Ángel Fernández Alba (b. Salamanca, April 17, 1943 – d. Madrid, January 30, 2026) was an architect, multifaceted artist, thinker, editor, landscape architect, professor, and exhibition designer. He developed an immense cultural activity in collaboration with numerous institutions and organizations, both within and outside of Spain, always related to architecture, and yet he remained aloof from the media spotlight. He obtained his architecture degree from the Madrid School of Architecture in 1970.
Between 1970 and 1975, he lived in various cities, undertaking a "grand tour" between London, Philadelphia, and New York, where he completed his training and worked professionally. He finally returned to Madrid, where he founded his studio in 1976. In 1989, he won first prize from the Official College of Architects of Madrid for his urban development project for the Preciados and Carmen shopping streets in Madrid.
In the early 1990s, he designed the Chancelleries of the Spanish Embassies in Stockholm and Helsinki. In 1994, he received the CEOE Foundation and Madrid City Council architecture prizes for the Law School building at the University of Alcalá and the Greenhouse at the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid, respectively.
In 2005, he was awarded the Order of the Lion of Finland, First Class, by the President of the Republic of Finland, in recognition of his work promoting Finnish art, design, and architectural culture in Spain.
He was a professor of Architectural Design at the Madrid School of Architecture and a visiting professor at the University of Arizona. He was also the architect of the ICO Museum and a trustee of the Foundation, through which he fostered collaborations with other Spanish museums and an international network of museums.
He participated in, designed and curated numerous exhibitions, among which the curatorship of the Spanish Pavilion of the XI Venice Architecture Biennale stands out.
