The LOEB Fellowship

A Loeb Fellow at Harvard University, where he was selected the 2012-2013 Wilbur Marvin Visiting Scholar, Julio Cesar Perez-Hernandez is an Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame’s School of Architecture since 2017 where he was a Visiting Professor in 2012. An accomplished leader, visionary, historian, and published author, he has lectured and taught in the most prestigious institutions of the United States, Canada, Europe, Costa Rica, Cuba, Colombia, Puerto Rico and Bermuda.
As a practitioner he is the founding Principal and Creative Director of Caesar Studio | Architects & Planners, a successful international practice ranging from architecture to urban planning and urban design with a focus on excellence. In this role, he has designed and built projects in the United States, Cuba, Spain, and Panama, some of them recipients of several awards. He drafted “A Master Plan for 21st Century Havana”, a comprehensive urban plan registered at the Library of Congress in 2006, among other urban plans for other cities and towns in other countries.
As the founding Chair of both Cuban Chapters of I.N.T.B.A.U. and C.E.U., he has led and organized numerous International Charrettes on Urban Planning and Urban Design and led the first Caribbean Summer School for Traditional Architecture and Urbanism. He has authored several books such as Inside Cuba (2004) and Inside Havana (2011), published by Taschen, and two forthcoming books, plus penning numerous professional articles for international journals.