Jorge L. Hernandez Architect

Jorge L. Hernandez is a professor and practitioner of Architecture. He was born in Havana Cuba on 1956 and immigrated to Miami in 1962. He received his Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Miami in 1980 and his Masters of Architecture from the University of Virginia in 1985 and since 1987 has been a professor of Architecture at the University of Miami. Jorge has lectured in Europe and the United States, taught for the PRince of Wales School of Architecture, and has participated in numerous international symposia and conferences. His work has been published in the United States, South America, and Europe in various books and journals including: Architectural Digest, Metro Home, Archi and Colonne and many others. In 1996 he was selected to be one of the 40 architects featured in that decade's 40 under 40. He collaborated with renowned art-historian Vincent Scully on a book entitled Between Two Towers: The drawings of the school of Miami. Jorge feels strongly that, just as an architect should be responsible for the physical shaping of the community, he should also participate in shaping idealogical structure of a community.