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Events for the month of November, 2009

Mass Studies
11.04.09
6:30PM - 8:30PM
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall

Alumni LectureMinsuk Cho (GSAPP M.Arch, '92) Mass Studies, Seoul

LISTED UNDER: Lecture Series
Columbia Building Intelligence Project: Think Tank
11.05.09
1:00PM - 6:00PM
Casa Italiana, Columbia University
C-BIP Think Tank: 2-6PM | C-BIP Lecture: 6:30PM | These events launch the Columbia Building Intelligence Project (C-BIP), a three-year pilot project that is a direct response to our collective understanding of the inefficiencies that plague the building industry, not only technologically but also financially, politically, ethically, and creatively. Underwritten by Oldcastle Glass (www.oldcastleglass.com)
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Columbia Building Intelligence Project: Keynote Lecture
11.05.09
6:30PM - 8:30PM
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall

C-BIP Think Tank: 2-6PM, C-BIP Keynote Lecture: 6:30PM. These events launch the Columbia Building Intelligence Project (C-BIP), a three-year pilot project that is a direct response to our collective understanding of the inefficiencies that plague the building industry, not only technologically but also financially, politically, ethically, and creatively. Underwritten by Oldcastle Glass (www.oldcastleglass.com)

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UIWe: Culture Designers
11.05.09
6:30PM - 8:00PM
Studio-X | 180 Varick Street, Suite 1610between King and Charleton Streets | 1 train to Houston Street
Conversation with "cultural designers" Christian Pagh and Jacob Blak of UIWe.
LISTED UNDER: Studio-X
Urban Design Debate + Book Launch / "after BIGness"
11.09.09
6:30PM - 8:30PM
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall

Urban Design Debate + Book Launch: Alan Berger, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture, MIT; Kenneth Frampton, GSAPP Mahadev Raman, Principal, Arup. Moderated by Urban Design students and Alumni

LISTED UNDER: Lecture Series
LiPs: "What Now to Make of New York's New Economy?"
11.10.09
1:00PM - 2:30PM
Room 114, Avery Hall

Michael IndergardSociology Dept at St John's University in Queens

LISTED UNDER: Lecture Series Urban Planning
The Global Power City Index: Toward an Urban Geopolitics?
11.10.09
3:00PM - 4:30PM
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall

The speakers will discuss the research findings and larger implications of the Global Cities Power Index project, produced by the Institute for Urban Strategies of The Mori Memorial Foundation (Tokyo). The report, released in October 2009, examines 35 global cities through 69 indicators covering Economy, Research & Development, Cultural Interaction, Livability, Ecology & Natural Environment, and Accessibility. One implication of the growth of intercity networks is the emergence of an urban geopolitics. Many of our major governance challenges become concrete and urgent in these cities. Urban leaderships -- political, corporate, economic -- are under more immediate pressure to act on these conditions than national governments.

Karen Finley: Dispatches from Villa Feuerlscher
11.10.09
6:30PM - 8:00PM
Studio-X | 180 Varick Street, Suite 1610 | between King and Charleton Streets | 1 train to Houston Street
Conversation with Karen Finley and Hannes Preisch about a Holocaust memorial in Austria.
LISTED UNDER: Studio-X
Andrea Zittel: Energetic Accumulators and Ideological Resonators
11.11.09
6:30PM - 8:30PM
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall

Entitled "Energetic Accumulators and Ideological Resonators," the lecture will focus on Andrea Zittel's recent investigations of living space, objects and routines. It will offer us an inside look at her negotiations of the line between emancipation and restriction, and the creativity emerging from a reaction to constraints, bridging these concerns in art and life and seeing how problem solving and planning can result in a complex visual language.

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Book Launch for World of Giving by Jeffrey Inaba and C-Lab
11.12.09
6:30PM - 8:30PM
New Museum - 235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002

In place of the pursuit of personal wealth, World of Giving presents a mindset revolving around generosity. It paints a picture in which giving animates all levels of human interaction, acknowledging that each and every one of us gives. From helping out an acquaintance to donating to a valued cause, we all provide in acts big and small that benefit the immediate recipient and often others as well. In this important exploration of the sentiments of our time, the authors describe the basic motivations for why we give in reference to examples such as local volunteering, philanthropy and the flow of aid through foundations, governments, multinationals and NGOs. The book details the process of working toward a greater good and shows that a gift transforms at numerous junctures as it circulates from giver to receiver. Articulating these intricate relationships, World of Giving offers an understanding of the actions that build bridges between goodwill and need, intention and realization.

