This week, Eyal Weizman discusses Forensic Architecture’s research on toxic clouds and alumni recipients of the 2021 GSAPP Incubator Prize present their work on new forms of anti-racist professional practice and community engagement. Scroll down to learn more about these events, and browse the latest GSAPP news.

Cloud Studies

A lecture by Eyal Weizman, professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures and founding director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London, and founder of Forensic Architecture.

Watch a video about Forensic Architecture’s Cloud Studies, a new and radical approach to investigate contemporary clouds.

The lecture is co-organized by the GSAPP Dean’s Office and the MS in Computational Design Practices program. Response by Dean Andrés Jaque and Professor Laura Kurgan, MSCDP Program Director.

GSAPP Alumni Prize Recipients present work completed during the 2021-2022 awards cycle, which supported new forms of anti-racist professional practice and community engagement. Presentations by:

• Mustafa Faruki ‘10 MArch
• Fabrizio Furiassi '19 MSAAD (with Catherine Ahn)
• Nelson De Jesus Ubri ‘21 MArch/MSRED and Luis Miguel Pizano '21 MArch/MSRED
• Aayushi Joshi '20 MSAAD
• Zarith Pineda '17 MSAUD
• Parul Sharma '15 MSAUD
• Adam Susaneck '20 MArch
• Luciana Varkulja '12 MSAAD
• Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong '10 MArch

The Columbia GSAPP community is saddened by the passing of James Stewart Polshek, who was Dean of GSAPP for fifteen years from 1972 until 1987, and Professor Emeritus at Columbia University.

Tuesday Talks pairs current students with alumni professionals for hour-long, one-on-one conversations about career development. Thank you to this week’s volunteers:

• Rocio Crosetto Brizzio ’22 MSAAD (Architect, NYC)
• Jacob Feit ’06 MSUP (Dept. of Army, Washington DC)
  
• Heidi Hannah ’06 MSHP (LaSalle Investment Management, Zurich)
• Jason Ivaliotis AIA ’07 MArch (Woods Bagot, NYC)
• Trevor Lamphier ’12 MArch (Beck Group, Tampa)
• Samer Mohammad ’18 MSAAD (AGi Architects, Kuwait City)
  
• Luis Felipe Paris ’13 MArch (WeWork, London)
• Tomás Quijada AIA ’99 MSAAD (STUDIOS Architecture, NYC)
• Jennifer Whisenhunt MSHP ’13 (Beyer Blinder Belle, NYC)

To volunteer for upcoming dates, please email Esther Turay at gsappalumni@columbia.edu.

• Read 2021-22 Incubator Prize recipient Adam Susaneck’s ’20 MArch front-page opinion piece “Mr. Biden, Tear Down This Highway” in the New York Times (Columbia University affiliates can sign up here for free access to the New York Times). Susaneck will participate in the GSAPP Incubator Prize event this Friday, and deliver the lecture “Segregation by Design” in an event hosted by The National Arts Club on September 21 at 6pm.

• Read a profile on Brooklyn-based Sarah Carpenter ’11 MArch in Metropolis Magazine about “Redefining Community-Driven Hospitality.”

• Watch a live stream of Professor Steven Holl’s EwingCole Lecture at UPenn on September 12 at 6:30pm. Details here.

• Visit the site-specific installation “SOFTY” at Lincoln Center Plaza designed by Faculty Bryony Roberts’ studio as part of the Big Umbrella Festival on September 17 and 18, 11-2pm and 4-7pm. Details here.

• Register for Assistant Professor Lola Ben-Alon’s lecture on “Speculating the Futures of Earthen Materials” at CCA Architecture’s Architectural Ecologies Lab (in-person and online) on September 22 at 12pm PST. Details here.

• View the line-up for the second season of MoMA’s Material Worlds online discussion series, moderated by Faculty Lindsey Wikstrom ’16 MArch.

• The Young Climate Prize, initiated by The World Around, is now open for applications and nominations for talented under-25s all over the world until October 31, 2022. Details here.