Fernando Menis

1951, Santa Cruz de Tenerife

A rchitect, Professor at the European University of Canarias and Chairman of the Laboratory for Innovation in Architecture, Design and Advanced Tourism of Tenerife, he also participates as a jury member, director of workshops, lecturer at Harvard, Columbia New York, ESA Paris, TU Berlin, Akbild Vienna and speaker in Architecture Festivals and conferences in Switzerland, Australia, Singapore, South Africa, Croatia, Italy, Colombia, India, etc.

After studying architecture in Barcelona, between 1981 – 2004, he teams with 2 other partners under the name Artengo-Menis-Pastrana. In 2004, he founds the practice Menis Arquitectos with headquarters in Tenerife. Independently or in co-authorship, Menis signs projects that are built such as: Insular Athletics Stadium (2007), Magma Art & Congress (2005), Swimming Pool in the River Spree in Berlin (2004), Presidency of the Canary Islands (1999) as well as new projects still in process: Auditorium Jordneki in Poland, Fuerteventura Congress Center, Aurum House in Taiwan, Taipei Residential Tower, Holy Redeemer Church in La Laguna. Several times awarded in the Regional Awards for Architecture in The Canary Islands, as well as National and international winner and finalist in the FAD and WAF Awards (winner of two categories in 2012), or the Spanish Architecture Biennial, he is often invited to participate in the Venice Biennale and other exhibitions at the Aedes Berlin (2006), GA Tokyo (2009) and MoMA NY which included the “Holy Redeemer Church” model in his permanent collection on 2013.

Project Team

Zuzana Tomeckova -Architect, Project Director - Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava Faculty of Architecture
Javier Espilez
Landscape Architect from the Polytechnic University of Valencia.
Javier Espilez Landscape Architect from the Polytechnic University of Valencia.
Andrés Ferrer. Architect from University Ramon Llull Barcelona. Quantity Surveyor from University Pompeu Fabra Barcelona
Natalia Pyzio. Architect from Westpomeranian University of Technology. Poland
Elias Poullos Architect from University E.N.S.A.G Grenoble, France
Juan Bercedo Architecture from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Victor Lledó Architecture from the University of Valencia.
Karolina Mysiak Architect, photographer and designer.
Emilia Brulińska Architect, Szczecin Technological University, Poland
Bernando Ramirez Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Valencia.
Maria Ibañez Architecture from the University of Valencia.

Consultants

Andres Pedreño Quantity Surveyor
Beatriz Inglés Architect. Sustainable architecture
José A. Franco Civil Engineer
José Luis Tamayo Scenic Consultant
Pedro Cerdá Engineer acoustic

Office Management

Dulce Xerach CEO Lawyer and PhD in architecture. Contact: direccion@menis.es
Emilia Brulińska Architect, Szczecin Technological University, Poland