The exhibition TABULA presents the Arvo Pärt Centre created by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos in Estonia. The new home for the centre is currently under construction and will house the legacy of the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. The building complex is situated in Laulasmaa, 35 km from Tallinn, on a peninsula with a magnificent natural surrounding within a pine forest near the sea. The core of the Arvo Pärt Centre will be the archive, which brings together the entire creative heritage of the composer, providing a research and learning environment for cultural education. The exhibition presents a visual-acoustic installation which captures the atmosphere of the Arvo Pärt Centre, while visitors can listen to Arvo Pärts composition ‘Tabula rasa’.
The Estonian Arvo Pärt is regarded as one of the most important
living composers of new music. With the aim of creating opportunities
for preserving and researching the creative heritage of the composer in
his native land, and in the context of the Estonian language, Arvo Pärt
and his family founded the Arvo Pärt Centre 2010 in Laulasmaa.
With
the chosen structure of a geometric pattern, originated in a repeated
pentagonal form, the architects want to keep alive and interpret in
architectural terms the creative legacy of Arvo Pärt means to find a
balance between the intimacy of his musical compositions and the
powerful beauty of the Estonian landscape. The Arvo Pärt Centre is
planned to be opened to the public in autumn 2018, the year that Estonia
celebrates its 100th anniversary.
The exhibition presents the
new building for the Arvo Pärt Centre that is designed by the Spanish
architects Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano / Nieto Sobejano
Arquitectos. The Centre covers an area of 2350 m2 and will accommodate
the archive, a library, a 150-seat chamber hall, an exhibition area, a
video hall, and classrooms for cultural education as well as employee’s
work spaces.
The exhibition installation will convey the
atmosphere of the Arvo Pärt Centre. The defining elements of the
building will be displayed resting on a figurative plane in which shape,
rhythm and transparency will become distinct parts of the conceptual
presentation, in order to give an in-depth view of the project. Arvo
Pärt ´s music will surround the visitors as they walk among the
exhibited pieces.
About Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos
Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos was founded in 1985 by Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano and
have offices in Madrid and Berlin.
Enrique Sobejano
has worked as an architect since graduating from the Universidad
Politécnica de Madrid and the Graduate School of Architecture and
Planning at Columbia University in New York in 1983. He is a professor
at the Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK), where he holds the chair of
Principles of Design. He is a permanent member of the Akademie der
Künste Berlin (AdK).
Fuensanta Nieto has worked as an architect since graduating from the Universidad Politécnica
de
Madrid and the Graduate School of Architecture and Planning at Columbia
University in New York in 1983. She is a founding partner of Nieto
Sobejano Arquitectos and a professor at the Universidad Europea de
Madrid.
They are recipients of the 2007 National Prize for
Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage and the 2010 Nike
Prize issued by the Bund Deutscher Architekten (BDA), as well as the Aga
Khan Award for Architecture (2010), the Piranesi Prix de Rome (2011),
the European Museum of the Year Award (2012), the Hannes Meyer Prize
(2012), AIA Honorary Fellowship (2015) and the Alvar Aalto Medal in
2015.

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