This Academic Year’s John Foerster ‘64 Fund Lecture will be delivered by Jacques Herzog (Herzog & deMeuron). Response: Dean Andrés Jaque.

Image: © Herzog & de Meuron. All works by Alexander Calder © 2025 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Michael Allen (West Virginia University), Susan Boynton (Columbia University), Tone Hansen (GSAPP, Munch Museum), Giuseppe Lignano & Ada Tolla (GSAPP, LOT-EK), Eleonora Pistis (Columbia University), Francisco Prado-Vilar (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela), Amandine Kastler & Erlend Skjeseth (Oslo School of Architecture), Evangelos Kotsioris (MoMA), Amie Siegel *(Artist and filmmaker), *Lucian Simmons (The Mett), Albena Yanevav (University of Torino) and **Uwe Fleckner (University of Hamburg).

Introduction: Jorge Otero-Pailos (GSAPP, Otero-Pailos Studio). Discussion with Jorge Otero-Pailos, Mari Lending (Oslo School of Architecture), Eric Langdalen (Oslo School of Architecture)

Kate Ascher (GSAPP), Larissa Belova (UBS), Nicholas Bienstock (Savanna), George Theron Bynum IV (Former Mayor of Tulsa), Tommy Craig (Hines), Clare Newman (Trust for Governors Island), Sonny Kalsi (BGO), Cecily King (GSAPP, Kipling Development), Barry Langer (Vornado), Christopher Munsell (GSAPP), Nitin Motwani (Merrimac Ventures, Miami Worldcenter Group), Melissa Román Burch (NYCEDC), Jonathan Rose (Jonathan Rose Companies), Maria Torres-Springer (Ford Foundation, Former First Deputy Mayor of New York City), Claire Weisz (WXY), Tom Wright (RPA)

The 5th annual BIPOC Climate Justice Summit: Power Shift, a full-day public event launching NYC Climate Week at Columbia University. This year’s summit convenes frontline communities, organizers, researchers, funders, and public servants to build collective power and advance transformative climate justice. This summit aims to catalyze global collaboration to drive progress on climate justice, particularly across the following themes: The Power Shift, The Knowledge Shift, ️ The Policy Shift, The System Shift, Mutual Aid as Strategy.

In collaboration with the Columbia Environmental and Climate Justice Project, HBCU Green Fund, Donors of Color Network and ACE Observatory.

Mary Miss will present her work, followed by a conversation with Kate Orff (GSAPP, SCAPE) moderated by Bart-Jan Polman (GSAPP).

• GSAPP’s Buell Center presents the exhibition Before you were here on view at Butler Library through September 12 and organized by Lucia Allais, Director of the Buell Center. Tracing Columbia’s history through the survival of Buell Hall, the project features archival research and new works by students and collaborators. Its next iteration opens on Avery’s 200 level, September 8–October 22.

• T-Space Rhinebeck, an archive gallery of the Steven Myron Holl Foundation, opens New Hudson Valley Houses (September 7–December 19). The exhibition presents ten recently designed homes by Stan Allen, Garrick Ambrose, Steven Holl, Toshiko Mori, and MOS (faculty Hilary Sample with Michael Meredith), shown through models and drawings that reveal the design process.

• Dr. Sharon Egretta Sutton, FAIA, ‘73 M.Arch presents Works on Paper: A Retrospective at Hazel and Robert H. Siegel Gallery, Pratt Institute (September 22–October 22, 2025). Sharing a series of works on paper, Dr. Sutton’s collages convey inventive methods of transformation. She will give a gallery talk, Four Stages of My Creative Journey: 1975–Present (September 22), and a lecture, Leaving Home for Uncharted Territory, reflecting on her memoir (October 9).

• Dean Emeritus Bernard Tschumi’s Le Fresnoy—an experimental arts center near Lille, France, that repurposes a 1920s leisure complex—is featured on the cover of The Architectural Review’s recent issue on adaptive reuse, highlighting its inventive in-between spaces and suspended catwalks.

• Adjunct faculty Elias and Yousef Anastas receive the Aga Khan Award 2025 for Wonder Cabinet, a three-story concrete structure of interconnecting voids uniting community members in a regional hub of learning, connection, and artistry.

• Faculty Hilary Sample with Michael Meredith (MOS Architects) present A Garden of… at Marta Los Angeles (September 6–October 18). Through interlocking arrangements, collaborators are invited to engage with MOS’s projects, as the exhibition reflects on community, systems, and care—beginning with the garden.

• Faculty Kaja Kühl and Jay Tsai, with vonDalwig Architecture (Philipp vonDalwig, Kit vonDalwig, ’01 MSAAD), covered by The New York Times for their renovation of a Prospect Heights townhouse, transforming the previously segmented building into a cohesive, energy-conscious domestic environment.

• Faculty Amelyn Ng is among the recipients of the J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize at Exhibit Columbus for PUBLIC/SCHOOL/GROUNDS, a collaboration with César Lopez, Jess Myers, and Germán Pallares-Avitia. Inspired by Columbus public school roofscapes, the project transforms the classroom into a layered, multi-sensory landscape.

• Three UP PhD candidates—Samantha Saona, Mauricio Rada, and Daniela Ugas—secured the Urban Studies Foundation Seminar Series Award with support from faculty Hugo Sarmiento, Anthony Vanky, and Tom Slater.

• Faculty including Mireia Luzzáraga, Alessandro Orsini, Hilary Sample (MOS), and Amaia Sánchez-Velasco + Jorge Valiente-Oriol (Grandeza Studio) are among the participants in the Chicago Architecture Biennial (September 19, 2025–February 28, 2026). Titled SHIFT: Architecture in Times of Radical Change, this year’s edition explores “new grounds for the interpretation and design of our built environments.”

• Faculty Lola Ben-Alon, foregrounding her leadership of GSAPP’s Natural Materials Lab, will participate in the Copenhagen Architecture Biennial (September 18–October 20), themed Slow Down. She will introduce and join a Q&A for Speak to the Earth (2025), a film by Benjamin Abrams on the Lab’s experimental research. Additionally, she’ll lead the panel Femme Lineages of Slowness featuring faculty Kate Orff.