Climatic Architecture and Diasporic Cities
An Arab American Museum in New York
Unwritten Programs / New Transcriptions / Technologies and Topologies
Sacred Turn: Investing in Architecture's Unstable, Yet Persistent, Notion of the Sacred
Oral (Infra)Structures
Memory, Archive, and Spaces: Cultural Preservation as Past, and Future
MATTER(ing): on Materiality and State Change
VITAL: Reimagining Buildings and Carbon at Scale
Building Communities: Adaptive Reuse and Housing in NYC
The EoS Studio: Elements of Sustainability
Peaceable Kingdom
The Midtown Block Re-edition
Harlem Lane: Scalar Archives and the Counter-Gravitational Forms
Impermanent Matters: Biogenic Materials and Regeneration in Jamaica Bay
Architecture of Solidarity: Solidarity as Design Praxis
Re-commissioning International Exchanges: Designing an Irish-American Center/Museum reusing the decommissioned US Dublin Embassy
Melting Archies: Preserving, Registering and Reimagining the Arctic's Future
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Climatic Architecture and Diasporic Cities

Associate Faculty: Mohammad-Hossein Zowqi

Common Cook

Project by Sara Song

The project suggests that condensing vendors’ daily routes in a building …

Fall 2025

An Arab American Museum in New York

Associate Faculty: DJ Fan

Museum of Absence

Project by JIN GYUNG CHOI

The Museum of Absence is an architectural project located on Washing…

To Reveal the Future Museum

Project by Maya Yildirim

The Contemporary Arab American Studio Museum proposes the reveal as a…

Arab Cultural Museum

Project by Kentaro Komazawa

The Arab Cultural Museum reclaims the erased footprint of Little S…

The Living Archive at Washington Street

Project by Adriana Gambirazio

Little Syria was an Arab American neighborhood in lower Manhatta…

Arabic Press / Works

Project by Levan Kiladze

/// Museum of Arabic Press / Works /// situates printing as both a cu…

Set Between Acts: An Archive and Performing Arts Center for Arab American Culture

Project by Benjamin Garcia

The Museum of Arab American Performance illuminates histories and o…

The Space Between: Memory, Exchange, and Making

Project by Sebastian Suarez

This project proposes a contemporary Arab American museum conceive…

The Arab American Museum and Library of New York

Project by Libby Owen

The Arab American Museum and Library of New York is a space dedicated to…

Architecture Against Forgetting: Memory, Migration, and Spatial Resistance

Project by Cuishujun Zhang

My idea is that the concept unfolds in three vertical parts, establ…

Continuum: An Arab-American Museum in New York

Project by Yutian Zhu

The project envisions an Arab-American Museum composed of three interrel…

The Arab-American Journey: From Peddler to Identity

Project by Churui Wang

In this project, the concept is to create a journey for visitors to und…

Fall 2025

Unwritten Programs / New Transcriptions / Technologies and Topologies

Associate Faculty: Sewon Min

Floaters

Project by Mario Ramirez-Arrazola

An analysis and transcription of the haptic, structural, and…

Dissolving Boundaries

Project by Junge Huang Chih Chia Huang

Dissolving Boundary explores how an architectural syste…

Transcript as Masque

Project by Alexandra Zhao

Through Stanley Saitowitz’s Transvaal House, each component is disse…

A House that Glass Built

Project by Julian Krusic O'Donnell

Toledo, Ohio, the city that glass built, was surveyed as a…

The Subject is the Only Origin of Space

Project by Josh Allen

Finding the smallest change with the biggest effect: shifting how a pers…

The New Arch

Project by Juyeon Park

This project started from transcribing the existing building to suggest…

Masque of Suburban Attunement

Project by Camryn Locascio

The Masque of Attunement is an architectural inquiry into suburban …

Fall 2025

Sacred Turn: Investing in Architecture’s Unstable, Yet Persistent, Notion of the Sacred

