Fuensanta Nieto de la Cierva (born 18 April 1957) is a Spanish architect. She is known for her work as a partner of Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, a firm which she co-founded in 1984. Fuensanta Nieto studied at the

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. From 1986 to 1991 she was co-director of the architectural journal ARQUITECTURA, published by the Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid. She is a recipient of the

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, the firm Nieto Sobejano having been given this award in 2015.

Works

Nieto has been involved in a number of museum and exhibition projects in Spain and other countries. These include a museum constructed in 2005-8 for Medina Azahara, an archaeological site near Córdoba. The building was designed so as not to impose itself on the landscape of Medina Azahara (which has since been declared a

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). A project in Estonia, the

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, is also integrated into the landscape. This building, an archive for the composer

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, was shortlisted for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2019.

References

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