Coalition 3: Coalition of Curators. The Inaugural Terence Riley Summit.

On November 21, the Inaugural Columbia GSAPP Terence Riley Summit will create a worldwide convening to establish a forum where active and impactful curators of the built environment from around the world can share their experiences, experimentation and methodologies in an afternoon of public conversations.

Conceived as a convening of architectural curators from around the world, the Summit will bring together those whose work is transforming how the built environment is critically mobilized, debated, challenged, and intervened upon. Participants include: Noura Al-Sayeh Holtrop (BACA); Renato Anelli (Sao Paulo Architecture Biennial); Paola Antonelli (MoMA); Charles Aubin (Centre Pompidou x Jersey City); Omar Degan (Pan African Biennale); Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher (SFMOMA); José Esparza (Storefront for Art and Architecture); Beatrice Galilee (The World Around); Shelley Hayreh (Avery Archives); Nikolaus Hirsch (CIVA, e-flux); Jean Im (GSAPP); Andrés Jaque (GSAPP); Justin McGuirk (Design Museum); Ewan McEoin (National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne); Manuela Moscoso (CARA); Maria Nicanor (Cooper Hewitt); Bart-Jan Polman (GSAPP); Florencia Rodriguez (Chicago Architecture Biennial); Raymund Ryan (Carnegie Museum); Felicity Scott (GSAPP); Martino Stierli (MoMA); Irene Sunwoo (Art Institute of Chicago); Abraham Thomas (The Metropolitan Museum of Art); Ikko Yokoyama (M+); Stéphanie Quantin-Biancalani (Centre Pompidou).

The Columbia GSAPP Biennial Terence Riley Summit pays homage to Terence Riley ’82 MSAUD, who graduated from Columbia GSAPP in 1982 and served as the first Director of the School’s Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery. Riley was Chief Curator for Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York from 1992 to 2006, co-founder of the MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program, Director of the Miami Art Museum from 2006 to 2009, partner in the firm K/R (Keenen/Riley) together with fellow GSAPP alumnus John Keenen ‘83 M.Arch, and a historic ACT UP activist. Widely regarded as a pioneer in architectural curating, Riley’s legacy embodies Columbia GSAPP’s enduring commitment to advancing the built environment as a site of critical inquiry, invention, and activism.

The Summit is generously supported by Elise Jaffe + Jeffrey Brown, and was an idea developed by the late Jeffrey Brown alongside Dean Andrés Jaque.

The Summit is organized and chaired by Bart-Jan Polman, Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs Curator of the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, with Jean Im, Assistant Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs.

Please find the full program below:

1:00 PM

Opening of the Summit by Dean Andrés Jaque; Introduction by Bart-Jan Polman

1:15 PM - 2:15 PM

Panel 1 - The architectural exhibition as a medium: How to create new publics across disciplines?

Renato Anelli (Sao Paulo Architecture Biennial); José Esparza Chong Cuy (Storefront for Art and Architecture); Nikolaus Hirsch (CIVA; e-flux architecture); Florencia Rodriguez (Chicago Architecture Biennial)

Moderated by Felicity Scott (GSAPP)

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Panel 2 - What does it mean to build a collection NOW?

Paula Antonelli (MoMA); Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher (SFMOMA); Stéphanie Quantin-Biancalani (Centre Pompidou); Raymund Ryan (Carnegie Museum of Art); Irene Sunwoo (Art Institute of Chicago)

Moderated by Charles Aubin (Centre Pompidou x Jersey City)

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM

Panel 3 - Working with temporalities: How to curate processes?

Noura AL. Sayeh Holtrop (BACA); Omar Degan (Pan African Biennale); Beatrice Galilee (The World Around); Justin McGuirk (Design Museum)

Moderated by Manuela Moscoso (CARA)

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Panel 4 - How to position the built environment within larger armatures?

Maria Nicanor (Cooper Hewitt); Martino Stierli (MoMA); Abraham Thomas (Metropolitan Museum of Art); Ikko Yokoyama (M+); Ewan McEoin (NGV Melbourne)

Moderated by Bart-Jan Polman (GSAPP)