GSAPP Spring 2026 PUBLIC PROGRAMS

**70 speakers, 18 public events, 13 weeks: Spring 2026 at Columbia GSAPP** Contributing to the unique momentum of New York City, GSAPP intensifies Avery Hall as a planetary civic engine and an epicenter for coalitions to forge alliances, transform debate into action, and anticipate change through the built environment. This Spring, GSAPP will convene around 70 of the leading voices from all around the world to think together about the ways in which fair and desirable futures can be enacted through the built environment. Bringing architects, filmmakers, activists, artists, scientists, policymakers, planners, developers, and economists into dialogue and collaboration, this spring’s public program will include: **Emanuel Admassu, Andrea Bagnato, David Benjamin, Tega Brain, Eric Bunge, Fernanda Canales, Rachaporn Choochuey, Beatriz Colomina, Teddy Cruz, Anthony DiMieri, Stan Douglas, Zackary Drucker, Iñaki Echeverria, Harold Fallon, Fonna Forma, Ignacio Galán, Macarena Gómez-Barris, Nu Goteh, Gökçe Günel, Jack Halberstam, Ed Halter, Laurie Hawkinson, Jacques Herzog, Kent Hikida, Mimi Hoang, Steven Holl, Anne Holtrop, Jong Ho Hong, Dean Andrés Jaque, Ziad Jamaleddine, Lydia Kallipoliti, Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt, Kaja Kuehl, Laura Kurgan, Giuseppe Lignano, Jing Liu, Ivan Lopez Munuera, Lu Wenyu, Adam Lubinsky, Mireia Luzáragga, Robert Marino, Thom Mayne, V. Mitch McEwen, Faranak Miraftab, Ijlal Muzaffar, Kate Orff, Alessandro Orsini, Jorge Otero-Pailos, Bart-Jan Polman, Philippe Rahm, Vyjayanthi Rao, Michaeljohn Raftopoulos, Ainslee Alem Robson, Rachely Rotem, Karla Rothstein, Hilary Sample, Debbie Saslaw, Felicity Scott, Deen Sharp, Tom Slater, Galia Solomonoff, Marquise Stillwell, Shirley Surya, Ada Tolla, Marc Tsurumaki, Andrei Vovk, Wang Shu, Mark Wasiuta, Mark Wigley, James Wines, Mabel Wilson, Weiping Wu,** and others. In alignment with the School’s commitment to champion New York City as an experimental architectural capital, the **Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery** will present **PEOPLE CROSS AGAINST THE LIGHT: Michael Sorkin**’s New York. The exhibition, the first critical survey of his work, highlights the uniqueness of Sorkin’s designs and public engagement by showing how his tireless criticism of the hegemonies that shape the city was generative of a specific type of visionary design practice. After last year’s success that brought together eighteen GSAPP faculty to discuss housing and domesticity, **The Kenneth Frampton Endowed Symposium** will return this Spring, this time by addressing urgent ecological questions around re-use, repurposing and recycling with a large group of GSAPP faculty. Acknowledging that the challenges GSAPP addresses are inherently transnational—and that the GSAPP ecosystem itself is globally distributed—the School is launching the **World Actioning Summits**: a platform for intensive, action-driven collaboration between scholars, practitioners, and activists from across the world. The inaugural summit will take place in Seoul and operate as a catalyst for collective thinking, strategic intervention, and transdisciplinary collaboration. Please visit GSAPP’s events calendar for more information and details on spring programming. All events will be livestreamed on GSAPP’s YouTube unless otherwise noted.

70 speakers, 18 public events, 13 weeks: Spring 2026 at Columbia GSAPP

Contributing to the unique momentum of New York City, GSAPP intensifies Avery Hall as a planetary civic engine and an epicenter for coalitions to forge alliances, transform debate into action, and anticipate change through the built environment.

This Spring, GSAPP will convene around 70 of the leading voices from all around the world to think together about the ways in which fair and desirable futures can be enacted through the built environment.

Bringing architects, filmmakers, activists, artists, scientists, policymakers, planners, developers, and economists into dialogue and collaboration, this spring’s public program will include: Emanuel Admassu, Andrea Bagnato, David Benjamin, Tega Brain, Eric Bunge, Fernanda Canales, Rachaporn Choochuey, Beatriz Colomina, Teddy Cruz, Anthony DiMieri, Stan Douglas, Zackary Drucker, Iñaki Echeverria, Harold Fallon, Fonna Forma, Ignacio Galán, Macarena Gómez-Barris, Nu Goteh, Gökçe Günel, Jack Halberstam, Ed Halter, Laurie Hawkinson, Jacques Herzog, Kent Hikida, Mimi Hoang, Steven Holl, Anne Holtrop, Jong Ho Hong, Dean Andrés Jaque, Ziad Jamaleddine, Lydia Kallipoliti, Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt, Kaja Kuehl, Laura Kurgan, Giuseppe Lignano, Jing Liu, Ivan Lopez Munuera, Lu Wenyu, Adam Lubinsky, Mireia Luzáragga, Robert Marino, Thom Mayne, V. Mitch McEwen, Faranak Miraftab, Ijlal Muzaffar, Kate Orff, Alessandro Orsini, Jorge Otero-Pailos, Bart-Jan Polman, Philippe Rahm, Vyjayanthi Rao, Michaeljohn Raftopoulos, Ainslee Alem Robson, Rachely Rotem, Karla Rothstein, Hilary Sample, Debbie Saslaw, Felicity Scott, Deen Sharp, Tom Slater, Galia Solomonoff, Marquise Stillwell, Shirley Surya, Ada Tolla, Marc Tsurumaki, Andrei Vovk, Wang Shu, Mark Wasiuta, Mark Wigley, James Wines, Mabel Wilson, Weiping Wu, and others.

In alignment with the School’s commitment to champion New York City as an experimental architectural capital, the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery will present PEOPLE CROSS AGAINST THE LIGHT: Michael Sorkin’s New York. The exhibition, the first critical survey of his work, highlights the uniqueness of Sorkin’s designs and public engagement by showing how his tireless criticism of the hegemonies that shape the city was generative of a specific type of visionary design practice.
After last year’s success that brought together eighteen GSAPP faculty to discuss housing and domesticity, The Kenneth Frampton Endowed Symposium will return this Spring, this time by addressing urgent ecological questions around re-use, repurposing and recycling with a large group of GSAPP faculty. Acknowledging that the challenges GSAPP addresses are inherently transnational—and that the GSAPP ecosystem itself is globally distributed—the School is launching the World Actioning Summits: a platform for intensive, action-driven collaboration between scholars, practitioners, and activists from across the world. The inaugural summit will take place in Seoul and operate as a catalyst for collective thinking, strategic intervention, and transdisciplinary collaboration.
Please visit GSAPP’s events calendar for more information and details on spring programming. All events will be livestreamed on GSAPP’s YouTube unless otherwise noted.

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