John Fernández is Associate Professor and member of the Building Technology Program at the Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
He studied architecture at MIT and Princeton University.
His research has been focused on the materials and physical elements and components of the assemblies and systems of buildings. A culminating publication of his research of the past several years is the newly published book, Material Architecture: emergent materials for innovative buildings and ecological construction (2005).
John Fernández is currently engaged in the articulation of concepts of the ecology of contemporary construction. This effort involves identifying the distinct consumption profile and resource requirement attributes of our existing anthropogenic stock of buildings while formulating design strategies that contribute to reuse and recycling of building materials and components.
Accepting the essential tenets of the field of industrial ecology, he is involved in initiatives intended to bring forth real change in the ways in which material and energy networks are configured toward the making of contemporary buildings.
[last updated 16-Feb-10]