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Enrique Sobejano + Fuensanta Nieto
Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, Madrid, Spain
Mort Karp Memorial Lecture
Sponsored by Polk Stanley Rowland Curzon Porter Architects Ltd.

5:30 p.m., April 7
Shollmier Hall

Based in Madrid, Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano are heralded for designing contemporary projects that respond to surrounding historic buildings while remaining independent of them. Current projects include the Madinat al Zahra Archaeological Museum in Cordoba, Spain; an expansion of the Moritzburg Contemporary Art Museum, a late medieval castle complex in Halle, Germany; and two projects in Graz, Austria: the expansion of the Landesmuseum Joanneum and the construction of a new roofscape for the Kastner und Öhler department store. Residential projects such as the House of Wood in Chamartín, Spain and the House of Zinc in Aravaca, Spain feature simple forms and rich materials. In addition to practicing architecture, Nieto and Sobejano teach at the Universidad Europea de Madrid and the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid.

From 1986 to 1991 Nieto and Sobejano edited the architectural journal Arquitectura, published by the Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid. Their projects have won recognition in more than 50 international design competitions and have been published in various Spanish and international magazines and books. Their work was exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2000, 2002 and 2006 and was included in the exhibitions Extreme Eurasia in Tokyo, 2005; On Site: New Architecture in Spain, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2006; the Less and More exhibition at the tenth Alvar Aalto Symposium in Helsinki, 2006; and La Mujer Construye in Utrecht, 2007, among many others.

Both Enrique Sobejano and Fuensanta Nieto earned degrees from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura and the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University. They have been visiting critics at universities throughout Europe including the Technische Universität München in Germany, the Universidad de Barcelona in Spain and the University of Torino in Italy. In the United States they have visited Harvard University, the University of Arizona, the University of Texas and Columbia University, among others.