October at GSAPP
This month, GSAPP welcomes speakers for in person lectures and events on topics including housing, infrastructure, citizenship, climate, and more. Guest speakers include Marina Tabassum (Marina Tabassum Architects), Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi (Barnard College), Kate Orff (GSAPP, SCAPE), Minsuk Cho (Mass Studies), and others.
Please scroll down and visit the online events calendar for more information.
Columbia University campus is open to Columbia affiliates with a valid CUID and to pre-approved guests. The general public may register in advance through the link on each event page to request campus access.
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ACTIONING SUMMIT 2
How to speed up the response to urgent crises (in facing the eviction and housing crisis)
September 30, 2024, 6:30pm
Wood Auditorium
With Carles Baiges (Lacol), Ada Colau, Renato Cymbalista (FICA), and Barika Williams (ANHD)
Interventions by Juan Herreros (GSAPP, estudio Herreros), Adam Lubinsky (GSAPP, WXY), Hilary Sample (GSAPP, MOS), and Tom Slater (GSAPP)
The ACTIONING SUMMITS are an unprecedented effort to affirm how architecture, planning, development, and preservation are anticipating desirable and alternative futures.
The ACTIONING SUMMITS are curated by Andrés Jaque, Dean, and Bart-Jan Polman, Director of Exhibitions and Public Programming and Curator of the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery.
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Marina Tabassum (Marina Tabassum Architects)
October 10, 2024, 6:30pm
Wood Auditorium
Lecture by Marina Tabassum (Marina Tabassum Architects), with a response by Mireia Luzárraga.
A Bangladeshi architect and educator, Marina Tabassum founded Dhaka-based Marina Tabassum Architects in 2005. In her work, Tabassum seeks to establish a language of architecture that is contemporary yet reflectively rooted to place, always against an ecological rubric containing climate, context, culture, history.
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The Library is Open 11: The Architecture of Migration
October 11, 2024, 1pm
Avery 400
For the 11th installment of The Library is Open, Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi (Barnard College) will discuss her book Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement (Duke University Press, 2024). Anooradha’s talk will be followed by a response from Nora Akawi (Cooper Union) and Mabel Wilson(GSAPP, AAADS).
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Kate Orff
October 21, 2024, 6:30pm
Wood Auditorium
The Fall 2024 Open House Lecture will be delivered by Kate Orff (GSAPP, Columbia Climate School, SCAPE, with a response by Dean Andrés Jaque.
Kate Orff’s activist and visionary work on design for climate dynamics has been shared and developed in collaboration with arts institutions, governments, and scholars worldwide. She is a Professor at Columbia GSAPP and Director of the Urban Design Program, where she coordinates complex interdisciplinary studios centered on urban systems of the future.
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Minsuk Cho
October 30, 2024, 6:30pm
Wood Auditorium
Lecture by Minsuk Cho ‘92 M.Arch of MASS Studies, with response by Ada Tolla (GSAPP, LOT-EK) and Wonne Ickx (GSAPP, PRODUCTORA).
Minsuk Cho founded the Seoul-based firm Mass Studies in 2003. Mass Studies is committed to the discourse of architecture through socio-cultural and urban research and mostly built works that have been recognized globally.
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Abundance Talks: Invasive Building
October 31, 2024, 12pm
300S Buell Hall and online
Manu Karuka (Barnard), Adrian Anagnost (Tulane) on how is nature’s suitability for conquest represented? These two talks reveal that apportioning abundance–as natural wealth–has long been a visual, literary, and architectural business.
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GSAPP Recommends
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Feminist Spatial Practices (co-founded by faculty Bryony Roberts and Abriannah Aiken ‘22 AAD) is launching a new interactive online platform that celebrates the diverse ways that people practice feminism in the built environment. At the launch event, members of Feminist Spatial Practices (including many GSAPP alumni) will introduce the interactive archive, and guest speakers featured within the platform—Marisa Morán Jahn, A.L. Hu, Diana Agrest, and Jerome Haferd—will share their work on intersectional gender equity in the built environment. Tuesday, October 8, 7-8:30 PM at the e-flux screening room, Brooklyn. RSVP.
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Edges of Ailey at the Whitney Museum features 18-channel video installation by Kya Lou and faculty Josh Begley. On view from September 25–February 9, 2025.
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