Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Enrique Sobejano
short vita
Enrique Sobejano (born 1957 in Madrid, Spain,) 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 Berlin University of the Arts, 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.
Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos was founded in 1985 by Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano and has offices in Madrid and in Berlin. 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, Italy in 2014. They are the recipients of the 2008 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 in 2010, the Piranesi Prix de Rome in 2011, the European Museum of the Year Award and the Hannes Meyer Prize (2012) and,Alvar Aalto Medal (2015) and the FAIA Honorary Fellowships of the American Institute of Architects (2015). Besides Enrique Sobejano is a member of the Architecture Section of the Akademie der Künste Berlin. Their major works include the Madinat al-Zahra Museum (Cordoba), the Moritzburg Museum (Halle), the San Telmo Museum (San Sebastian), the Joanneum extension in Graz, and the Contemporary Art Centre in Córdoba. 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).
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Selected Solo Exhibitions
2015
Alvar Aalto Medal 2015. Alavar Aalto Museum, Helsinki, Finland
The Window and the Mirror. Museum of Estonian Architecture, Tallinn, Estonia
2014
Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, Bologna, Italy
2013
Memory and Invention. Architekturgalerie München, Germany
2008
Arquitectura Concreta. Aedes Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos. Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
Selected Group Exhibitions
2015
Childhood Recollections: Memory in Design. Roca Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
Migrant Garden. Untouchable Landscapes. Piacenza, Italy.
2014
Arquitectura Española en el Mundo Árabe. Spain, Lebanon, Morocco
2013
Spain Mon Amour. Fundación ICO, Madrid, Spain
2012
Biennale di Archittetura Venezia, Venice, Italy (also in 2000, 2002, 2006)
2006
On Site. New Architecture in Spain. Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, USA
Selected Publications
Sobejano, E. NS Fuensanta Nieto Enrique Sobejano Architetture. Milan: Electa Architecttura, 2014.
Sobejano, E. Nieto Sobejano. Memory and Invention. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2013.
Sobejano, E. “Combinatorial Architecture”. In: Computational Design Modeling, 55-61. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, 2011.
Sobejano, E. “Four themes: Landscape, Geometry, Roofscape, Light”, In: ARK 2, 14-28 (2015).
Sobejano, E. “Turning Point”. In: 12th Spanish Architecture and Urbanism Biennial, 12-13, Barcelona: Fundación de Arquitectos, 2013.
Sobejano, E. “Erinnerung und Erfindung”. In: Schneider, Tietz (Ed.) Book e-X-tension. Aktuelle Museums und Ausstellungsarchitektur im Bestand, 45-52, Bielefeld: Kerber Verlag, 2013.
Sobejano, E; Nieto, F. “The Window and the Mirror: Frames of Thought”, In: Monograph A&V nº 146. Nieto & Sobejano 1999-2011, Madrid: Arquitectura Viva, 2011.
Sobejano, E. “La Mezquita de Córdoba y procesos combinatorios”. In: Otero-Pailos (Ed.). Spain On Spain. Debates sobre la arquitectura contemporánea, 1.68-1.77. Madrid: Editorial Rueda, 2009.
Sobejano, E. “Memorias Berlinesas: la fuerza de los límites”. In: A&V Monographs, 131, 12-17 (2008).
Sobejano, E. “Landscapes of Memory: Rioja, Córdoba, San Sebastián”. In: TOPOS 57, 70-75 (2006).
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