We welcome all new and returning GSAPP students to Columbia’s Morningside Campus for an exciting Fall 2018 Semester. Conferences include discussions on housing, the environment, and questions on power and infrastructure in response to Hurricane Maria. Below is a small selection of highlights – please visit the website calendar for the full schedule.

GSAPP Exhibitions is collaborating with the Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library to present Model Projections, an exhibition that investigates the complex pathways between architecture and its representations through an examination of the practice of model making. Mark your calendars for the September 27 opening at the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery.

New titles from the school’s imprint, Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, include Tatiana Bilbao’s A House Is Not Just a House and Enrique Walker’s The Ordinary. Don’t miss the the book sale in Avery Hall on September 6!

This day-long conference assesses the current state of housing in North America through a combination of case-studies and expanded thematic discussions among architects, academics, and advocates.

Participants include: Jorge Ambrosi, Michael Bell, Tatiana Bilbao, David Brody, Fernanda Canales, Gabriela Etchegaray, Adam Frampton, Simon Hartmann, Hans Ibelings, Lisa Chun Lee, Reinhold Martin, Marc Norman, Anna Puigjaner, Lorcan O'Herlihy, and Brigitte Shim. Organized by Hilary Sample.

Free and open to the public, but registration is recommended for all attendees and required for those seeking AIA Credit or equivalent CES credits. AIA CES 8.

Drawing primarily upon the special collections of the Department of Drawings and Archives at Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, Model Projections focuses on an ecosystem of architectural model making during the mid-twentieth century. It features original photographs, correspondence, and ephemera from the archives of architects Harvey Wiley Corbett and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; photographer Louis Checkman; and especially the pioneering model maker Theodore Conrad. The exhibition also includes models and archival material from outside institutions, including The Museum of Modern Art, as well as original model accessories, fragments, and scale objects from Conrad’s workshop.

September 6, 12pm to 2pm
300 Mezzanine, Avery Hall

Stop by our book sale to see new and recent titles from Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, including:

A House Is Not Just a House by Tatiana Bilbao traces her diverse work on housing ranging from large-scale social projects to single-family luxury homes. The book includes a recent GSAPP lecture by Bilbao, as well as reflections from fellow practitioners and scholars, including Amale Andraos, Gabriela Etchegaray, Hilary Sample, and Ivonne Santoyo-Orozco.

The Ordinary by Enrique Walker is organized around conversations with the authors of three seminal texts that document the city—Denise Scott Brown’s Learning from Las Vegas (1972), Rem Koolhaas’s Delirious New York (1978), and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto’s Made in Tokyo (2001).