LiPS (Lectures in Planning Series)

New York

Thu, Apr 18 12pm

Capitalizing Institutional Real Estate Opportunities in a Challenging Market

Real Estate

Headshots of Noam Franklin, Managing Director ‑ Head of Eastern U.S., JV Equity & Structured Capital at Berkadia , and Chinmay Bhatt, Senior Managing Director, JV Equity & Structured Capital at Berkadia, in front of a gray background.

New York

Columbia Magazine’s winter issue takes readers on a worldwide tour of “11 remarkable buildings” by GSAPP alumni. The Chamber Church in Qingdao, China, by Ziyu Zhuang (photo © Shengliang Su)

“100 links” is an installation by The Buell Center and AD-WO (Emanuel Admassu and Jen Wood) currently on view at the Chicago Architecture Biennial through February 2024.

Fall 2023 final reviews: Advanced Architectural Studio V led by Rozana Montiel and Thomas De Monchaux.

Dean Andrés Jaque writes about the work of Columbia GSAPP’s Natural Materials Lab in Metropolis Magazine.

Columbia GSAPP works with the communities of the Bronx and Congressmember Espaillat on redesigning the Kingsbridge Armory as a hub for neighborhood empowerment.
The “Extreme Scale” exhibition in Avery Hall documents the first semester of a GSAPP-wide initiative to envision a future for the Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx, the largest armory in the United States.

Fall 2023 final reviews: Architecture Core I led by Galen Pardee.

Take a virtual tour: Avery and Fayerweather Halls house studios and classrooms for students across GSAPP’s programs, as well as Avery Library and the Output Shop, a printing facility.

Columbia GSAPP celebrates the 40th anniversary of Parc de La Villette, designed by Dean Emeritus Bernard Tschumi from 1982 to 1987.

Reinhold Martin (second from right), GSAPP Professor and Chair of Columbia Committee on Global Thought at “Where is the University,” a panel discussion with Columbia University president Minouche Shafik on the place of the university in today’s society.

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Aug 23

Faculty David Benjamin lectures about “Resources” for the 16th Alvar Aalto Symposium entitled “The Weight of Architecture” in Helsinki

May 31

Faculty Lola Ben-Alon delivers keynote lecture at Future View: Vernacular Technologies Symposium at the Hillier College of Architecture and Design, NJIT

May 17

Faculty Lindsey Wikstrom speaks at Circularity in the Built Environment conference in New York City

Apr 30

Faculty Steven Holl and Toshiko Mori in Conversation with Walter Mariotti, at Harvard GSD on the subject of their 2023 Domus Magazine Guest Editorship

Apr 19

Faculty Lola Ben-Alon delivers keynote lecture at Penn State Huck Institute of Life Science for the Center of Biorenewables Symposium

Apr 17

Faculty Lindsey Wikstrom discusses Material Cycle at AIA Brooklyn April General Meeting

Apr 16

Faculty Lola Ben-Alon is an invited guest speaker at the ETH Zürich’s Circular Engineering for Architecture Lab (CEA)

Apr 15

Prof. Weiping Wu delivers lecture, on “Urbanizing China: Impacts and Transitions” at Tulane Architecture’s Spring Lecture Series

Apr 15

Faculty Ateya Khorakiwala delivers lecture “Granularities: Concrete and the “Gray Architecture” of Grain Storage in 1960s and 70s India” as part of the Yale Architecture Forum

Apr 13

Faculty Jorge Otero-Pailos presents "Through Bodies Unseen" at Yale School of Architecture "Shapes of Time" symposium

Apr 12

Faculty Kaja Kühl and Yasemin Kologlu in conversation with Tom Bergevoet's and Maarten van Tuijl ‘99 MSAAD, authors of “The Flexible City” at Center of Architecture, NY

Apr 12

Faculty Gordon Kipping’s new exhibition “Maison de Cartes” opens at SCI-Arc Gallery

Apr 12

Faculty Lola Ben-Alon is an invited guest speaker at the Material Time symposium at Harvard Graduate School of Design

Apr 12

Faculty Nina Cooke John MSAAD ‘98 awarded New Perspectives Award by AIA New York

Apr 10

Faculty Yasser Elsheshtawy discusses the Riyadh Metro, Saudi Arabia in interview with the WSJ

Apr 10

Faculty Jorge Otero-Pailos awarded “2024 Artist Award” from Arts Westchester

Apr 10

Faculty David Benjamin presents “Scaling Up Bio-Materials” in Penn seminar “Designing with Risk” taught by Matthijs Bouw

Apr 9

Faculty Lindsey Wikstrom discusses Office Materials and Sustainability at the “Vitra Salon Series”

