DRAFT

GSAPP WORKS: 2026 PUBLIC PROGRAM What if what we need was already here? Parts of the yet-to-come are already being tested, bodied, inhabited. This year, Columbia GSAPP, a School that has taken seriously its commitment to critically anticipate the future since 1881, turns to the WORKS that are already changing what our fields do. Works that refuse the separation of thinking from acting, affirming the futures worth pushing for. As a one year program, WORKS will convene the main actors involved in projects that have been selected in a conversation between the School’s faculty and students. The complex trajectories of DSR’s, Field Operations’ and Piet Oudolf’s High Line; Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu’s Ningbo Museum, Lacaton & Vassal’s Frédéric Drouot’s Tour Bois-le-Prêtre/Plus; Forensic Architecture; Architecten De Vylder Vinck Taillieu/AgwA’s CHAPEX; and the BPP’s Community Survival Program, among others, will be interrogated by the GSAPP students and faculty, through dedicated summary sessions. As New York, GSAPP’s great advantage is concentration and density. The School exploits it shamelessly, bringing to Avery Hall an unapologetical density of people who have changed the terms of their respective fields, including Liu Jiakun, Hito Steyrl, Liz Diller, Wangs Shu, Lu Wenyu, Jack Halberstam, James Corner, Olalekan Jeyifous, Leopold Banchini, Sumayya Vally, Barbara Kruger, Thomas Keenan, Noura Al-Sayeh, Jing Liu, Fatina Abreek-Zubiedat, Laurie Hawkinson, Tau Tavengwa, Gabriela de Matos, Nasser Rabbat, Mark Wasiuta, Felecia Davis, Mae-Ling Lokko,, Jonsara Ruth, Giovanna Borasi, Nikolaus Hirsch, Emanuel Admassu, Ziad Jamaleddine, Guy Nordenson, Mireia Luzárraga, Mark Wigley, Beatriz Colomina, Ardy Hartono Kurniaway, Alkistis Thomidou & Berta Gutierrez, , Common Accounts, Andre Bonnice & Anna Jankovic, Nick Axel, Dechophon Rattanasatchatham, Nguyễn Hà, Sébastien Martinez Barat, Marc Tsurumaki, Gong Yan, Florian Jomain, Vyjijanthi Rao, Fredi Fischli, Niels Olsen, Dahyoung Chung, Guillerme Wisnik,, Shawn Rickenbacker, Abraham Thomas, Erica Avrami, Stephen Battle, Fabiola Büchele, Prita Meier, Ikem Okoye, Francis Sossah, Ola Uduku, and many others.

ALL MAIN protagonist of large events (for now chronological) Liu Jiakun, Laurie Hawkinson, Jorge Otero-Pailos, Erica Avrami, Fatina Abreek-Zubiedat, jack Halberstam, Liz Diller, James Corner, Ziad Jamaleddine, Mark Wasiuta, Esra Akcan, Emanuel Admassu, Olalekan Jeyifous, Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, Juan Herreros. ALL MAIN protagonist of large events (for now chronological) + Library is Open Liu Jiakun, Laurie Hawkinson, Lucia Allais, Forrest Meggers, Michael Faciejew, Jorge Otero-Pailos, Erica Avrami, Fatina Abreek-Zubiedat, jack Halberstam, Amber Esseiva, Liz Diller, James Corner, Ziad Jamaleddine, Mark Wasiuta, Esra Akcan, Emanuel Admassu, Olalekan Jeyifous, Leopold Banchini, Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, Lola Ben-Alon, Juan Herreros, Brian Goldstein. ALL MAIN protagonist of large events (for now chronological) + ADDED key NAMES at start (Kruger, Steyrl, Keenan, Banchini, Wilson, Yan) Hito Steyrl, Gong Yan, Tom Keenan, Barbara Kruger, Mabel Wilson, Leopold Banchini, Liu Jiakun, Laurie Hawkinson, Jorge Otero-Pailos, Erica Avrami, Fatina Abreek-Zubiedat, jack Halberstam, Liz Diller, James Corner, Ziad Jamaleddine, Mark Wasiuta, Esra Akcan, Emanuel Admassu, Olalekan Jeyifous, Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, Juan Herreros. ALL MAIN protagonist of large events (for now chronological) + ADDED key NAMES at start (Kruger, Steyrl, Keenan, Wilson, Yan + Library is Open Hito Steyrl, Gong Yan, Tom Keenan, Barbara Kruger, Mabel Wilson, Liu Jiakun, Laurie Hawkinson, Lucia Allais, Forrest Meggers, Michael Faciejew, Jorge Otero-Pailos, Erica Avrami, Fatina Abreek-Zubiedat, jack Halberstam, Amber Esseiva, Liz Diller, James Corner, Ziad Jamaleddine, Mark Wasiuta, Esra Akcan, Emanuel Admassu, Olalekan Jeyifous, Leopold Banchini, Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, Lola Ben-Alon, Juan Herreros, Brian Goldstein. ALSO POSSIBLE: BUELL EVENT NAMES, BUT THEN WILL PROBABLY BE OVER WORD LIMIT ALREADY

