Midterm reviews wrap up this week with Adv IV, Adv VI, MSAUD, and MSCDP on Monday; MSUP, Core II, and MSCDP on Tuesday; Adv IV and MSAUD on Thursday; and Core II on Friday. Please reference the online review schedule for full details including room assignments and guest critics.

There are many lectures and discussions taking place throughout the rest of March, and be sure to visit the recently opened exhibition Armin Linke: Prospecting Ocean at the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery.

March 4
Columbia University, various locations

GSAPP faculty are contributing important expertise to the full-day AI Summit hosted by Columbia University on Tuesday, March 4. Laura Kurgan, David Benjamin, and Catherine Griffiths will participate in the 1:00pm panel conversation, “AI and Creativity,” sharing insights on integrating AI into creative practice; Chris Munsell will present his research on ChatGPT as a teaching tool for real estate finance at the summit’s morning poster session. Events are held at Low Memorial Library, Lee C. Bollinger Forum, and Vagelos Education Center.
Learn more online, live-stream available.

This year’s John Foerster ‘64 Fund Lecture will be delivered by Thomas Heatherwick with responses Amelyn Ng and Bart-Jan Polman.

Thomas Heatherwick has designed multiple new districts, cultural landmarks and transport infrastructure across the globe. His studio is currently working on over 30 projects in ten countries, including Seoul’s Nodeul Island and Singapore’s Changi Airport Terminal 5 in collaboration with KPF.

The seventh ACTIONING SUMMIT, co-curated with Ignacio G. Galán (Barnard), will discuss the expert knowledge and methodological questions required to project disability forward. Speakers will be Edmund Asiedu (DOT), Ignacio G. Galán (Barnard College, Columbia University), David Gissen (Parsons/The New School), and Aimi Hamraie (Vanderbilt).

This event is coordinated with the Keating Visiting Architect lecture by Jeffrey Mansfield at Barnard College. Learn more

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.

Lydia Kallipoliti will deliver this year’s Admitted Student Open House lecture, with a response by Dean Andrés Jaque.

Lydia Kallipoliti is an internationally recognized architect, engineer, scholar, and educator dedicated to exploring and influencing how architecture operates ecologically and environmentally, through work that critically interrogates how design, science, technology, and politics interact.

• Faculty Mabel O. Wilson presents the prestigious 2025 A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, an annual series at the National Gallery of Art. Wilson will deliver a four-part lecture series entitled America’s Architecture of Freedom and Unfreedom, presenting key themes from her forthcoming book, Building Race and Nation: How Slavery and Dispossession Shaped U.S. Civic Architecture. In person and online every Sunday from March 9 to March 30, 2025. Learn more and register.

• “Behind Notre-Dame’s Monumental Restoration” presents a behind-the-scenes look at the restoration process of the French landmark. Special guests include faculty Barry Bergdoll. Attend in person at The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine or online on March 12, 2025, 6 PM.

• Sixty years ago New York City passed the NYC Landmarks Law, designed to protect the city’s historic and architectural heritage. In honor of the 60th anniversary, faculty Jorge Otero-Pailos will moderate at a talk titled “What to Save? Landmarks for a New New York.” Attend in person at the Center for Brooklyn History on Monday, March 17, 6:30 PM.

• The ACSA 113th Annual Meeting in New Orleans under the theme “Repair,” features lectures from many GSAPP faculty and alumni. Kate Orff is the keynote speaker and will receive the Tau Sigma Delta Gold Medal, awarded by the organization’s Grand Chapter to a professional with a record of high distinction in design in the field of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, or the Allied Arts. Faculty participants include Ziad Jamaleddine, Amelyn Ng ‘19 MSCDP, and A.L. Hu ‘17 M.Arch alongside alumni Abriannah Aiken ’22 MSAAD and E.J. Shin ’24 M.Arch.

• Faculty Michael Bell, Eunjeong Seong ‘02 M.Arch, and Gail Borden co-curate Is Housing Still Housing? Houston’s Single-family House, at University of Houston, marking the 25th anniversary of Bell’s previous exhibition, 16 Houses: Owning a House in the City at Rice University. The exhibition brings together works from practitioners nationwide, including GSAPP faculty Lindy Roy. On view from March 3–April 22, 2025. Learn more about the exhibition and related programming.

• Large-scale model, photographs, digital drawings, and sketches of Dean Andrés Jaque’s Reggio School in Madrid were recently acquired by MoMA and are now centrally installed off the museum’s atrium. Read Columbia News’ coverage of this achievement.

• Columbia News also featured an interview with faculty Mario Gooden on the topics of teaching, scholarship, and expansive creative practice for their “Office Hours" column.

• GSAPP’s Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) have announced the winners of the 2025 Course Development Prize in Architecture, Climate Change, and Society, a prize developed as part of a Buell Center project entitled “Power: Infrastructure in America.“