Luis Fernández-Galiano   Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano explain their work very well. After listening to the argumented narration of their projects, it is hard not to share their interpretations: they propose a generating role for the roof, and this is necessarily foun

Richard Ingersoll   Ivisited some of the works of Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano on a three-day journey in mid-December that began in Córdoba, pushed through Mérida to Madrid, and from there to Valladolid and San Sebastián. The climate changed from balmy amid the

Jürgen Tietz   The relationship with the existing and the evolution of the structures on which they intervene play a key role in the oeuvre of Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano. Hence, their projects in Halle an der Saale (Moritzburg Museum) and Graz (Joanneum M

Enrique Sobejano, Fuensanta Nieto   The projects we find more interesting, the most lucid works perhaps, are those that seem to emerge from the attempt to connect anomalies, associations of random, arbitrary facts, which are there before us and only need an idea to explain them. But be

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Spain   The first governor of the Canary Islands ordered the construction of a tower at the end of the 15th century, and when it was extended a few years later, the space located between the tower and the new perimeter walls was filled with earth to increase

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Spain   The romantic image of the ruins, so often rejected as nostalgic and anachronistic, is capable of transmitting, however, not only the evocative power of the constructions of the past but also the destructive force of time and nature. In this duality -

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Spain   This project is the most recent intervention Tcarried out in the old school of San Gregorio of Valladolid, a structure that is a good example of the Elizabethan Gothic of the late 15th century (1484-1496).  A building that also shows the steps of evo

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Spain   Walking through the Vegueta quarter one can easily see the original urban structure of a city – Las Palmas de Gran Canaria – which has undergone several transformations in its later expansions. Going through its narrow streets and passing by the trad

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Germany   Can an image implicitly contain a space or an architectural idea? Can a project hide that one day it will have to transform what it represents? Like some paintings that reflect themselves on the canvas, or like a book of books that could be the matri

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Austria   The Modern Movement opened up many doors, but it also had to close others – as it happened with ornament, for instance – which would for a long time be disregarded as sources for other possible expressive paths. The roof is one of those architectural

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Spain   Every architectural project carries within the acknowledgment of the boundary as a concept that determines its spatial and formal configuration. Whether the materialization of that boundary should occur in a clear or blurred manner, with strength or

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Spain   Architecture is always feeding on images concealed in our memory, ideas that at some point become clear and unexpectedly mark the outset of a project. Perhaps for this reason the echoes of the Hispano-Muslim culture still present in Córdoba have unco

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Austria   The ground surface, the horizontal platform upon which most of our movements in the city occur, is very rarely the generating argument or the spatial support of a project. Perhaps as a result of that yearn for an identity that every new intervention

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Spain   The urban fabric and the natural space often transcend the blurred limits separating them, generating fields of influence, areas of interference between architecture and the landscape. This fact, that in large cities is perceived with even greater di

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Spain   Sometimes it is hard to explain the sense of an architectural work, especially when it does not emerge as a unit, but as an addition of interventions of different scale and function. This is the case of the intervention in the old Barceló Market area