Associate Faculty: Vishesh Sahni

New Landscape of Remembrance

Project by Andrew Seungho Yang, Yeonjoon Kang

This project reimagines the sealed refuge caves …

From Altar to Sacred Cloth

Project by Hee Leong Lim

This project reimagines the Church of the Holy Communion as a new for…

Sinapis Alba, Permanence Through Rooting

Project by Bernardo Malatesta

Sinapis Alba is a project that uses research, endowment document…

Capitalized Sacredness

Project by Sangbum Kai Park

This project begins with research on the cultural and historical b…

Fall 2025

Oral (Infra)Structures

Associate Faculty: khloe swanson

Fall 2025

Memory, Archive, and Spaces: Cultural Preservation as Past, and Future

Associate Faculty: Vishesh Sahni

Amara Nanu Ranna

Project by Tamzid Jaigirdar

Amara Nanu Ranna reinterprets the spacial qualities of Curry Row t…

LOC: Line of Connection

Project by Nutdanai Paisantuksin

This project studies how annual floods transform the river be…

အရွက်မှာ လက်ဖက် (of all the leaves, lahpet’s the best)

Project by Aye Aye Tha Esther Su

lacing lahpet, language, lingering (lahpet, Burmese tea) လ…

An ambiguous space for queer bodies

Project by Elise Cloutier

What is left of Clit Club is fragmented, scattered, blurry. Its form…

Weaving Home

Project by Mahum Erkin

“Weaving Home” is a feminist ethnography rooted in the embodied practic…

Fall 2025

MATTER(ing): on Materiality and State Change

Associate Faculty: Mohammad-Hossein Zowqi

Where the Water Meets Sky

Project by Alyssa Duran

This project proposes a reimagining of Four Freedoms Park as an archit…

Repairing Perceptions of Once-Sacred Waters in the Basin of Mexico

Project by Eugenia Lopez Valdes

By uncovering the buried Mexica temple of Cihuacoatl and recon…

Copper as Environmental Witness

Project by Khalid Abunayyan

Centered on the landscape surrounding Daughter’s Palace situated i…

House of Sugar : Edible membranes and mortars for a contaminated architecture

Project by Shannon Levkovitz

The NYCHA Cooper Park housing complex, situated at the convergenc…

Fall 2025

VITAL: Reimagining Buildings and Carbon at Scale

Associate Faculty: Adi Klein

Holobiont futures

Project by Valeria Ramirez, Sofia Paniagua

Holobiont Futures begins with a simple question: wh…

Sweetransition - From Olympic Legacy to Carbon Sink

Project by Guan-Yi Siao & Sungjik Kim

To combat Rio de Janeiro’s climate crisis, our design …

The Vault of Trust: Architecture as a Civic Ledger for Carbon, Value, and Governance

Project by Yunhao Zhong

The Vault of Trust recasts architecture as a civic ledger, making carb…

CARBON “TEMPLES”: A Campaign For Carbon Conviction

Project by Lorennah Marianna (Granfors) + Kelsey Wang

Located on 125th and Lexington in East H…

LOCKED.

