John Foerster ‘64 Fund Lecture: Jacques Herzog
April 23, 6:30pm
Wood Auditorium
This Academic Year’s John Foerster ‘64 Fund Lecture will be delivered by Jacques Herzog (Herzog & de Meuron), who will be in conversation with Dean Andrés Jaque.
Jacques Herzog studied architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ) with Aldo Rossi and Dolf Schnebli from 1970 to 1975. Together with Pierre de Meuron, he established Herzog & de Meuron in Basel in 1978. In 1983, Jacques Herzog was a visiting professor at Cornell University College of Architecture, Art and Planning (AAP), USA. Both Founding Partners were visiting professors at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD), USA, in 1989 and from 1994 to 2014, and have been professors at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) – Department of Architecture, Network City and Landscape, from 1999 until 2018. They co-founded the ETH Studio Basel – Contemporary City Institute, a research program with a focus on the processes of transformation in the urban domain. In 2016, both were given Honorary Doctorates from the Royal College of Art; in 2018, from the Technical University of Munich; and in 2000 they were awarded Honorary Doctor of Political Science degrees from the University of Basel.
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Preservation Lecture Series: Alberto Sanchez Sanchez
April 22, 1pm
300 Buell S
Alberto Sánchez Sánchez is an architect, preservationist, and educator specializing in the intersection of historic preservation and rural development. He holds a professional degree in architecture from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, an MS in Historic Preservation from Columbia University, and a PhD in Architecture from UC Berkeley. A licensed architect in Spain, he has worked with the World Monuments Fund and co-founded the rural heritage nonprofit Asociación Fuset in 2021. A finalist for the 2023 Princesa de Girona Arts and Letters Award, his current research is supported by a Fundación BBVA Leonardo Grant. He lives between Madrid and Used (Zaragoza), where he organizes annual workshops on traditional building techniques. His work has been featured in international media such as El País, Diário de Notícias, Monocle, and Deutsche Welle.
More than Just a Casa: Imagining Rural Futures through Preservation
In this lecture, Dr. Sánchez Sánchez (MSHP ’16) presents his ongoing work to restore a dilapidated seventeenth-century manor in his hometown of Used (Zaragoza, Spain). Building on his master’s thesis and doctoral research, this project of experimental preservation repositions the discipline as a process-driven practice. Rather than focusing solely on the outcomes of material restoration, it foregrounds the social, cultural, and economic dynamics generated through the long-term engagement of preservationists with diverse publics—from local residents to international practitioners, experts, and volunteers. Combining qualitative and quantitative insights, the talk demonstrates how heritage can operate as a catalyst for development, fostering new forms of collective knowledge, identity, and economic opportunity in rural Spain and beyond.
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B–SIDE Issue 2 (Ephemeral Conditions) Launch Event
April 20, 6:30pm
Avery 115
Join us for the launch of the second issue of B–SIDE. This spring, we engage with the ephemeral where we look at fleeting moments, passing atmospheres, and the traces they leave behind. This issue gathers photographic reflections on what is unstable, temporary, and often overlooked, asking how we might attend more closely to impermanence, and the quiet conditions of everyday life.
(Ephemeral Conditions) features contributions from Xiaoxi Chen, Karla Rothstein, Amelyn Ng and LOT-EK, along with GSAPP students.
B–SIDE is a student-run experimental publication at Columbia GSAPP that turns toward spaces beside architecture, attending the margins. It foregrounds overlooked influences, minor practices, and adjacent disciplines, opening architectural discourse to wider voices, methods, and ways of seeing.
B–SIDE is supported by the MS AAD Advanced Architectural Design Program.
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QAH Film Series presents Chungking Express
April 22, 6:30pm
Wood Auditorium
Join us for food, refreshments, and conversation.
The whiplash, double-pronged Chungking Express is one of the defining works of 1990s cinema and the film that made Wong Kar Wai an instant icon. Two heartsick Hong Kong cops (Takeshi Kaneshiro and Tony Leung Chiu Wai), both jilted by ex-lovers, cross paths at the Midnight Express take-out food stand, where the ethereal pixie waitress Faye (Faye Wong) works. Anything goes in Wong’s gloriously shot and utterly unexpected charmer, which cemented the sex appeal of its gorgeous stars and forever turned canned pineapple and the Mamas & the Papas’ “California Dreamin’ ” into tokens of romantic longing.
Curated by QAH PhD Teaching Fellows
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Alumni Connections in Detroit
April 25, 6:30pm
BESA Detroit
Join us on Saturday, April 25th from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. for a private cocktail reception for GSAPP Urban Planning Program after the American Planning Association’s 2026 National Planning Conference in Detroit at BESA. During the annual conference, thousands of planning professionals come together to discuss current issues, trends, challenges, and solutions that are shaping planning today. We invite all Columbia GSAPP alumni attending NPC26 to attend the reception!
This cocktail reception is organized by Professor Weiping Wu, Vice Provost for Academic Programs, and Professor and Director of the M.S. in Urban Planning program.
Hosted by the GSAPP Office of Development and Alumni Relations.
Please register below.
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NEWS
Alum Fuensanta Nieto is named member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando Dean Emirita Amale Andraos (WORKac) receives the Academic Excellence Award from the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation. |
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