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AD ARQUITECTURA URBANA is an Office of Urban Architecture, based in Madrid, which develops architecture projects and masterplans with sustainability criteria.

The office plans urban transformations that are committed to rehabilitation and designs urban and territorial sustainability strategies with projects for innovation at different scales: architecture, urban planning, territory and landscape.

The office´s work is focused on projects with a customized design of solutions and contribution of technical rigor an aesthetic criteria: art at all scales. For this, energy efficiency and welfase criteria are incorporated.

Currently, the office works on plans and projects for public administrations and private clients.

In 2017, AD ARQUITECTURA URBANA received the First Prize of the International Project Competition for the Urban and Space Planning of the Old Central Hospital of Asturias (HUCA) in Cristo-Buenavista, in Oviedo, with the project HUCAMP! The Campa de Todos, with Juan Tur and Daniel Cortizo.

The designs of AD ARQUITECTURA URBANA have been included in the collective exhibition William Morris: a creator by nature selected at the Havana Design Biennial 2019 and who has toured Thammasat University Design School (Thailand), Department of Design Faculty of Fine Arts of Yarmouk University (Jordan) and the Pedagogical and Technological University of Colombia (Duitama).

The work of AD ARQUITECTURA URBANA has been published in specialized media such as Arquitectura Viva, Plataforma Arquitectura, Ciudad Sostenible, Planur-e and in publications such as El País or El Mundo.

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Alexandra Delgado

Alexandra Delgado founded AD Arquitectura Urbana in 2005. Her work brings a vision of sustainability to architectural and urban design; her professional practice shows the interrelationships between different disciplines to generate transformation processes based on innovation.

Alexandra Delgado is the Director of the Advanced Planning Workshop of the Master in Architecture of ​​the Nebrija University. She has also been a visiting professor at the University of La Sapienza-Roma, IAUV University of Venice, ECLAC of the United Nations in Santiago, Chile, or in academic programs organized by the Harbin Institute of Technology and TEC Monterrey.

Alexandra received a PhD in Architecture from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquiectura de Madrid, where she also receives her M. Arch. She has received the Bernd Steinacher Scholarship to young urban planners and researchers and has been responsible for the Platform of Urban and Territorial Sustainability of Observatory on Sustainability in Spain rated Best Practice Short List worldwide in the framework of the 8th United Nations International Best Practice Contest 2010.

Her books Evolution and crisis of the Metropolitan Region of Madrid: A critical review of urban planning (2013) and Natural, cultural and landscape heritage: Keys to territorial sustainability, with coordination and lead authorship (OSE, 2009) stand out in their participation in more than forty chapters and articles in national and international journals.

Her research work has been included in publications like Springer or Thomson Reuters Aranzadi. 

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Collaborators since 2005

Karla Monserrath Ulloa, Andrés Vinicio López Yépez, Arianna Di Ruocco, Luis de Frutos Lope, Elena Royo González, Luisa Lobo-Guerrero, Emma Ferreira, Jimena Cuesta, Álvaro González Benito, Carolina Faro Lorenzo Gulias, Cristina Godoy Gascuñana, María Pilar López Aguilar, Luis de Frutos Lope, Álvaro de Blas Díaz, Pablo Moya Redondo, Paula de Aragón Francisco, Miriam Gárate Suárez, Carlos Balaguer, Francisco Naranjo, Maria Gilda Martino, Cecilia Fernández Villar, Ali Entezari Najafabadi, Sara Encijo, Beatriz Castro Bilbao, Arusi García Coya, Inés Costa Llarena, Chung Hyok Kim, Sara Encijo, Antonio Gálvez, Vanesa Flores Pastor, Isabel González Bajo, David García Revilla, Carmen Tato López, Carla del Castilla Armas.