With the summer semester in full swing, GSAPP welcomes alumni back to campus, reanimating familiar halls with renewed connection and shared momentum. This week also marks a series of outward-facing engagements: faculty and researchers contribute to summits, exhibitions, and new publications.

Daniel Chang ’99 MSUP, ’99 BU delivers the 2025 Doryan Winkelman ’86 MSRED Real Estate Development Lecture. As European Lead for Sustainability at Hines, Chang works across scales—translating planetary metrics into asset-level decisions, and reframing sustainability as a design of relations: between buildings and regulation, capital and climate, materiality and governance. His work across Hines’ European portfolio has redefined sustainability strategy not as a checklist, but as a practice of maintenance, adaptation, and performance over time.

Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi is an architectural historian at Barnard College and author of Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement (Duke University Press, 2023), on the spatial politics, visual rhetoric, ecologies, and long colonial traditions of the UNHCR-administered camps at Dadaab, Kenya. Her scholarship centers African and South Asian questions of historicity and archives, heritage politics, and feminist and colonial practices, foregrounding marginalized histories and communities that have been systematically silenced.

Introduction and response by Beril Sarisakal Erkent and AAD students.

Olga Beatrice Carcassi, Associate Research Scientist at GSAPP’s Natural Materials Lab, serves on the jury for the 2025 Biodesign Challenge Summit, under the theme, “Biodesigning the Global Village.” Projects span four thematic areas—Cornerstones, Conditions, Creations, and Civilizations—mapping speculative futures shaped by the life sciences. Thursday, June 12, 6–8 PM at Arnhold Hall, Theresa Lang Center, New York, Register here.

Steven Holl was awarded an Honorary Doctorate Degree by the University of Patras Department of Architecture. The award honors Holl’s wide-ranging contributions to the discipline—advancing a spatial language grounded in phenomenology, material intelligence, and cultural specificity.

As part of the ceremony, Holl delivered a lecture titled Rome and the Teacher: Astra Zarina, a personal reflection on Zarina’s pedagogical legacy and the enduring role of Rome as a site of architectural imagination. An exhibition accompanying the event is on view at the Department’s Gallery (Studio 5), and a booklet of four seminal texts by Holl, translated into Greek for the first time, has been published in conjunction.