Manuel Fernández Corral
ĀDDED Creative Director and Founder
The Founder
Trained in Spain at the ETSAC of A Coruña, at the École d'Architecture of Lille, EAL, France, and in the Architectural Association AA of London, United Kingdom, Manuel Fernandez Corral is a registered architect in Illinois, USA, and a member of the AIA (American Institute of Architects), a registered architect in the United Kingdom through the ARB, and in Spain through the Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Galicia COAG, since 2004.
He is also LEED AP BD+C and ID+C. After working at ARA Arquitectos, he joined Norman Foster's studio (Foster+Partners) in 2004, and formed part of its team for more than 15 years in various locations (London, Madrid, New York, and Philadelphia), leaving the company as an Associate Partner to lead his studio at the firm Skidmore Owings & Merril in their Chicago office.
After several collaborations, he joined Roth Architecture (Azulik) in Tulúm, Mexico as Head of Design, attracted by its creative environment with a deep focus on the design of the user experience. For three years he led projects and multidisciplinary teams from an understanding of organic architecture in connection with nature, developing meaningful designs.
In 2024, he founded ĀDDED Design & Consulting as a collaborative, flexible, and multidisciplinary network capable of offering great architecture through a holistic understanding of the projects, a deep care for the creative process, and a tailored design of the teams.
Throughout his career, he has been responsible for leading numerous projects and teams, implementing and directing their strategies to achieve exceptional architecture and offer high-quality standards. His experience includes designing highly complex projects in all areas, from mixed uses, residential, retail, hospital, infrastructure, entertainment, or cultural, as well as consultancy services to developers, owners, and designers, and giving professional lectures in the field of hospitality.
Why ĀDDED?
Collaboration and multidisciplinary synergies have been a constant in my work environment and throughout my career. I firmly believe that this is the only way to achieve exceptional design. The input from different related backgrounds on a common challenge is nothing but positive and rewarding.
The profession of architecture sits in between two worlds, the technical and the arts, and one has to be curious by nature to make the most of it and find the right balance between those. Every project is an opportunity to learn about many different topics and to meet and engage with diverse brilliant minds, you learn winemaking, sports, photography, hand drawing, AI, video making, medicine, cooking, art, nature, ... the list is endless.
Along that journey, we had the chance to connect with many incredible professionals and understood the added value of a global vision around design, the importance of the process, exchanging roles all the time, leaving aside the architect's ego, and being the glue that binds all disciplines around the creative effort, and that is what we want to give back.
ĀDDED is not a traditional architectural or consulting firm, seeks to be a professional platform, a network built of knowledgeable professionals from multiple backgrounds and eager to engage in meaningful projects. How could an architect design a restaurant without the vision of a Chef? Our structure allows us to blend unique profiles in tailored teams to deal with specific project challenges, whether is driving the creative side or providing consultancy advice to others.
With ĀDDED we wanted to create the right environment to host all these synergies, to ADD value, but also to allow experts to be ADDED to the network.
We look forward to working with you.