NOVEMBER AT GSAPP
This November, GSAPP extends its coalitional fabric beyond New York, convening dialogues that unfold across Shanghai, Taipei, and campus. These encounters trace how architecture mobilizes ideas, materials, and publics across geographies—connecting design education to the infrastructures of labor, ecology, and collective practice.
From Building the Campus, Building the Metropolis, and the Edible Summits series to The Library is Open conversations and the Inaugural Terence Riley Summit, the month situates architecture as a medium of collaboration and care. Across exhibitions, lectures, and global gatherings, GSAPP continues to test how design can reimagine institutions, cities, and communities in movement.
Pictured: Scenes from October events and happenings at GSAPP.
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Yves Béhar (Fuseproject)
November 19, 6:30pm
Wood Auditorium
Organized jointly with The World Around.
Yves Béhar is the founder and CEO of Fuseproject, a San Francisco-based design and innovation studio. He has launched over 100 early-stage ventures and developed products for brands such as Samsung, Herman Miller, and L’Oréal. His work is rooted in the belief that design accelerates the adoption of new ideas, shaping products that transform how we live.
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Coalition 3: Coalition of Curators. The Inaugural Terence Riley Summit.
November 21, 1pm
Wood Auditorium
The Inaugural Columbia GSAPP Terence Riley Summit will create a worldwide convening to establish a forum where curators of the built environment from around the world can share their experiences, experimentation and methodologies in an afternoon of public conversations. The Summit pays homage to Terence Riley ’82 MSAUD, whose influential career started at the GSAPP Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery.
The Summit will bring together those whose work is transforming how the built environment is critically mobilized, debated, challenged, and intervened upon. Participants include: Noura Al-Sayeh Holtrop (BACA); Renato Anelli (São Paulo Architecture Biennial); Paola Antonelli (MoMA); Charles Aubin (Centre Pompidou x Jersey City); Omar Degan (Pan African Biennale); Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher (SFMOMA); José Esparza (Storefront for Art and Architecture); Beatrice Galilee (The World Around); Shelley Hayreh (Avery Archives); Nikolaus Hirsch (CIVA, e-flux); Jean Im (GSAPP); Andrés Jaque (GSAPP); Justin McGuirk (Design Museum); Ewan McEoin (National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne); Manuela Moscoso (CARA); Maria Nicanor (Cooper Hewitt); Bart-Jan Polman (GSAPP); Florencia Rodriguez (Chicago Architecture Biennial); Raymund Ryan (Carnegie Museum); Felicity Scott (GSAPP); Martino Stierli (MoMA); Irene Sunwoo (Art Institute of Chicago); Abraham Thomas (The Metropolitan Museum of Art); Ikko Yokoyama (M+); Stéphanie Quantin (Centre Pompidou).
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THE LIBRARY IS OPEN 23: Archigram Facsimile
November 14, 1pm
Avery 400
Beatriz Colomina (Princeton), Thomas Evans (D.A.P.), Amelyn Ng (GSAPP), David Grahame Shane (GSAPP), and Bernard Tschumi (GSAPP) discuss the new facsimile edition of Archigram, exploring the publication’s legacy and its continued influence on architectural imagination.
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Across Programs & Initiatives
The MSRED Program’s Architect–Developer Dialogue and Lunchbox Lecture Series feature three November talks:
Sam Alison-Mayne (Tankhouse) and Florian Idenburg (SO–IL), November 6;
Petri Ylivuori (Newil & Bau) and Faculty Steven Holl, November 13;
Sam Robinson (The Kraft Group), November 20, GSAPP.
The MSRED Hotel and Hospitality Club invites Simon Kim for a guest lecture, November 11, 4 PM, GSAPP.
The MSUP Program’s Lecture in Planning Series invites Javier Arbona-Homar and Jake Berman for two talks on the spatial politics of landscapes shaped by explosions and historical patterns of transit construction and development. November 11 and 18, 1:15 PM, GSAPP.
The MSAAD Program’s Edible Summits: Salt Archaeologies (pictured), stages a near future where architecture and cuisine collapse into the same mineral substrate. November 13, 4:30 PM, GSAPP.
GSAPP student organization, Adjacent, invites Kevin Wiesner of MSCHF and Paola Antonelli for conversations on design-oriented industries. November 14 and 20, GSAPP.
The MSHP Program’s Preservation Lecture Series invites Nathan Eddy for a talk on brutalist buildings. November 19, 1 PM, GSAPP.
A Buell Center discussion between Alexander Wood and Jonah Rowen linking the Buell Center’s exhibition Before You Were Here with Building the Metropolis by Alexander Wood. November 20, 12 PM, GSAPP.
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Alumni
This month, GSAPP alumni connect worldwide with events in Seoul, November 3, Shanghai, November 6, and Taipei, November 10, alongside gatherings in New York, November 7, Providence, November 15, and on campus for The Newburgh Cinemabox conversation, November 7, and Tuesday Talks, November 11 and 25.
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GSAPP RECOMMENDS
Faculty Adam Lubinsky and faculty Dare Brawley (WXY) are featured in Searching for Superpublics, (pictured), on view at the Center for Architecture. October 3, 2025 – March 28, 2026.
Faculty Jorge Otero-Pailos opens Onera Foundation’s inaugural exhibition with, “Treaties on De-Fences”, sharing a selection of sculptures and prints inspired by and derived from his work as the preservation architect for the decommissioned Saarinen-designed U.S. Embassy in Oslo. October 1, 2025 – March 28, 2026.
Faculty Andrew Dolkart leads a virtual tour of the Tenement Museum as part of the celebration of the reissue of his book, Biography of a Tenement House in New York City: An Architectural History of 97 Orchard Street. Wednesday, November 12, 6:30 PM
Faculty Steven Holl is in conversation with Peter Eisenman as part of the Island Editions series, celebrating the relocation of the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center to the Tata Innovation Center on the Cornell Tech campus, Roosevelt Island. Wednesday, November 12, 7:00 PM.
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NEWS
Faculty Sebastián Adamo (Adamo-Faiden), in collaboration with faculty Hilary Sample (MOS Architects) and Equipo de Arquitectura, receives the Holcim Foundation Prize for Latin America for the project Chacarita Alta Social Housing. (pictured).
2026 MSCCCP Program cohort in collaboration with e-flux Architecture publishes a series of essays, offering critical perspectives on the ideas, positions, and practices that shaped the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale.
At the Chicago Architecture Biennial’s fifth site, faculty Mireia Luzárraga (TAKK) opens Co-Habitation Dome, while faculty Hilary Sample (MOS Architects), in collaboration with artist Tony Cokes, exhibits Public Benches. November 7, 2025 – January 31, 2026.
Faculty Eric Bunge (nARCHITECTS) and Mimi Hoang (nARCHITECTS) win Metropolis Magazine’s 2025 Planet Positive Award in the Pavilion category for the Resiliencity Park Pavilion.
At the 2025 Lisbon Architecture Triennale: How Heavy is a City?, on view through December 8, faculty Mireia Luzarraga (TAKK) shares works in The Sixth Sphere and Associate Director of MSAAD Xiaoxi Chen ‘15 MArch with Lily Chishan Wong ‘15 MArch exhibit TA-CHIM: Weighing a City’s Colonial Legacies. Additionally, Dean Andrés Jaque spoke alongside curators and architects of the Triennale in the series Talk, Talk, Talk. October 2 – December 8, 2025.
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