The 2026 PhD in Urban Planning Lecture, “End of Empire, Planning Education, and Promise of Humane Urbanism” will be delivered by Faranak Miraftab (UIUC), with a response by Faculty Hiba Bou Akar.

The PhD Symposium “On the Edge of Legibility: Architecture and its Peripheries” keynote lecture will be delivered by Ijlal Muzaffar.

On the Edge of Legibility is organized by Kian Hosseinnia and Zachary Torres, students in the Ph.D. in Architecture Program at GSAPP.

The PhD Symposium “On the Edge of Legibility: Architecture and its Peripheries” Paper Presentations will include presentations from Rami Kanafani (UPenn), Man Joong Kim (SUNY Binghamton University), Yixuan Yang (Newcastle University), Marco Salazar-Valle (UPenn), Alican Taylan (Cornell), Sam Hellmann (Columbia), Clarisse Figueiredo de Queiroz (UPenn), Sam Rosner (UTS), Nicholas Lin (UCLA), Jenny Ni (Columbia), Henry Osman (Brown), and Andrea Molina (UCLA), with responses from Faculty Reinhold Martin, Lucia Galaretto (GSAPP), Elena M’Bouroukounda (GSAPP), and Kian Hosseinnia (GSAPP).

Andrea Bagnato will present his latest book Terra Infecta during the Library is Open 27, a gripping narrative study showing how the modern quest for sanitation shaped Italy’s urban and rural landscapes, propelling major transformations from the draining of the wetlands around Venice, to demolitions and replanning in Naples, to the expulsion of the inhabitants of ancient Matera.

Iñaki Echeverria (GSAPP, Iñaki Echeverria) is an architect and landscape urbanist based in Mexico City. His lecture will be followed by a conversation with Kate Orff (GSAPP, Climate School, SCAPE).

The Planetary Media Symposium

Speakers include Tega Brain (NYU), Alenda Y. Chang (UC Santa Barbara), Gökçe Günel (Rice University), Daniel Jacobs (University of Houston, HOME-OFFICE), Macarena Gómez-Barris (Brown University), John Palmesino (Territorial Agency, AA), Ann-Sofi Rönnskog (Territorial Agency, AA), Ainslee Alem Robson, with responses from Faculty Amelyn Ng (GSAPP), Ateya Khorakiwala (GSAPP), Catherine Griffiths (GSAPP), Anthony Vanky (GSAPP).

Mireia Luzzaraga (GSAPP), Debbie Chen (RISD), Stephanie Choi (RISD), and student respondents.

Organized by Amelyn Ng (Columbia GSAPP)

The Library is Open 28 welcomes Ignacio Galán for a conversation on his latest book, Architecture’s Kinships.

Architecture shapes and embodies complex social and environmental articulations. It is not the container and representation of pre-packaged relationships, but a medium for motley associations. In advancing this proposition, this book explores diverse alliances and permeations of knowledge across media, bringing together arguments and projects that result from multiple conversations and collaborations. It contains an invitation to work in critical, even if messy, coalitions with the hope of questioning exclusionary forms of affiliation and contributing to the imagination of alternative platforms of relationality through the exploration, discussion, activation, and transformation of the built environment.

Ignacio G. Galán is an architect, historian, and educator. His work is concerned with the way in which architecture mediates power, participates in the articulation of societies, and is entangled in processes of inclusion and exclusion—attending to questions of residence, belonging, citizenship, and kinship. These interests manifest in design projects as much as in diverse scholarly and curatorial endeavors concerning nationalism, colonialism, migration, and disability cultures. His work operates across media and is continuously informed by different collaborations.

Co-curated with Ivan Lopez Munuera (Bard College), as a collaboration between Columbia GSAPP and Bard College.

This COALITION of Filmmakers will discuss New York City cinematographically and architecturally as an urban constellation where public life, storytelling, and collective imagination continually reshape the built environment. It does so with people who use film in a variety of ways to discuss New York City.

Participants include artist and cultural producer Zackary Drucker, whose projects include the documentary film The Stroll; curator and critic Ed Halter of Bard College and Light Industry; and Sophie Cavoulacos of MoMA.

