Dr.Fernando Jerez, academic at UWA School of Design, University of Western Australia, is an architect and founding partner of SMAR Architecture Studio. Fernando and his team have recently won the Urban Confluence Silicon Valley International Competition in San Jose, CA, the USA among 963 teams from 72 countries, and Science Island Museum in Kaunas, currently under construction. He has also been recently awarded in Asia, Europe, and America, receiving awards from institutions such as the Solomon Guggenheim Foundation, the MALI Lima Museum of Art, the Alvar Aalto Foundation, and the Finnish Association of Architects among others. With more than 20 international awards, Jerez, who also studied at the Bartlett School of Architecture, holds a Ph.D. Summa Cum Laude with International Honors from ETSAM, Technical University of Madrid (UPM) in 2013 where he also graduated. Jerez has been Lecturer at ETSAM UPM, ESAYT, and the University of Western Australia among others, and lectured and participated in panels across Australia, Europe, and the USA. His work and writings have been published internationally in Forbes, Dezeen, Archdaily, Designboom and in magazines such as AV, AR, A’A’, L’Architecture d’Auj ourd’hui, Bauwelt, WA wettbewerbe aktuell, EGA, AW or The Architect and recently exhibited in Australia, Spain, USA, Finland, Korea in Institutions such as the (AIA NY) American Institute of Architecture, New York, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, and Kunsthalle, Helsinki among others.

Associate Professor Department of Architecture UWA, Design Studio, Environmental Design.
Graduate Research Coordinator

MArch Studios, Undergraduate units, Honours supervision, and PhD supervision in Architecture and Environmental Design..