June marks a new cycle at GSAPP. Newly arrived students in the MS programs in Advanced Architectural Design, Architecture and Urban Design, and Real Estate Development begin their engagement with the School. Later in the month, incoming students in the MS in Computational Design Practices program will join GSAPP’s ecosystem, further expanding exchanges across programs.

Event highlights this month include lectures organized by the MSAAD and MSRED programs, as well as programming by the Office of Development and Alumni Relations, including the annual All GSAPP Alumni Party. Many of these events are recorded and available on YouTube. For a complete overview, visit the GSAPP events calendar.

The End of Year Show showcases GSAPP’s commitment to critically expand the spectrum of the possible through the work of the School’s researchers, faculty, and students, with over 1,000 student works available for viewing online. This marks a momentous collaborative effort to mobilize the disciplines of the built environment as critical sites for studying and intervening in the now.

Daniel Chang ’99 MSUP, ’99 BU, European Lead for Sustainability at Hines, delivers the 2025 Doryan Winkelman ’86 MSRED Real Estate Development Lecture. Held annually, the lecture convenes students, faculty, and invited guests to consider key questions in international real estate development. Chang’s current work focuses on sustainability strategy across Hines’ European portfolio, where he has led award-winning efforts in environmental performance and asset management. His lecture reflects a career bridging architecture, urban planning, and investment, and draws on over two decades of experience with major development projects across Europe. Monday, June 16, 2025, 6:30 PM in the Teatro Room at Casa Italiana. Reception to follow.

Organized by Columbia GSAPP’s MSRED Program and the Office of Development and Alumni Relations

The MSAAD Arguments Lecture series returns this summer, linking directly with the program’s coursework. Each invited guest shares a critical text in advance, setting the stage for deep engagement. The series convenes a diverse group of speakers whose work addresses urgent environmental, political, and social challenges. By examining how architectural practices and devices gain collective significance, the lectures explore architecture’s participation in broader environmental, technological, and representational alliances, solidarities, disputes, and controversies.

June speakers include: Behnaz Farahi (MIT Media Lab), Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi (Barnard) Michael Young (Cooper Union), and Jingru Cyan Cheng + Cheng Zhan

June assembles alumni from across disciplines and generations for moments of reflection, connection, and renewed collaboration. These encounters create space to revisit shared foundations while building new pathways forward.

• Faculty Emanuel Admassu and Justin Garrett Moore ‘04 M.Arch MSAUD are among the invited guests speaking at the Kinfolx Imagining Neighborhoods fundraising event in support of Brooklyn-based nonprofit, BlackSpace. Emanuel joins the second panel, “Salon Shareouts: New Ideas in the Black Built Environment,” alongside Olalekan Jeyifous on the Black Reconstructive Collective. Justin closes out the event with the keynote address, followed by a stoop party. Tuesday, June 10, 2–6:30 PM at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporic Arts. RSVP.

• Faculty Mimi Hoang moderates a lecture by Anne Marie Duvall Decker and Roy Decker of Duvall Decker as part of the Architecture League NY’s Current Work series. Known for their civic-focused architecture rooted in Jackson, Mississippi, the practice reflects on over two decades of socially engaged practice. Thursday, June 26, 7 PM at the Cooper Union. RSVP.

• Friends Making Work, the creative practice of Faculty Amelyn Ng, Gabriel Vergara ‘19 MSAUD, and Christine Giorgio ‘19 M.Arch is selected to exhibit D.E.P.O.T. / Practicas Domesticas Brutas at the Bienal de Arquitectura y Urbanismo de Chile, on view from September 25– October 5, 2025.
• Dean Andres Jaque and Dean Emeritus Mark Wigley were officially honored as recipients of the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ 2025 Awards in Architecture at the May 22 ceremony. The award affirms the place of architecture within the broader cultural landscape of literature, music, and visual arts, and highlights the deep respect shared among practitioners.
• Emanuel Admassu, receives the 2025 Faculty Mentoring Award by Columbia University’s Office of the Provost. The award––and grant program––recognizes a shared commitment to advancing research and scholarship, promoting inclusive excellence, and teaching and research in service of the public good. Emanuel’s leadership is recognized in tandem with his ongoing project, Black Measure: Architecture After Property, aligning his teaching in GSAPP’s advanced studios and spatial research.
• Faculty Jorge Otero-Pailos delivered the keynote lecture, “The Provenance of Dust”, at the symposium, “Provenance Projected,”at the Department of Architecture and Design of the Politecnico di Torino, culminated engaged discusses on provenance, the distributed nature of art and phenomenology of architecture at the time of crisis and models for investigating the social, material, and historical lives of buildings and their future potentials