Felipe Hernandez (architect)

Felipe Hernández Ph.D. is a Colombian-born architect who lives and works in the United Kingdom. He is currently Director of the Centre for Latin America Studies (CLAS) at the University of Cambridge, where he is also a Senior Lecturer in Architectural Design, History and Theory at the Department of Architecture. He is the first Latin American to have been appointed Director of CLAS and remains the first Colombian to have hold a permanent teaching position at Cambridge University. Fellow Architect and Director of Studies at King's College Cambridge and Director of Studies at Christ's College Cambridge

Hernández has worked extensively on Latin America and other areas in the Developing World, including Africa, the Caribbean and South East Asia.

Publications

• Bhabha for Architects (Routledge 2010)
• Beyond Modernist Masters: Contemporary Architecture in Latin America (Birkhauser 2009)
• co-editor "Marginal Urbanisms: Informal and Formal Development in Cities if Latin America" (Cambridge Scholar Publishers 2017)
• co-editor Rethinking the Informal City: Critical Perspectives from Latin America (Berghahn 2009)
• co-editor "Transculturation: Cities, Spaces and Architectures in Latin America" (Rodopi 2005)

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