Moderated by Ivan Lopez Munuera (Bard College) and Bart-Jan Polman (GSAPP).

Join us for a conversation on on recycling, repurposing, and re-use through a discussion on projects with and by GSAPP faculty Emanuel Admasu (GSAPP, AD-WO), Amale Andraos (GSAPP; WorkAC) Eric Bunge and Mimi Hoang (GSAPP; nArchitects), Harold Fallon (GSAPP; AgwA), Laurie Hawkinson (GSAPP; Smith-Miller + Hawkinson), Steven Holl (GSAPP, Steven Holl Architects), Nahyun Hwang (GSAPP; NHDM), Ziad Jamaleddine (GSAPP; L.E.FT), Dean Andrés Jaque (GSAPP; OFFPOLINN), Kaja Kuehl (GSAPP; youarethecity), Jing Liu (GSAPP; SO-IL), Adam Lubinsky (GSAPP; WXY), Mireia Luzárraga (GSAPP; TAKK), Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano (GSAPP; LOT-EK), Robert Marino (GSAPP; Robert Marino Architects), Alessandro Orsini (GSAPP; Architensions), Jorge Otero-Pailos (GSAPP; Otero Pailos Studio), Michaeljohn Raftopoulos (GSAPP; AREA, Architecture Research Athens), Rachely Rotem (GSAPP; MODU), Karla Rothstein (GSAPP; latent), Hilary Sample (GSAPP; MOS), Galia Solomonoff (GSAPP; SAS), Bernard Tschumi (GSAPP; Bernard Tschumi Architects), Marc Tsurumaki (GSAPP; LTL), and others.

This Academic Year’s John Foerster ‘64 Fund Lecture will be delivered by Jacques Herzog (Herzog & de Meuron), who will be in conversation with Dean Andrés Jaque.

Jacques Herzog studied architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ) with Aldo Rossi and Dolf Schnebli from 1970 to 1975. Together with Pierre de Meuron, he established Herzog & de Meuron in Basel in 1978. In 1983, Jacques Herzog was a visiting professor at Cornell University College of Architecture, Art and Planning (AAP), USA. Both Founding Partners were visiting professors at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD), USA, in 1989 and from 1994 to 2014, and have been professors at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) – Department of Architecture, Network City and Landscape, from 1999 until 2018. They co-founded the ETH Studio Basel – Contemporary City Institute, a research program with a focus on the processes of transformation in the urban domain. In 2016, both were given Honorary Doctorates from the Royal College of Art; in 2018, from the Technical University of Munich; and in 2000 they were awarded Honorary Doctor of Political Science degrees from the University of Basel.

In 2001, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron were awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize, stating during the acceptance speech their aim to ‘reject classifications in architecture and to keep ourselves open to approach architecture in as many ways as we can.’ In 2007, they were awarded the RIBA Royal Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects and the Praemium Imperiale from the Japan Art Association, both in recognition of their work and its international influence. In 2015, they were given the RIBA Jencks Award. In addition, Herzog & de Meuron has received numerous awards for specific architectural projects.

In 2015 they co-founded the non-profit foundation Jacques Herzog und Pierre de Meuron Kabinett, Basel, comprising three sub-Kabinetts — architecture, art and photography — with the aim to keep these holdings intact as a cultural asset and to work with them in their specificity.

• Faculty Mireia Luzárraga‘s (TAKK) installs con-vivere at MAXXI Museum in Rome.

• Faculty Joseph Zeal-Henry named Chief of Arts & Culture of the city of Boston.

• Faculty Bernard Tschumi’s new building in Switzerland is featured in Architectural Digest’s March 2026 issue.

• Faculty Jayden Ali (JA Projects) designs an installation for salon MATTER and SHAPE 2026.

• Faculty Xiaoxi Chen, Faculty André Barros Santos, and Alum Lily Chishan Wong gather at Storefront for Art & Architecture to present their ongoing project “Ta-Chim: Weighing a City’s Colonial Legacies”.

• CBAC presents “Erasure by Design: Racial Protocols of Displacement, Demolition, and Extraction” V. Mitch at Head Hi.