July at GSAPP
This month, GSAPP welcomes speakers for in person and online lectures and conversations affiliated with GSAPP programs: MSAAD, MSAUD, MSCDP, and MSRED. Guest speakers include Xu TianTian, Dare Brawley, Suneil Sanzgiri, Susan Schuppli, Robert Gerard Pietrusko, Stéphanie Bru, Alexandre Theriot, and others.
Please scroll down and visit the online events calendar for more information. Columbia’s Morningside campus is open to everyone between the hours of 7 a.m. and 5 p.m., seven days a week. Please see the University website for updates.
Above: documentation from summer MSAAD midterm reviews.
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Xu TianTian
July 3, 2024, 11:30am
Wood Auditorium
Xu Tiantian (DnA _Design and Architecture), will deliver the lecture “Into the Island” on the ecological entanglements on Meizhou Island. Introduction by Maur Dessauvage followed by response and Q&A by David Barragán.
Xu Tiantian is the founding principal of DnA _Design and Architecture and Professor in Practice at Tsinghua University School of Architecture. She received her Baccalaureate in Architecture from Tsinghua University in China, and her Master of Architecture in Urban Design (MAUD) from Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Organized by the MS in Advanced Architectural Design program as part of the AAD Arguments Lecture Series.
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Dare Brawley
July 9, 2024, 12pm
Avery 600 (Ware Lounge)
A lecture by GSAPP Adjunct Assistant Professor, and WXY Associate Dare Brawley. The lecture will start with a brief introduction from Adam Vosburgh, and be followed by an audience Q&A.
Dare Brawley’s work focuses on the interactions of data infrastructures, housing, and spatial politics using methods from critical urban studies and geographic information systems. She is currently a Senior Urban Analyst at WXY architecture + urban design. At Columbia GSAPP, she teaches courses on mapping and spatial research methods, and on drawing as a tool for collective decision making.
Organized by the MS in Computational Design Practices program, MSCDP Conversations with Practitioners lecture series.
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Disputes, Narratives, and Routes
July 9, 2024, 4pm
Avery 114
Daniel Athias de Almeida, architect and urban planner, presents a toolkit designed to manage conflicts and promote social justice within public policy. Athias de Almeida has shared his expertise in architecture at UNIAN and UNI REDENTOR, focusing on cultural heritage and counter-hegemonic discourses in Rio de Janeiro. Currently, he is pursuing a Ph.D. at FAU/UFRJ and serving as a visiting scholar at the Center for Sustainable Urban Development at Columbia University. Daniel is an active researcher at SEL/PROARQ-UFRJ and a member of the Heritopolis Society.
Register for the online lecture.
Co-organized by the MS in Architecture and Urban Design and the MS in Historic Preservation programs.
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Suneil Sanzgiri
July 10, 2024, 11:30am
Wood Auditorium
Artist, researcher, and filmmaker Suneil Sanzgiri will deliver the lecture “Fractured Worldmaking Amid Contradiction & Crisis” on anticolonial worldmaking across non-linear temporal and spatial mediums— including 3D renderings, drone videography, photogrammetry and lidar scanning, 16 mm film and animation, archival footage, and desktop documentary practices. Introduction by Irina Chernyakova followed response and Q&A by Corneel Cannaerts.
Organized by the MS in Advanced Architectural Design program, AAD Arguments lecture series.
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Nexus: Dealmaking, Blueprinting, Positioning, and Beyond
July 15, 2024, 12pm
Wood Auditorium
Bernadette Ma (’17 M.Arch/MSRED) is the Founder and Managing Principal of Real Estate Investment, Development and Design (REIDD), a multidisciplinary firm that bridges real estate investment, development, and design. Its current projects include boutique ground-up condominium buildings in Brooklyn and Manhattan.
Bernadette holds a B.A. in Architecture from UC Berkeley and a dual degree in Master of Architecture and M.S. in Real Estate Development from Columbia University.
Organized by the MS in Real Estate Development program.
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GSAPP Recommends
- Read the latest e-flux essay series, 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. Over the course of six essays, contributing writers share essays on the digital and physical boundaries of spatial computing. Read all six essays now.
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News
- Professor Tom Slater has been appointed as the new Director of the Ph.D. in Urban Planning program at GSAPP.
- Congratulations to faculty Erica Avrami, James Marston Fitch Assistant Professor of Historic Preservation, recently appointed by President Biden as Expert Member to the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation.
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Dean Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation performs “Transspecies Kitchen,” at Middelheim Museum.
- Architensions (faculty Alessandro Orsini, Nick Roseboro ‘23 CCCP) and Takk (faculty Mireia Luzárraga, Alejandro Muiño) are the 2024 winners of the Architectural Record Design Vanguard Award.
- In the weeks since opening, the Serpentine Pavilion by Minsuk Cho ’92 M.Arch of Mass Studies titled “Archipelagic Void,” continues to delight. Learn more about Cho’s design.
- 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.
- Faculty Lola Ben-Alon of the Natural Materials Lab presented 3D printed earth-fiber basketry in the Future Icons section at London Craft Week
- Professor Andrew Dolkart and Ken Lustbader '93 MSHP featured in PoliticsNY’s “2024 LGBTQ+ Power Players” list as co-founders and co-directors of the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project
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The Energy Advancement and Innovation Center by Smith-Miller+Hawkinson (faculty Laurie Hawkinson), featured on the cover of Architectural Record, is a new living laboratory and incubator for academia and practitioners to research renewable energy and direct current power at the Ohio State University.
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