Apr 5

Faculty Lola Ben-Alon is an invited panelist at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museuum’s Bioplastics & Sustainable Design Futures Scholars Day

Apr 4

Faculty Nahyun Hwang delivers lecture “Migrating Commons” as part of Cooper Union’s spring public lecture series

Apr 4

Faculty Kate Ascher moderates “Lighting Talk Session: Innovation and Sustainability, “ at Columbia Data Science Institute’s flagship annual event on April 4

Apr 4

Faculty Erica Avrami participates in Past Forward, an online symposium hosted by the National Trust for Historic Preservation

Apr 4

Faculty Ziad Jamaleddine's firm, L.E.FT Architects, featured in The Architect's Newspaper (April/May) for new multifaith adaptive-reuse project at Vassar College

Apr 2

Faculty Jorge Otero-Pailos’s "Analogue Sites" opens on Park Avenue, featured in Columbia News

GSAPP develops new forms of pedagogy, research, and practice to engage the crucial issues of our time across all scales of the built environment.

Learn more about the School’s ongoing, interconnected investigations on
Climate, Equity, and Data & Design.

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Programs

GSAPP offers a range of academic programs that study the built environment at multiple scales and through different critical methods. Learn more about the School’s various degree programs in Architecture, Urbanism, Preservation, and Real Estate Development. Visit the Student Work Archive to browse over 8,000 recent projects from across academic programs.

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Students:

Surabhi Dahivalkar, Rae Lei, Zhifan Li, Aishwarya Mathukumilli

Course:

Fall, 2021 - Urban Design Studio II

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Students:

Tashania Akemah

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Spring, 2022 - Architecture Studio II

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Students:

Leo Wan

Course:

Spring, 2022 - Architecture Studio VI

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The Loess Collector

Students:

Ting-Hao Chen, Ming Ding

Course:

Summer, 2022 - Advanced Architecture Tutorial

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Students:

Nuofan Xu, Que Zhang

Course:

Summer, 2022 - Advanced Architecture Tutorial

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Museum of Homecoming

National Geographic defines caves as a veil of darkness that cloaks natural beauty, but Native Americans did not think so. They believe everything in this world has a soul and a spirit even if it’s just a rock. Although the Lenape did not mainly live within…

Students:

Florianne Jacques

Course:

Summer, 2022 - Advanced Architecture Tutorial

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Research

GSAPP strives to redefine the roles of architecture and urbanism within a research university, envisioning new forms of practice as research and new research practices. The School’s Centers, Labs, Incubator, and Initiatives lead groundbreaking investigations that tackle emerging challenges in the disciplines of the built environment and create opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration.

(Re)Coding Walkups
Housing Lab

Learn more about the Housing Lab’s latest report, “(Re)Coding Walkups: A Business Plan for Advancing Inclusive, Accessible, and Resilient Housing in Existing Unsubsidized Buildings Across NYC.”

(Re)Coding Walkups Publication by the Housing Lab

Green Reconstruction
Buell Center

Green Reconstruction is an outline, an open work, for the repair of a world ravaged by three intersecting crises—of mutual care, of racial oppression, and of climate, all intersecting in turn with economic inequality—that moves along two axes, the Green axis of ecological transformation, and the gilded axis of material redistribution, or Reconstruction.

Mapping Historical New York
Center for Spatial Research

The Center for Spatial Research launched Mapping Historical New York City, a collaboration to map immigration and neighborhood change in NYC during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries..

Engaged Practice

GSAPP alumni across the globe are pioneering new models of practice that engage with emerging political, technological, intellectual, and environmental issues. Learn more about the innovative and imaginative ways that GSAPP’s network is reshaping the design professions.

“(EXTRACTOPIA) And then what?: New world-making strategies” by GSAPP Incubator Prize Recipient Linda Schilling Cuellar ‘18 MSAUD with Claudio Astudillo

“Non-typology: Ollas Comunes” by GSAPP Incubator Recipient Rafaela Olivares ‘20 MSAAD with Ernesto Silva ‘13 MSAAD

“TREE.3” by GSAPP Incubator Prize Recipient James Piacentini ‘20 MARCH, ‘20 MSUP with Eric Pietraszkiewicz ‘18 MSUP

“Segregation is Killing Us” by Territorial Empathy, presented during GSAPP’s Alumni Conversations Series

“Weaving for Nature”
2019-20 Incubator Prize

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GSAPP develops new forms of pedagogy, research, and practice to engage the crucial issues of our time across all scales of the built environment.

Programs

M.S. Architecture and Urban Design

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Master of Architecture, M.S. Advanced Architectural Design

M.S. Advanced Architectural Design

M.S. Advanced Architectural Design

M.S. Advanced Architectural Design

Research

Engaged Practice