This week at GSAPP 9/22–29
CLIMATE WEEK
This week, as New York gathers for Climate Week, GSAPP joins the conversation with events that explore architecture’s role in shaping environmental futures. These moments trace the School’s capacity to turn research and design into public engagement, connecting GSAPP’s work with the infrastructures of climate responsibility that shape New York and beyond. |
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ON CLIMATE COALITIONS: A CONVERSATION WITH MARY MISS
September 29, 6:30pm
Wood Auditorium
Mary Miss will present her work, followed by a conversation with Kate Orff (GSAPP, SCAPE) moderated by Bart-Jan Polman (GSAPP).
Mary Miss has reshaped the boundaries between sculpture, architecture, landscape design, and installation, articulating a vision of engagement for the public sphere. In 2009, Miss founded City as Living Laboratory, creating a framework for making issues of sustainability and climate change tangible through the arts. Miss is currently working on two urban scale projects, ‘WaterMarks: an Atlas of Water for the city of Milwaukee’ and ‘Rescuing Tibbetts Brook One Stitch at a Time’, a project to help bring a buried stream to the surface in the Bronx. Her work has been shown at the Guggenheim Museum in 2010, the Sculpture Center in 2008, and the Des Moines Art Center in 1996. Miss has been recognized by numerous awards, including a fellowship from the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Urban Land Institute’s Global Award for Excellence and the 2017 Bedrock of New York City Award.
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THE LIBRARY IS OPEN 22: Rooted Transience
September 25, 12:30pm
Ware Lounge
For the 22nd Library is Open, join editors Nawaf Bin Ayyaf and Faysal Tabbarah; contributor Ziad Jameleddine, and respondents Navina Najat Haidar (Metropolitan Museum of Art) and Jorge Otero-Pailos, for a discussion on Rooted Transience. Made to accompany the AlMusalla Prize 2025, first presented at the Islamic Arts Biennale in Jeddah in January 2025, Rooted Transience explores the form and philosophy of a musalla as a temporary prayer space within Islamic cultures. Arising wherever and whenever the need for prayer emerges, a musalla reimagines fixed spatial practices by fluidly adapting to its immediate environment.
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William Morache
September 24, 1pm
209 Fayerweather
William Morache ‘14 MSHP, is a New York City-based architectural historian and preservationist. He worked as a facade restoration specialist at AJLP Consulting / Surface Design Group. Since 2017, he has been an independent practitioner under William Morache Historic Preservation LLC. Morache’s clients include non-profits, private developers, architects, and other preservation professionals. He is a board member and co-Vice President of Preservation Alumni.
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GSAPP RECOMMENDS
Faculty Jorge Otero-Pailos will moderate “Transformation of the Villa: the Thieleck Estate in Berlin (1927–1931),” a seminar by Sebastian Meyer-von Köckritz, part of Columbia University’s Italian Academy Fellow Seminar Series. October 1, 1–2:30PM, Italian Academy. Registration required.
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NEWS
all(zone), the practice of faculty Rachaporn Choochuey, serves as Artistic Director of RAM assembles 2025: Shanghai Picnic, Rockbund Art Museum’s biennial festival of architectural thinking in Shanghai. The edition transforms the Museum Plaza into a convivial, improvised public space through and includes contributions from the GSAPP ecosystem, including faculty Nahyun Hwang, David Eugin Moon, Robin Hartanto Honggare ’24 PhD Arch, ’21 MPhil Arch, ’17 MSCCCP, and Bart-Jan Polman, Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs. Faculty Mary McLeod delivers the keynote at Women’s Work: Women’s Voices in Art, Craft, Architecture, and Design, a symposium at the Raymond Farm Center for Living Arts & Design in New Hope, Pennsylvania presenting the historical and contemporary contributions of women to art, craft, architecture, and design, emphasizing their leadership, critical inquiry, and influence on the evolving discourse of creative practice.
Pictured: Under a Common Sky, Sheltered to Gather installation by all(zone) (Faculty Rachaporn Choochuey)
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