This week at GSAPP operates as an intense ecology of events. It culminates in the Inaugural Columbia GSAPP Terence Riley Summit, which brings more than twenty curators from around the world to Avery Hall to consider how exhibitions build alliances, mobilize publics, recode environments, and assert architecture as a material and political practice.

The Inaugural Columbia GSAPP Terence Riley Summit will create a worldwide convening to establish a forum where curators of the built environment from around the world can share their experiences, experimentation, and methodologies in an afternoon of public conversations. The Summit pays homage to Terence Riley ’82 MSAUD, whose influential career started at the GSAPP Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery.

The Summit will bring together those whose work is transforming how the built environment is critically mobilized, debated, challenged, and intervened upon. Participants include: Noura Al-Sayeh Holtrop (BACA); Renato Anelli (São Paulo Architecture Biennial); Paola Antonelli (MoMA); Charles Aubin (Centre Pompidou x Jersey City); Omar Degan (Pan African Biennale); Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher (SFMOMA); José Esparza (Storefront for Art and Architecture); Beatrice Galilee (The World Around); Shelley Hayreh (Avery Archives); Nikolaus Hirsch (CIVA, e-flux); Jean Im (GSAPP); Andrés Jaque (GSAPP); Justin McGuirk (Design Museum); Ewan McEoin (National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne); Manuela Moscoso (CARA); Maria Nicanor (Cooper Hewitt); Bart-Jan Polman (GSAPP); Florencia Rodriguez (Chicago Architecture Biennial); Raymund Ryan (Carnegie Museum); Felicity Scott (GSAPP); Martino Stierli (MoMA); Irene Sunwoo (Art Institute of Chicago); Abraham Thomas (The Metropolitan Museum of Art); Ikko Yokoyama (M+); Stéphanie Quantin (Centre Pompidou).

Organized jointly with The World Around.

Yves Béhar is the founder and CEO of Fuseproject, a San Francisco-based design and innovation studio. He has launched over 100 early-stage ventures and developed products for brands such as Samsung, Herman Miller, and L’Oréal. His work is rooted in the belief that design accelerates the adoption of new ideas, shaping products that transform how we live.