Please visit GSAPP’s events calendar for more information and details on fall programming. All events will be livestreamed on GSAPP’s YouTube unless otherwise noted. John Foerster ‘64 Fund Lecture September 14, 6:30 PM Liu Jiakun Introduction: Dean Andrés Jaque Responses: Jing Liu (GSAPP, SO-IL), Bart-Jan Polman (GSAPP)

Inside Outside: Working Collaborations in Public September 24, 6:30 PM Laurie Hawkinson (GSAPP, Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects) with Jonathan R. Cole (Columbia), Catherine Ingraham (Pratt), Barbara Kruger, Reinhold Martin (GSAPP), Guy Nordenson (Princeton), Kate Orff (GSAPP, SCAPE)

The Library is Open 30: After Concrete September 25, 1:00 PM Lucia Allais (GSAPP), Forrest Meggers (Princeton), Michael Faciejew (Dalhousie University), Dan Steingart (Columbia)

Fitch Colloquium Preserving Independence: Architecture and Heritage in Western Africa Curated by MS in Historic Preservation October 2, 1:30 PM Jeanne Autran-Edorh (Studio NEiDA), Stephen Battle (WMF), Fabiola Büchele (Studio NEiDA), Rachel Engmann (CAHP), Prita Meier (NYU), Ishanlosen Odiaua (WHIPIC), Ikem Okoye (University of Delaware), Francis Sossah, Martino Stierli (MoMA), Ola Uduku (University of Liverpool) Responses: Lucia Allais (GSAPP) and Mabel Wilson (GSAPP) Moderated by: Jorge Otero-Pailos (GSAPP) and Erica Avrami (GSAPP) Co-Organized with the Museum of Modern Art

Detlef Mertins Lecture October 5, 6:30 PM Fatina Abreek-Zubiedat (TAU Lab of Spaces-in-Transition) Introduction: Ateya Khorakiwala (GSAPP) Response: Ralph Ghoche (Barnard)

Anarchitecture After Everything October 7, 6:30 PM Jack Halberstam, in conversation with Claire Bishop (CUNY), Julia Q. Bryan-Wilson (Columbia), Mabel Wilson (GSAPP), and Sarah Haley (ISSG)

The Library is Open 31: Dear Mazie, Sanctuary, Speculation, and Sky October 9, 1:00 PM Amber Esseiva (ICA VCU)

WORKS 1: The High Line October 12, 6:30 PM Liz Diller (DS+R, Princeton), James Corner (Field Operations), and others.

