Announcement
This week, Dean Amale Andraos announced the School’s commitment of $1 million to establish the Norma Merrick Sklarek ’50 B.Arch Scholars Fund, intended to promote diversity, inclusion and equity by breaking down barriers to access for graduate study.
We invite alumni and friends to join us in establishing an endowment for the same purpose, helping GSAPP make this initiative permanent.
Make a gift to the Sklarek Fund here.
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Save the Date
This Columbia Giving Day, every dollar raised on behalf of the School will be dedicated to tuition relief for current students, helping to bridge the gap in existing need.
Please join us in creating more opportunities for excellence on October 28.
Contact Leslie Kuo at leslie.kuo@columbia.edu with questions about making an offline gift.
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Call for Mentors
Thank you to the Alumni that volunteered on September 29 and October 13!
Tuesday Talks, GSAPP’s informational mentorship program, pairs current students with alumni professionals for hour-long, one-on-one conversations about career development. The opportunity to speak about the job market with trusted alumni—including those in other American cities and international locations—is invaluable to emerging practitioners.
Upcoming sessions:
October 27
November 10
November 24
(Thanksgiving Week)
December 8
To sign up as an informational mentor, send an email with your Name, Title, Company, and City, as well as your date(s) of availability, to GSAPPalumni@columbia.edu.
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Alumni Interviews
In his new interview series, Eric Li ‘17 M.Arch speaks with GSAPP alumni—now industry leaders in the field of architecture—on the effects of the pandemic and its implications for architects and designers.
Read the interview with Phu Duong '99 MSAUD, a principal at NBBJ.
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Postcards from the Border
Created by Angela Crisostomo ‘19 MSAUD and Gabriel Gajardo Vergara '19 MSAUD, Postcards From the Border is a storytelling project that uses the postcard as a tool to visualize and engage urban issues present at the US-Mexico border. Explore the social and ecological dynamics of the El Paso + Ciudad Juárez border region and advance narratives consistent with local experiences—that these two cities operate as one.
Research for the project was made possible with support from the William Kinne Fellows Traveling Prize.
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In Memoriam
Loes Schiller, the former Associate Dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, died unexpectedly on September 22 at the age of 88. She was beloved by over three decades of students for her light-hearted and sometimes irreverent wit, and her principled approach to the affairs of the students and the school. She retired from Columbia GSAPP in 2007.
Read full announcement.
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Upcoming Programs
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HEALTH AND THE CITY CONFERENCE
On November 13 and 20, GSAPP hosts a two-part conference on housing, public health and spatial justice, racial equity, and climate justice. In 2020, compounding crises across the globe encompassing economic injustice, racial inequity, and climate change have ignited public dialogue and urgent calls for action. Research and policy experts at Columbia GSAPP lead conversations on how the field can respond to interlocking issues in public health, water, housing, infrastructure, migration, resilience, and resistance.
Register to attend.
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Experimental Preservation
Artist Sam Van Aken and Jorge Otero-Pailos, artist and Professor and Director of the Historic Preservation program at GSAPP, discuss experimental approaches to historic preservation with Carol Becker, Columbia School of the Arts Dean, and Gavin Browning.
Organized by Columbia’s School of the Arts.
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L.E.FT
Response by Amale Andraos, Dean of Columbia GSAPP
Co-founded by Ziad Jamaleddine, Assistant Professor of Architecture and Makram el Kadi, who teaches at the American University of Beirut, L.E.FT is dedicated to examining the intersections of cultural and political productions as they relate to the built environment.
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Making Space for Social Justice? A Practitioner Panel on Philanthropy and the City
Lecture by Clarisa Bencomo, Don Chen, George McCarthy, and Maria Torres-Springer
Philanthropies have a long history of engagement with cities in the U.S. and globally—in urban development, city planning and visioning, and civic participation.
Panelists will discuss professional pathways and career opportunities that support social justice. They will also reflect on current challenges, including the future of cities and urban life in the context of COVID and ways that urban-development organizations can support the advancement of racial justice.
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How to Bring a Monument to Speech
A lecture by Pavla Melková
One of the possible ways of implementing an approach both holistic and active emerges from the actual meaning of a monument, i.e. the transmission of information about the past to the present and the future. How, though, do we “make a monument speak”? How do we interpret the intellectual contents saved within the monument? How do we make it part of a conversation with the present?
