The first WORKS session discusses the HIGH LINE with its key contributors: James Corner (Field Operations) and Elizabeth Diller (DS+R, Princeton), among others.

WORKS is a new series that throughout the upcoming semesters will discuss a selection of projects that have contributed to the production of realities through the mobilization of resources, agendas and constituencies; by connecting distant scales and actors; and as active components within broader social, ecological, cultural, and political transformations.

Faculty Ziad Jamaleddine (GSAPP, L.E.FT Architects) reflects on his book, At the Edge of Where God Built, a critical examination of L.E.FT Architects’ diverse body of work from the past decade, with speakers Waleed Arafa (DAA), Nebahat Avcıoğlu (Hunter College), Iheb Guermazi (USC), Nasser Rabbat (MIT), Kishwar Rizvi (Yale), Avinoam Shalem (Columbia Department of Art History & Archaeology), and Faculty Sumayya Vally (GSAPP, counter-space).

Thomas Keenan, Hito Steyerl, and Co-Director of MSCCCP Mark Wasiuta discuss the role of “the document” in their work. This event takes place on the occasion of the launch of Mark Wasiuta’s book, The Archival Exhibition: A Decade of Research at the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, 2006–2016, published by Columbia Books on Architecture and the City.

The second WORKS session discusses the NINGBO HISTORY MUSEUM with Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu (Amateur Architecture Studio), co-curators of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2027.

Faculty Emanuel Admassu and Olalekan Jeyifous deliver the Fall Open House Lecture, followed by a conversation with Dean Andrés Jaque.

Emanuel Admassu (’12 MSAAD, ’13 AAR) is a founding partner of
AD—WO. His work explores the intersections of spatial justice and urbanism, with a special focus on the African continent and the African diaspora.

Olalekan Jeyifous is an artist exploring the intersections of architecture, community, and the environment through inventive visual storytelling.

Faculty Leopold Banchini discusses Shelter Cookbook.

Shelter Cookbook, by Leopold Banchini and Lukas Feireiss, relates Kahn’s building philosophy to contemporary architectural practices. The large-format volume includes interviews, photo spreads, archival material on self-building, and a mycological investigation.

This month, GSAPP alumni connect worldwide with events in San Francisco October 15, Los Angeles October 19, Miami October 27, and Indianapolis October 28.

• Faculty Hilary Sample (MOS) inaugurates the pavilion, A Dome with Four Oculi, at the Art Omi campus.

• Dalia Hamati ‘11 MArch is appointed curator for the National Pavilion of the UAE at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2027.

• Skye Duncan '07 MSAUD is named in the Time Next 100.

• Faculty Ziad Jamaleddine (L.E.FT Architects) inaugurates a permanent urban intervention during Amman Design Week. The project is a new public space connecting a mosque with its surrounding neighborhood.

• GSAPP alumni featured in Amman Design Week include Sarah Hejazin ’21 MSAAD and Bisher Tabba ’22 MArch (FADAA), Farah Alkhoury ’21 MSAAD and Tigran Kostandya ’17 MSAAD, Jumana Abbas ’20 MSCCCP, Mariam Jacob ’24 MArch (Studio 402), and Uthra Varghese ’20 MSAAD (UT-R Studio).

• Dean Andrés Jaque is featured in Monocle.

• Director of MSHP Jorge Otero-Pailos opens his solo show, “Capitol Collective,” at Zane Bennett Gallery.

• Faculty Hiba Bou Akar joins a conversation reflecting on the 2026 Sharjah Architecture Triennial at the Storefront for Art and Architecture.

• Director of MSAAD Lydia Kallipoliti publishes the article, “The Matter of Fatberg,” in FRIEZE magazine issue 261.

• Faculty Mark Wasiuta hosts a book launch and conversation on the occasion of The Archival Exhibition.

• Faculty Michael Wang joins a conversation at times to reflect on his work, Future Sugarbush, at the Medina Triennial 2026: All That Sustains Us.

• Faculty Catherine Griffiths delivers a lecture at the Digital Life Initiative at Cornell Tech.

• Faculty Amelyn Ng ‘19 MSCCCP, Christine Giorgio '19 MArch, and Faculty Gabriel Vergara '19 MSAUD (Friends Making Work) exhibit Re-Grounding the Archive at the Van Alen Institute.

• Kyong Kim ‘15 MArch is a 2026 MacDowell Fellow for Architecture.

• Faculty Mireia Luzárraga and Philippe Rahm participate in a conversation, INTERIOR ECOLOGIES, for Climate Week.

• Faculty Mabel Wilson joins the A is for Architecture Podcast to discuss the new publication, Thinking from Black: A Lexicon.

• The Nature Conservancy Hong Kong interviews Faculty Kate Orff for Climate Week.

• Faculty Sumayya Vally and Ziad Jamaleddine are featured in “Let the Majlis be a Majlis,” an article by Faculty Ibrahim Kombarji and Maii Hassan ’26 CCCP, published in ICON MENA, reconsidering the majlis as a contemporary spatial and social practice.

• MArch 1 students design bodily architectures that respond to toxicity, amplify the senses, and explore more-than-human capacities and subjectivity. Student Work by Sol Kim ‘29 MArch, Fanny Osorio Saldana '29 MArch, and Layali Almoaibed '29 MArch.