Fernando Menis Explained

Fernando Menis
Nationality:Spanish
Birth Date:15 June 1951
Birth Place:Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
Practice:Fernando Menis S.L.P.U.
Significant Projects:Magma Art&Congress
Multifunctional Concert Hall "Jordanki"
Sacred Museum and Plaza de España in Adeje
Bürchen Mystik
Holy Redeemer Church
Insular Athletics Stadium
Presidency of the Government of the Canary Islands

Fernando Martín Menis, better known as Fernando Menis (born June 15, 1951 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands), is a Spanish Architect who graduated from the Barcelona Institute of Architecture, and also serves as the Chairman of the Laboratory for Innovation in Architecture, Design and Advanced Tourism of Tenerife. He is also a professor at the European University of the Canary Islands (EUC) and, occasionally, serves as a guest speaker at International Congresses of Architecture and Universities (such as Harvard, Technische Universität Berlin, Columbia University etc).

Early life and education

Perhaps to understand the professional moment Menis lives in, we have to go back to his childhood where he "used to help [his] father when making [his] own toys with recycled materials", something that later developed in his high school years, as he used to spend hours dreaming of shapes in soft materials, such as wax candles.Menis often describes this as his inspiration to study architecture later in College. He started his University journey in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and finished his degree in Barcelona. Menis remembers those as some very exciting years in his life due to democracy being about to be established in Spain, which made the desire of incredible freedom and collective joy contagious. His two main inspirations where his then professors Pep Bonet and Rafael Cáceres, who "opened [his] dreams and brought common sense and harmony" into his work.Once he graduated, he moved to Paris and started working with Ricardo Bofill in the first period of his architectural studio. This gave him the opportunity to meet new friends and learn from a European world that was very different from what he had been used to in Spain. It is in Paris where he learns and participates in several competitions, such as La Villette, something that stimulates his pleasure of teamwork that surpasses itself in order to offer the best solution for a project. A few years after returning to the island (Tenerife, Islas Canarias), he met Dulce Xerach (a lawyer, doctor in architecture and a crime novel writer) with whom he has been married twice. First in 2003, divorced in 2007 and second wedding in 2014). They live in a house designed by the own Menis, Casa MM, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.His wife has written 3 books inspired in the placed she has visited with Menis for work: Robbery in Sao Paulo, Murder on a London Beach and Kidnapping in Hong Kong, all of the same serie, in which the protagonist is a Spanish police inspector named María Anchieta.

Representative Projects

Honours and awards

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References

  1. Web site: Hatching - the Origination of a City. 16 June 2014.
  2. Web site: Bürchen Mystik. 6 November 2015.
  3. Web site: CKK Jordanki in Torun by Menis Arquitectos. 16 July 2016.
  4. Web site: Magma Art & Congress - Fernando Menis Architect. 14 July 2016.
  5. Web site: Holy Redeemer Church - Fernando Menis Architect. 11 December 2014.
  6. Web site: Plaza of Spain in Adeje. 15 July 2016.
  7. Web site: Badeschiff. Piscina en Berlín. 13 July 2016.
  8. Web site: Presidencia del Gobierno de las I.Canarias. 10 December 2014.
  9. Web site: Awards - Fernando Menis ArchitectFernando Menis . 2014-11-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141128072855/http://menis.es/awards/ . 2014-11-28 . dead .

10 https://www.laprovincia.es/sociedad/2014/10/21/xerach-menis-casan-segunda-vez-10272119.html

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