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GSAPP and Columbia Climate School announce the launch of a new dual degree program for MS in Architecture and Urban Design with MS in Climate

Columbia GSAPP installs Cloud, a student-designed temporary outdoor pavilion suspended over Avery Plaza on Columbia’s Morningside Campus. The project remains on view through October 30, 2024.
Photo: Nicholas Knight.

Fri, Nov 8 11am

Dattner Architects Information Session

Career Services

New York

Mon, Nov 11 6:30pm

ACTIONING SUMMIT 4: How to scale up (to make carbon sequestration impactful)

Lecture

New York

Into the Quiet and the Light: Water, Life, and Land Loss in South Louisiana

Claiming the inseparability of discourse, practice, and activism, Columbia GSAPP announces the launch of eight ACTIONING SUMMITS: an unprecedented effort to affirm how architecture, planning, development, and preservation are anticipating desirable and alternative futures.

Fall programming at GSAPP is well underway, including the ACTIONING SUMMITS, the Library is Open, and more.

Midterm reviews are underway at GSAPP, including the MSCDP Colloquium II: Explore, Explain, Propose taught by Laura Kurgan and Snoweria Zhang. Students presented their works to classmates and guest critics Catherine Griffiths and Adam Vosburgh in lightning rounds.

Advanced V Architecture Studio Fall 2024 Midterm Reviews: David Benjamin’s studio, “SCALED: Carbon Removal Architecture”.

GSAPP hosted the Open House for Prospective Students on Monday, October 21, 2024. If you were unable to join, you may sign up for upcoming campus tours, join virtual sessions, or view recordings of curriculum presentations.

The Library is Open 12: Into the Quiet and the Light

Library is Open

New York

Fri, Nov 22 1pm

The Library is Open 13: American Modern: Architecture; Community; Columbus, Indiana

Library is Open

New York

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Nov 14

Faculty Marc Tsurumaki speaks on building decarbonization at 'Ecovisions: Finding Your Place in Environmentalism' at the Vassar Institute for the Liberal Arts

Nov 12

Dean Emeritus Bernard Tschumi’s “Event-Cities 5” (MIT Press, 2024), the fifth and final volume in the series documenting his work, launches November 12, 2024

Nov 8

WORK-IN-PROGRESS an exhibition by LOT-EK (faculty Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano) opens at MIT Architecture Keller Gallery

Nov 6

Faculty Juan Herreros with Fernanda Canales deliver lecture, “From Walls to Communities,” for Baumer Lecture Series at the Knowlton School of Architecture

Nov 6

Faculty Steven Holl delivers lecture, “Color, Light, and Time" at the Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania

Nov 1

Faculty Mario Gooden’s ballet collaboration, “InterBlack Exit” with choreographer Houston Thomas and composer Jonathan Bingham premieres at Ballet Collective

Nov 1

Faculty Mireia Luzárraga (TAKK) together with Designer Curro Claret deliver a set of workshops in the Design Museum in Barcelona on "Post Carbon Domesticities"

Oct 31

Faculty Nahyun Hwang delivers lecture “Migrating Commons” for University of Seoul Department of Architecture fall lecture series

Oct 31

Faculty Anthony Vanky delivers lecture on digital urban transformations at conference co-organized by Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, and Fulbright School of Public Policy and Management, Vietnam

Oct 30

Faculty Tom Slater delivers keynote lecture at The Future of Housing conference in Porto, Portugal

Oct 29

Faculty Nahyun Hwang delivers lecture, “Making Home” for Seoul National University fall lecture series

Oct 28

Dean Andrés Jaque (OFFPOLINN ) and faculty Mireia Luzárraga (TAKK) participate in the exhibition "The Sixth Sphere" at Rice University.

Oct 28

Faculty Chris Munsell presents at the Columbia University Labs as part of the ‘Decarbonizing Urban Environments: Impacts of Local Policy in NYC’

Oct 28

Faculty Mireia Luzárraga (TAKK) delivers lecture "Material Ecologies" at the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture

Oct 26

Faculty Mario Gooden in conversation with Adjunct Professor and choreographer Jonathan Gonzalez at the American Academy of Arts and Letters on the occasion of his work Spectral Dances

Oct 26

Urban Roots podcast, a collaboration between MSHP PhD student Deqah Hussein-Wetzel and CU alum, releases new episode, “Making Noise With No Money: The Decay Devils”

Oct 25

CBAC presents “Into the Quiet and the Light” Virginia Hanusik at the CCA Bookstore Pop-Up for Archtober

Oct 25

Faculty David Benjamin delivers lecture titled “Levers of Decarbonization” and discusses AI and creativity with Refik Anadol at the AIA Monterey Design Conference in California

Oct 24

Storefront for Art and Architecture hosts book launch and talk for CBAC’s “Into the Quiet and the Light” by Virginia Hanusik

Oct 23

Faculty Mark Wasiuta curates *Frederick Kiesler: Vision Machines* at the Graham Foundation, Chicago.

