Nieto Sobejano: Memory and Invention (Hatje Cantz, 2013) is the first monograph of the world renown, Madrid-based architectural office.
Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, founded by Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano in Madrid in 1984 and which since 2004 has had a branch office in Berlin, sets itself apart by virtue of an aesthetic of reduced yet powerful forms and materials. The architects, who are involved in projects throughout the world, cultivate a building style that typically takes the roof as the point of departure for planning and design, which becomes palpable in particular in their public buildings, museums, concert halls, and convention centers. Besides commercial buildings, the office also draws up plans for private homes as well as for interventions in historical building stock. The late medieval Moritzburg Castle in Halle, for example, which houses the Municipal Museum of Art and Applied Arts, received a new roof, extending the range of its use in a spectacular way. The publication presents the diversity of the projects on the basis of terms such as ‘landscapes’, ‘roofscapes’, ‘memory and intervention’, ‘combinatorial spaces’, ‘material’, and ‘light’.
– Nieto Sobejano: Memory and Invention (Hatje Cantz, 2013), book description on the publisher’s website
The text is in English. The book is lavishly illustrated with photographs and architectural drawings.
Our copy in stock is in excellent condition. The pages are clean, no markings. The binding is fine. The covers show only some minuscule traces of shelf wear. A separate folded poster of inspirational photos is included.
