Karen Louise KubeyProfile page
Assistant Professor
John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design
- Assistant ProfessorJohn H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design
BIO
Karen Kubey is an urbanist specializing in housing design and spacial 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. Kubey co-founded the New York chapter of Architecture for Humanity (now Open Architecture/New York) and co-founded and led the New Housing New York design competition.
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 and MacDowell, and has completed a Fulbright U.S. Scholar fellowship at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella 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.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Assistant ProfessorUniversity of Toronto, Toronto, Canada2023 - present
- Fulbright U.S. Scholar, Visiting ProfessorTorcuato di Tella University, Buenos Aires, Argentina2022 - 2022
- Visiting Associate ProfessorPratt Institute, Brooklyn, United States2016 - 2022
- Adjunct Associate Professor in Architecture, Planning and PreservationColumbia University, New York, United States2021 - 2022
- Faculty Fellow in Design for Spatial Justice, Visiting Associate ProfessorUniversity of Oregon, Eugene, United States2019 - 2020
- Adjunct LecturerUniversity of Arizona, Tucson, United States2016 - 2017
- Part-Time LecturerParsons School of Design, New York, United States2015 - 2015
- Adjunct Studio InstructorNew Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, United States2012 - 2012
NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Executive DirectorInstitute for Public Architecture, New York, United States2012 - 2015
- Architectural ConsultantWashington DC Housing Authority2021 - present
- Strategist and TrainerNYC Department of Housing Preservation, New York, United States2018 - 2019
- Co-HostCurry Stone Foundation Podcast2018 - 2018
- Architectural ConsultantNew York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, United States2017 - 2017
- DesignerVan Alen Institute, New York, United States2017 - 2017
- Designer and Project ManagerTEAM R8, New York, United States2011 - 2012
DEGREES
- Master of ArchitectureColumbia University, New York, United States2009
- Bachelor of Arts in ArchitectureUniversity of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States2002
CERTIFICATIONS
- Safety Assessment Program (SAP) EvaluatorAmerican Institute of Architects, Washington D.C., United States2013 - present
- Social Economic Environmental Design certificationSEED Network2014 - present
AVAILABILITY
- Industry Projects
- Media enquiries
INSTITUTIONAL STRATEGIC INITIATIVES
- School of Cities