published in international magazines and books, the firm’s work has been exhibited at the Biennale di Venezia, at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, at the Kunsthaus in Graz, and at the MAST Foundation in Bologna. They are the recipients of the National Prize for Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage by the Ministry of Cuture of Spain (2008), the Nike Prize issued by the Bund Deutscher Architekten (BDA), (2010), 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), the Alvar Aalto Medal (2015) and the Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts by the Ministry of Culture of Spain in 2017. Their major works include the Madinat al-Zahra Museum, the Moritzburg Museum in Halle, the San Telmo Museum in San Sebastián, the Martin Chirino Foundation in Las Palmas, the Joanneum Museum extension in Graz, the Contemporary Art Centre in Córdoba, the Arvo Pärt Centre in Estonia, the Montblanc Haus in Hamburg, the Archive of the Avant-Garde in Dresden and the extension of the Archaeologische Staatssammlung in Munich. Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos is currently working on projects in several countries, among them, the extension of the Sorolla Museum in Madrid, the Carmen Thyssen Museum in Girona, the Museum of Vannes, the Museum of Pontevedra and the Dallas Museum of Art in the US. The following monographs have been published on their work: “Nieto Sobejano. Memory and Invention” (Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, Germany, 2013), “Fuensanta Nieto, Enrique Sobejano. Architetture” (Mondadori Electa Spa, Milano, Italy, 2014), “Nieto Sobejano Arquitectura 2004-2017” (TC Cuadernos 131/132, Valencia, Spain, 2017) and “Arvo Pärt Centre & Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos – A Common Denominator” (ArchiTangle, Berlin, 2020).

AWARDS

• Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts by the Ministry of Culture of Spain (2017), Alvar Aalto Medal (2015), Aga Khan Award for Architecture (2010)

SHORT DESCRIPTION ABOUT THE OFFICE

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos was founded by Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano and has offices in Madrid and Berlin

AWARDS OF THE OFFICE

National Prize for Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage by the Ministry of Cuture of Spain (2008), the Nike Prize issued by the Bund Deutscher Architekten (BDA), (2010), 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), the Alvar Aalto Medal (2015)

PROJECTS TO BE PRESENTED DURING THE EVENT

Project #1: Archive of the Avant-Garde

Start year: 01.01.2018

The Blockhaus is one of the most significant buildings in the historic city center of Dresden, located on the banks of the Elbe River. Built in 1732, it underwent multiple transformations over time and mainly after the 2nd World War. The project, with an area of 2,000 m², responds to the desire to open the archive to visitors, specialists and the general public, in order to make accessible the valuable and heterogeneous Marzona legacy that includes works of art, objects, drawings, plans and furniture from the different artistic currents of the avant-garde of the 20th century: Futurism, Dadaism, Constructivism and Surrealism, through institutions such as the Werkbund, the Bauhaus, the HfG of Ulm or the Black Mountain College. The project arises from a dialogue between memory and the avant-garde, -represented by the building itself and its collection- which translates into the inclusion of the archive in a suspended cubic volume, freeing the entire ground floor as a flexible public space for meetings, exhibitions, seminars and lectures. The provocation implied by the institutional name is understood as the starting point in this project. A large volume of concrete floating inside the Blockhaus constitutes the centerpiece of the archive, a hidden treasure, like the inevitable presence of the past.