Esther Jimenez Herraiz MArch.
Int. Assoc. AIA, RIBA, ARB, BREEAM Associate
BACKGROUND
After her graduation Esther founded the firm Spacethinking, completing a variety of designs across the fields of Architecture, Strategic Design and Branding. Following this, she has been living and working in Spain, the United States, Brazil, Mexico, Malaysia and the UK in firms with acknowledged architectural prestige such as Arup, Herzog & de Meuron, SOM, KPF, AHMM and Ricardo Bofill having 25+ years of professional experience working as a creative and designer. Esther has worked on several urban developments and on a variety of projects types including residencial, commercial, transportation, sport, energy & science and mixed-use projects around the world. She is currently an active architect at the forefront of data center design and innovation.
ACADEMIC
Esther holds a Masters in Architecture from the Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid, Spain (2004), winning an international award with her final Thesis. She has experience as a PhD Candidate in Architectural Design, four years at the School of Architecture of Madrid, Spain (2004-2008) and two years at The Bartlett School of Architecture in London, UK (2017-2019). Her dissertation “A Cinemarchitectural Discourse on Spatial Constructs in Science Fiction” studied how science fiction imagery reflects our collective projections for new architectural desires, and consequently, how it becomes a potential seed for visionary ideas that designers can project into the future. Esther has lectured extensively on architecture throughout Europe and have been invited as a Guest Architect for queries and reviews internationally in prestigious schools of architecture such as The Bartlett School of Architecture (London), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (New York) and the Lebanese American University (Beirut). At present, Esther is writing a non-fiction book about the architectural representations in science fiction films and space architecture.
FURTHER INFORMATION
Esther founded FakeSpace, Architecture of the Spectacle, a platform that investigates cinematographic spaces and curates studies and events for different institutions such as RIBA, AHMM and Ravensbourne University London.
