Last Friday, GSAPP celebrated the annual School-wide alumni party at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall. Prior to the evening festivities, GSAPP welcomed the classes of 1994, 2004, and 2014 back to campus for a special day of events, including with a talk by Kent Yang ’96 MSRED.

Thank you to all the GSAPP alumni for joining this very memorable day, and all the faculty and staff who contributed to its success.

In 2023, the University Senate has passed a resolution designating Juneteenth as an official University Holiday, and Columbia will be closed this Wednesday, June 19. Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the United States by honoring the events of June 19, 1865, when Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to inform enslaved African Americans that they were free, and the Civil War was over.

In honor of Juneteenth, Columbia Neighbors shared a list of free local events happening this week, from a Harlem street festival to a farm party. Plan your day.

Today, e-flux launches Spatial Computing, a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and the MSCDP Program edited by e-flux Architecture and GSAPP’s Laura Kurgan and Adam Vosburgh. Between now and the end of June, 6 contributing writers share essays on the digital and physical boundaries of spatial computing. In the editorial statement editors posit that approaching spatial computing critically might help to understand where and how things, people, animals, plants, and movements are tied to these bigger, less visible systems—ones that are perhaps not “seen” on the map but are guided by it.

Read the full editorial statement here and subscribe to e-flux Architecture to read the series right in your inbox.

In the weeks since opening, the Serpentine Pavilion by Minsuk Cho ’92 M.Arch of Mass Studies titled “Archipelagic Void,” continues to delight. Browse through a selection of recent press below.

• A first look at Serpentine Pavilion 2024: ‘It really is an archipelago’ (Wallpaper)

• Serpentine pavilion 2024 review – Minsuk Cho’s multi-use design is bold and playful (the Guardian)

• Minsuk Cho’s 2024 Serpentine Pavilion Stands as a Playful People Connector (Architectural Record)

• Serpentine Pavilion 2024 By Architect Minsuk Cho Imagined As Islands Of Experiences

• Serpentine Pavilion 2024 by architect Minsuk Cho is a maze of experiences (Forbes)

• Serpentine Pavilion 2024: is it worth visiting? (Domus)