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Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Enrique Sobejano

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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).