The Spring 2018 Semester at Columbia GSAPP includes an exciting line-up of lectures, conferences, exhibitions, and special events. Below is a small selection of highlights – please visit the website calendar for the full schedule.

The school’s imprint, Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, is publishing a number of new titles, which can be pre-ordered at a reduced price. More info and offer details follow.

And be sure to mark your calendars for the March 30 opening of Arakawa and Madeline Gins: Eternal Gradient, an exhibition of architectural drawings, writings, and research by Shusaku Arakawa and Madeline Gins at the Ross Architecture Gallery.

We hope that you can join us often throughout the coming months and look forward to seeing you at Avery Hall soon.

This one-day conference brings together leading scholars and practitioners from across multiple disciplines to consider the role that technologies have played in changing how urban spaces and social life are structured and understood.

Keynote lectures by Trevor Paglen and Wendy Chun.

Participating speakers include Simone Browne, Maribel Casas-Cortes, Anita Say Chan, Sebastian Cobarrubias, Orit Halpern, Charles Heller, Shannon Mattern, V. Mitch McEwen(‘06 M.Arch), Leah Meisterlin ('09 M.Arch, '06 MSUP), Nontsikelelo Mutiti, Dietmar Offenhuber, Lorenzo Pezzani, Robert Pietrusko, and Matthew Wilson.

Organized by the Center for Spatial Research, Columbia GSAPP.

Get 30% off forthcoming titles from Columbia Books on Architecture and the City. Use the code CBACJAN30 at Columbia University Press to pre-order any or all of these titles:
A Year Without a Winter, edited by Dehlia Hannah in collaboration with science fiction editors Brenda Cooper, Joey Eschrich, and Cynthia Selin.
Unhoused: Adorno and the Problem of Dwelling by Matt Waggoner, the first book-length study of Theodor Adorno as a philosopher of housing.
The Empire Remains Shop, by Cooking Sections (Daniel Fernández Pascual, Alon Schwabe).
The Ordinary by Enrique Walker is organized around conversations with the authors of three seminal texts that document the city—Denise Scott Brown’s Learning from Las Vegas (1972), Rem Koolhaas’s Delirious New York (1978), and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto’s Made in Tokyo (2001).