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This in-person colloquium is part of the exhibition and event series celebrating 25 years of the CCCB (Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona) European Prize for Urban Public Space, "Design Matters: In Favor of Urban Public Space".

What infrastructures are in place to sustain care? How can cities and institutions better support those who give and receive it? How might care reshape our understanding of independence and interdependence? What would it mean to design with care at the center? How might prioritizing care transform our environments, our policies, and our collective futures?

Introduction: Prof. Marina Correia, Architect, historian, adjunct assistant professor, Spitzer School of Architecture

Moderator: Dr. Marta Gutman, Dean and Professor, Spitzer School of Architecture

Panelists (15-minute presentations):

Dr. Zaida Muxi, Architect, City Planner, Distinguished Professor in Architecture for the School of Architecture, Art and Design, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico

Prof. Sasha Topolnytska, Architect, Adjunct Lecturer, Spitzer School of Architecture

Annya Ramirez-Jimenez, AIA, Partner, Marvel Designs

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Prof. Marina Correia (she/her) is a practicing architect and professor of design, history, and theory. She established her practice – Atelier of Architecture and Urban Design - in 2013, which has been dedicated to public architecture, exhibition design, interior design and non-profit partnerships in the United States, Brazil, and Europe. She holds an architecture degree from The City University of New York (2006), a Master in Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2013) and a Ph.D. in History of Architecture and Urbanism from the University of Sao Paulo (2018). She currently teaches at Barnard College – Columbia University and The City College of New York.

Suggested Reading: Correia, Marina. “The Right to Imagine: Michael Sorkin’s Visual Argument.” Drawing Matter, June 8, 2026.

Dr. Marta Gutman (she/her) is an architectural and urban historian, is dean of the Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York | CUNY, the city’s premier public school of architecture. Expert in the history of public architecture for children and in repurposing architecture as a strategy for city-building, she studies ordinary places in cities. Through this work, she tackles power and culture in all walks of life, emphasizes the activism of women especially on behalf of children, and ties local stories to national and international histories. Gutman’s commitment to social justice has been manifest since she started her career as an architect designing housing for the New York City Housing Authority and shelters for battered women, abused children, and homeless New Yorkers. Gutman’s A City for Children: Women, Architecture, and the Charitable Landscapes of Oakland won the Kenneth Jackson Award for Best Book (North American) in urban history (2015) and the Spiro Kostof Book Award (2017). A Distinguished CUNY Research Fellow in 2018, Gutman is the immediate past president of the Society for American City and Regional Planning History, a founding coeditor of PLATFORM, and a former coeditor of Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum. Her chapter “Intermediate School 201: Race, Space, and Modern Architecture in Harlem,” in Educating Harlem: A Century of Schooling and Resistance in a Black Community, eds. Ansley T. Erickson and Ernest Morrell (Columbia, 2019), received the Catherine W. Bishir Prize in 2021. She’s currently writing Just Space: Modern Architecture, Public Schools, and Racial Inequality in New York City (University of Texas Press).

Dr. Zaida Muxi (she/her) holds a Ph.D. in Architecture and has been a Distinguished Professor at TEC de Monterrey’s School of Architecture, Art and Design since October 2023, where she coordinates the certificate program “Architecture, City, and Gender” Professor in the Department of Urban Planning, Land Use Planning, and Landscape at the Barcelona School of Architecture. From 2015 to 2019, she served as Director of Urban Planning, Housing, Environment, Urban Ecology, and Public Space for the city of Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Catalonia. She is a specialist in urban planning, architecture, and gender. Her publications include Beyond the Threshold and published (dpr-barcelona, 2021).

Suggested Reading: Muxí Martínez, Zaida. Beyond the Threshold: Women, Houses, and Cities. Barcelona: dpr-barcelona, 2021.

Prof. Sasha Topolnytska (she/her) is an architectural designer, educator, and founder of FARMMM Studio, an architecture and design practice working across architecture, interior design, installations, objects, and research. Her work is interested in structures and relationships of support, and in how architecture participates in everyday life across different bodies, communities, and scales. Her individual and collaborative work has received an NYCxDESIGN Award and support from the Architectural League of New York, the Center for Architecture, NYSCA, and the Design Trust for Public Space. She teaches architecture and interior design courses at the Spitzer School of Architecture at City College of New York and Parsons School of Design.

Suggested Reading: Tronto, Joan C. “Caring Architecture.” In Critical Care: Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet, edited by Angelika Fitz and Elke Krasny, 26–32. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019.

All colloquia are free, open to the public, and held in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture Sciame Auditorium. For live captioning, ASL interpretation, or access requests, please contact ssadean@ccny.cuny.edu.

Sciame Auditorium (Room 107) 141 Convent Avenue New York, NY 10031

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