Presentation #7

Author Biography

• Esteban Fernández-Cobián, A Coruña University

  Esteban Fernández-Cobián (1969). Doctor architect, he is a Full Professor at the Higher Technical School of Architecture of La Coruña (Spain), where he directs a line of research on the construction of sacred space in contemporary architecture. Since 2014, he has also been part of the academic faculty of UPAEP (Puebla, Mexico). In addition to numerous articles, he has written the monographs «Fray Coello de Portugal, dominico y arquitecto» (2001), «El espacio sagrado en la arquitectura española contemporánea» (2005), «Le Corbusier. Proyectos para la Iglesia católica» (2015) and «Arquitectura religiosa del siglo XXI en España» (2020). Since 2007, it organizes the International Conferences on Contemporary Religious Architecture; in 2018 he created OARC-Observatory of Contemporary Religious Architecture. He is the editor of AARC.