Save the Date
2020 GSAPP Reunion
Planning is underway for Reunion Weekend: June 5-6, 2020—mark your calendars!
If you graduated in a class year ending in 0 or 5, be sure you are included in upcoming reunion emails by updating your information today.
Interested in getting involved with organizing your reunion milestone? We’d love to hear from you! Please send a note to gsappalumni@columbia.edu.
Above: The Class of 1994 in front of Avery Hall for their 25th Reunion this spring.
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HISTORIC DONATION TO
ADVANCE THE STUDY OF
HOUSING DESIGN
Columbia GSAPP is pleased to announce a donation exceeding $2 million from the IDC Foundation to support faculty leadership and interdisciplinary research.
The gift will help to launch a new interdisciplinary research initiative, the Columbia GSAPP Housing Lab, and to fund the IDC Foundation Professorship of Housing Design, the first endowed professorship dedicated to the Architecture program at Columbia GSAPP. Additional support from the IDC Foundation will be directed to financial aid and student travel, furthering the School’s commitment to shaping a more equitable, sustainable, and creative world by engaging students from diverse and global perspectives.
Read the full press release here.
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Calling for
Informational Mentors!
Career Services invites alumni from the M.Arch, MS.AAD and MS.AUD programs to participate in the 2019-2020 Mentorship Program as an Informational Mentor.
Connect to a student for a one-time conversation to help prepare for them for an interview, give feedback on resume and portfolio, share details on working in your region, or answer general inquiries about professional practice.
Submit the brief Mentor Information Form before Wednesday, September 18th.
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Alumni Dinner in Washington, DC
September 18, 2019, 8pm
Zaytinya DC
Washington, DC
Please join Kate Ascher, the Milstein Professor of Urban Development, for a private alumni dinner during the annual ULI Fall Meeting.
Space is limited. Please RSVP to Jillian.Kincaid@columbia.edu.
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ALUMNI DINNER IN DENVER, CO
Please join Professor Andrew Dolkart ‘77 MSHP and the Columbia GSAPP Historic Preservation program for a private dinner during the 2019 PastForward, National Trust Conference.
Register to attend
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2019 Columbia University Real Estate Development Conference
A forum of global industry leaders will discuss the wide-ranging real estate development activities of Private Equity: Buy, Fund, Build, Sell.
Featured Speakers include Marc Holliday, ‘90 MSRED, Chairman and CEO, SL Green Realty Corp.; Jeff Blau, Partner and CEO, The Related Companies; and Sonny Kalsi, President, BentallGreenOak Real Estate
More information here.
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HUDSON VALLEY INITIATIVE: KINGSTON BARN MEET
The Barn Meet is a knowledge-sharing event convened by the Hudson Valley Initiative and GSAPP Urban Design Program.
This workshop will bring together people and organizations at work in the Valley in conjunction with the Fall semester project, The Climate Crisis: Imagining a Green New Deal in the Hudson Valley.
Register to attend
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On Campus
Each semester, alumni have access to a variety of lectures, exhibitions, and programs held on campus. This fall introduces an exciting line-up of speakers and events focusing on narrative strategies for designers, the deployment of digital information in cities, exploring the rural as an emergent terrain for design, and more.
Please visit our calendar for the full schedule.
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View Projects from
AAD Summer 2019 Studios
View a faculty-curated selection of the best student work produced in the Advanced Architectural Design summer 2019 semester studios, now on display on the fourth floor of Avery Hall.
Read each studio’s brief on the GSAPP website.
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1919: Black Water
September 27, 2019, 6pm
Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery
Artist Torkwase Dyson presents new site-specific paintings and sculpture that respond to the 100th anniversary of the “Red Summer” of 1919, a period of heightened racial violence across the U.S. She explores the relationships between race, climate migration, and the architectural imagination.
Join us on September 27 for an artist talk and opening reception.
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