(on the occasion of) At the Edge of Where God Built: Language, Concepts, Islamic Architecture October 16, 2:00 PM Ziad Jamaleddine (GSAPP, L.E.FT Architects) with Waleed Arafa (DAA) Nebahat Avcıoğlu (Hunter College), Iheb Guermazi (USC), Nasser Rabbat (MIT), Kishwar Rizvi (Yale), Avinoam Shalem (Columbia Department of Art History & Archaeology), Sumayya Vally (GSAPP, counter-space)

The Status of the Document (On the occasion of) The Archival Exhibition published by Columbia Books on Architecture and the City October 19, 12:00 PM Mark Wasiuta, Thomas Keenan, and Hito Steyerl Introduction by Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt (GSAPP, CBAC) and Joanna Joseph (GSAPP, CBAC). Moderated by Bart-Jan Polman (GSAPP)

WORKS 2: The Ningbo Museum October 19 Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu (Amateur Architecture Studio)

Architecture and the Right to Heal October 19, 6:00 PM Esra Akcan (Cornell) Response: Laura Kurgan (GSAPP) Co-sponsored by the Department of Germanic Languages

Buell Abundance Talks: “The Alibi of Capital” Oct 22, 12:00 PM Timothy Mitchell Response: Zeynep Çelik Alexander

Open House Lecture October 26, 6:30 PM Emanuel Admassu (GSAPP, AD-WO) and Olalekan Jeyifous In conversation with Dean Andrés Jaque (GSAPP)

The Library is Open 32: Shelter Cookbook Leopold Banchini October 27, 1:00 PM

Celebrating 10 Years of e-flux Architecture November 4, 6:30 PM Nick Axel and Nikolaus Hirsch (e-flux); and Andres Jaque and Bart-Jan Polman (GSAPP); with […]

Buell Encounters Series: “Environmental Machines” Nov 5, 12:00 PM John López and John Davis Response: Frederik Braüner

The Library is Open 32: Material Variance November 6, 1:00 PM Lola Ben-Alon (GSAPP, The Natural Materials Lab) Introduction: Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt (GSAPP, CBAC) and Joanna Joseph (GSAPP, CBAC) Responses: Felecia Davis (Penn State), Mae-Ling Lokko (Yale), Jorge Otero-Pailos (GSAPP), Jonsara Ruth (Parsons)

Buell Encounters Series: "the Arab Component in Ibero-American Architecture” Nov 11, 12:00 PM Fernando Nespral
Response: Ziad Jamaleddine (Public talk, location tbd)

Constructing (Unorthodox) Practice November 13, 9:30 AM Dominique Petit-Frère (Limbo Accra), Juliana Ayako & Caruls Zebulun (Ayako), Ardy Hartono Kurniaway (Dua Studio), Alkistis Thomidou & Berta Gutierrez (forty five degrees), Gigi Shukakidze (Wunderwerk), Miles Gertler & Igor Bragado (Common Accounts), Andre Bonnice & Anna Jankovic (Simulaa), Mahsa Malek & Alex Yueyan Li (11x17), Dechophon Rattanasatchatham, Pongsatorn Swadchatchwan, & Rungroj Tansukanun (Yangnar Studio), Nguyễn Hà (ARB Architects), Laurens Bekemans (BC Architects), Sébastien Martinez Barat, Benjamin Lafore, & Florian Jomain (MBL Architects) Curated by Juan Herreros (GSAPP, estudio Herreros) Moderated by: Lydia Kallipoliti (GSAPP, ANAcycle), Mireia Luzárraga (GSAPP, TAKK), Marc Tsurumaki (GSAPP, LTL Architects), Lola Ben Alon (GSAPP, The Natural Materials Lab)

The Library is Open 33: Max Bond November 19, 12:30 PM Brian Goldstein (Swarthmore College) Responses: Shelley Hayreh (Avery Archives), Shawn Rickenbacker (CUNY)

Terence Riley Symposium Friday, December 4, 2:00 PM Noura Al-Sayeh Holtrop, Giovanna Borasi, Dahyoung Chung, Brendan Cormier, Omar Degan, Fredi Fischli & Niels Olsen, Gabriela de Matos, Michelle Fisher, Beatrice Galilee, Jean Im, Carlos Minguez, Gong Yan, Bart-Jan Polman, Vyjijanthi Rao, Raymund Ryan, Martino Stierli, Irene Sunwoo, Tau Tavengwa, Abraham Thomas, Gong Yan, Guillerme Wisnik, and others.

Curated by Bart-Jan Polman and Dean Andrés Jaque, with the collaboration of students, faculty, and student groups.