Students are invited to Cloud Party on Avery Plaza tonight at 7PM. Join for a DJ set, pizza, drinks and more to celebrate The Cloud pavilion!

Lecture by Minsuk Cho ‘92 M.Arch of MASS Studies, with response by Ada Tolla (GSAPP, LOT-EK) and Wonne Ickx (GSAPP, PRODUCTORA).

Minsuk Cho founded the Seoul-based firm Mass Studies in 2003 with a commitment to advancing the discourse of architecture through socio-cultural and urban research, and built works that have been recognized globally. His projects are research-based to respond to specific urban and societal contexts, and include the Pixel House, Missing Matrix, Korea Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010, Dome-ino, the Daejeon University Student Dormitory, Space K Museum, Pace Gallery Seoul, the Won Buddhism Wonnam Temple, the renovation and extension of the French Embassy in Korea, and the 2024 Serpentine Pavilion Archipelagic Void. Cho also co-curated the 2011 Gwangju Design Biennale and was the commissioner and co-curator of the Korean Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Biennale, which was awarded a Gold Lion. In 2014, PLATEAU Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, highlighted his work in the solo exhibition “Before/After: Mass Studies Does Architecture.”

One-day summit organized by Laura Kurgan, Director of the Masters of Science in Computational Design Practices Program and co-sponsored by the AI Activation Network and the Data Science Institute at Columbia University.

Widespread access to generative AI is changing design practices as we speak. ACTIONING SUMMIT 3 asks how this is happening and how to evaluate it – politically, socially, technically. Participants include Laura Kurgan (GSAPP), David Benjamin (GSAPP, The Living), Lydia Chilton (Columbia Engineering), Seth Cluett (Columbia Computer Music Center), Nikhil Garg (Cornell Tech), Mark Hansen (Brown Institute for Media Innovation), Maya Indira Ganesh (University of Cambridge), Catherine Griffiths (GSAPP), Dan Miller (GSAPP), Vernelle Noel (Carnegie Mellon), Emanuel Admassu (GSAPP), Gia Jung (Google Delve), William Martin and Violet Whitney (GSAPP, Spatial Pixel), Dan Taeyoung (GSAPP), Richard The (Parsons, The GreenEyl), Adam Vosburgh (GSAPP), Christopher Munsell (GSAPP, APRE Consulting), Nneka Sobers (New York City Innovation Team), Anthony Vanky (GSAPP), Sarah Williams (MIT), Snoweria Zhang (GSAPP), Kate Crawford (USC, Microsoft Research)

The ACTIONING SUMMITS are curated by Andrés Jaque, Dean, and Bart-Jan Polman, Director of Exhibitions and Public Programming and Curator of the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery.

• Faculty Mario Gooden’s ballet collaboration “InterBlack Exit” with choreographer Houston Thomas and composer Jonathan Bingham premieres at the Ballet Collectives fall season entitled “The Entrance is the Exit.“ October 20–November 1, 2024. Learn more and reserve tickets.

• Azure Magazine’s Climate Issue features the ‘Rambla Climate-House’ by Dean Andrés Jaque/ OFFPOLINN on the cover followed by and interview, “Other Scales, Other Species” with Dean Jaque
• Congratulations faculty Jorge Otero-Pailos and team on winning Oslo’s two most prestigious architecture awards: The OMA Awards in the category ‘Transformation Project of the Year’ and The City of Oslo’s Architecture Prize (Oslo bys arkitekturpris) for their preservation of Eero Saarinen’s former US Embassy in Norway
• Faculty Ziad Jamaleddine’s firm L.E.FT receives a 2024 LOOP Design Award for Pratt House: The Office of Religious and Spiritual Life and Contemplative Practices at Vassar College