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Paths to Prison: On the Architectures of Carcerality
Launch and discussion of the book Paths to Prison: On the Architectures of Carcerality, published by Columbia Books on Architecture and the City and edited by Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt. Book contributors include Adrienne Brown, Stephen Dillon, Jarrett M. Drake, Sable Elyse Smith, James Graham, Leslie Lodwick, Dylan Rodríguez, Anne Spice, Brett Story, Jasmine Syedullah, Mabel O. Wilson ‘91 M.Arch, and Wendy L. Wright.
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Designing Affordable Housing Future(s) with guest Victor Body-Lawson
A conversation on maintenance with guest Victor Body-Lawson ‘84 M.Arch, Principal at Body Lawson Associates (BLA), facilitated by Juan Sebastian Moreno, MSUP Candidate '21 and a Graduate Research Assistant at the Housing Lab.
BLA focuses on master planning, institutional, commercial and residential design. Victor has directed several flagship projects including the Master Plan for the Riverside Church and the design of a new 2,500 person sanctuary for the Bethel Gospel Tabernacle in Jamaica, New York.
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Community as Corporation: Talent-Retention in Low-Status America
Lecture by Majora Carter
Response by Mario Gooden ‘90 M.Arch, Associate Professor of Architecture at GSAPP
Majora Carter is a real estate developer, urban revitalization strategy consultant, MacArthur Fellow and Peabody Award winning broadcaster. She is responsible for the creation and successful implementation of numerous economic development, technology, green-infrastructure projects, policies and job training & placement systems.
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Loretta Lees
November 10, 2020, 1:15pm
In this talk, Loretta Lees will tell the story of gentrification in London, the city where the term itself was coined in 1964. Lees will start with pioneer (classic or first wave) gentrification working through different mutations of the process over time, eg. new-build to super-gentrification. Lees will finish the discussion of London focusing on state-led gentrification and the large scale displacements it has caused, and is continuing to cause.
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PreserveOKC
November 12, 2020, 6:30pm
A lecture by Katie McLaughlin Friddle
Oklahoma City is a young city with a rich and unique history. Some landmarks and districts have served as catalysts for revitalization, while others have been lost to urban renewal efforts. This lecture will address Oklahoma City’s preservation program and the development of the preservation plan.
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The Kenneth Frampton Endowed Lecture: Tatiana Bilbao
Lecture by Tatiana Bilbao
Response by Enrique Walker, Lecturer in Architecture at Columbia GSAPP
Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO is a Mexico City-based architecture studio, founded in 2004. At the core of the studio’s practice is an analysis of the context surrounding projects, which scale from masterplans to affordable housing typologies. A goal of the work is to both contribute to its surroundings while remaining flexible to absorb shifting needs.
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Anna Maria Bounds
In this talk, Anna Maria Bounds, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Queens College, City University of New York, will discuss her new book, Bracing for the Apocalypse: An Ethnographic Study of New York’s ‘Prepper’ Subculture.
The book explores the rise of the urban preppers’ subculture in New York City, shedding light on the distinctive approach of city dwellers in preparing for disaster. With attention to the role of factors such as class, race, gender and one’s expectations of government, it shows that how one imagines Doomsday affects how one prepares for it.
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A Wildness Distant
Oct 5, 2020 – Dec 20, 2020
An online program of films and essays focused on landscape and political imagination. Contributors include David Hartt, Lucy Ives, Armin Linke, Shannon Mattern, C.C. McKee, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Himali Singh Soin, among others.
Organized by the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery.
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You are invited to Columbia Alumni Leaders Experience (CALE), a five-week virtual series of themed talks on leadership. Some training programs will take place in European and Asian time zones, in recognition of the global reach of our alumni and student community.
Journalism and Public Trust
Saturday, October 17–Friday, October 23
Social Justice, Inclusion, and Anti-Racism
Saturday, October 24–Friday, October 30
Sustainability, Leadership, and Communities
Saturday, October 31–Friday, November 6
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Leadership
Saturday, November 7–Friday, November 14
View the full schedule
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MORE COLUMBIA EVENTS
How to Be an Antiracist:
A Conversation with Professor Ibram X. Kendi
Past event
This event was recorded and can be viewed by Columbia affiliates until November 11, 2020.
Columbia Connects 2020:
CAA Arts Access Networking Hour
Thursday, October 22, 10 a.m. EDT
Register here
Climate, Conflict, and Coronavirus:
A Perfect Storm for Migrants and Displaced Persons
Thursday, October 22, 10 a.m. EDT
Register here
Columbia Giving Day
Wednesday, October 28, all day
Preview GSAPP’s campaign page
Social Enterprise Conference Capital for Good
October 2020 through March 2021
Register here |
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