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This week at GSAPP: 10/27–11/2
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Today:
Coalition 2
October 27, 6:30pm
Wood Auditorium
Organized and curated jointly with PIN-UP Magazine, this coalition brings together numerous designers active in New York, and will discuss the role the city plays in and through their work. Designers Margot DeMarco, Luam Melake, Sam Stewart, and Nao Tamura will present their work, and will be joined by PIN-UP’s Felix Burrichter for a conversation. |
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Abundance Talks: Sites on Earth
October 31, 12pm
300S Buell Hall and online
Yasmina El Chami (Sheffield) and Sophia Roosth (NYU) with a response by Spyros Papapetros (Princeton)
How do places become sites of natural abundance? Knowledge production has played an outsized role in shaping the nature it purports to study. In these talks, geological, architectonic, and landscape formations are shaped to legitimize paradigms of evolution (both natural and otherwise). Yasmina El Chami surveys the architecture of the American rural campus abroad, which helped locate the mountains of the Middle East in religious and agricultural narratives. Sophia Roosth reports on the geobiologists who, by repeatedly visiting the “sleeping giant” mountain along Lake Superior in search of microfossils, have tapped into Anishinaabe narratives of silver and copper, as well as anti-Darwinian glacial theory.
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Faranak Miraftab
October 28, 1:15pm
Fayerweather 209
Faranak Miraftab is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning with joint appointments in Women and Gender Studies and Geography at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her established transnational feminist urban scholarship focuses on urbanization, citizenship, and insurgent practices of marginalized people based on class, race, and gender in many areas of the world — United States, Middle East, Southern Africa, and Latin America.
The Lecture in Planning Series is co-organized by the MSUP Program and second-year PhD students in Urban Planning.
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ADJACENT X Sky High Farm Universe
October 29, 6:30pm
Avery 114
Established in January 2022, Sky High Farm Universe is a mission-driven brand created to sustain and expand the impact of Sky High Farm. By engaging with consumer culture as a tool for social good, the brand promotes a more equitable food system while reimagining corporate structures to challenge and invert traditional hierarchies of wealth.
Organized by GSAPP ADJACENT, a student-led organization and conversation series.
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Janet Echelman
October 29, 1pm
209 Fayerweather
Janet Echelman uses unconventional materials—from atomized water particles to fiber stronger than steel—blending traditional craft with advanced computational design. Her monumental works anchor public spaces across five continents, in cities including New York, London, Sydney, Shanghai, and Singapore.
The Preservation Lecture Series is organized by the MS in Historic Preservation program.
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GSAPP RECOMMENDS
Dean Andrés Jaque will speak alongside architects and curators in “Fluxes: Changes and Transformations” for Talk, Talk, Talk, a conversation series at the Seventh Lisbon Architecture Triennale. Livestreamed on eflux, the conversation investigates how global and local circulations condition everyday lives—from displacement to supply chains—and how architecture might engage with these fluxes as forms of solidarity and resistance. Thursday, October 30 2PM EST. Learn more.
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NEWS
- nARCHITECTS, the firm of faculty Mimi Hoang and Eric Bunge is awarded Metropolis Magazine’s 2025 Planet Positive Award in the Pavilion category for their Resilience Park Pavilion in Hoboken, New Jersey, which demonstrates the potential of a pavilion to provide flexible use, intimate urban dialogue, and much needed urban recreational space along the waterfront.
- Members from across GSAPP’s ecosystem are presenting work at the 2025 Lisbon Architecture Triennale: How Heavy is a City?. Faculty Mireia Luzarraga‘s firm TAKK has work on view in the “The Sixth Sphere,” and Associate Director MSAAD, Xiaoxi Chen MArch '15 and Lily Chishan Wong MArch '15 share "TA-CHIM: Weighing A City’s Colonial Legacies.”
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Dean Emeritus Mark Wigley and Beatriz Colomina are joined by Dean Andrés Jaque and Roberto Kolter for a conversation on their book We the Bacteria: Notes Toward Biotic Architecture, for Princeton University’s Graduate Program in Media + Modernity lecture series, revisiting the body as an architectural site, where bacteria, buildings, and societies cohabit as interdependent ecologies shaping contemporary existence.
- Friends Making Work, the practice of faculty Amelyn Ng CCCP ’19, Gabriel Vergara ’19 MSAUD, and Christine Giorgio ’19 M.Arch won an award at the XXIII Bienal de Arquitectura y Urbanismo de Chile, Santiago, Chile, in the Otras Prácticas category, for their project D.E.P.O.T. / prácticas domésticas brutas.
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PreservAI, led by faculty Jorge Otero-Pailos alongside faculty Bilge Kose and Kivanc Kosean receives a Columbia Global Resilience Fund award for their interdisciplinary research initiative developing AI-enhanced, GIS-integrated tools for detecting and assessing damage to cultural heritage sites in the aftermath of earthquakes.
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