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Fernando Menis (1951, Santa Cruz de Tenerife)

With a professional career spanning over 40 years, Fernando Menis' architectural production covers a wide range of scales and typologies. An expert in designing concert halls and auditoriums, he has been internationally recognized and awarded for conceiving an innovative variable acoustics system for the CKK Jordanki Concert Hall, in Poland.

Among his completed projects, both individually and in collaboration, the most notable are the El Tanque Cultural Space Garden (2022), the Bürchen Square in Switzerland (2015), the CKK Jordanki Congress and Culture Center in Poland (2015), the Insular Athletics Stadium in Tenerife (2007), Magma Arte & Congresos (2007), the Swimming Pool on the Spree River in Berlin (2004), the Headquarters of the Canary Islands Government in Tenerife (2000), Casa MM (1999), and the Drago Park in Icod de los Vinos (1998). Among his ongoing projects are the Church of the Holy Redeemer of Las Chumberas in La Laguna, the Adaptive Reuse of the Viera y Clavijo Cultural Park in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the Essential Services Buildings in Tenerife and Gran Canaria, and the Park Seo Bo Art Museum in Jeju, South Korea.

Distinguished ten times with the Manuel de Oráa Canary Islands Architecture Award, Fernando Menis has also received the International Prize `Frate Sole´ for Sacred Architecture (2024); the European AHI Award for Built Heritage Intervention (2023); the Faith & Form - AIA Interfaith Design International Award for Religious Architecture (2022); the Best Cultural Building in Poland Award (2015) by the National Council of Architects of Poland; the International CEMEX Award for Universal Accessibility (2016); the Taipei Design Award for Best Public Building (2016), and the V Spanish Architecture Biennial Award (1998), among others.

Holding a Ph.D. in Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, his work has been showcased at multiple editions of the Venice Architecture Biennale and at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. The Las Chumberas Church project is part of MoMA’s permanent collection, while the CKK Jordanki project is included in the permanent collection of the National Museum of Krakow, Poland.

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