ROJO / FERNÁNDEZ-SHAW, arquitectos es un estudio de arquitectura formado por María Begoña Fernández-Shaw Zulueta y Luis Rojo de Castro.
Begoña Fernández-Shaw se gradúa en la Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid en 1987 y obtiene un Master in Architecture en Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Desde el año 2001 es Secretaria Adjunta de EUROPAN/España.
Luis Rojo de Castro se gradúa en la Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid en 1987, iniciando su labor académica como profesor del Departamento de Proyectos Arquitectónicos de esta Escuela en 1992. En la actualidad es Profesor Titular de Proyectos.
Luis Rojo es Doctor Arquitecto por la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, donde leyó la tesis "Metáforas obsesivas e Ideogramas en la arquitectura de Le Corbusier."
Habiendo recibido la Beca Fulbright en 1987, obtuvo un Master in Architecture en el Graduate School of Design, Harvard University en 1989. Rojo ha sido Profesor Visitante en el Core Program del Departamento de Arquitectura del Graduate School of Design, Harvard University entre 1994 y 1998, impartiendo Option Studios in Architecture en el 2002, 2006 y 2011, entre 1999 y 2012 Profesor Invitado en el Departamento de Teoría e Historia de la Escuela de Arquitectura de la Universidad de Navarra; en 2016 Visiting Professor of Architecture en el City College of New York y en 2019 en el Departamento de Arquitectura, China Academy of Arts en Hangzhou, China.
Rojo ha sido co-editor de la revista CIRCO COOP desde su fundación en 1992.
Como resultado de su investigación profesional y académica, los concursos, proyectos y obras de Rojo/Fernández-Shaw han sido publicados en revistas profesionales como A+U, El Croquis, Cassabella, Rassegna, Tectónica, Revista Arquitectura, CIRCO, Arquitectura Ibérica, AV, Space, On Diseño, Detail, etc. Han impartido conferencias sobre su trabajo en Harvard School of Design Cambridge MASS, la Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Navarra, la Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya, School of Architecture at the University of Illinois Chicago ILL, el Leibniz Universität Hannover School of Architecture, la Escuela de Arquitectura del Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne (EPFL), the BAS School of Architecture at the City College of New York, The Cooper Union (NY), el College of Architecture and Urban Planning de la Universidad de Tonji, Shanghai, la Escuela de Arquitectura del China Academy of Arts, la Fachhochschule at Postdam University of Arts and Sciences y el College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Zhejiang University.
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The office has oriented its practice to public works, architectural competitions, and academic research. They have been awarded in several architecture competitions, like the Auditorium in Guadalajara, the Centre for the Arts in Alicante, the Industrial Research Laboratories in Arnedo, a Sports Centre in Alcázar de San Juan, and a Public Housing Project in Ciudad Real. Their work has been published in several professional journals, among which stand Revista Arquitectura, AV, On Design, Tectónica, Detail, L'Industria de la Construzione, Space, Summa, On Arquitectura and others, and it has also been selected for the Spanish Architecture Biennale, the Biennale di Venezia and the FAD prize.
They have been recently awarded for their entry in the Competition of a New Covered Swimming pool in Saint-Prex, Switzerland, in the proposal of a New Campus for the Runnymede College, Madrid, currently under construction, as well as in their design for an Inclusive Sports Center in Elche.
In 2020 they were invited to the International Pavilion The Arsenale, at the 17th Biennale di Architettura di Venezia, where they presented the installation 'Imagined Households, Intensified References'.
Begoña Fernández-Shaw obtained a degree in architecture from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid in 1987 and a Master in Architecture from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. In 2001 she was appointed Adjunct Secretary to EUROPAN/Spain.
Luis Rojo de Castro graduated from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid in 1987, where has been teaching design since 1992. He is currently Associate Professor at the Architecture Department , teaching design studios at the undergraduate and graduate programs, as well as Labs and Workshops at the Master for Advanced Architecture.
He obtained a Master degree at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University in 1989, and a Ph_D in Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Madrid . Luis Rojo was co-editor of the journal CIRCO Coop and is currently the director of CPA, Cuadernos de Proyectos Arquitectónicos, an academic journal oriented towards disciplinary research published by the Architecture Department at the ETSAM.
Luis Rojo has been a Visiting Critic of Architecture at the Harvard School of Design and Visiting Professor of History and Architecture Theory at the Escuela de Arquitectura de Navarra. In 2016 was appointed Visiting Professor of Architecture at the City College of New York for the Fall semester, and in 2019 Visiting Professor of Architecture at the China Academy of Art, in Hangzhou.
As a result of his academic and research practice, his writings on contemporary architecture have been published in A+U, El Croquis, Cassabella, Tectónica, Revista Arquitectura, CIRCO, Rassegna, Detail, Space, On Diseño, El País journal, etc.