Martin Ignacio Fernandez is a designer, educator, and technologist based in New York and Miami. His work consists of code, images, and narratives which examine the intersection between digital culture and the built environment. His thesis explored the impact of digital memories in the dominion of the dead.
He is currently an Architectural Designer and Creative Technologist at Certain Measures. An office for design and science. Where he develops geometrical configurators for the construction industry and for waste circularity; museum exhibitions on synthetic biology and generative artificial intelligence; and cartographic research on urban typologies with the use of machine vision.
At CM, he has completed exhibitions for the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Barbican Centre in London, the Copper Union in New York, the Ai Art Center in Shanghai, and the Museum of the Future in Dubai.
He is also currently a Visiting Professor of Architecture at the Stuart Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania. Where he teaches studio courses for the Advanced Architecture Design Program of Master of Science in Architecture.
He recently was an Adjunct Professor of Architecture at the School of Architecture at Syracuse University. Where he taught studio courses for the program of Bachelor of Architecture.
His work has been exhibited at the Irish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2018, Druker Design Gallery at Harvard GSD, Fordham University Center Gallery in New York, and the Subtropical Urbanism Convention at the Florida Atlantic University. His work has been published in Landscape Architecture Magazine, Harvard GSD's Platform 09/10/11/12, UF's Architrave 21/22, and Nexus Network Journal.
He has lectured, given workshops, and been a guest critic at Pratt Institute, School of Visual Arts, Florida Atlantic University, University of Florida, University of British Columbia, Miami University, Syracuse University, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, and Harvard University.
Previously, he worked at Arquitectonica, Invivia, Depaor Studio, Harvard Campus Planning, and Gensler, where he worked on the Nvidia Headquarters, the LinkedIn Headquarters, and the Shanghai Tower.
In his spare time, he designs and develops web products for architects, designers, non-profit institutes, and research labs including Architag, The Los Angeles Design Group, Wright-Ingraham Institute's Studytank (CM), the Geometry Lab, and Holes of Matters.
He holds a Bachelor of Design from the University of Florida and a Master of Architecture I from Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
