Juan Miguel Hernández León (Málaga, 1945). Architect from the Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM) in 1974 and earned his doctorate in architecture in 1982, Hernández León has been Professor Emeritus at the Polytechnic University of Madrid since 2015. He was the coordinator of the Heritage Cluster at the Moncloa International Campus of Excellence. He was also the founding editor of the journal Pasaje de Arquitectura y Crítica (winner of the Santiago Amón Prize for architectural dissemination) and editor of “Iluminaciones. Revista de arquitectura y Pensamiento” (Illuminations. Journal of Architecture and Thought). He regularly contributes to various architecture and art journals. He also serves as director of the Arte y Arquitectura (Art and Architecture) collection at ABADA Publishers and is a member of several scientific committees of indexed journals.
He is the author of titles such as Arquitectura Española Contemporánea: La otra modernidad (Contemporary Spanish Architecture: The Other Modernity), Conjugar los vacíos (Conjugating Voids), La casa de un solo muro (The One-Wall House), Autenticidad y Monumento. Del mito de Lázaro al de Pygmalión (Authenticity and Monument: From the Myth of Lazarus to Pygmalion), Ser-paisaje (Being-Landscape), Una conversación (A Conversation), and Ser-Arquitectura (Being-Architecture). Hernández León is a visiting professor at Spanish and international universities and has completed renowned architectural projects, including the redevelopment of Madrid's Recoletos-Prado axis and the restoration of the Ceuta city fortifications, a finalist for the National Architecture Prize. He has collaborated with Álvaro Siza, Eduardo Souto de Moura, and Patxi Mangado.
