MENIS. Fernando Menis, Architecture of place

"MENIS". Fernando Menis, Architecture of place, collected in a volume edited by Archilife (Korea). With the aim to bring architecture to a less specialized reader and contribute to its democratization, in editing the book, special care was taken for the quality of the artwork and image as well as for an accessible language which also translates to the fact that it is a bilingual edition, in English and Spanish. The book will have international distribution and will be found in bookstores from December 2011 on.

Presented by: Luis Fernández Galiano, founding partner of Fundación Arquitectura y Sociedad and director of the magazine Arquitectura Viva.  

Speakers: Dulce Xerach, Ph.D. in Architecture from the Universidad Europea de Madrid, Fernando Menis   .

Synopsis MENIS

The book MENIS illustrates a way of work whose constancy and consistency has placed its author, Fernando Menis, among the strongest architects in the national scene and has been forging a growing international reputation. His approach is committed to the identification of local values and transporting them to a global context to generate a timeless architecture that responds to universal values.

This volume organizes the long established practice of the Spanish architect in terms of various lines of force that have gone through Menis’s projects, from his beginnings to the most recent coming. Thus, the contents are structured into 4 main chapters: "Landscape and urban small-scale", "Recycle, Revive, Regenerate," "Telluric architecture and Landscape", "Stone Architecture" in which there are renown and recognized as well as unpublished projects.

The introduction to essential concepts, to the founding values and intellectual history of the work of Fernando Menis has signatures of two heavyweights of the discipline: first, Barry Bergdoll, architectural historian and Head of Department of Architecture at the Museum of Modern Art from New York (MOMA) and, on the other hand, Luis Fernández Galiano, contemporary architecture critic, magazine editor and founder of the Foundation Arquitectura y Sociedad.

MENIS Data Sheet

Credits of the edition:
Publisher: Kim Yong-kwan, Editors: Shim Jae-Yeun, Shin Kyung-mi, Photo Editor: Kim Yong-kwan, Graphic Design: DAM design, Han Hyun-jung, Translations Spanish - Español: Michael Doerneman, Kateryn Lorenzo, Simona Rota, Supervision: Production: Simona Rota, Contents: Menis Arquitectos (Fernando Menis, Victor Lledó) Documentation: Menis Arquitectos (Victor Lledó, Maria Ibanez) and Berta Prieto, Graphic Design: Menis Arquitectos (Victor Lledó) and Maria Berga  
Credits of the contents:

Texts: Barry Bergdoll, Luis Fernández Galiano, Fernando Menis, Dulce Xerach, Photographs and visuals: Teresa Arozena, Jaime Bravo, Florian Bolk, Jordi Bernadó, Jose Roberto Delgado, Torben Eskerod,CJ Caesar, Miguel de Guzman, Roland Halbe, Christel Lehmann, Marcel Mettelsiefen, Menis Arquitectos, Karolina Mysiak, Next Gene Project, José Oller, Efraín Pintos Cheap, Simona Rota, Torsten Seidel, Hisao Suzuki, Uwe Walter, Kim Yong-kwan; Acknowledgements: ARENA, Teresa Arozena, Jaime Bravo, CEPSA , CJ Caesar, Luis Fernandez - Galiano, Miguel de Guzmán, NEXT GENE Project (Yu Tung Liu), Efraín Pintos Barate, Torsten Seidel.

ISBN 97I8-89-964508-2-5 93610,
Printed in Republic of Korea,
Archilife Publishers, Seoul

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FERNANDO MENIS

Fernando Menis, (1951, Tenerife island, Spain). Throughout his 40-year professional career, Menis has achieved an architectural production that includes works of various scales and typologies, as well as long-term research projects. An expert in designing concert halls and auditoriums, he is internationally recognized and awarded for conceiving an innovative variable acoustics system for the CKK Jordanki Concert Hall (2015, Poland).

Notable completed projects, both independently and collaboratively, include the Church of the Holy Redeemer of Las Chumberas (2022), The Garden of El Tanque Art Centre (2022), CKK "Jordanki" Concert and Conventions Hall in Poland (2015), Plaza Bürchen in Switzerland (2015), Insular Athletics Stadium (2007), Magma Arte & Congresos (2007), Floating pool in the Spree River of Berlin (2004), and the Presidency of the Canary Islands Government in Tenerife (2000). Ongoing projects include the Adaptive Reuse of the Viera y Clavijo Cultural Park in Tenerife, Contemporary Art Museum Park Seo-Bo in Jeju, South Korea, Masterplan in Boa Vista of Cape Verde, Pájara Conventions and Concert Hall in Fuerteventura, Rehabilitation of the Cultural Centre in La Guancha, and Rehabilitation of the Teobaldo Power Performative Arts Hall in La Orotava.

Recipient of the Canary Islands Architecture Prize on 10 occasions, Fernando Menis has also been honoured with the Frate Sole International Prize for Sacred Architecture 2024, the European Award AHI for Intervention in the Built Heritage 2023, the Prize to the Best Cultural Building in Poland 2015 from the National Council of Architects of Poland, CEMEX Award for Universal Accessibility 2016, Taipei Design Award for Best Public Building 2016, Stone Award at the VIII International Stone Architecture Award 2005, and the Prize of the V Spanish Biennial of Architecture 1998, among others.

A PhD Architect from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, his works have been exhibited at several editions of the Venice Biennale, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Aedes Berlin Gallery, and the GA gallery in Tokyo. The Church of the Holy Redeemer project is part of the permanent collection at the MoMA Museum of Modern Art in New York while the CKK Jordanki project is part of the permanent collection at Krakow National Museum of Poland.