Fernando Rodriguez

Fernando Rodriguez holds a PhD in Architecture from the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid. He studied Architecture in the ETSAM Madrid and the TU Berlin between 1995 and 2003.

He teaches at the Architectural Design Department of UPM ETSAM, both in Undergraduate and Graduate Programs. He has also taught and has been guest critic at other international institutions, such as FAU PUCP Lima, Technische Universität Berlin, IE School of Architecture and Design or Universitat Internacional de Catalunya.

In 2015 his PhD dissertation “An infrastructural understanding of architectural design” (PhD Prize 2016), showcases his interest in the architectural character of the infrastructural condition and the different scales in which it performs.

He publishes in architectural journals and has recently published the books “Dual Practices” (Asimétricas 2020), “Un entendimiento infraestructural del proyecto” (Nobuko, 2016), “La materia de la identidad” (DPA 2017), “Standards” (DPA 2016), “Uncharted” (Actar 2014) y “Matterscapes” (Mairea 2013), among others. He has been curator of the Lecture Series argument#2 “Dual Practices” and has been an Europan España jury member.

In 2007 he founds FRPO Rodriguez & Oriol together with Pablo Oriol, being awarded with the Architectural Record Design Vanguard (New York 2012), the Europe 40 under 40 award (2009) and the Bauwelt Preis (Berlin 2007). Their work has been selected for the MCHAP 2022, the Architectural Review Emerging Architecture Awards (2019), the FAD Awards (2019, 2021, 2022), the Spanish Pavilion Exhibition at the Biennale di Venezia (2016, Golden Lion), the nomination for the Mies Van der Rohe Award (2015), the IX, XII and XVI Spanish Biennial for Architecture (2007, 2013, 2021, 2023), or the V and IX Iberoamerican Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (2006 y 2014). FRPO’s work has been widely published, and through often lectures and exhibitions along the world, they have shared their approach to architecture during these years.

Fernando has also obtained the 2ACAA Award (2019), the Hise Award (2014), the Ayuntamiento de Madrid Prize for Public Works (2008), the Archizinc Prize (2007) and the Alejandro de la Sota Prize (2003) and was selected for the Camuñas Foundation Young Architects Awards (2007).