ALUMNI NEWS & EVENTS -
JUNE EDITION
Dear GSAPP Alumni and Friends,
On June 14, nearly 500 GSAPP Alumni from around the world, programs, and generations gathered at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall for the 2024 All Alumni Party. Earlier in the day, GSAPP hosted the annual Doryan Winkelman ‘86 MSRED endowed lecture, featuring Kent Yang '96 MSRED as well as reunion luncheons for the classes of 1994 MSAAD, 2004 MSUP, 2004 MSRED, and 2014 MSRED. A big thank you to all the alumni who attended and made it a special day, with a special note of gratitude to our Reunion Leaders and GSAPP Alumni Board.
As we close the year at Columbia GSAPP, we invite you to remain active in the life of the school as a volunteer. Please consider joining one of our popular programs: Tuesday Talks, Student-Alumni Mentorship Programs, Reunion Class Representative, and Regional Ambassadors. Interested in being involved? Learn more here or email gsappalumni@columbia.edu for additional information.
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Columbia GSAPP Alumni Scholarship Fund
GSAPP students and alumni are united in their passion to positively impact the world through the built environment. Each year, alumni have generously come together to support current students to help them put complete focus on their studies while at GSAPP.
As we close the year, we hope you will join us in supporting students by contributing to one of these funds: the Alumni Scholarship Fund or the Student Emergency Fund, which helps students with urgent financial needs that cannot be addressed by any other sources. Make a gift today.
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GRAHAM FOUNDATION 2024 GRANTS TO INDIVIDUALS INCLUDES 6 GSAPP ALUMNI
Congratulations to the GSAPP alumni included in the Graham Foundation’s 2024 Grants to Individuals cycle.
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Alumni News
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Joel Towers ‘90 M.Arch was recently appointed as the tenth President of The New School and will assume his role on August 1, 2024. President-elect Towers is currently a University Professor of Architecture and Sustainable Design at Parsons School of Design in The School of Constructed Environments. His work focuses on sustainability, resilience, and the development of policy and design-based solutions to climate change and the construction of healthy environments.
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Erica Avrami ‘88 CC '93 MSHP, the James Marston Fitch Assistant Professor of Historic Preservation at GSAPP, has been appointed by President Biden as a new Expert Member of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) for a term ending June 2028. Read the full press release here.
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Carmelo Ignaccolo ’17 MSAUD has recently completed his Ph.D. in Urban Planning, Design and Technology at MIT, where he was awarded with the 2024 “Outstanding Dissertation Award” by the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. He is now an incoming full-time faculty at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy (Rutgers University, NJ), where he will serve as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Policy Development, focusing on Urban Design, Technology, and Climate.
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Carly Bond ‘06 MSHP was appointed the Associate Director for Architectural History and Historic Preservation for the Smithsonian Institution’s Office of Planning, Design, and Construction. Carly serves as the Smithsonian’s Federal Preservation Officer, and oversees capital projects, Section 106 compliance, and contracts for architectural conservation and historic preservation services. Carly is dedicated to public service through historic preservation and stewardship of the Smithsonian’s diverse collection of historic buildings.
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Spatial Computing Publishing Project
E-flux launched Spatial Computing, a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and the MSCDP Program edited by e-flux Architecture and GSAPP’s Laura Kurgan ‘88 M.Arch and Adam Vosburgh '22 M.Arch. Between now and the end of June, 6 contributing writers share essays on the digital and physical boundaries of spatial computing. In the editorial statement editors posit that approaching spatial computing critically might help to understand where and how things, people, animals, plants, and movements are tied to these bigger, less visible systems—ones that are perhaps not “seen” on the map but are guided by it.
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Sandhya Naidu Janardhan ‘08 MSAAD has been awarded the Berkeley Rupp Prize 2024-25. The prize is awarded to women architects to recognize and support the special values they bring to the built environment.
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