The MSCDP Conversations with Practitioners brings together designers, technologists, and architects whose work reflects a wide range of contemporary practices and perspectives.

The MSAUD Designing for Action lecture series convenes leading voices across architecture, landscape, planning, and public policy to examine how design can address the urgent challenges facing New York City.

The MSAAD Arguments lecture series returns this summer as an arena to engage critically with contemporary practices. Each invited guest shares a critical text in advance and convenes a diverse group of speakers whose work addresses urgent environmental, political, and social challenge.

Matias Echanove

Matias Echanove ‘03 M.S.UP is an urbanologist and author with over 20 years of practice spanning Europe, Asia, and Latin America. He is a co-founder of urbz, a research-action collective with offices in Mumbai, Bogotá, Paris, and Geneva. His work centers on urban transformation through citizen participation. He trained in economics and government at the London School of Economics, urban planning at Columbia University, and urban information systems at the University of Tokyo, and has carried out fieldwork in neighborhoods like Dharavi in Mumbai, Siloé in Cali, and Bed-Stuy in Brooklyn. His work with urbz has been showcased at MoMA in New York, M+ in Hong Kong, and the MAXXI in Rome. He currently teaches at EPFL. In 2026, Verso published his second book, The Homegrown City, co-authored with Rahul Srivastava.

Moderated by Neeraj Bhatia (GSAPP, The Open Workshop)

This month, GSAPP alumni across generations reconnect on June 12 including graduates from the Classes of ‘76 M.Arch, '16 MSAAD, '06 MSAAD, '86 ARCH, '06 M.Arch, '11 MSHP, '11 MSRED, '16 MSUP, '21 MSRED, '91 M.Arch/MSAAD, '21 MSAAD, '16 MSRED, '01 ARCH, alongside a gathering in San Diego on June 11 and Tuesday Talks on June 9 and June 23.

Max Núñez ’10 MSAAD is a Chilean architect and founder of Max Núñez Arquitectos. Based in Santiago, Chile, his work develops a material, spatial, and typological investigation informed by specific topographies and territorial narratives.

• Co-Director of CCCP Mark Wasiuta, together with Theodora Vardouli and Farzin Lotfi-Jam ‘12 MSAAD, have been selected to represent Canada at the 2027 Venice Architecture Biennale.

• Many of the forces shaping New York’s landscape today share a connection to Avery Hall. GSAPP’s ecosystem populates PIN–UP’s “NYC ARCHITECTS” and “40 HOUSES,” including Dean Andrés Jaque; Dean Emeritus Amale Andraos; Faculty Emanuel Admassu, Jayden Ali, Amina Blacksher, Mimi Hoang, Steven Holl, Nahyun Hwang, Jing Liu, LOT-EK, Phillipe Rahm, Hilary Sample, Sumayya Vally, Mabel O. Wilson, Laura Gonzalez Fierro; and Alumni Charles Renfro ‘94 MSAAD, Ashely Kuo '18 M.Arch, Andrea Chiney '18 M.Arch, James Slade '94 March, and Jen Wood '12 MSAAD, among others.

• Faculty Anthony Vanky is interviewed by Atmos Magazine on a story about sensing and cyborg botany.

• Faculty Amelyn Ng ‘19 CCCP, Faculty Gabriel Vergara '19 MSAUD, and Christine Giorgio '19 MARCH (Friends Making Work) present their exhibition DEPAVE: An Ecological Repair of the Ground at the Center for Architecture.

• Faculty Hiba Bou Akar joins the conversation “Anticipation,” as part of the series Staying with the Trouble: Conversations around Architecture Otherwise, curated by Vyjayanthi Rao for the Sharjah Architecture Triennial.

• Faculty Mireia Luzárraga (TAKK) designs “Circus,” a new dancefloor installation for the HORST Arts & Music Festival 2026.

• M.Arch Director Marc Tsurumaki (LTL Architects), David J. Lewis, and Paul Lewis join host Ana Miljački on the podcast i would prefer not to.

• Director of MSAAD Lydia Kallipoliti launches her book Building Metabolism in Los Angeles and lectures at the Helms Design District and the Cal Poly SLO/LA Metro Program.

• Faculty Sebastian Adamo (adamo-faiden) designs the display for the exhibition The fortune of the city is that it has never been perfect at the Canadian Centre for Architecture.

• Faculty Ibrahim Kombarji designs “A Necessary Fiction,” a Venice Biennale 2026 collateral exhibition presented by the Saudi Ministry of Culture and curated by Sara Almutlaq ‘20 M.Arch with Bianca Pedron and Aurora Fonda.

• Dean Andrés Jaque is interviewed by DesignBoom in “'utopia is growing within the cracks’: andrés jaque on possibility as architectural system”.

• Faculty Emanuel Admassu (AD-WO) and Jen Wood ‘12 MSAAD (AD-WO) collaborate with artist Olalekan Jeyifous on the installation Ancestral Ecologies, on view at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

• Faculty Lola Ben-Alon’s Affirmations Stools, created at the Natural Materials Lab, are exhibited at the 2026 ICFF at the Javits Center in New York City.

• Faculty Andrew S. Dolkart ('77 MSHP) and three other HP grads are honored as Pillars of New York by the Preservation League of New York State for their work co-founding the NYC LGBTQ Historic Sites Project.

Pictured student work: Levan Kiladze, Omar Ismail + Didier Lucceus, Bernardo Malatesta + Keenan Bellisari, Jana Marinovic, Ellie Madsen, Mika Yassur, Andrew Seungho Yang + Guan-Yo Siao + Yoon Ah Kim, Minjae Kim + Hyunyoung Kim + Danielle Min, Zach Poncher, Siyuan Yao, Brandi Reed, Yuka Imada, Wei Li, Ben Spears + Annie An, Mengxi Xin, Christopher Sherman, and Jes Zhang.