Nader Tehrani is the Founding Principal of NADAAA, an interdisciplinary practice with works across scales from infrastructure to urbanism, architecture, and installations. The lecture will be introduced by M.S.AAD Director Lydia Kallipoliti and followed by responses from Lydia Kallipoliti, Leonid Slonimskiy, and AAD students.

Blooming through over 1,000 student work from across all Columbia GSAPP programs, this year’s End of Year Show continues the School’s tradition of displaying works that push the boundaries of the fields of architecture, urbanism, preservation, and real estate.

The exhibition extends both physically and digitally, launching as an online platform on the same day. The online exhibition can be visited here.

M.S.AAD Director Lydia Kallipoliti and Areti Markopoulou presents their book Building Metabolism: Recipes for Food and Resource Cycles for Library is Open 29. They will be joined in conversation by Lola Ben-Alon, Hayley Eber, Dean Andrés Jaque, Sonia Sobrino Ralston, and Lucia Tahan.

Charlotte Malterre-Barthes is an architect, urban designer, and writer. She is Assistant Professor of Architectural and Urban Design at EPFL, where she is the founding director of RIOT — a research laboratory dedicated to systemic change in architecture and the construction industry — and co-director of the MAS in Urban and Territorial Design with ETH Zürich. Her work centers on the political economy of construction, material extraction, and the climate emergency, and engages research, writing, and advocacy in equal measure. While Assistant Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, she launched ‘A Global Moratorium on New Construction’ (2021), arguing for a profound reform of planning disciplines and development protocols — now published as A Moratorium on New Construction (Sternberg Press/MIT Press, 2025).

She is the author or co-author of several books, including Eileen Gray: A House under the Sun (Nobrow, 2019) and Migrant Marseille (Ruby Press, 2020), and edits The Political Economy of Space—On Architecture series (Hatje Cantz, 2024–ongoing). A founding member of the Parity Group and the Parity Front (Meret Oppenheim Prize 2023) and ambassador for HouseEurope! — the European Citizens’ Initiative for renovation over demolition — she holds a Ph.D. from ETH Zurich. She co-curated the 12th International Architecture Biennale of São Paulo (2019) and has exhibited at MoMA, the Venice Biennales, the Storefront for Art and Architecture, and the Seoul Architecture and Urbanism Biennale, among others.

Introduction by Lucia Galaretto & Response by Lucia Galaretto, Amaia Sanchez-Velasco & Jorge Valiente-Oriol, & AAD Students

Max Núñez ’10 MSAAD
Max Núñez Bancalari is a Chilean architect and founder of Max Núñez Arquitectos. He graduated from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2004) and earned a Master in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University (2010). Based in Santiago, Chile, his work develops a material, spatial, and typological investigation informed by specific topographies and territorial narratives. He has won several public competitions, including the design for the new Library, Archive, and Regional Repository of Los Ríos in Valdivia, and the Regional Museum of Atacama in Copiapó. His work has been recognized with the Architectural Record Design Vanguard (2017), the Wallpaper* Design Award (2020), the ArchDaily Building of the Year (2023) for his Glass House, an Outstanding Project selection in the MCHAP Awards (2024) for Hogar Alemán, and the Aporte Urbano National Award (2025) for the Regional Museum of Atacama. Alongside his professional practice, he teaches at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, where he was head of the Master in Architecture program from 2016 to 2020.

About the Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series
Launched in 2025 in collaboration with the GSAPP Alumni Board, the series is intended to recognize and celebrate Columbia GSAPP alumni who have distinguished themselves through lifetime achievement and professional accomplishments that reflect the ethos and spirit of GSAPP. We hope it will also foster intellectual dialogue among the Columbia GSAPP community and inspire current students as they pursue their studies.

Please use this link to register for the lecture. Columbia campus is open to active affiliate Columbia University ID (CUID) holders and approved guests only. Please register to receive campus access.

The Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series will also launch the annual Alumni Weekend, a time of reconnecting for our graduates across generations and programs.

Please join the GSAPP MSRED Program for the 2026 Doryan Winkelman ‘86 MSRED Real Estate Development Lecture in the Teatro Room in Casa Italiana given by Lindsay Brand '14 MSRED.

Please register here.

Light reception to follow.

About the Doryan Winkelman ’86 MSRED Real Estate Development Lecture
The Doryan Winkelman ’86 MSRED Real Estate Development Lecture (the Winkelman Lecture) is an annual lecture for the M.S.RED Program on the topic of international real estate development. Drawing on Columbia University’s vast network of global leaders and prominent practitioners, the Winkelman Lecture brings together esteemed guests, faculty and students to introduce and examine key issues surrounding the complex demands of global urban real estate development.

The Winkelman Lecture was established in 2018 by Doryan Winkelman ‘86 MSRED.

About Lindsay Brand '14 MSRED
Lindsay joined Concert Properties in April 2024 as Chief Investment Officer (CIO). She brings a diverse perspective and a depth of development and investment experience across a variety of asset classes within a high-growth environment.