Project by Neha Sarah Abraham, Ridhi Sawhney

Many projects are framed around a distant end goa…

The Rising Intertidal

Project by Chang Cao

This Rising Intertidal envisions an intertidal education and remediation …

Charloop Residence

Project by Cong Zhang

This residential project imagines the apartment building as a living car…

Fall 2025

Building Communities: Adaptive Reuse and Housing in NYC

Associate Faculty: DJ Fan

Living Threads Along the Greenline

Project by Alex Ching-Chen Liu

Living Threads Along the Greenline explores how housing can co…

Craft Yards

Project by Yun Chen Chen

Set within the Murray Cheese Factory, this project treats adaptive re…

Fall 2025

The EoS Studio: Elements of Sustainability

Associate Faculty: Nikoletta Zakynthinou Xanthi

Neosardis

Project by Jason Li

My project repositions underutilized Pier 76, a former NYPD tow pound, int…

Hudson Botanical Garden

Project by Violeta Mastronardi

The Hudson Botanical Garden proposes the adaptive reuse of Pie…

FLOW COMMONS- Fish Farm

Project by Runyu Tang

This Pier 76 fsh-farming complex blends public space with aquatic produc…

Fluid Metabolism: Reimagining Pier 76

Project by Mi Zhou

Fluid Metabolism explores an alternative future for Pier 76 in New York Cit…

Fall 2025

Peaceable Kingdom

Associate Faculty: Amy Suzuki

Sweet Negotiation

Project by Minjae Kim, I Fu Chang

New Yorkers have been advised to kill the Spotted Lanternfly…

Mussel Built

Project by Raven Huang and Shiki Xu

This project is a deep architectural reverie stemming from…

Curtain Wall Canvas

Project by To Quynh Pham

This architectural intervention confronts the growing challenge of bi…

Fall 2025

The Midtown Block Re-edition

Associate Faculty: Deniz Mahir Dagtekin

Unfolding Midtown

Project by Nien Lee, Fern Sripongtanakul, Ashley Broyles

This project reimagines a typical Mid…

THE COOLING LOOP: Re-Editing a Midtown Block

Project by Akshara Vinayagam, Mihika Pawar, Abhishek Patel

The Cooling Loop reimagines a mono-…

The Midtown Organism

Project by Nicole Kertznus, Krish, Aditi

The Midtown Organism reimagines a single Midtown East…

Thermal Commons: Reclaiming Public Life in Midtown

Project by Abhishek Patel, Mihika Pawar, Akshara Vinayagam

This project reimagines a mono-func…

Vertical Commons and the Architecture of Shared Urban Life

Project by Danielle Seunghyun Min and Keenan Bellisari

The project proposes a block-scale urba…

Fall 2025

Harlem Lane: Scalar Archives and the Counter-Gravitational Forms

Associate Faculty: Nikoletta Zakynthinou Xanthi

Materializing the Sacred and Profane

Project by Claire Wolsk

New York’s history of policing lawful dissent, through mitigation of p…

GENESIS: A COUNTER-GRAVITATIONAL PROTOTYPE FOR MULTI-GENERATIONAL WEALTH

Project by Jagger Udy, Jonah Johnson

GENESIS refuses the gravitational pull of maximum density…

Fall 2025

Impermanent Matters: Biogenic Materials and Regeneration in Jamaica Bay

Associate Faculty: Adi Klein

Stalk Exchange: A Cycle of Building and Rebuilding

Project by Swezya Joshi and Angela Che Jin Lee

This project explores the spatial and material …

The Living Shoreline

Project by Julio Viejo Romero-Mazariegos and Hyunyoung Kim

The Living Shoreline addresses Jama…

After the Runway: Cracking Concrete into Agricultural Infrastructure

Project by Xiaoyu Zhang

This project positions depaving as a deliberate architectural act by t…

Mycoentropy

Project by Hyoju Kim + Andrea Hernandez

Mycoentropy is a temporary artistic space proposed for…

Fall 2025

Architecture of Solidarity: Solidarity as Design Praxis

Associate Faculty: khloe swanson

Mwangola

Project by Gelmira Gourgel

Mwangola is an archival curatorial project that explores the memori…

The Powers of Manganese Nodules

Project by Vasiliki Zochiou

This project traces the entanglement of scientific knowledge, extr…

Free To Speak?

Project by Shahnaj Sharmin Rimu

On March 13, 2025, Columbia student and president of Student W…

Fall 2025

Re-commissioning International Exchanges: Designing an Irish-American Center/Museum reusing the decommissioned US Dublin Embassy

Associate Faculty: Vishesh Sahni

Fall 2025

Melting Archies: Preserving, Registering and Reimagining the Arctic’s Future

Associate Faculty: Amy Suzuki