Mauro Gil-Fournier Esquerra (Burgos, 1978). PhD in architecture, researcher, and professor. After 15 years in the profession, he founded Arquitecturas Afectivas in Madrid, a community that creates architecture with pleasure, fostering connections between people, other beings, and living things. His work is situated within a multifaceted, interscalar, and co-located environment where projects emerge and knowledge is shared openly.
He previously co-founded numerous projects and offices, including estudiofam (2003), Vivero de Iniciativas Ciudadanas (2008), and estudiosic (2009). Since 2017, he has co-directed the European project Mares de Madrid within the EU's Urban Innovative Actions program (2017-2019). He also co-produced the digital platform for citizen innovation, civics.cc, which received the EULAC Foundation award for best Ibero-American citizen initiative (2018). He was a Fellow in Residence at Art OMI, New York (2019). His projects have received prestigious awards such as the Detail Prize, Bauwelt Prize, and were finalists in the AR Awards for Emerging Architecture, FAD, and Mies van der Rohe Awards, among others.
His work has been exhibited and published in venues such as the Newmark Gallery at the Benenson Center in New York (2019), the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale (2018), the Oslo Architecture Triennale (2016), the Householding Fair at Bauhaus Dessau (2015), the Lisbon Architecture Triennale (2013), and the 2nd Rome Biennial of Public Space (2013).
He has been a guest speaker at numerous universities and forums in Spain, Latin America, and the USA. His work has been widely published in international journals, and he has contributed to several books, including *Critical Care: Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet* (MIT Press, 2019). He has recently published his most personal book, "The Houses That Inhabit Me" (Mincho Press, 2021).
