Credit: Rick Guidotti		 Hermes Mallea is an architect and a partner in the New York City based firm M(Group). Mr. Mallea studied at the University of Miami's School of Architecture and Columbia University's graduate school of Historic Preservation and is a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA).
 
A longtime collector of vintage Cuban photographs, Mr. Mallea has travelled to Cuba frequently to do research for his current book and to lecture on historic preservation.