Dr. Sofia Quiroga Fernandez is an Architect, researcher and educator. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University. She taught previously in Madrid at CEU San Pablo University of Architecture. She has collaborated with other universities as a guest lecturer, including UAM (Madrid Autonomy University,) ETSAM (Theory and Practice of Projects, Architectural Projects Department. Madrid Polytechnic University) or UNIMAK (Makeni University, Sierra Leona, as a volunteer).She obtained her PhD with honours (Excellent Summa Cum Laude) in theory and practice of Projects at ETSAM, with her research on “Industrial Light and Technified Image. From Moholy-Nagy to C.A.V.S. (Center for Advanced Visual Studies). Her research explores the intersection of visual,l technological and cultural innovations in architectural discourses and how it affect the architectural design experience. It focuses on how immersive spaces were first tested across exhibition layouts, theatres, utopic proposals, and universal exhibition pavilion projects. She has been working as a freelance architect since 2001, developing his work in Architecture, Interior design and photography, being awarded several prizes. At the beginning of her career, she collaborated with architect Juan Navarro Baldeweg. She has participated in International Cooperation projects as well as social cooperation projects in Spain.

Associate Professor 2021-...

Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture and Design XJTLU - 2017-2021.

Lecturer, Polytechnic school of Architecture CEU San Pablo Monteprincipe - 2008 to 2013.

Consultant, Maria Pilar Pinchart and Bernardo Baldes - 2011 to 2012

Junior-Senior Architect, Juan Navarro Baldeweg - 2002 to 2007

Registered Architect COAM 2001 to present

2018 Light and technified image, from Moholy-Nagy to CAVS. 16TH International Architecture Exhibition Venice Biennale Architettura 2018. Spanish Pavilion, Venice, Italy, May – November 2018.

2016 Competition ;Fear of columns; Fundacion Mies van der Rohe in Barcelona. Selected.

2015 International Design Contest LIGHT 4 Façon de Venise. Interpretation of the Venetian chandelier. Selected.

2014 Fotoarte. Vitoria Gasteiz City Council.

2013 Awards for educational innovation, CEU San Pablo University, CEU San Pablo University

2013 HERRERA ANGEL AWARD FOR SOLIDARITY, CEU San Pablo University

2011 Ideas Competition Urban Masks, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria City Council. ULPGC University

2011 quot;Transformatti dalla lucequot;, Lapos;Ordine degli Architetti P. P. e C. della Provincia di B#xe9;rgamo. Mil#xe1;n

2011 Artistic interventions in the landscape Competition., NARTUR

2010 CAja sol + ABC, ABC

2010 Ideas Competition Swimming Pool in Vimianzo, Vimianzo City Hall. Galicia, Spain.

2009 Urban Art International Exhibition.Caldes de Montbui. Barcelona., Urban Art International Exhibition (MIAU)

2008 Competition for the construction of housing for young people in the field of detailed study MU-2. Cerro Muriano, Cordoba City Council.

2008 Restricted Competition, residential complex Orals Parc in Andorra., Private Organization

2008 Ideas Competition for artists quot;cemento verdequot; EMPROVIMA.

2007 Young Architects Competition: Nursery in Fuencarral-El Pardo (Madrid)., COAM

2006 j5 Young Architects Competition, Huelva City Council.