Book Talk with Marta Gutman, PhD

Please note: This event takes place at the Center for Worker Education, 25 Broadway, 7th floor.

Marta Gutman teaches architectural and urban history at the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York/CUNY. Dr. Gutman's research focuses on public architecture for children. She has written about New York City's WPA swimming pools (showing how kids racially integrated them), co-edited Designing Modern Childhoods: History, Space and the Material Culture of Children (Rutgers University Press, 2008) and is finishing a new book for the University of Chicago Press. This new work starts at the Gold Rush and spans a hundred-year period to tell the story of California's children and the ways that women repurposed everyday buildings (and pressed the government) to make the world a better place for them. Gutman also edits Buildings & Landscapes for the Vernacular Architecture Forum.