J.S. Fernandez is recorded as a Philippine student who joined the 6-month post-graduate course at the Architectural Association’s Department of Tropical Architecture in September 1956, having previously qualified as an architect at the Mapua Institute of Technology, in Manila, in 1950. He is recorded in the AA Council Minutes, as having an M.S. in Engineering Management and, prior to the AA, had worked as a Clerk of Works for the US Army. Little is known regarding his subsequent career but by 1961, his AA membership address is given as the Foz do Douro region of Porto, in Portugal.

Sources

• General Purpose Committee report, Architectural Association, Council Minutes, 29th October, 1956, Minutes of the AA Council, 1949-55, p.90. AA Archives.
• Architectural Association Student Register 1945-1972, AA Archives
• Department of Tropical Architecture, student listing, Otto Koenigsberger Collection, Box OK27, AA Archives
• Architectural Association Membership List, 1961.