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Alumni
Alumni Weekend 2011
NEW THIS YEAR: CES/Continuing Education Credits will be offered for Saturday’s panels!
SATURDAY FULL DAY (conference, continental breakfast, lunch, cocktail reception): $75
SATURDAY FULL DAY-RECENT ALUMNI (conference, continental breakfast, lunch, cocktail reception) special rate for classes 2006-2010): $50
SATURDAY COCKTAIL PARTY only: $40
Sunday NYC Infrastructure tours: $10 (alumni are welcome to purchase up to three additional guest tickets)
The Sunday Infrastructure tours are an additional purchase to the packages outlined above
Hard Hat tour of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park: SOLD OUT!
Grand Central Terminal Renovation Tour
Croton Aqueduct
Gowanus Canal Tour
ALUMNI WEEKEND SCHEDULE
FRIDAY, APRIL 15
Avery Leaders Dinner
All Avery Leaders (annual donors at the $1,000+ level) are invited to the Avery Leaders Dinner. To attend, or to become an Avery Leader, please contact Lindsay Dorrance at 212.854.2834 or LD2282@columbia.edu.
SATURDAY, APRIL 16
Avery Hall, Columbia University
10:00 a.m.
Registration and Breakfast
Café, Avery Hall
10:30-11:45AM
Alumni Keynote lecture
Howard Slatkin '00MsUP, Director of Sustainability for the Department of City Planning, New York
Introduction by Mark Wigley, Dean, GSAPP
11:45AM-12:00PM
Coffee break
12:00-1:15PM
Urban Infrastructure: Contemporary Investigations into City Politics, Futures, and Preservation
Kate Ascher, Principal, Happold Consulting and Adjunct Professor at the Wagner School at NYU
Styliani Daouti '05MsAAD, Founder and Principal at AREA (Architecture Research Athens)
Craig Dykers, Senior Partner/Director/Architect, Snohetta
Robert Lane '82M.Arch, Senior Fellow for Urban Design at Regional Planning Association; Partner, Plan & Process LLP
Deike Peters '95MsUP, Director, Urban Mega-Projects Research Group, Center for Metropolitan Studies, TU Berlin and Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of Policy, Planning, and Development, USC
Seth Pinsky, President, New York City Economic Development Corporation
Moderator: David King, Assistant Professor of Urban Planning, Columbia University
AND
Communications Infrastructure: How New Media is Changing the Nature of Public Space
David Benjamin '05M.Arch, Director of the Living Architecture Lab, GSAPP
Frank Hebbert, Product Manager, Community Planning Tools, OpenPlans
Daniel Kidd '09M.Arch, Designer/Project Leader, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)
Kazys Varnelis, Director of the Network Architecture Lab, Columbia University
Shin-pei Tsay, director of the Leadership Initiative for Transportation Solvency, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Moderator: Troy Conrad Therrien, Creative Digital Consultant, Bruce Mau Designs
1:15-3:00PM
Lunch break
Grab lunch and talk to classmates and faculty members; explore Avery Hall and the Columbia campus
Lunchtime activities:
Robert Kornfeld ‘85M.Arch, Architect and Vice-President, Thornton Tomasetti, Inc.
John Krawchuk ‘95MsHP, Director of Historic Preservation, City of New York Parks and Recreation
Roz Li ‘76MsHP, Principal, Li-Saltzman Architects
The speakers will be joined by the following first-year Historic Preservation graduate students who are researching and documenting the Croton system for their Studio project: Jorgen Cleeman; Jennifer Frazer; Michael Frigand; Ayana John; Andrew Maziarski; Sarah Morrison; Jessica Ouwerkerk; Julie Rosen; Kaitlin Ryan; Rebecca Salgado; Tatum Taylor; Kenisha Thomas.
Lunchtime tours:
Columbia's Moneo Building given by Joseph Mannino, Associate Vice President, Capital Project Management at Columbia
Barnard's Diana Center
3:00-4:15PM
Education Infrastructure: Discussing New York City’s Biggest Developers of Mind and Land
Lia Gartner '73M.Arch, Vice President for Design, Construction and Facilities Management, The New School
Maxine Griffith, Executive Vice President for Government and Community Affairs at Columbia University and Special Advisor for Campus Planning, Columbia University
Eve Klein, Associate Vice President for Planning and Design, New York University
Philip Pitruzzello, Vice President, Manhattanville Construction, Columbia University
Meghan Moore-Wilk, Director of Space Planning and Capital Budget, CUNY
Moderator: Carol Loewenson '79M.Arch, Partner, Mitchell/Giurgola Architects, LLP
5:30-7:30PM
GSAPP Alumni Cocktail Reception
David Rubenstein Atrium, Lincoln Center
61 W. 62nd Street (Broadway between 62nd and 63rd Street)
New York, NY 10023
Celebrate Alumni Weekend over cocktails and hors d’ oeuvres at this privately owned public space designed by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien
SUNDAY, APRIL 17
Tour NYC infrastructure: Bring your friends!
Please note that CES/Continuing Education Credits will be offered for Saturday’s panels. To register for Alumni Weekend, please click on the links at the top of the page or call 212.854.2834.
We will have alumni work displayed digitally on Saturday, April 16th. Please share images of your current work! The submission instructions are below:
- » Please submit 3 images maximum, in TIFF or JPEG format.Minimum size is 5" x 7" at 200dpi, RGB color.
- » Please keep your images below 5 mb each if sending by e-mail, otherwise submit them on a cd at under 10 mb each and send the cd by mail.
- » You MUST name your files with the following format: Firstname_Lastname_program_year_01.tif,...02.tif, etc. (ie: Lindsay_Dorrance_AAD_81_01.tif)
- » Be sure to provide the name and location of the work.
Please send your work to:
LD2282@columbia.edu
or
GSAPP Alumni Weekend 2011
Attention: Lindsay Dorrance
404 Avery Hall
1172 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10027Images will be shown looped in a display during the weekend. Some images may be edited or cropped for space. Improperly formatted images will not be used.