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Fernando Martín Menis, better known as ''Fernando Menis'' (born June 15, 1951 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands), is a Spanish Architect, graduated from the Barcelona Institute of Architecture, who also serves as Chairman of the ''Laboratory for Innovation in Architecture, Design and Advanced Tourism'' of Tenerife and as a Professor of the EUC (European University of the Canary Islands) and, occasionally, as a guest speaker at International Congresses of Architecture and Universities (such as Harvard, Technical University of Berlin, Columbia University and École Spéciale d'Architecture). In 2004, Fernando Menis creates Menis Architects, an architectural studio based in both Tenerife and Madrid, as well as Valencia. Menis' designs are characterized by being sustainable and adaptable, representing low cost projects combining the natural elements of the urban landscape with architecture. Its major completed projects include the ''Presidency of the Government of the Canary Islands'' in Santa Cruz de Tenerife (1999), a Swimming Pool in the Spree River in Berlin (2004), ''Magma Art & Congress'' (2005) and the ''Insular Athletics Stadium'' (2007). Current projects include the Swiss Hotel Complex ''Bürchen Mystik'', the Mutifunctional Concert Hall ''"Jordanki"'' in Torun (Poland) and the ''Holy Redeemer Church'' in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, the latter being part of the MoMa permanent collection in New York. ==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 () father when making () 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 () 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fernando Menis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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