Prior to joining the company, Lindsay held increasingly senior roles during her ten years at the Dream group of companies. As Chief Investment Officer of Dream Unlimited Corp. and Dream Impact Trust she led over $2 billion of acquisitions and structured over $3 billion of development partnerships. In addition, she led the acquisition, asset management and development teams across these assets. Throughout her tenure she participated in the strategic growth of five public companies. Previously, Lindsay financed development deals at the Real Estate Commercial Banking Group and Corporate Development Group of a major Canadian financial institution.

As CIO of Concert Properties, Lindsay leads the company’s experienced national team responsible for the income-producing property portfolio, including acquisitions, dispositions, asset and fund management, leasing and property management. Lindsay also oversees Concert Income Properties, an open-ended, limited partnership Canadian fund.

Lindsay holds a Bachelor of Arts and Honours Business Administration from the Richard Ivey School of Business in London, Ontario and a Master of Science in Real Estate Development from Columbia University in New York.

Lindsay serves on the Board of Trustees for two public companies. In addition, she is also a trustee of the Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto, a member of the Finance Committee for Neuchatel Junior College.

Organized by Columbia GSAPP MSRED Program and the Office of Development and Alumni Relations.

Join us on Friday, June 12th, from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. for the 2026 GSAPP Annual Alumni Party, the largest alumni event of the year! Open to graduates of all programs, this year’s party will be held at the Museum of the City of New York.

Built in 1932 by architect Joseph Friedlander, the Museum of the City of New York underwent a 9-year renovation completed in 3 phases by Ennead. Project leads included former Dean James S. Polshek, Joanne Sliker ‘77 M.Arch, Aaron Cattani '00 M.Arch, and Joshua Frankel '99 M.Arch. Historic Preservation was completed by Li Saltzman Architects, Judith L. Saltzman '79 MSHP.

Come see former classmates and meet new GSAPP friends and professional colleagues. This event is open to GSAPP graduates from 2025 and earlier.

Please register here.

About the Museum of the City of New York
The Museum of the City of New York explores the people, places, and ideas that shape New York’s iconic character.

The Museum of the City of New York was founded in 1923 by Henry Collins Brown, a Scottish-born writer with a vision for a populist approach to the city. The Museum was originally housed in Gracie Mansion, the future residence of the Mayor of New York. Hardinge Scholle succeeded Henry Brown in 1926 and began planning a new home for the Museum. The City offered land on Fifth Avenue on 103rd-104th Streets and construction for Joseph H. Freedlander’s Georgian Colonial-Revival design for the building started in 1929 and was completed in 1932. During the next few decades, the Museum amassed a considerable collection of exceptional items, including several of Eugene O’Neill’s handwritten manuscripts, a complete room of Duncan Phyfe furniture, 412 glass negatives taken by Jacob Riis and donated by his son, a man’s suit worn to George Washington’s Inaugural Ball, and the Carrie Walter Stettheimer dollhouse, which contains a miniature work by Marcel Duchamp. Today the Museum’s collection contains approximately 750,000 objects, including prints, photographs, decorative arts, costumes, paintings, sculpture, toys, and theatrical memorabilia.

• Faculty Mireia Luzárraga (TAKK) designs “Circus,” a new dancefloor installation for the HORST Arts & Music Festival 2026.

• GSAPP ecosystem is featured in Pin-Up‘s “NYC ARCHITECTS” and “40 HOUSES” including Dean Andres Jaque; Dean Emirtus Amale Andraos; Faculty Emanuel Admassu, Jayden Ali, Mimi Hoang, Steven Holl, Nahyun Hwang, Jing Liu, LOT-EK, Phillipe Rahm, Hilary Sample, Sumayya Vally, Mabel O. Wilson, Laura Gonzalez Fierro; and Alumni Ashely Kuo ('18 M.Arch), Andrea Chiney ('18 M.Arch), James Slade (’ 94 March), and Jen Wood (‘12 MSAAD), amongst others.

• Faculty Andrew S. Dolkart ('77 MSHP) and three other HP grads are honored as Pillars of New York by the Preservation League of New York State for their work co-founding the NYC LGBTQ Historic Sites Project.

• Faculty Ibrahim Kombarji designs the display for “A Necessary Fiction,” a Venice Biennale 2026 collateral exhibition presented by the Saudi Ministry of Culture and curated by Sara Almutlaq (‘20 M.Arch). Work done with Bianca Pedron and Aurora Fonda.

• Faculty Anthony Vanky is interviewed by Atmos Magazine on a story about sensing and cyborg botany.

Pictured student work: Levan Kiladze, Omar Ismail + Didier Lucceus, Bernardo Malatesta + Keenan Bellisari, Jana Marinovic, Ellie Madsen, Mika Yassur, Andrew Seungho Yang + Guan-Yo Siao + Yoon Ah Kim, Minjae Kim + Hyunyoung Kim + Danielle Min, Zach Poncher, Siyuan Yao, Brandi Reed, Yuka Imada, Wei Li, Ben Spears + Annie An, Mengxi Xin, Christopher Sherman, and Jes Zhang.