Poetic spaces for creative clients.
Fleetwood Fernandez is an architecture studio that designs understated, uniquely personal homes and select commercial spaces that celebrate craftsmanship and prioritize a sustainable future. Our projects weave the natural environment into the built, and explore the ways in which architecture alters not only our memory, but our actions. With an economy of form and line, we design projects from the inside out, focusing on daily rituals of use to drive the design process from detail to building form. In examining the narrative that is exclusive to each project, we develop a dialog by which each client can craft an environment unique to their own way of living.
Founded in 2007 in Los Angeles and currently under expansion to Palma de Mallorca, Spain, the studio is led by founding partners Hunter Fleetwood and Mariapaz Fernandez. Their multicultural union draws from their connections to two uniquely diverse countries and naturally fosters gender and cultural diversity and inclusion. Our physical home is a restored Art Deco building in East Hollywood, where we work in an open environment because collectively pursuing good ideas is more important than individual ownership over them.
Fleetwood Fernandez has completed custom residences, restaurants and boutique commercial projects throughout the United States and Spain. Our work has been recognized with many publications and awards, including several AIA Los Angeles Design Awards, AIA Los Angeles Restaurant Design Awards, 2019 Interior Design Best of Year honoree, and an Architect Magazine 2014 National Design Review Winner.
“The space we love is unwilling to remain permanently enclosed. It deploys and appears to move elsewhere without difficulty; into other times, and on different planes of dream and memory.”
— Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
Hunter Fleetwood
Registered Architect
Founding Principal
He/Him
Hunter’s belief in the strength of ideas and a rigorous process guides a practice engaged in both construction and academia. With his extraordinary communication and visualization skills, he brings clarity and leadership to the design direction and management of the studio’s projects. Hunter’s professional background spans over 25 years of architectural practice, and includes widely published residential, restaurant and institutional projects. He has lectured and served on juries at a number of educational institutions, and is a visiting critic at University of Southern California’s School of Architecture. Hunter is a registered architect in California and New York.
Mariapaz Fernandez,
Registered Architect, LEED ap
Founding Principal
She/Her
Paz uses her keen eye for detail and focus on materials to carry out award-winning residential and commercial projects across a wide range of scales. Her design vision and leadership are built on a people-first approach. Born and raised in Spain, Paz attended the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura (ETSAM) in Madrid, and later Catholic University of America, where she earned a B. A. in Architecture. Paz is a licensed architect in the state of California and a LEED accredited professional. She leads the office’s commitment to sustainable design, and manages the firm’s work in Spain. Paz has taught advanced design studios at UCLA Extension’s architecture and interior design program, and she has been a visiting critic at the University of Southern California School of Architecture since 2006.