Uriel Fogué (elii), will deliver the lecture “Guts, Ghosts, Portals, & Cannibals: From Construction Details to Ecological Contracts.” Oscar Oliver-Didier will give an introduction and will be joined by Elise Misao Hunchuck to provide a response following the presentation and host a Q&A session.

Uriel Fogué holds a PhD in architecture from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (outstanding doctoral thesis prize, academic year 2014-15; doctoral dissertation finalist at the X Bienal Iberoamericana de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, 2016).

Since 2006, he co-directs the architecture office elii, which has been part of the Spanish Pavilion at the 18th (2023) and the 15th Venice Biennial of Architecture (2016), awarded with the Golden Lion. Two of their works have been selected for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - the Mies Van Der Rohe Award (2015, 2019). Elii won the prestigious Golden Prize Holcim Awards (2023, together with Husos and Ultrazul). Their work Yojigen Poketto was selected as one of the 20 visionary domestic spaces of the last 100 years in the exhibition ‘Home Stories 100 Years, 20 Visionary Interiors’, at the Vitra Design Museum (2020). Elii won the FAD Award (2020, 2005), and were finalist and shortlisted for the FAD Award (2017, 2018, 2020). They obtained First Prize from the Madrid College of Architects (2017); and they have also won the COAM Prize on five occasions (2018, 2016, 2013, 2011, 2006).

Please join the GSAPP MSRED Program for the 2024 Doryan Winkelman ‘86 MSRED Real Estate Development Lecture in the Teatro Room in Casa Italiana given by Kent Yang '96 MSRED.

Please register here.

Kent Yang is the Co-Founder, and Chairman / President of SLP (SEA Logistic Partners), a GLP Capital Partners Limited’s (“GCP”) logistics platform in Vietnam and Southeast Asia. Prior to SLP, Kent joined GLP from 2005 (at the time as ProLogis) and led its China team since GLP’s inception in 2009, he served numerous roles as GLP China Chief Operation Officer, Managing Director, and President until 2016. He is instrumental in building up and spearheading GLP’s business in China.

Kent has more than 27 years of experience in industrial real estate, including: logistics park and industrial park development; operation, and general construction of manufacturing and hi-tech industrial facilities.

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

• Celebrate 15 years of Urban Omnibus, a publication of the Architectural League of New York. The publications community of readers, writers, contributors, supporters, family, and friends new and old are invited for an outdoor summer party to celebrate the anniversary. Tuesday, June 25, 6PM. The Malt House, 461 West 126th St. Free and open to all. RSVP.

• Join faculty Lola Ben Alon for a lecture with Strat Coffman, moderated by Rodrigo Escandón Cesarmanas as part of the Architectural League’s Online Lecture Series featuring 2024 prize winners. Thursday, June 13, 12PM. Learn more.

• Congratulations to Minsuk Cho ‘92 M.Arch and founder of Mass Studies (Seoul, South Korea) on completing the 23rd Serpentine Pavilion, titled, “Archipelogic Void.” Open from June 7 through October 27, 2024. Learn more about Cho’s design.

• The third edition of the American Academy’s Talking Architecture series features Professor Mario Gooden, 2024 William A. Bernoudy Architect in Residence at the American Academy in Rome, and Francesco Careri, cofounder of the architectural practice Stalker and associate professor of urban and architectural design at Roma Tre University. Learn more.

• Professor Jorge Otero-Pailos’ solo exhibition “Treaties on De-Fences” opens at the National Museum of American Diplomacy in Washington D.C. Treaties on De-Fences, National Museum of American Diplomacy, Washington DC.

• New MAK center exhibition, “Entourage” presents works and documentations by faculty Hilary Sample (MOS), Ignacio G. Galán, faculty at Barnard Architecture and GSAPP, and Joel Sanders ‘81 M.Arch. Learn more.