Columbia GSAPP is pleased to present PEOPLE CROSS AGAINST THE LIGHT: Michael Sorkin’s New York. The exhibition brings together eight architectural projects Michael Sorkin (1948–2020) conceived for New York City, the primary site of his architectural and urban speculation, over a pivotal decade of his career. On view from February 26 through June 26, 2026, at the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery in Buell Hall, the projects were designed between 1987 and 1996—a period that marks Sorkin’s transition from being New York’s most incisive and widely read architecture critic, through his writing for The Village Voice, to his accelerated investment in design work with his own practice, Michael Sorkin Studio.

PEOPLE CROSS AGAINST THE LIGHT: Michael Sorkin’s New York is organized by Columbia GSAPP and curated by Bart-Jan Polman, Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs and Curator of the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, with Jean Im, Assistant Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs.

As part of the exhibition PEOPLE CROSS AGAINST THE LIGHT: Michael Sorkin’s New York, on view in the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery from February 26 to June 26, GSAPP will host a symposium discussing Michael Sorkin’s work.

Speakers include Teddy Cruz & Fonna Forman (Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman), Ana María Durán Calisto (GSAPP; Estudio A0), Kent Hikida (OTJ), Thom Mayne (Morphosis), Bart-Jan Polman (GSAPP), Vyjayanthi Rao (GSAPP, Sharjah Architecture Triennale), Deen Sharp (LSE; Terreform), Andrei Vovk (Ralph Appelbaum Associates), and James Wines (SITE).

For the first event in the Encounter Series, Byron Hamann will present new research on the voyage of four Nahua representatives—Indigenous Central Mexicans—who traveled to Rome in 1529, with a response by Benjamin Anderson (Cornell).

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