The Madrid-based studio Gutiérrez-delaFuente Arquitectos (GdlF) takes on a paradoxical challenge: in an almost entirely built urban landscape, they care for the unbuilt environment. Instead of focusing only on new architecture, the team led by Natalia Gutiérrez and Julio de la Fuente adapts existing spaces, revealing their hidden potential. Their approach – Working With the Already-There – understands the unbuilt as a crucial component of an ecological transformation. The exhibition at Aedes, curated by Kaye Geipel and Gutiérrez-delaFuente Arquitectos, presents sustainable strategies for improving in-between spaces through selected projects in Germany, Belgium, Spain, the UK and Switzerland. A central element is the film installation European Encounter Cabinet, in which international experts close to the studio share their perspectives on the future of architecture and urban planning in European cities and territories.

The monographic catalogue of the exhibition reviews the practice of Gutiérrez-delaFuente from different perspectives, including articles by: Hans-Jürgen Commerell and Mathias Schnell, Kaye Geipel and Bernd Vlay.

The publication also includes reflections from The European Encounter Cabinet, including Kristiaan Borret (Brussels), Aglaèe Degros (Graz), Andreas Hofer (Stuttgart), Didier Rebois (Paris), Mónica Cid and Silvia Villacañas (Madrid).

Thanks to all for the collaborators and a special memory for Kristin Feireiss, cofounder of Aedes in 1980, who inspired some generations during last decades. Thanks for all.

Title: Shaping the Unbuilt Environment
Subtitle: Gutiérrez-delaFuente Arquitectos, Madrid
Publisher: Kristin Feireiss, Hans-Jürgen Commerell, Aedes Berlin
Project Management: Christine Meierhofer, Aedes Berlin
Design: Gutiérrez-delaFuente Arquitectos, Maria Vittoria Tesei (cover)
Published: 2025, 64 pages. Spanish
Essays: Kaye Geipel, Bernd Vlay
ISBN:978-3-943615-89-0

Order the book in the following link at Aedes Architecture Forum Berlin:
Aedes Architecture Forum Berlin

The publication “Staatliche Realschule Kemnath” is published on ocassion of the official opening of the Neubau Realschule Kemnath (Germany). A work by Gutiérrez-delaFuente and ALN in partnership from 2019 to 2025. The book reviews the principal aspects of the projects from the competition to the opening.

In addition a collection of key voices collaborate with several articles such as Albert Füracker (Staatsminister der Finanzen und für Heimat), Roland Grillmeier (Landrat des Landkreises Tirschenreuth), Roman Schäffler (Bürgermeister der Stadt Kemnath), Holger König (Schulleiter RSK), Marcus Hartl BPM Bau- und Projektmanagement Hartl.

Edited by ALN Architekturbüro Leinhäupl + Neuber and Gutiérrez-delaFuente Arquitectos
Edition: Emanuel Socher-Jukic
Design: Gloria Colaianni, Barbara Weyand
Articles: Albert Füracker, Roland Grillmeier, Roman Schäffler, Holger König, Marcus Hartl
Photographs: Roland Halbe
2025. 47 pages. German
Printing: Druckerei Scmerbeck, Tiefenbach
ArGe ALN/GdlF

“ATENEO DE MADRID 2016-2022. Rehabilitación y restauración del Ateneo Científico, Literario y Artístico de Madrid” documents the project of the refurbishment and restoration of Ateneo Científico, Literario y Artístico de Madrid between the years 2016-2022, including the process of construction. The project was possible thanks to an investment from the Architectural Heritage Conservation and Rehabilitation Program of the Spain Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda and the close support of Ateneo de Madrid.

The book is published with the collaboration of the PECSA Foundation and includes a collection of articles and contributions by the presidents of the Ateneo Luis Arroyo Martínez and Juan Armindo Hernández, the historian Pedro Navascués, the Ateneo’s curator Alfonso Herrán, the surveyors of the works Jorge Carrión and Ignacio Moreno, and the architects Natalia Gutiérrez and Julio de la Fuente.

The publication includes a rich collection of plans and pictures from the Ateneo Archive as well as pictures by Fernando Alda, Davide Curatola, Jorge Carrión.

