Margarita Gutman is an Argentine architect, urbanist and historian, and a professor of urban studies and international affairs at The New School. She is co-director of the New School’s Observatory on Latin America. She holds a PhD in architecture and urban history from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. She has taught and researched at the Facultad de Arquitectura, Dise o, y Urbanismo of the Universidad de Buenos Aires where she won a chair (cathedra) in urban history. She also did research at the International Institute for Environment and Development – America Latina, the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, and the International Center for Advanced Studies at New York University. She is the author of Buenos Aires: El Poder de la Anticipación (2011) and fourteen other books, as well as manyarticles. Gutman was a 2001 Fellow at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics.