Faculty Leopold Banchini discusses his Shelter Cookbook.

Shelter Cookbook is an exploration of Lloyd Kahn’s now iconic publications by Faculty Leopold Banchini and Lukas Feireiss. It relates Kahn’s building philosophy to contemporary practices, recording Banchini and Feireiss’ personal search for unexpected relationships between historical documents and contemporary architectural projects. The large-format volume includes interviews, photo spreads and archival material on self-building, and also includes a mycological investigation.

• Faculty Mireia Luzárraga (TAKK), together with Alejandro Muiño, inaugurate their commissioned installation for The Architectural League’s 2026 Beaux Arts Ball.

• Director of MSAAD Lydia Kallipoliti and Kaushik Prashar ’26 MSAAD publish the article, “The Secret Sounds of Avery Hall,” in Materia Arquitectura 30: Beyond Occupants.

• Faculty Juan Herreros (estudioHerreros) inaugurates the Space for the Alkar Contemporary Art Collection in Bilbao, Spain.

• Faculty Mary McLeod, Andrea Merrett ‘20 Ph.D. Arch, Alexandra Quantrill '17 Ph.D. Arch, and Roberta Washington '71 M.Arch join the panel, “The Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture, 1960–2020,” at the Center for Architecture.

• Faculty Ziad Jamaleddine’s (L.E.FT Architects) project, Ard al-Sahn, is featured in the Architect’s Newspaper.

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

• Faculty Kate Orff and Thaddeus Pawlowski join the conversation, “City Living: Reimagining Urban Ecology in a Changing World,” at Columbia Maison Française.

• Director of Ph.D. in UP Tom Slater is named among the world’s most cited scientists in the 2026 Stanford Elsevier List.

• Faculty Hugo Sarmiento joins the keynote discussion, “Climate Resilience for Whom? Displacement, Activism and Resistance at the Water’s Edge,” in Lima, Peru.

• Director of MSAAD Lydia Kallipoliti delivers a lecture, “The Fecal Imaginary,” for the World Ecologies in Formation Symposium, at the Yale School of Architecture, October 30.