Fernando Jerez

Dr.Fernando Jerez, Associate Professor and Chair of the Integrated Design at ALVA, University of Western Australia, is an architect and founding partner of SMAR Architecture Studio –an architectural office recently winner of the Science Island Museum in Kaunas, Finalist in the Guggenheim Helsinki International Competition among 1715 entries in 2015 and Top 3 finalist in the MALI Lima Museum of Art International Competition, 3 Prize in Aalto Museum Competition in 2016 and with more than 20 international awards since 2007- with offices in Madrid and Western Australia. Jerez, who also studied at the Bartlett School of Architecture, holds a Ph.D summa Cum Laude with International Honors from ETSAM, Technical University of Madrid (UPM) in 2013 where he also graduated. Jerez has been Lecturer at ETSAM UPM, ESAYT and University of Western Australia and participated in Juries at the Architectural Association and The Bartlett (UCL) among others. His work and writings have been published in international Journals recently exhibited in The 2014 National Architecture Conference of Australia (AIA), in the 2015 Exhibition, "Emerging Talent Models of International Practice: Flourishing Spanish Architecture" in the (AIA NY) American Institute of Architecture, New York, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, and Kunsthalle, Helsinki in 2015.