Karen Kubey

Karen Kubey is Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Toronto, specializing in housing design and spatial justice. She is the editor of Housing as Intervention: Architecture towards Social Equity (Architectural Design, 2018) and served as the first executive director of the Institute for Public Architecture. Her work focuses on SDG 11, including research and teaching on architecture and the right to housing and collaborations with UN Habitat.

Holding degrees in architecture from the University of California, Berkeley and the Columbia University Graduate School for Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), Kubey began her career as a designer of below-market housing. She has received support from the New York State Council on the Arts, MacDowell, and the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and has completed a Fulbright U.S. Scholar fellowship in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Kubey has taught at Pratt Institute and Columbia GSAPP and was a 2019-20 Faculty Fellow in Design for Spatial Justice at the University of Oregon. She convenes the American Institute of Architects' Right to Housing Working Group.