About

PNF Architecture + Design is a Vero Beach, Florida based architectural firm
founded by Pamela Fernandez in 2004 while in Coral Gables. PNF A+D provides
architectural design, programming, space analysis, and master planning services
to public and private clients.

Prior to founding the firm, Pamela worked in New York City with 1100 Architect
on multiple significant and award-winning projects including the Museum of Modern
Art DesignStore, Little Red School House, Irish Hunger Memorial, and various private
residences and corporate offices. She then completed the Duke Eye Institute and the
UNC School of the Arts Welcome Center while with Duda/Paine Architects in NC. Her
work experience originated in Vero Beach while working with Clemens Bruns Schaub
Architect on multiple projects such as the Windsor Golf Club and numerous residences in
Windsor, Johns Island, Palm Beach, North Carolina, and Eleuthera, Bahamas. Her firm’s
work builds on design significance in custom residences throughout Florida, including a
waterfront home and sculptural garden featured in Art Basil and the renovation of a Coral Gables Historically Designated residence by a significant Architect.

Throughout her experience and work, she has achieved excellence in design
and believes architecture has the ability to have a profound positive affect in peoples’
lives. Design is a process that integrates site conditions and client needs, transcending
them to a higher level. Specific to each project is a thoughtful composition of space,
proportion, light, and materiality. However, there is no specific style of architecture,
for each project starts as a blank slate and ends as a unique design. The pure use of
materials, light, and space moves the design beyond stylistic tropes, while sustainability,
thoughtful problem solving, and the utilization of smart practices, results in a
positive mark on the Earth, society, and culture.

With a background in both Architecture and Interior Design, she allows time for the
exterior and interior to inform each other during the design process. One space
is not the afterthought of the other, but each acts as a driving force for the other,
culminating in a elegant, refined and inspiring design. The spaces work in tandem
to enhance the senses, creating memorable experiences while allowing the occupants
to live and work on their own terms. An architecture of not only the interior, but also
the exterior, gives a sense of place and a sense of grace to those who experience it.