Columbia GSAPP is pleased to introduce Larry Padilla ‘94 MSRED as the new Alumni Board President. Mr. Padilla is currently the Regional Vice President of the Caribbean office for The Michaels Organization, one of the nation’s largest multi-family developers and operators, responsible for overseeing all aspects of development activity, including acquisitions, planning, land-use approvals, and development financing for Puerto Rico the US Virgin Islands and Southeast Florida.

In addition, Columbia GSAPP is pleased to welcome the following new members to the Board:

• Dalal Al Sayer ’10 MSAUD
  
• Gauri Bahuguna ’20 M.Arch
  
• Brian Dollar ’03 MSRED
  
• Leon Duval ’22 MSAAD
  
• Marina Otero-Verzier ’13 MSCCCP
  

Please visit the Alumni page to learn more about our current GSAPP Alumni Board members.

Please join the Columbia GSAPP community for an afternoon of presentations by the recipients of the 2022-2023 Incubator Prize, dedicated to funding alumni-led initiatives that introduce new forms of anti-racist practice and critically redefine community engagement and participation.

Recipients of the 2022-2023 Incubator Prize include:

• Abriannah Aiken ’22 MSAAD
• Steven Corsello ’21 M.Arch/MSRED
• Fabrizio Furiassi ’19 MSAAD
• Priyanka Jain ’12 MSUP
• Ibrahim Kombarji ’20 MSAAD
• Sharon Leung ’16 M.Arch
• Adam Lubitz ’18 MSHP/MSUP
• Da’Quallon Deshun Smith ’15 MSUP
• Kyle Spence ’12 MSAAD
• Adam Susaneck ’20 M.Arch
• Katherine Taylor-Hasty ’18 MSHP
  

Space is limited; register here to attend in person.

Tuesday Talks is an opportunity for the GSAPP Students to connect with the larger Alumni community for informational mentorship this Fall. The program pairs current students with alumni professionals for hour-long, one-on-one conversations about career development. Alumni mentors may participate once, or as many times as they wish.

The opportunity to speak about the job market with trusted alumni—including those in other American cities and international locations is invaluable to emerging practitioners. The demand for mentorship has remained high since the program’s inception in March 2020. To volunteer as a mentor, send a note to gsappalumni@columbia.edu with your job title, company name, and location.

Be a global point of contact for GSAPP students, faculty, and alumni traveling to your region. Please fill out this form if you are interested in participating.

Are you looking to hire GSAPP students or alumni? Please create an account on Columbia’s Career Services Platform GSAPP Gateway to submit job and internship opportunities for GSAPP students and recent graduates.

Columbia GSAPP proudly announces the creation of a new scholarship fund in honor of Lance Hosey ’87CC (1964-2021) acclaimed architect, author, advocate and public speaker. Led by a founding gift from his brother, Terry Hosey, the Lance Hosey Scholarship Fund to Make Things Better is to be awarded in perpetuity to a GSAPP student whose studies and work demonstrate a commitment to the intersection of design and sustainability, the cornerstone of Hosey’s professional work.

Learn more on GSAPP News.

The 2023 Fitch Colloquium will focus on preservation’s productive exchanges with the earth sciences and contemporary art, exploring a range of experimental preservation practices engaged in atmospheric heritage. Speakers include Michael Morris, Sharolyn Anderson, Gisela Winckler, Shona Illingworth, Giuliana Bruno, Nerea Calvillo, David Gissen, Lindsey Wikstrom ’16 MArch, Mark Wasiuta, Anna Lea Albright, Alice Sharp. Conversations will be moderated by Dean Andrés Jaque; Carol Becker, Professor of the Arts and Dean Emerita, Columbia University School of the Arts; and GSAPP Assistant Professor Erica Avrami.

Organized by Jorge Otero-Pailos, Professor and Director of the Historic Preservation Program.

Registration required via Eventbrite.

• On Wednesday, September 27 at 7pm, the Swiss Institute (38 St Marks Pl, New York, NY) will host a collective reading and conversation around Sketches on Everlasting Plastics, the first publication in an ongoing editorial collaboration between Columbia Books on Architecture and the City (CBAC), New York and SPACES, Cleveland. With introductions by Columbia Books on Architecture and the City (CBAC) editors Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt, Joanna Joseph, and Meriam Soltan and the 2023 US Pavilion Co-Curators Tizziana Baldenebro, Lauren Leving, and Assistant Curator Paula Volpato, the evening will feature readings from Heather Davis, Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb, and Gabrielle Printz, followed by a discussion. Sketches was produced as part of the United States Pavilion’s exhibition Everlasting Plastics at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale. Visit the Swiss Institute website for more information and RSVP details.

• The exhibition Multihypenation at Harvard GSD’s Druker Design Gallery, on view through October 9, features work by Professor Hilary Sample (MOS); Assistant Professor Emanuel Admassu ’12 MSAAD ’13 AAR and Jen Wood ’12 MSAAD ( AD—WO); and Faculty Jing Liu (SO – IL).

• Work by The Living—led by GSAPP Faculty David Benjamin, John Locke, Ray Wang, and Lorenzo Villaggi—is featured in the Museum of Modern Art exhibition Life Cycles: The Materials of Contemporary Design on view through July 7.

Professor Kate Orff and her firm SCAPE have been named the recipient of the 2023 Obel Award for Living Breakwaters, a half-mile linear necklace of near-shore breakwaters along the south shore of Staten Island in New York. A mix of stones and carefully designed ecologically enhanced concrete units are placed strategically to calm the water, reduce erosion, and rebuild onshore beaches, but also to support oysters, fin fish, and other marine species. The oysters will form part of the design of the artificial reef formation. As they reproduce, the breakwaters grow denser and are able to provide more protection for the shore.

Beyond the breakwaters, the project has involved nearly a decade of educational and engagement-related programming designed to advance community stewardship, citizen science, and recreation along the water’s edge.

Learn more about the Living Breakwaters project on the Obel Award website.