Mark Wigley, GSAPP Professor and Dean Emeritus, in conversation with Dean Amale Andraos following the presentation of his book, Cutting Matta-Clark: The Anarchitecture Investigation, earlier this week. View the full lecture on the GSAPP YouTube Channel.

Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) is hosting a private cocktail reception in Shanghai for regional alumni on Tuesday, December 4 from 6 to 8pm.

Please join us for special cocktails, craft beers, and small plates at Cobra Lily, located within Xintiandi, the landmark development district known for imbuing Shanghai’s built heritage with contemporary culture and design.

We welcome all Columbia University alumni to attend!

Please register for the event here.

2,150 years ago, the world experienced an incredible event. For 20 years, a small village in the Hispania Plateau resisted the most powerful army in the world. Classical authors paid homage to this remarkable feat as a comprehensive historical symbol, legend, and factual myth. Numancia perished in defense of freedom, dignity, honor, sacrifice, solidarity, unity, independence, nobility, and peace. Together with Rome, that gifted the law, cities, citizenship, urban infrastructure, language, and religion, with Greco-Roman and Christian culture, Numancia marks the origin of the history of human rights and democracy. Numancia is a hidden treasure reflecting the paradigm of liberty and universal human freedom that lie at the heart of our moral heritage understood as the best definition culture and what we now refer to as the “Fourth Pillar;” the cornerstone upon which to build an intelligent, sustainable world for the universal benefit of present and future generations. Please register here

Reunion Weekend May 31-June 1 celebrating the classes ending in 4 and 9! Are you interested in being a class representative? Please email gsappalumni@columbia.edu

Model Projections investigates the complex pathways between architecture and its representations through an examination of the practice of model making. Drawing primarily upon the special collections of the Department of Drawings and Archives at Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, the exhibition focuses on an ecosystem of architectural model making during the mid-twentieth century.

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