ENRIQUE SOBEJANO, upon invitation from the Institute of Architecture and Urban Development. 

19.11.24

ENRIQUE SOBEJANO had been a Professor of Experimentelles Gestalten und Grundlagen des Entwerfens at UdK between 2008-2024. He studied architecture at the School of Architecture in Madrid (ETSAM) and later a Master Degree at Columbia University in New York (GSAPP) and is the founding partner of NIETO SOBEJANO ARQUITECTOS, together with Fuensanta Nieto, with offices in Madrid and Berlin. His architecture essentially emerges from the interpretation of the context—both physical and cultural—in public program projects, often transforming existing buildings in a balance between memory and invention.
Their work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, and at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, among other places. Nieto Sobejano has received the National Restoration Prize from the Ministry of Culture of Spain (2008), the Nike Prize from the Bund Deutscher Architekten (BDA) (2010), the Aga Khan Award (2010), the Piranesi Prix de Rome (2011), the European Museum of the Year (2012), the Hannes Meyer Prize (2012), the Alvar Aalto Medal (2015), and the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts from the 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 Joanneum Museum in Graz, the Contemporary Art Center of Córdoba, the Arvo Pärt Center in Estonia, the Montblanc Haus in Hamburg, the Archäologische Staatssammlung in München and the Archive der Avant-Garden in Dresden.
Nieto Sobejano is currently designing projects in various countries, including the expansion of the Sorolla Museum in Madrid, the Museum of Vannes, the Cité du Théâtre in Paris, and the expansion of the Dallas Museum of Art (USA). 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, 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 nº 257-258, Madrid, 2023), and Autorretrato / Self-portrait (Madrid, 2023).