Press release Sobejano Nieto Architects:

Madinat al-Zahra Museum © Fernando Alda

Piranesi Award Prix de Rome 2011 “Planning Archaeology – Designing Archaeology” was granted last Thursday 1 September in Rome to Madinat al Zahra Museum Cordoba, work Architects Sobejano Nieto.

The Jury chaired by Luca Basso Peressut included Lucio Altarelli, Francesco Dal Co, Romulus Martemucci, Amedeo Schiattarella, Luigi Spinelli, Pier Angelo Torricelli y Federico Caliari. The project was selected from 17 Finalists for works carried out in Italy, French, Germany, Egypt, China and Spain.

La Adrianea Academy of Architecture and Archeology, en colaboración with the Faculty of Architecture of the Politecnico di Milano, Pantheon in Rome Institute, and Department of Cultural Affairs and Communication of the Ayuntamiento de Roma, Department of Cultural Affairs and the Ayuntamiento de Tivoli, the Order of Architects of Rome and Province, Piranesi Award established in order to highlight the most innovative architectural projects on contemporary interventions made in the archaeological, and the nature of projective research regarding the physical relationship between archeology and landscape.

Architects Sobejano Nieto, Fuensanta founded by Nieto and Enrique Sobejano received, inter alia, the Aga Khan Award (2010), Nike award of the BDA (Germany,2010) and the National Restoration Award from the Ministry of Culture (2008). The study, sites in Madrid and Berlin, recently completed the San Telmo Museum in San Sebastian and the Museum of the History of Lugo. Currently under construction is the expansion of the Joanneum museum in Graz (Austria) and Center for Contemporary Creation in Cordoba.

Madinat al Zahra Gallery