• Columbia Books on the Architecture and the City (CBAC) exhibits 21 publications at the NY Art Book Fair, including its newest publications States of Emergency and Material Variance.

The 2026 Fitch Colloquium, organized by Columbia GSAPP’s Historic Preservation Program and the MoMA Department of Architecture and Design, explores contemporary preservation practices in western Africa and the ways they have grappled with the architectural and cultural legacies of independence and decolonization.

Speakers include Jeanne Autran-Edorh and Fabiola Büchele, Stephen Angus Battle, Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann, Ishanlosen Odiaua, Ikem Okoye, Prita Meier, Francis Sossah, and Martino Stierli. Moderation and responses by Jorge Otero-Pailos, Lucia Allais, Erica Avrami, and Mabel Wilson.

Tuesday Talks provides GSAPP students with the opportunity to engage with the wider alumni community for informative mentorship during the Fall semester.

• GSAPP Ph.D. Candidate Beril Sarisakal co-curates the Türkiye Pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2027.

• Dean Andrés Jaque and Faculty Galia Solomonoff participate in the Buenos Aires International Architecture Biennial.

• Faculty Mireia Luzárraga (TAKK) designs the commissioned installation for The Architectural League’s Beaux Arts Ball 2026: Home Sweet Home.

• Faculty Lola Ben-Alon publishes the essay, “Sun-Developed Matter, or, The Raw Transformations of Soils and Plants,” in the A–D VOL 96.3 The New Heliomorphism. (pictured)

• Director of M.Arch Marc Tsurumaki publishes the essay, “Straw Tectonics,” in the A–D VOL 96.3 The New Heliomorphism.

• Faculty Dimitra Tsachrelia Holl delivers a lecture in conversation with Hannah Feniak, Architizer’s Editor in Chief, September 29.

• Faculty Ziad Jamaleddine delivers a lecture on his book, “At the Edge of Where God Built,” at the Columbia Global Center’s Amman Week, September 30.