Reunion Weekend is
June 5-6, 2020
Interested in getting involved with organizing your reunion milestone? We’d love to hear from you! Please send a note to GSAPPalumni@columbia.edu.
Did you graduate in a Class Year ending in 0 or 5? Columbia GSAPP invites you to celebrate your Reunions with us Friday, June 5 and Saturday, June 6. Program details to be announced soon.
Be sure you receive reunion updates by checking that your contact information is accurate. You are able to adjust your privacy settings through the online alumni portal, as well.
Help make your Reunion special and volunteer as a Class Representative. Main responsibilities include serving as liaison between the alumni office and fellow program alumni to collect Class Notes, assemble a digital gallery, and submit suggestions for reunion programming. Class Lists will be provided to volunteers for outreach purposes.
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The spring 2020 semester introduces an exciting line-up of conferences and discussions focusing on environmental challenges, global design networks, disciplinary convergence, and more. Below is a selection of the semester’s highlights; please visit the online calendar for the full schedule.
Columbia GSAPP and TBA21–Academy are co-organizing Prospecting Ocean at the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, an investigative research project by artist Armin Linke that explores contemporary challenges facing our oceans. The opening on Thursday, March 26 will be followed by an interdisciplinary symposium, Frontiers in the Oceanic Anthropocene, on March 27.
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Bjarke Ingels
January 27, 2020, 6:30pm
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
Response by Amale Andraos
Ingels is the founding partner of Copenhagen-based Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG). One of the fastest growing and most recognizable architecture firms working globally, Ingels defines architecture as the art and science of making sure our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.
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Toshiko Mori
November 23, 2020, 6pm
Virtual
Response by Amale Andraos
Mori is the founder of the New York City-based firm Toshiko Mori Architect. She was recently named the recipient of the Farnsworth Art Museum’s 2018 Maine in America Award, Architectural Record’s 2019 Women in Architecture Design Leader Award, and Architectural Digest’s 2019 AD100.
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Prospecting Ocean
Feb 27 – Jun 27, 2025
Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, Buell Hall
Prospecting Ocean by Armin Linke is a multimedia artistic research project that investigates how the convergence of scientific research, legal frameworks, and economic interests affect the oceans. The exhibition features archival material, film, and photography, and includes new work that draws upon Linke’s research at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Co-organized by Columbia GSAPP and TBA21–Academy.
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Nervous Systems
April 3, 2020, 1pm
114, Avery Hall
Neuroscientists and designers explore spatio-temporal thinking and convergences between the two fields.
Organized by Lindy Roy and Leah Kelly.
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Climate Commitments
April 10, 2020, 10am
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
This conference features a keynote by Billy Fleming and focuses on collective responses to the climate breakdown in pedagogy, research, and practice.
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Nothing is Automatic
April 17, 2020, 9:30am
209, Fayerweather Hall
This symposium extends research into architecture’s entanglements with technologies of automation. It asks how to view and trace the impact and historical interconnections of technologies, social ideals, and legal and computational protocols that have managed humans, their time, their labor, and their behavior.
Organized by Columbia GSAPP’s CCCP program in collaboration with Het Nieuwe Instituut and Storefront for Art and Architecture.
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Frontiers in the Oceanic Anthropocene
March 27, 2020, 1pm
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
This interdisciplinary symposium brings together scientists, policy experts, activists, and designers to discuss the legal, ecological, and cultural stakes in the ocean.
Organized by GSAPP Exhibitions and co-presented by the Earth Institute and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
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