The MSRED Program is delighted to invite you to the annual MSRED Alumni Gala, bringing together generations of alumni and the broader MSRED community of supporters and friends. We are pleased to be honoring Johnny Din ‘14 MSRED and Andy Golubitsky ‘13 MSAUD, '14 MSRED with the 2023 MSRED Distinguished Alumnus Award. The annual Distinguished Alumnus Award celebrates an alumnus of the Columbia MSRED program who is a leader in the real estate industry and has demonstrated a strong commitment and service to Columbia.

Henry Taic ‘86 MSRED will deliver the Doryan Winkelman ’86 MSRED Real Estate Development Lecture.

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Henry Taic is one of Israel’s veteran and successful luxury hotel developers and owner in excess of 2,700 hotel rooms in Israel. Some hotels are under internationally managed brands such as Hilton (Hilton Tel Aviv), InterContinental (David InterContinental Tel Aviv), Kempinski (David Kempinski Hotel and Residence Tower Tel Aviv).

About the Doryan Winkelman ’86 MSRED Real Estate Development Lecture

The Doryan Winkelman ’86 MSRED Real Estate Development Lecture (the Winkelman Lecture) is an annual lecture for the M.S.RED Program on the topic of international real estate development. Drawing on Columbia University’s vast network of global leaders and prominent practitioners, the Winkelman Lecture brings together esteemed guests, faculty and students to introduce and examine key issues surrounding the complex demands of global urban real estate development.

The Winkelman Lecture was established in 2018 by Doryan Winkelman ‘86 MSRED.

Organized by Columbia GSAPP MSRED Program and the Office of Development and Alumni Relations.

Interested in joining the Board? Alumni across all programs, generations, and geography are eligible. The Alumni Board particularly seeks nominations with demonstrated leadership and dedication to GSAPP, as well as a commitment to the GSAPP Anti Racism Action Plan.

Nominations for 2023-2024 will be accepted until May 15, 2023.

A new issue of the Avery Review is out now! Issue 61 features two essays from the Avery Review’s Open Call for Essays on the Concrete and Conceptual Caribbean and two essays evaluating the politics of abolition. It includes reviews of A Noami Paik’s Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the Twenty-First Century, Barbuda’s communal relation to land, the transatlantic counter-monument, and Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation. Urgent, critical, and antagonistic, each piece overwrites particular histories, policies, narratives, and imaginaries that sustain violent patterns of displacement and enclosure—challenging their seeming inexorability. Read the essays from Esra Akcan, Line Algoed and Antonio Carmona Báez, Julia Michiko Hori, and Alison Rose Reed here.

Columbia GSAPP sadly shares the loss of Brandon Cook, a graduate of our NY Paris and Master of Architecture programs, adjunct faculty member, friend, colleague, and longtime volunteer.

Brandon attended Columbia GSAPP after earning his undergraduate degree in architecture and neuroscience from Wesleyan University. A teacher and practitioner, Brandon taught at Columbia GSAPP, Pratt, NJIT, and the Architectural Association, and worked for a range of firms, including SITU, BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group, Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Atelier Kempe Thill, and OMA/AMO. Cook was also a contributor as a writer to eOculus in New York.

For over 25 years, Brandon was deeply involved at GSAPP as a faculty member in the Intro to Architecture and NY Paris programs; a member of the Admissions Committee (2000-2019); and an alumni volunteer and mentor, participating in the Alumni Conversations series to share his perspective and advice with students, among much more.

On Saturday, April 29, friends and family will gather to remember and celebrate Brandon’s remarkable life.

Brandon is survived by his parents, Jane and Fred Cook.