June marks a new cycle at GSAPP. Newly arrived students in the MS programs in Advanced Architectural Design, Architecture and Urban Design, and Real Estate Development begin their engagement with the School. Later in the month, incoming students in the MS in Computational Design Practices program will join GSAPP’s ecosystem, further expanding exchanges across programs.

Event highlights this month include lectures organized by the MSAAD and MSAUD programs, as well as programming by the Office of Development and Alumni Relations, including the annual All GSAPP Alumni Party. Many of these events are recorded and available on YouTube. For a complete overview, visit the GSAPP events calendar.

Blooming through over 1,000 student work from across all Columbia GSAPP programs, this year’s End of Year Show continues the School’s tradition of displaying works that push the boundaries of the fields of architecture, urbanism, preservation, and real estate.

The exhibition extends both physically and digitally. The online exhibition can be visited here.

The MSAAD Arguments lecture series returns this summer, where students learn to engage critically with contemporary practice and discourse during their first semester at GSAPP. Each invited guest shares a critical text in advance, and convenes a diverse group of speakers whose work addresses urgent environmental, political, and social challenges.

The MSAUD Designing for Action lecture series convenes leading voices across architecture, landscape, planning, and public policy to examine how design can address the urgent challenges facing New York City. Curated by Sagi Golan, the series highlights practitioners and civic leaders whose work engages post-industrial sites and soft infrastructures, climate adaptation, transportation redevelopment, ecological repair, and play.

This month, GSAPP alumni across generations reconnect on June 12 including ‘76 M.Arch, '16 MSAAD, '06 MSAAD, '86 ARCH, '06 M.Arch, '11 MSHP, '11 MSRED, '16 MSUP, '21 MSRED, '91 M.Arch/MSAAD, '21 MSAAD, '16 MSRED, '01 ARCH, alongside a gathering in San Diego, June 11, and Tuesday Talks, June 9 and June 23.

The 2026 GSAPP Annual Alumni Party, the largest alumni event of the year, is open to graduates of all programs and will be held at the Museum of the City of New York.

Built in 1932 by architect Joseph Friedlander, the Museum of the City of New York underwent a 9-year renovation completed in 3 phases by Ennead. Project leads included former Dean James S. Polshek, Joanne Sliker ‘77 M.Arch, Aaron Cattani '00 M.Arch, and Joshua Frankel '99 M.Arch. Historic Preservation was completed by Li Saltzman Architects, Judith L. Saltzman '79 MSHP.

• Faculty Mireia Luzárraga (TAKK) designs “Circus,” a new dancefloor installation for the HORST Arts & Music Festival 2026.

• GSAPP ecosystem is featured in Pin-Up‘s “NYC ARCHITECTS” and “40 HOUSES” including Dean Andres Jaque; Dean Emirtus Amale Andraos; Faculty Emanuel Admassu, Jayden Ali, Mimi Hoang, Steven Holl, Nahyun Hwang, Jing Liu, LOT-EK, Phillipe Rahm, Hilary Sample, Sumayya Vally, Mabel O. Wilson, Laura Gonzalez Fierro; and Alumni Ashely Kuo ('18 M.Arch), Andrea Chiney ('18 M.Arch), James Slade (’ 94 March), and Jen Wood (‘12 MSAAD), amongst others.

• Faculty Andrew S. Dolkart ('77 MSHP) and three other HP grads are honored as Pillars of New York by the Preservation League of New York State for their work co-founding the NYC LGBTQ Historic Sites Project.

• Faculty Sebastian Adamo (adamo-faiden) designs the display for the exhibition The fortune of the city is that it has never been perfect at the Canadian Centre for Architecture.

• Faculty Ibrahim Kombarji designs the display for “A Necessary Fiction,” a Venice Biennale 2026 collateral exhibition presented by the Saudi Ministry of Culture and curated by Sara Almutlaq (‘20 M.Arch). Work done with Bianca Pedron and Aurora Fonda.

• Faculty Anthony Vanky is interviewed by Atmos Magazine on a story about sensing and cyborg botany.

• Faculty Emanuel Admassu (AD-WO) and Jen Wood '12 MSAAD (AD-WO) collaborate with artist Olalekan Jeyifous on the installation Ancestral Ecologies, on view at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

• Dean Andrés Jaque is interviewed by DesignBoom in “'utopia is growing within the cracks’: andrés jaque on possibility as architectural system”.

• Faculty Amelyn Ng ‘19 CCCP, Faculty Gabriel Vergara '19 MSAUD, and Christine Giorgio '19 MARCH (Friends Making Work) present their exhibition DEPAVE: An Ecological Repair of the Ground at the Center for Architecture.

• The Affirmation Stools, created at the Natural Materials Lab and commissioned by Dean Andrés Jaque and Bart-Jan Polman, are exhibited at the 2026 ICFF at the Javits Center in New York City.

• Faculty Hiba Bou Akar joins the conversation “Anticipation” as part of the series Staying with the Trouble: Conversations around Architecture Otherwise, curated by Vyjayanthi Rao for the Sharjah Architecture Triennial (SAT03).

Pictured student work: Levan Kiladze, Omar Ismail + Didier Lucceus, Bernardo Malatesta + Keenan Bellisari, Jana Marinovic, Ellie Madsen, Mika Yassur, Andrew Seungho Yang + Guan-Yo Siao + Yoon Ah Kim, Minjae Kim + Hyunyoung Kim + Danielle Min, Zach Poncher, Siyuan Yao, Brandi Reed, Yuka Imada, Wei Li, Ben Spears + Annie An, Mengxi Xin, Christopher Sherman, and Jes Zhang.