Housing Lab

Students
Research assistantships and fellowships at the lab are competitive and processed through the GSAPP application form once or twice per year. We encourage all interested students to respond to the posted positions. For the lab’s first year, research assistants and fellows were appointed in a competitive interview process through nominations from program directors and faculty.

The project assistant program engages students on an hourly basis to support project work. To be considered, any interested student currently enrolled at GSAPP are encouraged to complete a brief application and upload their CV here to join the roster that is consulted on a rolling basis.

Faculty
and mentorship is critical to the lab’s commitment to rigor and research. Interested faculty are encouraged to reach out to facultyaffairs@arch.columbia.edu.

Alums and Professionals
Involvement and support is essential to advancing the Lab’s mission of grounding action-oriented practice. Please reach out to gsappalumni@columbia.edu.


Previous Faculty and Student Affiliates

Graduate Research Assistants (GRA)
2023
Kavyaa Rizal ‘23 MSUP; Jamon Mok, '23 MArch; Lula Chou '24 MSRED, MArch

2022
Jacob Kackley '23 M.Arch; Alisa Nurmansyah, '23 MSUP; Dillon Pinholster '23 MSRED

2021
Bernadette Baird-Zars, '22 PhD, Urban Planning; Jules Kleitman, '22 MArch; Jonathan Marty, '22 MSUP; Danielle Roberts, '22 MSUP

2020-2021
Juan Sebastian Moreno, '21 MSUP Johane Juliana Clermont, '22 MArch/MSRED Eric J. Iglesias, '21 MSRED

2019-2020
Ericka Mina Song, ‘20 MArch
Erin Purcell, ‘20 MSRED

Lab Project Associates Aditi Shetye, '22 MArch Jenna Davis, PhD Candidate Maria (Maru) Perez, '21 MArch, Fall 2019-Spring 2021 Ian Wach, '21 MArch, Fall 2020-Spring 2021 Mariana Hinojosa, MArch/MSUP '21, Summer 2020

Spring 2020 Project Assistants Lanier Hagerty '21, MSUP Kate McNamara ‘20 MArch
Genevieve Mateyko, MArch Student
Angela Sun, MArch Student
Zeineb Sellami '21, MSUP
Hyun Hye Cathy Bae ‘20 PhD
Ochuko Okor, MArch Student
Michael Snidal PhD Candidate
Yousu Jang ‘20 MSRED
Conor Allerton ‘20 MSUP
Hayes Buchanan, MSUP Student
Mark-Henry Decrausaz, MSRED/MArch Student

2021-2022 Faculty Advisors Mario Gooden Cecily King

2020-2021 Faculty Advisors Mario Gooden Lance Freeman

2019-2020 Faculty (Biennale project-focused)
Daisy Ames
Adam Frampton

Members of the GSAPP faculty who contributed their advice and guidance over the past year include:
Ryan Devlin, Visiting Assistant Professor of Urban Planning
Hilary Sample, IDC Professor of Housing Design
Elliott Sclar, Professor Emeritus of Urban Planning
Rich Froehlich, Adjunct Associate Professor of Real Estate Development and Urban Planning
Lance Freeman, Professor of Urban Planning
Anna Puigjaner, Associate Professor of Professional Practice in Architecture
Laura Kurgan, Professor of Architecture
Patrice Derrington, Holliday Associate Professor and Director of the Real Estate Development Program
Andreas Tjeldflaat, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture

Values
From a multidisciplinary perspective, the Lab team seeks to broaden the understandings of housing beyond units that can be paid for. In our initial conception, we advocate for housing that is:

• Accessible: housing should be connected and embedded in quality environments, with access to meaningful services, communities, and opportunities.
  
• Resilient: housing should be constructed and maintained for health and safety, adaptive to disasters and climate change, and an asset securely enmeshed in networks of belonging and appreciation.
  
• Inclusive: housing should be affordable such that a connected, decent, resilient, and beautiful home does not preclude health or food, and is intentionally accessible to the heterogeneity of people and households.