Héctor Fernández Elorza was born in Zaragoza (Spain) in 1972. Architect degree at Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, ETSAM , in 1998 where he, since 2001 , is Lecturing Professor in Architectural Projects .

He was awarded the scholarship from the EU-exchange program at Darmstadt Institute of Technology in 1995 and1996 and at Technical Royal Institute of Stockholm, KTH in 1997 and 1998. His postgraduate studies were continued in Scandinavia, awarded grant by the Marghit and Folke Perzhon Foundation in 1999 and 2000. This period was dedicated to his PhD research at the Architectural Museum Archive in Stockholm and the Alvar Aalto Foundation in Helsinki.

The Ph.D. Studies have been completed in 2014 at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid , ETSAM, with the Doctoral Thesis named “Asplund vs. Lewerentz”, which was awarded with the “Extraordinary Prize of the UPM”.

He has been Visiting Professor and Lecturer at the following Schools of Architecture: Escuela de Arquitectura de Zaragoza and ETSAB-Barcelona (Spain), Universitá Di Roma “La Sapienza" , Politenico di Milano and Siracusa (Italy), Architecture Nordostniedersachsen Universität Hamburg and Fachhochschule Köln (Germany), NTNU University in Trondheim (Norway), Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole in Copenhagen (Denmark), KTH University in Stockholm (Sweden), University of Innsbruck (Austria), Universidad Católica de Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), University of Belgrade (Serbia), University of Budapest (Hungary), Hogeschool voor Wetenschap en Kunst in Brussels (Belgium), the Royal Institute of British Architects -RIBA in London (England), and the University of Texas in Dallas and Cooper Union University in New York (United States of America).