It is impossible to talk about the pandemic without facing the historical and contemporary processes of global warming. Dean Amale Andraos looks at how GSAPP has engaged this over the years.
December 10, 2015
Climate Change and the Scales of Environment
A symposium that critically reframes the term “environment” in order to address the real and lived threat of climate change––moving beyond the technocratic conversations that typically frame the terms of debate.
February 19, 2016
Resilience by Design
A symposium that explores how climate change has altered the conceptual coordinates of building resilience and the social frameworks of design.
April 22, 2016
Embodied Energy and Design
A conference that reconsiders the act of making a building as an act of energy expenditure and asks questions about a variety of related scales, methods of analysis, and design opportunities.
October 22, 2018
David Benjamin
A lecture that proposes new intersections between biology, computation, and design, and that offers us three frameworks for harnessing living organisms for architecture: bio-processing, bio-sensing, and bio-manufacturing.
February 22, 2019
Climate Change at the Building Scale
A series of summits that ask how architects should design for uncertainty and how buildings and building practices can participate in transitioning to a non-anthropocentric paradigm––questions that appear more urgent now than ever.
February 22, 2019
Offsetted: On the Rights of the Environment
A talk on the political, economic, and legal history of trees in New York City, which coincided with Cooking Sections’ exhibition Offsetted at the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery.
