Sofia Quiroga Fernandez is an architect, researcher, and educator. She taught in Madrid at CEU San Pablo University of Architecture and in Suzhou, China, in the Department of Architecture at Xi’an Jiatong Liverpool University. She has also been a guest lecturer at other universities, including UAM (Madrid Autonoma University) and ETSAM (Madrid Polytechnic University). Sofia holds a PhD from the Madrid Polytechnic University. Her research focused on “Industrial Light and Technified Image: From Moholy-Nagy to CAVS (Center for Advanced Visual Studies)”, where she explores the intersection of visual, technological, and cultural innovations in architectural discourses. Since 2001, Sofia has worked as a freelance architect, being recognised with several awards and has collaborated with international architects such as Juan Navarro Baldeweg.

Teaching

MArch 1, CTY Year Lead 

BA1 

Research

Exhibitions

Fernandez, S.Q., 2018. Becoming. 16th Mostra Internationalle di Architettura. Spanish Pavilion. Biennale Architettura Venice 2018., Biennale Architettura Venice., 1/5/2018 - 24/11/2019.

Book Chapters

Quiroga Fernandez, S., 2018. 'Poesía de un paisaje Nocturno ( Poetry from a night landscape)'. In Tesis Recientes I., ea! Ediciones de Arquitectura. Fundacion Arquitectura COAM. Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid..

Journal Articles

Quiroga Fernandez, S., 2022. 'Architecture as a Visual Medium: Panoramas and Dioramas as Simulation Mechanisms to Experience Travel', International Panorama Council Journal, 5, pp. 69-76.

Quiroga Fernandez, S., Sánchez, G., 2022. 'William Heath Robinson and K.R.G. Browne: literature contraptions as inspiration for facing spatial issues', idea journal, 19 (1), pp. 182-199.

Quiroga, S., 2021. 'Learning through Experience: Workshops as a Pedagogical Tool', International Journal of Design Education, 15 (2), pp. 283-297.

Quiroga Fernandez, S., 2021. 'Moholy-Nagy's Light Prop for an Electric Stage: Design, Copies and Reproductions', Disegno, 2021 (1-2), pp. 166-177.

Quiroga Fernandez, S., 2018. 'La pantalla dividida, composición y descomposición visual. Film y espacio, Montreal, 1967 (The Divided Screen, Composition and Visual Decomposition. Film and Space, Montreal, 1967)', Constelaciones, 6, pp. 131-144.

Quiroga Fernandez, S., 2016. 'Osaka 1970, the multidisciplinary collaboration in Pepsi pavillion', Boletin Academico, 6, pp. 21-33.

Conference Papers

Quiroga Fernandez, S., Sanchez Sotes, G., 2024. 'Kowloon Walled City, a Social Urban Analysis through Pictures and Drawings', Prague, Czech Republic, 28/6/2023 - 30/6/2023, in AMPS International Proceedings Series, 35 (2), pp. 663-673.

Quiroga Fernandez, S., 2021. 'Kowloon Walled City: La visión social de un organismo vivo autorregulado a través de la fotografía de G. Lambot e I. Girard y los dibujos the T. Kazumi', Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 22/3/2021 - 25/3/2021, in 2021 International Conference: 27th World Congress of Architects International Proceedings, 1, pp. 473-478.