The inaugural Kenneth Frampton Endowed Symposium convenes faculty from across GSAPP’s programs around the theme Housing and Domesticity. Intentionally broad, the prompt invites our eighteen participants to engage the topic expanding its stakes across disciplines.

With Amale Andraos (GSAPP, WorkAC), Michael Bell (GSAPP, Bell-Seong Architecture), Anthony Clarke (GSAPP, BLOXAS), Mario Gooden (GSAPP, Mario Gooden Architects), Laurie Hawkinson (GSAPP, Smith-Miller + Hawkinson), Juan Herreros (GSAPP, estudio Herreros), Eric Bunge (GSAPP, nArchitects), Steven Holl (GSAPP, Steven Holl Architects), Dean Andrés Jaque (GSAPP, OFFPOLINN), Adam Lubinsky (GSAPP, WXY), Ada Tolla & Giuseppe Lignano (GSAPP, Lot-EK), Mireia Luzzáraga (GSAPP, TAKK), Alessandro Orsini (GSAPP, Architensions), Rachely Rotem (GSAPP, MODU), Hilary Sample (GSAPP, MOS), Galia Solomonoff (GSAPP, SAS), Bernard Tschumi (GSAPP, Bernard Tschumi Architects), Marc Tsurumaki (GSAPP, LTL).

The Edible Summits asks how architecture fosters, violates, or transgresses critical relationships between bodies and ecologies via food. For the first summit, two student-led installations will transform the Avery 100 level through participatory rituals: “What is Food?” (pictured) and “LocaliTea” navigate the geographic, perceived, and abstract boundaries of food production, consumption, and waste.

The AAD Edible Summits is an initiative organized by Lydia Kallipoliti and Xiaoxi Chen and the MS in Advanced Architectural Design program.

GSAPP Adjacent, a student-led organization dedicated to expanding the discourse of architecture through cross-disciplinary dialogue, welcomes Ceren Arslan to GSAPP. Ceren is a New York-based spatial designer and architect whose work spans fashion, art, and culture, with a particular focus on large-scale production. Her portfolio includes collaborations with Tiffany & Co., Stone Island, Tory Burch SS25 (pictured), Spotify, Nike, and W Hotels. Join for the talk and Q&A session in Avery 114 on Tuesday, April 22 at 6:30 PM. Learn more.

• a+u’s April issue, “More-Than-Human Architecture” is guest edited by Dean Andrés Jaque, presenting OFFPOLINN’s investigations of the more-than-human dimension of the built environment. Dean Jaque brings together an international roster of architects including many GSAPP faculty: Mireia Luzárraga (TAKK), Mio Tsuneyama (Studio mnm) and Fuminori Nousaku (Fuminori Nousaku Architects) to further illustrate this critical dialogue into the post-anthropocentric era.

• Sherry Aine Chuang Te, M.Arch, MSUP ‘25 is named in Metropolis Magazine’s Future100: Architecture Graduates list and was nominated by faculty Lola Ben-Alon, who oversee’s Sherry’s position as Research Assistant in the Natural Materials Lab.

• Faculty Christopher Munsell recently presented his research on the future of AI methods and applications in teaching at Columbia University’s Data Science Day and the American Real Estate Society Conference. Speaking to audiences of innovators, researchers, and scientists, Munsell emphasized how AI tools can connect real estate pedagogy with industry insights.

• Xiaoxi Chen M.Arch ‘15 and Lily Chishan Wong M.Arch '15 perform “Becoming Guanxi: An Autoficition of Chinatown Futures” at the University of Colorado Denver as part of an event series and exhibition on Chinatowns in the United States.