Kenneth Frampton Endowed Lecture

The annual Kenneth Frampton Endowed Lecture series will feature a conversation among Sumayya Vally, founder of the Johannesburg and London-based design research practice Counterspace; Professor of Professional Practice Mario Gooden; and Assistant Professor Ziad Jamaleddine.

Sumayya Vally’s design, research, and pedagogical practice searches for expression for hybrid identities and territory, particularly for African and Islamic conditions. Her design process is often forensic, and draws on the aural, performance, the supernatural, and the overlooked as generative places of history and work. This is best demonstrated in the Islamic Arts Biennale, an initiative spearheaded by the Diriyah Biennale Foundation, which she artistically directed.

The Kenneth Frampton Endowed Lecture Series is an annual lecture given at Columbia GSAPP by a distinguished architect scholar honoring Ware Professor Emeritus Kenneth Frampton for his lifetime of teaching and research.

• In dialogue with What Black Is This, You Say?, the long-term public artwork by Chicago-based artist Amanda Williams at Storefront for Art and Architecture, an evening of readings, propositions, conversations, and musings on the plurality, complexity, and nuance of Black experience(s) will be presented on the evening of April 26 in the Great Hall at Cooper Union (7 E 7th St, New York, NY). Organized collaboratively by Storefront and The Cooper Union, this symposium will feature Professor Mabel O. Wilson ‘91 M.Arch and Adjunct Associate Professor Justin Garrett Moore '04 M.Arch MSAUD in a panel with Amanda Williams moderated by Deana Haggag as well as a keynote by Andres L. Hernandez, a reading by J Wortham, and musical performance by Jamila Woods. Details and RSVP here.

• This past weekend, Dean Andrés Jaque and Dominic Leong '03 MSAAD delivered presentations at The World Around Summit hosted at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Watch a recording here.

• Professor Juan Herreros delivered the lecture “Dissident Strategies: Inhabiting Another Planet” at the Universidad de Los Lagos on April 24. Watch a recording here.

A new issue of the Avery Review is out now! Issue 61 features two essays from the Avery Review’s Open Call for Essays on the Concrete and Conceptual Caribbean and two essays evaluating the politics of abolition. It includes reviews of A Noami Paik’s Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the Twenty-First Century, Barbuda’s communal relation to land, the transatlantic counter-monument, and Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation. Urgent, critical, and antagonistic, each piece overwrites particular histories, policies, narratives, and imaginaries that sustain violent patterns of displacement and enclosure—challenging their seeming inexorability. Read the essays from Esra Akcan, Line Algoed and Antonio Carmona Báez, Julia Michiko Hori, and Alison Rose Reed here.

Introduction to Architecture is a five-week intensive summer program offering university credit to allow students to explore architecture, urban planning, or historic preservation. The next session will take place from July 5 – August 4, 2023. Students participating in the architecture track will be able to participate both online and in person; students enrolled in the urban planning and historic preservation tracks participate on an in-person basis.

Applications for the 2023 Intro to Architecture program are now open and are being reviewed on a rolling basis through early June 2023. Learn more.

Image credit: Work by Jingping Wu, Dora Hauache, and Rubasch Logan.