LISTED UNDER: Book Launch C-LAB New Museum
RIGHT OF WAY - A New Politics of Movement in New York City?
11.12.09
6:30PM - 8:30PM
The James Room - 4th Floor Barnard Hall
With the recent turn to pedestrian zones, bike lanes and greenways in New York and in many cities around the world, there is a growing sense that a new kind of urbanism is possible, one no longer dominated by the culture and politics of the automobile. "Rights of Way" will examine the issues surrounding bikes and pedestrianization, and will explore sustainability, finance, public health, and the ways in which the street can serve as a fulcrum in debates about public space and urban life.
VOLUME Book Launch : Aid and Giving
11.12.09
7:30PM - 8:30PM
OFF-SITE EVENT at THE NEW MUSEUM

OFF-SITE EVENT at THE NEW MUSEUMJeffrey Inaba, Director, C-Lab; Mark Wigley, Dean GSAPP; Lars Mller, Publisher and Richard Flood, Chief Curator, The New MuseumFree admission space is limitedFor event and museum information: www.newmuseum.org/events

LISTED UNDER: Lecture Series Off Campus Volume
CONFERENCE: Architect's Journeys
11.13.09
12:30PM - 6:00PM
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
Presentation and discussion of the conceptual and motivation framework of the architects' journey, without geographic or temporal limitations. Conference Chair, Galia Solomonoff, GSAPP - Organized with Jos Manuel Pozo and Jorge Trrago, ETS de Arquitectura, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona
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Sustainability in Buildings and LEED Workshop
11.14.09
10:00AM - 6:00PM
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall

Join Jessica Strauss, AIA, LEED AP for a comprehensive workshop on sustainability on the building industry, carbon emissions benchmarking and LEED training. Open to all GSAPP Students pre-registered with the MSRED SUSTAINABILITY FORUM

LISTED UNDER: LEED MSRED Sustailability Workshop
Things That Look Like Nothing
11.16.09
6:30PM - 8:30PM
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall

Hermann Czech is a Viennese born author and architect. He studied with Konrad Wachsmann at the Summer Academy Salzburg and with Ernst A. Plischke at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.

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LiPs: "Building the Schools Egyptians Need and Want: Evaluating the Policy..."
11.17.09
1:00PM - 2:30PM
Room 114, Avery Hall
Alec Gershberg The New School - Management and Urban Policy
LISTED UNDER: Lecture Series Urban Planning
The Garment District
11.17.09
6:30PM - 8:00PM
Studio-X | 180 Varick Street | 1 train to Houston Street
Conversation on the future of New York City's Garment District.
LISTED UNDER: Events Studio-X
Discussion + Exhibition Opening + Book Launch: The Head
11.18.09
6:30PM - 8:30PM
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
With Walter Pichler, architect + sculptor; Herman Czech, architect + author; Barry Bergdoll, Curator of Architecture and Design, MoMA; Steven Holl, Architect and exhibition curator, Yehuda E. Safran, GSAPP. Followed by a reception at the gallery. The exhibition will be open to the public 11/16 12/23 at the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, Buell Hall (Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 12pm-6pm). The exhibition and catalogue, The Head, were made possible with the generous support Elise Jaffe and Jeffrey Brown with assistance from Galerie E & K Thoman, Innsbruch
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Response and Responsibility: Restorative Design in the Age of Climate Change
11.19.09
5:00PM - 7:00PM
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall

Rick Cook, AIA - Partner, Cook+Fox Architects and Partner, Terrapin Bright Green

LISTED UNDER: GB@C MSRED MSRED Sustainability Forum
Heather Rowe and Michelle Fornabai in Conversation
11.19.09
6:30PM - 8:00PM
Studio-X | 180 Varick Street, STE 1610 | 1 train to Houston Street
Heather Rowe and Michelle Fornabai in Conversation
LISTED UNDER: Fornabai Rowe Studio-X Studio-X New York
Inquiry:HP Presents David Freeland
11.19.09
6:30PM - 8:30PM
Ware Classroom, 6th Floor - Avery Hall, Columbia University
This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served at the conclusion of the lecture.
LISTED UNDER: Inquiry HP
Storytelling (AA London)
11.20.09
2:00PM - 4:00PM
Architectural Association School of Architecture / 36 Bedford Square / London WC1B 3ES / +44 (0)20 7887 4000

On the occasion of the 20th issue of Volume Magazine, the Architectural Association will be hosting a roundtable discussion about writing and storytelling with presentations by author Tom McCarthy, filmmaker Dave McKean, AA's director Brett Steele, GSAPP's dean Mark Wigley and Volume 20's editor, Jeffrey Inaba.

LISTED UNDER: AA London Volume
LiPs: Complexity and Contradiction in Infrastructure?
11.24.09
1:00PM - 2:30PM
Room 114, Avery Hall

Kazys VarnelisThe Network Architecture Lab, GSAPP

LISTED UNDER: Lecture Series Urban Planning
Pointless
11.30.09
6:30PM - 8:30PM
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall

Elizabeth Diller DS+R, New York

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