Architect by the Madrid Escuela Superior de Arquitectura in 1974. He has been a guest professor at the institutes of technology of Zurich and Lausanne, at the Universities of Harvard, Cornell and Columbia and at the Pamplona School of Architecture. He has held the Kenzo Tange Chair at the GSD of Harvard. Since 2004, he has been an honorary professor at the University of Seville and holds the White Chair at the School of Architecture. Together with Antonio Cruz, he began his professional activity in 1971. Some of their most well-known projects and works: Extension of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Spanish Pavilion at the 2000 Expo in Hannover, the Cartuja Stadium in Seville, the extension of the SBB Railway Station in Basel, the Public Library in Seville, the Stadium of the Community of Madrid, the Bus Station in Huelva, the Santa Justa Railway Station in Seville and the Residential Building in Calle Doña María Coronel, also in Seville.
Antonio Cruz and Antonio Ortiz have received the Spanish National Architecture Award, among others, the City of Seville Award, the City of Madrid Award, the 92 International Brunel Award, the Construmat Award and the C.E.O.E. Foundation Award; they have been finalists on two occasions for the Mies van der Rohe Prize. Among their latest awards, the 2008 Andalusia Architecture Award, for the Basel Railway Station. In 1997, they received the Gold Medal of Andalusia for their professional career.
Cruz y Ortiz's work has been widely published in the main specialised publications and several monographic publications have been issued on their work (Tanais Ediciones, Princeton Architectural Press, Birkhäuser, A&V and Gustavo Gili). Exhibitions on their work have also been held in Zurich (E.T.H.), in Bern (Amthaus), in Lausanne (EPFL), in Bolzano (Ordine degli Architetti), in Boston (Harvard, Graduate School of Design), in Berlin (Aedes East Gallery), and in Seville and Granada (Junta de Andalucía).
FUENSANTA NIETO and ENRIQUE SOBEJANO are Architects graduated from the Madrid Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura and from Columbia University in New York, USA. They are Project professors at the Escuela de Arquitectura of the European University of Madrid (UEM) and the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), respectively, and founding partners of Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, S.L.
They have been speakers and/or visiting professors at various universities and institutions in Spain and abroad.
They were directors of the ARQUITECTURA magazine of the Official Association of Architects in Madrid, (1986-91). Their works and projects have been published in several Spanish and international publications, and have been part of different exhibitions.
CONSTRUCTION WORKS AWARDS
• Aga Khan Architecture Awards. Madinat al Zahra Institutional Headquarters. Córdoba. 2010
• ECOLA Award 2010. Moritzburg Museum Extension
• Via de Arquitectura Award for Excellence in National and International Architecture
• German Steel Structure Award 2010 Moritzburg Museum Extension
• Nike Award from the BDA (Bundes Deutscher Architekten). 2010
• The International Architecture Award. The Chicago Athenaeum, Museum of Architecture and Design. 2009
Extension of the Moritzburg Museum, Madinat al Zahra Institutional Headquarters, Córdoba and Palacio de Congresos de Aragón. Expo 2008.
• Premio Nacional de Conservación y Restauración de Bienes Culturales. Valladolid National Museum of Sculpture. 2007
• Architecture Award from the partners of Arquinfad. Barcelona. Valladolid National Museum of Sculpture. 2007
• Madrid City Council Architecture and Urban Planning Award. "Oficinas y viviendas en la C/ Talavera, 4". 2006
• Madrid City Council Architecture Award 2000 "Edificio 18 VPO C/Sicilia"
Topic: 'Chance and necessity'
Architecture is always the result of an interpretation of multiple, apparently unconnected circumstances. We are constantly forced to work within limits, whether necessary or random, which make it possible for scattered and arbitrary events to demand only one idea to explain them. The aim of the work is to develop a project that is small in size but complex in its limitations, experimenting with the concept of housing as a result of the specific conditions of the chosen location and a double functional programme set at random.
The limits to be respected are as follows:
1. A site in Berlin, between party walls, deep and narrow, 5 m wide and 30 m long, located between a street and an inner block yard.
2. A project of two independent houses that each participant will project by choosing two from the following users:
-A blind person who lives alone and plays the piano
-An older couple with a dog and a son who lives abroad
-A single novelist with a large library who is very fond of cooking
-A family with two children and a grandmother who often stays at home
-Four Erasmus students of Architecture, Economics, Music and Mathematics
-An IT expert who works at home with his own gym space
3. The surface area of each of the two houses may vary between 75 and 150 m2 depending on the project chosen
4. Public access to the block yard must be respected by allowing pedestrians to walk through it currently in use.
5. The existing arc can be eliminated if deemed appropriate.
Only the Motto will be clearly indicated in all documents.
The Jury's decision will be final.
Proposals submitted by means other than the Internet or received after the call has been closed will not be accepted.
Submissions must be made individually. To ensure the anonymity of the participant before the jury, the files sent must omit personal data.
The Foundation reserves the right to reproduce and/or exhibit all or part of the proposals submitted to the contest.
