Margarita Gutman holds a doctorate and is an architect from the University of Buenos Aires. She is Associate Professor of Urban Studies and International Affairs in the Bachelor’s Program and in the Graduate Program in International Affairs at The New School University, and is Full Professor Consulta at the School of Architecture, Design, and Urban Planning at the University of Buenos Aires (FADU-UBA). From 2004 to 2009 she has been Full Professor and holder of a Chair (Cátedra) of History at the FADU-UBA.

She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Observatory on Latin America (OLA) and of the Advisory Council of the Observatory on Argentina at The New School. She directs the Building Bicentennials Program in OLA and co-directs the Bicentennials Program in the International Programs Office of FADU-UBA, from which the International Call for Papers and Digital Visual Presentations, “Building Latin American Bicentennials in the Era of Globalization“, was organized. She also directs the Buenos Aires 2050 Program in FADU-UBA and the History and Urban Development Program, associated to the International Institute for Environment and Development, IIED-Latin America.

She was invited as a Scholar in Residence at the Getty Research Institute of Los Angeles (1993-1994) and as a Visiting Scholar in the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars of Washington D.C. (1994), as Visiting Fellow in the International Center for Advanced Studies of New York University (2000-2001), and as a Senior Fellow in the Vera List Center of Art and Politics at The New School of New York City (2001-2003). She directed the curatorial work and production of the “Buenos Aires 1910: Memories of the World to Come“ exhibit presented in Buenos Aires, Washington and New York (1999-2000).

She has published 12 books, including editing the award-winning Buenos Aires 1910: Memoria del Porvenir (Buenos Aires 1910: Memories of the World to Come) (1999), and Construir Bicentenarios: Argentina (Building Bicentennials: Argentina) (2005); Latin America on the Move. The Post Neo-liberal Transition (2007), co-edited with Michael Cohen, Buenos Aires 2050: imágenes del futuro / decisiones del presente (Buenos Aires 2050: Images of the Future / Decisions of the Present) (2007) co-edited with Horacio Caride; she is also the co-author with the late Jorge Enrique Hardoy of Buenos Aires Historia Urbana del Área Metropolitana 1536 -2006 (Urban History of the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area, 1536-2006) (1992 and 2007).