Edited by Gutiérrez-delaFuente Arquitectos with the support of Fundación PECSA
172 pages. Spanish. 2022.
ISBN 978-84-09-45086-2

“Atlas de la Innovación. Nuevo Madrid Mix_NMM” is an operational atlas for a new hybrid urban model. The book is a reflection about how a new economy can be developed in the City of Madrid, including a research about the two main challenges in the Urbanoceno age: the climate change and the socioeconomy crisis of the territorial inequalities. Both are totally linked with the post-covid era we are facing. “Nuevo Madrid Mix” is based on a collection of innovative case studies from ten different cities and regions around the world landing in the specific context of Madrid. These international references –London Rotterdam, Brussels, Nantes, Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, Vienna, Seoul, Tokyo- are presented from different angles: practice, academy, or directly from the municipalities. The methodology of the research is organized around five variables: operational meridians, geographic parallels, markets, gradients of innovation, and time.
The ideas and references are adapted from the global to the local context of Madrid with a series of recommendations and a “landing plan” for a new and prosper economic model for Madrid, including the needed changes in the NZ9 (Norma Zonal 9) which is addressing from long time ago the development of the productive land in Madrid.

Thanks to the Área de Desarrollo Urbano and the Dirección General de Planificación Estratégica of the City of Madrid, and the impressive collection of international partners from ten different cities around the world: London (RIBA), Rotterdam (AIR), Brussels (BMA, Kristiaan Borret), Nantes (SAMOA, Alain Bertrand, Marieke Zeegers), Paris (KH Studio, Alessandro delli Ponti), Barcelona (AMB, Noemí Martínez, Josep María Carreras, Xavier Mariño), Berlin (plattformberlin, Jens Metz), Vienna (StudioVlayStreeruwitz, Bernd Vlay, Lina Streeruwitz), Seoul (Praud, Rafael Luna, Dongwoo Yim), and Tokyo (furii studio, Noemí Gómez, Diego Martín).

Edited by the City of Madrid: Área de Gobierno de Desarrollo Urbano del Ayuntamiento de Madrid.
Gutiérrez-delaFuente Arquitectos
147 pages. Spanish
ISBN:978-84-7812-818-1
Depósito Legal: M-15465-2020

The book is available in the following link:
Atlas de la Innovación

And here the link to the presentation event together with the City of Madrid
Presentation event together with the City of Madrid

“Productive and Circular City. Conversations around the Spanish Urban Agenda” is a research book presented in Abu Dhabi during the World Urban Forum 2020. The work is a reflection about the Spanish Urban Agenda 2019 (SUA/AUE 2019) which is a strategic document aligned with International Urban Agendas and the Agenda 2030. The approach is focused on the relation between the notion of the Circular City at the european context and the strategical goals pursued in the Spanish Urban Agenda (SUA).

Thanks to the Ministry of Development of the Government of Spain (AUE, Spanish Urban Agenda) and the extraordinary collaborators we had on board: Kristiaan Borret, Luis Fernández-Galiano, Kaye Geipel and Bernd Vlay. Also thanks to the group of multidisciplinary experts on the Spanish Urban Agenda: Ignacio Alcalde, José M. Ezquiaga, José Fariña, Luis M. Jiménez, Pedro Marín, Andrés Monzón, Salvador Rueda, Inés Sánchez de Madariaga, Antonio Serrano, Carme Trilla I Bellart.

Edited by Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda of the Government of Spain (Fomento, Publication General Secretary) and Gutiérrez-delaFuente Arquitectos
122 pages. Spanish/English.
Catalogue: cpage.mpr.gob.es

“Rendering the Collective in the Circular City” is a research book presented in the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2019. The publication is included in the AUE / Madrid pavilion that G-dlF curated in the Biennale. G-dlF has also co-curated a topic of the Seoul Biennale about Productive Cities together with the cities of Brussels and Vienna. The book is a reflection about the new proximities in the post-industrial productive city and its impacts on a political, ecological, spatial, social and economic level.
The city of Madrid serves as a case-study, specifically the southeast area and the M45 highway. The research includes a reflection about the Spanish Urban Agenda 2019 (SUA/AUE 2019) which is a transversal urban guide to address the challenges of the Anthropocene age next years in Spain. The narrative is supported by an amazing documentary photography campaign by Davide Curatola (Urban Reports).

Thanks to the Ministry of Development of the Government of Spain (Fomento), the Municipality of Madrid, our partners of Urban Reports, and the extraordinary collaborators we had on board: Kristiaan Borret, Luis Fernández-Galiano, Kaye Geipel and Bernd Vlay. Also thanks to the group of multidisciplinary experts on the Spanish Urban Agenda: Ignacio Alcalde, José M. Ezquiaga, José Fariña, Luis M. Jiménez, Pedro Marín, Andrés Monzón, Salvador Rueda, Inés Sánchez de Madariaga, Antonio Serrano, Carme Trilla I Bellart.

Edited by Ministry of Development, City of Madrid, Gutiérrez-delaFuente Arquitectos
195 pages. Spanish/English.
ISBN 978-84-09-13105-1