Armida Fernández, a graduate of Tec de Monterrey in Guadalajara and with studies at Linköping University in Stockholm, trained as an industrial designer before transitioning to architecture. She completed a Master's in Design with a concentration in Risk and Resilience within the Department of Architecture and Urbanism at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She contributed to the book "Timeless Communal Palaces" by Iñaki Abalos, along with Sofía Blanco and José de Andrés Moncayo. Her research work was part of the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale. She is an adjunct professor in the Department of Architecture at Tec de Monterrey and was an adjunct professor at Wentworth University in Boston. She co-founded ALA studio with Luis Enrique Flores in 2012. Her work has been nominated by IIT for the Mies Crown Hall Architectural Prize (MCHAP) in 2016 and 2022. She was selected to participate in the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale within the Mexican Pavilion. They received the Outstanding Young Architect Award at the 17th Jalisco Architecture Prize 2023 and the 2024 Work Award for the Vinata Mezcal project at the BIAU (Biau University of Madrid). They were recently selected by the Architectural League of New York as Emerging Voices 2024.

Speaker and critic at various universities such as Veritas University - Costa Rica, National Chiao Tung University - Taiwan, Cheng Kung University - Taiwan, Harvard GSD, WashU, IIT - Chicago, among others.