Mateo Fernández-Muro

Mateo Fernández-Muro is a Senior Associate at PAU. He is currently part of the Hobson College design team for Princeton University. Additionally, Mateo has worked on the Domino Sugar Refinery project, slipping a commercial office, retail, and event space into a historic former factory building along the waterfront, wherein Mateo collaborated on the Schematic Design and Design Development phases. Prior to joining PAU, Mateo was collaborating with the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program and working with WE ACT for Environmental Justice to develop a community plan for climate resilience in Northern Manhattan. In parallel, and as part of his Master dissertation at Parsons, Mateo worked with indigenous communes in Quito in the design of their own planning and self-governance tools. Before moving to New York, he worked with both national and international offices including Álvaro Siza and Rubio & Álvarez-Sala on the development of significant urban design projects. Mateo earned a Master Degree in Advanced Architectural Projects (MPAA), with honors, from the Technical School of Architecture in Madrid (ETSAM), in 2013, specializing in Landscape Architecture and Urbanism, and a Master in Design and Urban Ecologies from Parsons School of Design in New York in 2016. Mateo is an Architect and Urban Researcher from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid since 2011, studying a semester of a MSc1 in TU Delft. His academic research, focused on the political relation between spatial fictions and conflict in the post-democratic city, has been awarded at the Urban SOS: Fair Share student competition organized by AECOM and Van Alen Institute and has been exhibited at the Spanish pavilion in the XVI Venice Biennale of Architecture. He has coordinated the MPAA program and co-taught undergraduate design studios at Parsons and ETSAM.