Fernando Luis Martínez Nespral (IAA) presents “Ibero-American Patterns,” followed by a response from Faculty Ziad Jamaleddine.

Orientalizing patterns, building elements, and tropes have suffused Latin American architecture since the Early Modern period. Fernando Nespral’s comprehensive new study shows that these designs were primarily channeled through Spain, demonstrating how deeply this longstanding imperial legacy is imprinted on the hemisphere.

CONSTRUCTING (unorthodox) PRACTICE traces the trajectories of emerging firms from around the globe that are critically engaged with contemporary design challenges.

The symposium focuses on the transition from education to professional practice and on the idea that one’s own practice can be understood as a project in itself—designed, built, and sustained—necessarily shaped by meaningful commitments in today’s contradictory and increasingly complex climate.

Speakers include Mahsa Malek and Alex Yueyan Li (11x17), Laurens Bekemans (BC Architects), Anna MacIver-Ek and Axel Chevroulet (Maciver-Ek Chevroulet), Martinez Barat, Benjamin Lafore, and Florian Jomain (MBL Architects), Ardy Hartono (DUA Studio), Gigi Shukakidze (Wunderwerk), Dechophon Rattanasatchatham, Pongsatorn Swadchatchwan and Rungroj Tansukanun (Yangnar Studio), Nguyễn Hà (ARB Architects + Material Matters), Juliana Ayako, Carlos Zebulun, Anna Jankovic and André Bonnice (SIMULAA), Alkistis Thomidou and Berta Gutiérrez Casaos (Forty-Five Degrees), Igor Bragado and Miles Gertler (Common Accounts). Introductions by Dean Andrés Jaque and Faculty Juan Herreros, moderation by Faculty Marc Tsurumaki, Mireia Luzárraga, Lola Ben-Alon, and Director of MSAAD Lydia Kallipoliti.

Brian Goldstein discusses his latest book, Max Bond: The Life and Work of the People’s Architect, the first biography of a preeminent postwar architect who championed the cause of freedom through architecture and transformed Black history and modernism. The discussion is followed by a conversation with Shelley Hayreh and Shawn Rickenbacker.

This month, GSAPP alumni connect in New York and online with Alumni Conversations November 12, Alumni Conversations November 16, World Architecture Festival GSAPP Dinner November 17, and Tuesday Talks November 24.

Columbia GSAPP is deeply saddened by the passing of Adjunct Assistant Professor and architectural historian Victoria Sanger, whose teaching and generous intellectual presence enriched the School for over two decades, first through the New York/Paris Program and later at Avery Hall.

As a specialist in early modern architectural and urban history, with a Ph.D. from Columbia University, Sanger’s work explored the ways warfare and cartography shape the development and representation of cities. Her research focused particularly on seventeenth-century France and the work of military engineer Sébastien de Vauban. Through her teaching, she brought these historical entanglements into dialogue with questions of development and representation of cities.

She was deeply committed to preserving architectural history, notably through her work to bring the papers of her great-uncle and grandfather, Percy and Harold D. Uris, to Columbia’s Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, and, more recently, championing Uris Hall’s history reflecting the intersection of architecture, computing, and urban development in New York City. She also supported the acquisition of materials from Emery Roth & Sons, helping preserve important records of New York City’s architectural history.

Columbia GSAPP honors Victoria Sanger’s legacy.

Columbia GSAPP is deeply saddened by the passing of architect and Adjunct Professor Paul Segal, who taught Professional Practice at the School for over three decades. Through his teaching and mentorship, Segal taught generations of students how designs become buildings.

Segal earned his M.F.A. from Princeton University in 1969 and founded Paul Segal Associates Architects. His contributions extended beyond architectural practice into the civic life of New York, where he helped preserve historic Broadway theaters and served as president of AIA New York. He shared his knowledge of the profession through his book, Professional Practice: A Guide to Turning Designs into Buildings (2006).

Columbia GSAPP honors Paul Segal’s legacy.

• Faculty Catherine Griffiths‘s video piece, Sandy Flats Lane, examines motion capture datasets of domestic labor in the home and is on view at the KB National Library of the Netherlands.

• Director of MArch Marc Tsurumaki (LTL Architects) receives the Architect’s Newspaper’s Best of Design Award in the Residential-Single Unit category and the 2026 AIA NYS Merit Award for
  All Straw House.

• Faculty Leopold Banchini (Leopold Banchini Architects), Wonne Ick (Productora), Dean Andrés Jaque (OFFPOLINN), Mireia Luzárraga (TAKK), Alessandro Orsini (Architensions), and Nick Roseboro (Architensions) participate in the exhibition “The Unbearable Heaviness of the Light Frame” at Pratt Institute.

• Faculty Mireia Luzárraga (TAKK), together with Alejandro Muiño, inaugurate their commissioned installation for The Architectural League’s 2026 Beaux Arts Ball.

• Director of MSAAD Lydia Kallipoliti and Valeria Ramirez ‘26 MSAAD publish “The Fecal Imaginary” in e-flux Architecture’s “World Ecologies in Formation,” organized by the Yale Center for Ecosystems in Architecture.

• Faculty Ziad Jamaleddine (L.E.FT Architects) delivers lectures at the Yale Architecture Forum and the Van Alen Institute.

• Faculty Emanuel Admassu and Jen Wood ‘12 MSAAD (AD-WO) are commissioned by the Carnegie Museum of Art to reimagine the Heinz Architectural Center.

• Doctoral candidate Lucia Galaretto receives the 2026 Carter Manny Award Citations of Special Recognition.

• Faculty Christoph a. Kumpusch presents a lecture and night walk at St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford.

• Faculty Juan Herreros’s (estudio Herreros) SOLO CSV wins the VIII Open House Madrid Award in the Intervention in Cultural Heritage category.

• Faculty Nahyun Hwang (N H D M) participates in an exhibition and panel at the Knowlton School at The Ohio State University.

• Director of MSHP Jorge Otero-Pailos revisits The Ethics of Dust: Westminster Hall, reflecting on preservation, memory, and changing histories.

• Faculty Sumayya Vally (counterspace) is selected to design the permanent home of the Elie Khouri Art Foundation in Dubai.

• Faculty Maksym Rokmaniko and Advanced V students present their Great Meadow Atlas at the Harriman Institute.

• Faculty Karla Rothstein contributes to the article, “Trump’s arch would cast shadow on Arlington Cemetery.”

• Faculty Hugo Sarmiento, doctoral candidates Samantha Saona and Mauricio Rada, and doctoral student Daniela Perleche collaborate in organizing and presenting at a conference in Lima, Peru.

• The latest issue of The Avery Review is now live.

• Faculty Mario Gooden joins the panel “Broadening the Canon” at the Montparnasse International Global symposium in Paris, France, November 14.

• Faculty Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano (LOT-EK) deliver a lecture at Thomas Jefferson University, November 16.