April at GSAPP brings guests from around the world to Avery Hall for the next installments of AFFIRMATIONS and the Library is Open in addition to GSAPP’s spring lecture series. All programs take place in Wood Auditorium and will be streamed on GSAPP’s YouTube, unless otherwise noted.

Please scroll down for more, and visit the GSAPP event calendar for the full details.

Dr. Joe Schaffers (District Six Museum) delivers the inaugural PhD in Urban Planning Lecture, “Forced Evictions, Memory, and Hope: The Story of District Six, Cape Town” with an introduction by faculty Tom Slater.

Marquis Bey, Jack Halberstam, and Paul Preciado participate in the ninth edition of the AFFIRMATIONS series under the theme of “Queer/Trans Eco-Territorial-Bodiments.” The discussion is followed by a response from Andrés Jaque.

Madelon Vriesendorp, co-founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), will deliver this year’s Kenneth Frampton endowed lecture, in conversation with Dean Andrés Jaque and Bart-Jan Polman.

Najha Zigbi-Johnson (GSAPP 2021 Community Fellow), will discuss her edited volume Mapping Malcolm (Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2024) as part of the Library is Open series at GSAPP. Responses by faculty Emanuel Admassu and CBAC Editors Joanna Joseph, Isabelle C Kirkham-Lewitt, and Meriam M. Soltan will follow the presentation.

The Library is Open events are not recorded and occur on the 400 level in Avery Hall

In the first of the Buell Center’s “Abundance Talks,” Jennifer Chuong will address Benjamin Latrobe’s “American Order,” a veritable making-stone of agrarian abundance, and Maura Lucking will reveal the pitched-roofed architecture of “Indian cottages” as a means of imperialism. Daniel Abramson will respond.

RSVP for in-person attendance at buellcenter@columbia.edu, or register for the webinar.

A panel presentation on the restoration of the former US Embassy in Oslo originally designed by Eero Saarinen in 1959. Speakers: Svein Lund (Lundhagem Arkitekter) and Jonas Norsted (Atelier Oslo) with Erik Langdalen and Jorge Otero-Pailos. Response by Professor Laurie Hawkinson.