This week, architect Shohei Shigematsu talks about OMA New York’s recent projects, urban planning scholar Paavo Monkkonen discusses how state governments can intervene in local opposition to new housing projects; the Hudson Valley Initiative celebrates the launch of its online atlas; faculty member Jaffer Kolb hosts a discussion on the Green New Deal to accompany a conference simulcast; the Buell Center’s 2019 Paris Prize opens for submissions; and the recipients of the 2019-2020 GSAPP Incubator Prize are announced. Scroll below for details.

Lecture by Shohei Shigematsu with a response by Amale Andraos.

Shigematsu joined OMA in 1998, has led the New York office since 2006, and became a partner in 2008. He has recently completed the renovation of Sotheby’s New York headquarters, luxury high-rise towers in San Francisco and Miami, and OMA’s first ground-up building in New York City, a residential complex at 121 East 22nd Street.

September 10, 1PM
114 Avery Hall

How California cities limit housing production and what the state government can do about it?

Paavo Monkkonen is Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and director of the Latin American Cities Initiative. Monkkonen researches and writes about the ways policies and markets shape urbanization and social segregation in cities around the world.

Organized as part of the Lectures in Planning Series.

The Buell Center’s 2019 Paris Prize is now open. Three prizes of $3,000* each will be awarded to students at Columbia GSAPP whose fall semester architectural design (MArch & AAD) studio projects most successfully comply with, interpret, and/or critically extend the terms and spirit of the 2015 Paris Agreement. Submissions are due in PDF format by Friday, December 13, 2019. Review the guidelines and see previous winning projects here.

Image Credit: ESAMo: Constructing New Grounds for Agricultural and Social Transformation in Tunisia by Mayrah Udvardi completed during the Fall 2018 Advanced Studio led by Ziad Jamaleddine.

We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2019-2020 GSAPP Incubator Prize. Dedicated to the topic of Climate Change at the Building Scale, the Prize offers direct financial support to projects created by GSAPP Alumni that advance environmental concerns in architecture and its related fields. In response to the many strong proposals received, the School will award six prizes of $10,000 each. The recipients are Greta Hansen, ’09 M.Arch; Dan Luo, ’14 M.Arch; Eugenia Manwelyan, ’11 MSUP; Adam Marcus, ’05 M.Arch; Stephen Mueller, ’06 MSAAD; and Anahid Simitian, ’15 MSAAD. Collectively, their projects reflect the breadth of approaches that bridge critical discourse and active practice, with which Columbia GSAPP’s alumni community engages this pressing issue.

Faculty member Leah Meisterlin is delivering a lecture at 11am on Friday (9/13) as part of the workshop on British Urban History at NYU. Details here.

Associate Professor Hilary Sample, Director of the Core Studio Sequence and Coordinator of the Core III Housing Studio, was interviewed by Architect Magazine as part of their extended feature on her firm MOS Architect’s master plan development for a campus of affordable housing prototypes. Learn more about the project here.