Bernardo Fort-Brescia is a founding member of Arquitectonica. He did his early studies in Peru and Europe where he learned five languages. He then studied architecture and urban planning at Princeton University and received a Master of Architecture from Harvard University where he later taught. he first came to Miami in 1975 to teach at Miami University. He founded in 1977 in Miami Arquitectonica with his partners. 

Today Arquitectonica has offices in New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Madrid, Dubai, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Manila, Lima, Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires with over 600 employees.   He has been Fellow of the American Institute of Architects since 1992 and is a recipient of the American Institute of Architect’s Honor for Design Award and the Silver Medal for Design Excellence. Bernardo is designing prominent buildings in New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Miami, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Paris, Madrid, Milan, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, New Delhi, and Buenos Aires. Arquitectonica has designed buildings in 31 countries and won more than 100 prestigious design awards. Arquitectonica’s work has been featured in 3,000 national and international publications, and been the subject of numerous museum exhibitions.