Enrique Sobejano 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 1983. He is a professor at the Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK), 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. He is a permanent member of the Akademie der Künste Berlin (AdK).

Fuensanta Nieto 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 1983. She is a founding partner of Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos and a professor at the IE University. 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 architectural journal ARQUITECTURA, published by the Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid.

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos was founded by Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano and has offices in Madrid and Berlin. Along with being widely published in international magazines and books, the firm’s work has been exhibited at the Biennale di Venezia, at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, at the Kunsthaus in Graz, and at the MAST Foundation in Bologna. They are the recipients of the National Prize for Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage by the Ministry of Cuture of Spain (2008), the Nike Prize issued by the Bund Deutscher Architekten (BDA), (2010), as well as the Aga Khan Award for Architecture (2010), the Piranesi Prix de Rome (2011), the European Museum of the Year Award (2012), the Hannes Meyer Prize (2012), the Alvar Aalto Medal (2015) and the Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts by the Ministry of Culture of Spain in 2017. Their major works include the Madinat al-Zahra Museum, the Moritzburg Museum in Halle, the San Telmo Museum in San Sebastián, the Zaragoza Congress Centre, the Martin Chirino Foundation in Las Palmas, the Joanneum Museum extension in Graz, the Contemporary Art Centre in Córdoba, the Arvo Pärt Centre in Estonia, the Montblanc Haus in Hamburg, the Archive of the Avant-Garde in Dresden and the extension of the Archaeologische Staatssammlung in Munich. Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos is currently working on projects in several countries, among them, the extension of the Sorolla Museum in Madrid, the Carmen Thyssen Museum in Girona, the Museum of Vannes, the Cité du Théâtre in Paris, the Museum of Pontevedra and the Dallas Museum of Art in the US. 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, Milano, 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), “AV Monografías / Monographs nº 257-258 – Nieto & Sobejano 2012-2024” (Arquitectura Viva, Madrid, 2023).