This month, GSAPP welcomes speakers for in person lectures and events on topics including housing, infrastructure, citizenship, climate, and more. Guest speakers include Marina Tabassum (Marina Tabassum Architects), Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi (Barnard College), Kate Orff (GSAPP, SCAPE), Minsuk Cho (Mass Studies), and others.

Please scroll down and visit the online events calendar for more information.

Columbia University campus is open to Columbia affiliates with a valid CUID and to pre-approved guests. The general public may register in advance through the link on each event page to request campus access.

With Carles Baiges (Lacol), Ada Colau, Renato Cymbalista (FICA), and Barika Williams (ANHD)

Interventions by Juan Herreros (GSAPP, estudio Herreros), Adam Lubinsky (GSAPP, WXY), Hilary Sample (GSAPP, MOS), and Tom Slater (GSAPP)

The ACTIONING SUMMITS are an unprecedented effort to affirm how architecture, planning, development, and preservation are anticipating desirable and alternative futures.

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.

• Feminist Spatial Practices (co-founded by faculty Bryony Roberts and Abriannah Aiken ‘22 AAD) is launching a new interactive online platform that celebrates the diverse ways that people practice feminism in the built environment. At the launch event, members of Feminist Spatial Practices (including many GSAPP alumni) will introduce the interactive archive, and guest speakers featured within the platform—Marisa Morán Jahn, A.L. Hu, Diana Agrest, and Jerome Haferd—will share their work on intersectional gender equity in the built environment. Tuesday, October 8, 7-8:30 PM at the e-flux screening room, Brooklyn. RSVP.
  
• Edges of Ailey at the Whitney Museum features 18-channel video installation by Kya Lou and faculty Josh Begley. On view from September 25–February 9, 2025.

• Faculty Lydia Kallipoliti‘s new book Histories of Ecological Design: An Unfinished Cyclopedia (Actar, 2024) reviewed by The Architect’s Newspaper.

• Dark Space: Architecture Representation Black Identity (Columbia University Press, 2016) by faculty Mario Gooden included in the exhibition, “Artists Making Books: Pages of Refuge,” at the American Academy, Rome on view from September 26–December 7, 2024.

• Faculty Mimi Hoang is one of five of the newest honorees of the Women in Architecture Design Leadership Awards by Architectural Record, joining more than 50 design leaders in this tradition of honoring exceptional women leaders.

• Faculty Andrew Dolkart will be honored as the inaugural awardee of the Mumford Award by Landmarks West recognizing an individual dedicated to the urban environment of New York City.