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.
He is currently an Architectural Designer and Creative Technologist at Certain Measures; a Visiting Professor of Architecture at the Stuart Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania; a Lead Instructor and Curriculum Developer at Monday com Foundation Tech School; and the founder of Zerengety.
At Certain Measures,
an office for design and science - 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. 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.
At Weitzman UPenn,
he teaches studio courses for the Advanced Architecture Design Program of Master of Science in Architecture. With an emphasis on emerging typologiet, assemblies.
At Monday com Foundation Tech School,
he teaches and develops educational material to empower underserved youth with education in 3D printing, AI, and design. Making creative and tech careers accessible to underserved youth by equipping them with cutting-edge skills and the confidence to dream big. It has currently reached 30 high schools, 50 teachers, and 944 students across NYC and partnered with the NYC Department of Education to introduce 2,500 teachers to AI and design foundations.
At Zerengenty,
he has designed and developed web products and technical solutions for architects, artists, creative studios, non-profit institutes, and researchers labs. Using . Some of his client include Architag, University of Pensylvania AAD Program, Wright-Ingraham Institute's Studytank (CM), the Geometry Lab, and Holes of Matters.
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Martin 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, Boston Architectural College, Florida Atlantic University, University of Florida, University of British Columbia, University of Miami, Syracuse University, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, and Harvard University.
He was recently 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. 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.
He holds a Bachelor of Design from the University of Florida and a Master of Architecture I from Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
