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Advanced Architectural Design Open House

MS Advanced Architectural Design Curriculum Presentation

Program Director Lydia Kallipoliti presents the MS Advanced Architectural Design Curriculum during the Fall 2026 Open House for Prospective Students

Please see the main Open House page for additional details and all online sessions.

Online Open House Program

Date	Event	Registration Link
Oct. 28	Wednesday
9:00am	MSAAD Curriculum Presentation with Program Director Lydia Kallipoliti	view recording
Oct. 30	Friday
9:00am	Admissions & Financial Planning with GSAPP Admissions and Columbia Student Financial Services (2-hour session)
12:00pm	Career Services: Professional Paths for GSAPP Students the Career Services team

In-Person Open House October 26, 2026

Time	Location	Event
9:30am – 10:00 am	Low Library Faculty Room	Check-in and Breakfast Late arrivals may check in after 11:00am at Avery 407
10:00am – 11:00am	Leaving at Low Library	Program-specific Tours with visits to Research Centers & Labs, Making Studio, Avery Library, and more
11:00am – 12:00pm	Avery 114	Admissions and Career Services Q&A learn about the application process and professional support
12:00 – 2:00pm	Low Library Rotunda	Lunch with GSAPP Dean, Faculty, and Student Representatives
12:30– 1:15 pm	Low Library Rotunda	Welcome Remarks by Dean Andrés Jaque
2:00 – 3:00pm	Various Locations:	Curriculum Presentation by your academic Program Director:
	Avery 113, Wood Auditorium	M.Arch, Marc Tsurumaki
	Avery 408	MSAAD, Lydia Kallipoliti
	Fayerweather UD Studio	MSAUD, Neeraj Bhatia
	Avery Library Wallach Seminar Room	MSCCCP, Felicity Scott and Mark Wasiuta
	Avery 409	MSCDP, Laura Kurgan
	Avery 114	MSRED, Adam Lubinsky
	Avery 600, Ware Lounge	MSUP, Weiping Wu
3:00 – 4:00pm	Various Locations, by program as above	Conversations with current students in your academic program
4:00pm – 5:00pm	Leaving at Avery Hall entrance	Campus Tour
5:00 – 6:15pm	Avery 100	Life at GSAPP Hear from current students about Student Organizations
6:15 – 6:30pm	Avery 113, Wood Auditorium	Pre-Lecture Reception
6:30 – 8:30pm	Avery 113, Wood Auditorium	GSAPP Open House Lecture: Emanuel Admassu and Olalekan Jeyifous

Additional Resources

Student Work

Visit the online 2026 End of Year Show to see student work from the Advanced Studios.

You can also browse the digital archive for work associated by studio and instructor.

Qingyang Fan

Joonbae Seo

Jinjian (Jacky) Chen

Ahad Ibrahim

Yuanlong Zhu

Junming Liao, Zhihao Xu

Xander Wu, Kiera Chen

Career Services at Columbia GSAPP

Career Services at Columbia GSAPP strives to keep students in touch with the professional world beyond Avery Hall and professionals aware of our excellent students. Career Services organizes events throughout the year including career fairs, workshops, alumni networking events, and panel discussions.

Watch an interview with Karen Cover, Assistant Director of Career Services, recorded in March 2021.

Arguments Lecture Series

This ongoing series brings together a diverse group of speakers whose work addresses today’s most pressing challenges⁠—environmental, political, and social and beyond.

AAD Arguments

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Chip Lord
July 19, 2023

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Mio Tsuneyama and Fuminori Nousaku
July 26, 2023

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Techno-Critical Assemblies

This ongoing series brings together a speakers whose work incorporates cutting-edge technologies using critical methodologies.

Urban Data

Lecture by Violet Whitney and Jared Friedman
April 6, 2021

Visit the event page here.

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Columbia GSAPP Lecture and Event Series

The Dean’s lecture and event series invites guests from across the world to deliver talks and participate in discussions with the GSAPP community. Below is a selection of events featuring M.S.AAD faculty members.

AFFIRMATION 3: DESIGN POLICY
Vicki Been, Christopher Hawthorne
October 2, 2023

Abstract

Abstract is the annual print publication of faculty-selected student work from Columbia University GSAPP, produced through the Office of the Dean.

rAADio

rAADio is an investigation by Advanced Architectural Design students in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University. As a cohort from a plurality of diverse backgrounds, we aim to observe the many polycentric entanglements of architecture. We explore the questions of how we expand the traditional role and associations of architecture between assemblages, interrelationships, bodies, and technologies; beyond simple scalar translations.

Follow rAADio on Instagram at @gsapp_raadio.

Columbia GSAPP · rAADio

You can also find a self-guided audio walking tour of Columbia University’s historic campus by Professor and Historic Preservationist Andrew Dolkart (‘77 MS HP) here.

News

Nov 9

Faculty Mario Gooden joins the panel presentation "Teaching and Learning in a Fractured Time" at The Vassar Institute's Signature Program: Going to the Source.

Nov 4

Faculty Mireia Luzárraga (TAKK) delivers a lecture at the Oslo Architects Association.

Oct 26

Faculty Juan Herreros’s (estudioHerreros) Trosten Sauna and Faculty Leopold Branchini's (Leopold Banchini Architects) Round About Baths are featured in Big See.

Oct 23

Faculty Mireia Luzárraga (TAKK) designs the commissioned installation for The Architectural League’s Beaux Arts Ball 2026: Home Sweet Home.

Oct 17

Faculty Amelyn Ng '19 MSCCCP, Christine Giorgio '19 MArch, and Faculty Gabriel Vergara '19 MSAUD (Friends Making Work) exhibit Ecologies of Repair in Indexical Earths exhibition at Swale House on Governors Island.

Oct 15

Faculty Amelyn Ng delivers a guest lecture at Taubman College, University of Michigan.

Oct 12

Faculty Sumayya Vally and Ziad Jamaleddine are featured in “Let the Majlis be a Majlis,” an article by Faculty Ibrahim Kombarji and Maii Hassan ’26 CCCP, published in ICON MENA, reconsidering the majlis as a contemporary spatial and social practice.

Oct 12

Faculty Mireia Luzárraga and Philippe Rahm participate in a conversation, INTERIOR ECOLOGIES, for Climate Week.

Oct 12

Faculty Ziad Jamaleddine (L.E.FT Architects) inaugurates a permanent urban intervention during Amman Design Week. The project is a new public space connecting a mosque with its surrounding neighborhood.

Oct 12

GSAPP alumni featured in Amman Design Week include Sarah Hejazin ’21 MSAAD and Bisher Tabba ’22 MArch (FADAA), Farah Alkhoury ’21 MSAAD and Tigran Kostandya ’17 MSAAD, Jumana Abbas ’20 MSCCCP, Mariam Jacob ’24 MArch (Studio 402), and Uthra Varghese ’20 MSAAD (UT-R Studio).

Visit the M.S.AAD program page