Midway through September, GSAPP hosts events, workshops, and colloquiums that map the rhythms of the School. In studios, classrooms, and lecture halls, students, faculty, and alumni collaborate to transform ideas into action, tracing connections that extend into the city and beyond. Events and news this week offers a concentrated view of the collaborations, conversations, and projects shaping GSAPP’s ecosystem.

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

For the 21st Library is Open, Beatrice Leanza will present her book The New Design Museum, which brings together theories and voices from leading international institutions and independent initiatives addressing the transformed––and continually transforming––nature of design in the twenty-first century and its planetary scope in both practical and discursive dimensions.

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), and additional guests.

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.

• 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.

• 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).