An ability to balance the old and the new is among the strengths of Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano, who last year won the competition to “reimagine” the...
Seen from a distance, an impossible feat unless you are floating a good way from shore in the waters of the Mediterranean, the weekend home of architects Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano appears like a figment from the ancient past, its brilliant white frame wedged into the top of a rocky cliffside some 300 feet in the air.
“It’s a way that we have a continuous discussion in architecture, not only between ourselves but with the people we are working with,” Nieto says. “We don’t have the same clients twice. The places and cities are changing. The programs tend to be public in complex situations. This is what most interests us.”
Today, Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos has more than 50 employees divided between offices in Madrid and Berlin, where Sobejano serves on the faculty of the University of the Arts. Their Madrid office is spread over the lower two stories of a converted residential building in an upscale section of Chamartín. It is a true atelier, with a staff that eats lunch together daily. “We are a little family,” Sobral says.
In their competition entry, Nieto and Sobejano proposed a complex largely sunk below ground, a metaphorical excavation that would recede into the landscape, so as not to distract from the nearby ruins. That idea distinguished them from the other, more prominent competitors, and landed them the job. When it came to the San Telmo Museum in San Sebastián, Nieto and Sobejano added to the exterior a skin of perforated aluminum panels, designed in collaboration with the artists Leopoldo Ferrán and Agustina Otero.The ability to assimilate history without recapitulating it has been a hallmark of Nieto and Sobejano’s practice from its inception.
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