Studio elii. Midterm review. Critic Guest: Javier Fernández Contreras

Studio elii (BA6-MA2) holds in Seminars room AAC 120 its midterm review 'Shared Theaters, Shared Futures' with our guest critic: Javier Fernández Contreras.
Javier Fernández Contreras (1982) is an architect, associate professor and the dean of the Department of Interior Architecture at HEAD – Genève. His work explores the relationship between architecture, representation and media, with a specific focus on the role of interiors in the construct of contemporaneity.
His work has earned him prizes in various international competitions, including the Concentrico Architecture and Design Festival 2020, Europan 11 Cerdanyola del Vallés, and Europan 10 Bottrop. With HEAD – Genève, recent awards have included the Brands and Communication Red Dot Award 2020 and the Innovation Frame Award 2020 for the Space Duality project, as well as a Design Prize Switzerland 2019 nomination for the #Looslab project. Contreras is the director of Scènes de Nuit (www.scenesdenuit.ch), an ongoing research project on the relationship between night and architecture.