Oct 23

Faculty Ziad Jamaleddine's firm L.E.FT receives a 2024 LOOP Design Award for Pratt House: The Office of Religious and Spiritual Life and Contemplative Practices, at Vassar College

Oct 23

Faculty Juan Herreros delivers the keynote opening lecture of the CIAU2024 Internacional Congress of Architecture and Urbanism in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Oct 22

Faculty Adam Lubinsky presents digital tool, humanity.land with Habitat for Humanity at the Opportunity Finance Network Conference, Los Angeles

Oct 22

Faculty Mark Rakatansky’s essay “Signifying Media: The Imprinting of Palladio” published on the Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative website

Programs

GSAPP offers a range of academic programs that study the built environment at multiple scales and through different critical methods. Learn more about the School’s various degree programs in Architecture, Urbanism, Preservation, and Real Estate Development. Visit the Student Work Archive to browse over 12,000 recent projects from across academic programs.

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Students:

Lamisa Haque, Changbin Kim, Jisoo Kim, Govardan Rajasekaran Umashankar

Course:

Fall, 2021 - Urban Design Studio II

See Project

Museum of Homecoming

National Geographic defines caves as a veil of darkness that cloaks natural beauty, but Native Americans did not think so. They believe everything in this world has a soul and a spirit even if it’s just a rock. Although the Lenape did not mainly live within…

Students:

Florianne Jacques

Course:

Summer, 2022 - Advanced Architecture Tutorial

See Project

Students:

Nuofan Xu, Que Zhang

Course:

Summer, 2022 - Advanced Architecture Tutorial

See Project

Students:

Andres Alvarez Davila

Course:

Fall, 2021 - Advanced Studio III-Joint Historic Preservation/Architecture Studio

See Project

Students:

Leo Wan

Course:

Spring, 2022 - Architecture Studio VI

See Project

Students:

Tashania Akemah

Course:

Spring, 2022 - Architecture Studio II

See Project

Research

GSAPP strives to redefine the roles of architecture and urbanism within a research university, envisioning new forms of practice as research and new research practices. The School’s Centers, Labs, Incubator, and Initiatives lead groundbreaking investigations that tackle emerging challenges in the disciplines of the built environment and create opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration.

(Re)Coding Walkups
Housing Lab

Learn more about the Housing Lab’s latest report, “(Re)Coding Walkups: A Business Plan for Advancing Inclusive, Accessible, and Resilient Housing in Existing Unsubsidized Buildings Across NYC.”

(Re)Coding Walkups Publication by the Housing Lab

Green Reconstruction
Buell Center

Green Reconstruction is an outline, an open work, for the repair of a world ravaged by three intersecting crises—of mutual care, of racial oppression, and of climate, all intersecting in turn with economic inequality—that moves along two axes, the Green axis of ecological transformation, and the gilded axis of material redistribution, or Reconstruction.

Mapping Historical New York
Center for Spatial Research

The Center for Spatial Research launched Mapping Historical New York City, a collaboration to map immigration and neighborhood change in NYC during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries..

Engaged Practice

GSAPP alumni across the globe are pioneering new models of practice that engage with emerging political, technological, intellectual, and environmental issues. Learn more about the innovative and imaginative ways that GSAPP’s network is reshaping the design professions.

“(EXTRACTOPIA) And then what?: New world-making strategies” by GSAPP Incubator Prize Recipient Linda Schilling Cuellar ‘18 MSAUD with Claudio Astudillo

“Non-typology: Ollas Comunes” by GSAPP Incubator Recipient Rafaela Olivares ‘20 MSAAD with Ernesto Silva ‘13 MSAAD

“TREE.3” by GSAPP Incubator Prize Recipient James Piacentini ‘20 MARCH, ‘20 MSUP with Eric Pietraszkiewicz ‘18 MSUP

“Segregation is Killing Us” by Territorial Empathy, presented during GSAPP’s Alumni Conversations Series

“Weaving for Nature”
2019-20 Incubator Prize

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