Fuensanta Nieto

Fuensanta Nieto holds a degree in Architecture from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (ETSAM) and a Master of Science in Building Design from the Graduate School of Architecture and Planning (GSAPP), Columbia University, New York (USA). Until 2021 she was professor of projects at the School of Architecture of the European University of 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 magazine ARQUITECTURA, published by the Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid. Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos was founded in 1985 by Enrique Sobejano and Fuensanta Nieto, and has offices in Madrid and Berlin. Nieto Sobejano's work has been published in numerous Spanish and international magazines and books and has been exhibited, among other places, at the Venice Biennale (2000, 2002, 2006 and 2012), the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York (2006), the Kunsthaus in Graz (2008) and the MAST Foundation in Bologna (2014).

They have received the National Award for Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage from the Ministry of Culture (2007), the Nike Award from the BDA (Bund Deutscher Architekten) (2010), the Aga Khan Award for Architecture (2010), the Piranesi Prix de Rome (2011), the European Museum of the Year Award (2012), the Hannes Meyer Award (2012), Honorary Members of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), the Alvar Aalto Medal (2015) and the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts in 2017. His most notable works include the Madinat al-Zahra Museum, the Moritzburg Museum in Halle, the San Telmo Museum in San Sebastian, the Palacio de Congresos in Zaragoza, the Martín Chirino Foundation in Las Palmas, the Joanneum Museum in Graz, the Contemporary Art Centre in Cordoba and the Arvo Pärt Centre in Estonia.

Nieto Sobejano is currently developing projects in various countries, including the extension of the Archaeological Museum in Munich, the extension of the Sorolla Museum in Madrid, the Montblanc Museum in Hamburg, the Archive of the Avant-Garde in Dresden and the Carmen Thyssen Museum in Sant Feliu de Guixols (Girona). Four monographs have recently been published on his 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) and "Arvo Pärt Centre & Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos - A Common Denominator" (ArchiTangle, Berlin, 2020).