Founder

Alberto Kritzler is a developer committed to responsible land transformation practices and passionate about how city making can improve communities’ wellbeing.

He founded La Reserva, a landscape-driven regenerative community designed to protect a rainforest through a collectivist model. The project achieved water autonomy by harvesting rainwater and demonstrated how rural development can align with ecological restoration.

His latest venture, La Laguna, focused on transforming a 90-year-old textile factory into a co-production hub for design-driven businesses, combining small-scale industrial production with cultural, social, and educational initiatives in Mexico City.

Previously, he co-founded Reurbano, an adaptive reuse development company with three premises: to reuse existing buildings, reactivate the street-level, and rethink ways of living, working, and moving through cities.

A Loeb Fellow at Harvard and MBA graduate from Stanford, Kritzler also serves on the boards of a historic ceramics manufacturer and a B-Corp coffee producer.

Chief Urban Officer

Natalia Dopazo is an Argentine urban planner and curator based in Mexico City. Her work engages housing as a critical site for experimentation, care, and collective life, examining how domestic space, infrastructure, and heritage can be reimagined to support more equitable and diverse urban futures.

She currently serves as Chief Urban Officer at Polistudio, where she leads medium-scale territorial and housing projects that combine adaptive reuse, industrial reconversion, and mixed-use development. Her work explores the transformation of obsolete productive landscapes into contemporary housing environments, negotiating between historical structures, new domestic typologies, and shared urban value.

In 2023, Natalia was awarded the Loeb Fellowship at Harvard Graduate School of Design, where she curated the IN/INbibliographic collection at the Frances Loeb Library. She was subsequently awarded a fellowship by Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs to further her research on the materiality of care in cities. Her practice bridges design, policy, and governance, informed by extensive experience in public and private project management, including the coordination of Argentina’s Infrastructure of Care Program and the development of gender-sensitive co-design frameworks as Senior Advisor on Gender Affairs for the City of Buenos Aires and multilateral agencies.

With a background in anthropology, she co-founded City of Desire and Cooperativa Espacial and has been involved in urban rights advocacy in vulnerable neighborhoods for over fifteen years. Through both design and curatorial practice, her work connects housing, memory, and everyday life, positioning architecture and urbanism as tools for collective care and social transformation.

Lead Designer

Cory Page holds a dual master’s degree in landscape architecture and urban planning from the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD). His work examines shifting landscapes shaped by climate volatility, material flows, and evolving cultural practices. His research operates across alpine and urban contexts, using snow as an entry point into broader questions of environmental instability, resource management, and design’s role in adaptation. Cory is a Lead Designer at Polistudio, an interdisciplinary planning and design practice in Mexico City focused on adaptive reuse and urban regeneration.

As the 2025 Peter Walker & Partners Fellow at the GSD, Cory’s research builds on his thesis project, After Snow, which reimagines the ski resort as a public terrain for ecological and spatial remediation. Set in his hometown of Telluride, Colorado, the project uses snow as a proxy for climatic uncertainty, confronting the artificial preservation of winter by transforming extractive ski infrastructure into regenerative alpine commons. Grounded in the mined landscapes of the San Juan Mountains, this work frames design as a tool for intervening in unstable environments and extends toward comparative research in the Alps, Andes, and arid urban regions of Mexico, including investigations into landscapes of waste, water, and evolving cultural landscapes.

At the GSD, Cory founded the Zero Waste Project, reducing campus landfill waste by 50% in its first year through redesigned collection systems and material diversion strategies. His work includes collaborations with the New York City Department of Sanitation on zero-waste design policy, post-waste infrastructure for the Port of Los Angeles with SWA, and research on the embodied carbon of paving with Reed Hilderbrand. Cory was the lead research assistant on the Harvard Salata Institute publication: The Carbon Cost of Coastal Adaptation: A Performance Evaluation Methodology for Nature-based Solutions. Prior to the GSD, Cory worked in The Walt Disney Company’s corporate environmental sustainability office, reducing waste, energy, and water impacts across global operations and motivating his turn toward design as a more spatial and critical form of climate action.