Fernando Menis

Architecture practice funded in 2004 by Fernando Menis, after he decided to start a new stage, independent of his former partners, with whom he had been established as an architect, during a long and successful history of 30 years. Menis Arquitectos stands as a practice of high-quality architecture, far from the standards, strong craft oriented, working with a method, closely linked to the personal career of the architect founder. This method is based on a passion for manual labor that remains intact from his childhood.

The work with models involves hands, charged with emotion, to approach the project: a continuous process of addition and removal that sets according to program needs, constructive rationality and economic viability. There is a deep interest at Menis, for the reuse of natural and environmental resources, be those cultural or historical, as the means of each project and each site. Common sense in dealing with raw materials and their true potential in the context where inserted is the framework in which reason and emotion are combined, the two categories present in the work of the office and of the personal evolution of the architect.

Biography
Fernando Menis
Architect, PhD of Architecture, Associated Professor at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), the European University of Canarias (UEC) and Chairman of the Laboratory for Innovation in Architecture, Design and Advanced Tourism of Tenerife, Menis is constantly invited to seat as a Jury, to conduct workshops or to lecture at Harvard, Columbia NY, ESA Paris, TU Berlin Universities, Akbild Wien and at Architecture Congresses all over the world.

He is the author and co-author of a large number of projects; some of the already-built projects are: CKK “Jordanki” in Torun, Poland (2015), Bürchen Public Square in Switzerland (2015), Insular Athletics Stadium (2007), Magma Art & Congress (2005), Swimming pool on Spree River in Berlin (2004) and Presidency of the Canary Islands Government Building (1999). Some of the on-going projects are: Urban and Sea shore Planning in Boa Vista – Santa Mónica and Chave (Cabo Verde), Three Villas in Lijiang, China, an Auditorium in Pájara, the Agora Garden Tower and the Aurum House in Taiwan, the Holy Redeemer Church in Tenerife, and the Bürchen Mystik Hotel in Switzerland.