GSAPP alumni programs and receptions will be held in Taipei, Shanghai, and Beijing this month. For more information and to register, please see below.

An alumni dinner will also be hosted in Manila on Friday, November 15. If you live in the Philippines and did not receive an invitation, please email Leslie.Kuo@Columbia.edu for more details.

To make sure you are included on regional lists for special events, please keep your information updated.

The Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation invites you to join us on Saturday, November 9 from 3 pm to 6 pm to hear from GSAPP alumni about their work. Reception to follow.

Jenny Ling ‘88 MSAAD, Faculty Member in the Architecture Department of Tamkang University, will invite alumni to share about their professional lives since graduating from their respective programs at GSAPP. Speakers include:

• Hom Liu '05 MSAAD, Wooyo
• Bee Sung '06 MSAAD, BeeSung Architects
• David Lee '02 MArch, J.J. Pan and Partners
• David Hong '02 MSAAD, Bureau of Architecture Misaligned
• Johnny Chiu '06 MSAAD, JC Architecture

This small cross-section of alumni will offer a glimpse at the creative and professional lives of the GSAPP community. We are pleased to host the program on the 4th Floor of Toasteria Café Yong Kang, designed by JC Architecture.

Click here to register. Space is limited.

The Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation invites you to join us on Wednesday, November 13 from 6 pm to 10 pm to hear from GSAPP alumni about their work.

This program of alumni presentations is organized by Phoebe Zhang ‘15 MSAUD, co-Founder of design collaborative Afoam, who was inspired by the phrase “to hustle,” as defined by the Urban Dictionary: To have the courage, confidence, self belief, and self-determination to go out there and work it out until you find the opportunity you want in life.

Speakers include

Oscar Ko, '06 MArch, Founder of Interval Architects
Zhe Fan, '16 MSAAD, Founder of NextScene
Yichi Su '05 MSAAD, Partner at NaturalBuild
Wei Wang, '03 MSAAD, Founder of Field Architect Office
Ruifen Xu '07 MSRED, Founding Partner of RIC Capital Management
Yilun Zhang '14 MSRED, Assistant VP at GIC

This small cross-section of alumni will offer a glimpse at the creative and professional lives of the GSAPP community. We are pleased to host the program in a 1930’s art deco, 海派 haipai-style property managed by Meetbest, a company founded by Yong He '14 MSAAD.

Click here to register or email gsappalumni@columbia.edu with your Name, UNI, and Alumni Affiliation. All Columbia University alumni are welcome.

Today’s practices in the fields of architecture and urbanism are no longer restrained to their traditional roles, instead pursuing a range of paths that explore alternative projects and roles. These professionals translate and apply architectural knowledge to other fields, industries, and discourses. This type of role play, in turn has enriched and made more complex the discussions on architecture, urbanism and beyond.

As a laboratory of architectural experiments, China helps to catalyze such processes, in which Columbia GSAPP alumni play a central role.

Register with the Global Center.