Gil-Fournier Esquerra, Mauro

Mauro Gil-Fournier Esquerra (Burgos,1978). Architect ETSAM (2004). PhD Architect UPM (2016).

He is PhD architect, researcher and professor at Madrid Architecture Faculty ETSAM. He leads the pioneer learning environments “Affective Ecologies” an “HIP Ciudades”. After 15 years of professional career he founds Affective Architectures, a community that makes architecture with pleasure to explore how “Architecture is an affective matter”. His work is framed in a multiple, interscalar and co-located environment where projects emerge from knowledge that is shared in an open way.

Formerly co-founder of successful projects and offices such as Estudio Fam (2003) Vivero de iniciativas Ciudadanas (2008) Estudio Sic (2009). Since 2017 he codirects the European Urban Program Mares de Madrid in the EU Urban Innovative Actions program UIA (2017-2019) He also coproduces the digital platform for citizen innovation civics.cc awarded by the EULAC foundation as best IberoAmerican citizen initiative (2018). He is Fellow Residence at Art OMI, New York (2019) His projects have been awarded in places such as the Detail Prize, Bauwelt Price, finalist in AR Arwards for emerging architecture, FAD award, Mies Van der Rohe, among others.

His works are exhibited, and published in places such as the Newmark Gallery at the Benenson Center in New York (2019), the Spanish pavilion of the Venice Architecture Biennale (2018), the Oslo Architecture Triennial, (2016), the Householding Fair at Bauhaus Dessau, (2015), the Lisbon Architecture Triennial, (2013) or the II Biennial of Public Space in Rome, (2013).

He is speaker and lecturer at numerous universities and forums in Spain, Latin America and USA. His work is constantly updated and published in international magazines in Asia, America and Europe such as A+U, Arquitectura Viva or Domus or the Monography AT nº20. He writes in books such as “Critical Care, architecture and urbanism for a broken planet” (MIT Press, 2019). He had already published his first book “Las casas que me habitan” (Mincho Press, 2021) (Affective Architectures, 2022) and his monographic book “Arquitecturas Afectivas” (FADU, 2022).