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.

Designer

Isabella Ledesma Rivera is an architect trained at the Faculty of Architecture of the UNAM, with an academic exchange at the ETSAB in Barcelona that broadened her perspective on the city.

She has participated in the design and production of pavilions and installations, engaging in processes that range from concept to realization.

Her work explores public space, culture, and territory from a critical and contemporary perspective.