Felipe Hernandez (architect)

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Felipe Hernández is a Colombian-born architect who lives and works in the United Kingdom. He is Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Studies in the Department of Architecture, and Fellow Architect and Director of Studies at King's College, Cambridge.^[1]

Hernández has worked extensively on Latin America and other areas Global South, including Africa, South East Asia and the Caribbean.

His research explores the intersection between architecture, urbanism in conditions of 'coloniality', understood as the continued existence of colonial principles in the study of architecture and the materialisation of cities.

Between 2018 and 2021 he acted as the first Latin American Director of the Centre of Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge.