Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
In this video, co-founder of MAIO Anna Puigjaner discusses her research and recent social housing projects by the firm.
Speaker
Anna Puigjaner is an architect, researcher, and co-founder of MAIO, a multidisciplinary architecture firm based in Barcelona. Both Puigjaner’s independent research and her work with MAIO focus on developing inclusive spaces that redefine social structures, from her internationally recognized research project “Kitchenless City,” which proposes the displacement of domestic architectural elements from the private to the public sphere, to the firm’s current social housing projects. Puigjaner is currently Professor of Architecture and Care at ETH Zürich, a position made possible with a grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
Moderator
Karen Kubey is a New York- and Toronto-based urbanist specializing in housing design and spatial justice. The editor of Housing as Intervention: Architecture towards Social Equity (Architectural Design, 2018), she is an assistant professor of architecture at the University of Toronto.
In this video, co-founder of MAIO Anna Puigjaner discusses her research and recent social housing projects by the firm.
Speaker
Anna Puigjaner is an architect, researcher, and co-founder of MAIO, a multidisciplinary architecture firm based in Barcelona. Both Puigjaner’s independent research and her work with MAIO focus on developing inclusive spaces that redefine social structures, from her internationally recognized research project “Kitchenless City,” which proposes the displacement of domestic architectural elements from the private to the public sphere, to the firm’s current social housing projects. Puigjaner is currently Professor of Architecture and Care at ETH Zürich, a position made possible with a grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
Moderator
Karen Kubey is a New York- and Toronto-based urbanist specializing in housing design and spatial justice. The editor of Housing as Intervention: Architecture towards Social Equity (Architectural Design, 2018), she is an assistant professor of architecture at the University of Toronto.
