Fatina Abreek-Zub (TAU Lab of Spaces-in-Transition) delivers the Detlef Mertins lecture on the Histories of Modernity, with an introduction by Faculty Ateya Khorakiwala (GSAPP) and a response by Ralph Ghoche (Barnard).

Fatina Abreek-Zub is an architect, architectural historian and Assistant Professor. She is the founder of the Lab of Spaces-in-Transition, which investigate the relational intimate power between humanitarian and aid developmental regimes in conflict zones of the Global South, with a focus on the spatial materialization of forced migration and cross-cultural mobilities of people, knowledge and commodities.

Jack Halberstam presents his latest book, Anarchitecture After Everything: A Trans Manifesto, with an introduction by Sarah Haley and in conversation with Claire Bishop, Julia Q. Bryan-Wilson, and Faculty Mabel Wilson.

Anarchitecture, a radical aesthetic practice of unmaking the built environment, staged a vigorous confrontation with urban renewal and gentrification projects in the 1970s. In Anarchitecture After Everything, Jack Halberstam identifies a powerful lexicon of transformation within anarchitecture, joining the movement’s practices of cutting and splitting with the destabilizing power of transness to detonate acts of formal violence in our time.

Marcos Zotes ‘12 MSAAD is an architect and partner at Basalt Architects, an Icelandic practice operating at the threshold of architecture and landscape, where he has led the design of key geothermal baths, hospitality projects, and exhibitions. Zotes is the curator for Iceland’s entry at the 20th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2027.

The first WORKS session discusses the HIGH LINE with its key contributors: James Corner (Field Operations), Elizabeth Diller, (DS+R, Princeton), and several others.

WORKS is a new series that throughout the upcoming semesters will discuss a selection of projects that have contributed to the production of realities through the mobilization of resources, agendas and constituencies; by connecting distant scales and actors; and as active components within broader social, ecological, cultural, and political transformations.

How are the disciplines of the built environment being called upon to participate in some of the most consequential transformations of our time? How can we address rapidly changing conditions across ecological systems, technological infrastructures, economies, forms of governance, and modes of collective life through which the built environment is produced?

Underlying WORKS is a question of growing urgency: What is the most meaningful use of our disciplines, our practices, and our forms of knowledge today? What capacities must architecture, preservation, real estate and urbanism cultivate if they are to participate substantively in addressing the challenges that define the present? And what enables our fields to earn a meaningful place within the processes where realities are negotiated, assembled, and made consequential?

Faculty Ziad Jamaleddine (GSAPP, L.E.FT Architects) reflects on At the Edge of Where God Built, a critical examination of L.E.FT Architects’ diverse body of work from the past decade, with speakers Waleed Arafa (DAA), Nebahat Avcıoğlu (Hunter College), Iheb Guermazi (USC), Nasser Rabbat (MIT), Kishwar Rizvi (Yale), Avinoam Shalem (Columbia Department of Art History & Archaeology), and Faculty Sumayya Vally (GSAPP, counter-space).

Hito Steyerl, Thomas Keenan, and Faculty Mark Wasiuta discuss the role of “the document” in their work. This event takes place on the occasion of the launch of Mark Wasiuta’s book, The Archival Exhibition: A Decade of Research at the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, 2006–2016, published by Columbia Books on Architecture and the City.

Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu of Amateur Architecture Studio discusses their Ningbo History Museum as part of WORKS.

WORKS is a new series that throughout the upcoming semesters will discuss a selection of projects that have contributed to the production of realities through the mobilization of resources, agendas and constituencies; by connecting distant scales and actors; and as active components within broader social, ecological, cultural, and political transformations.

How are the disciplines of the built environment being called upon to participate in some of the most consequential transformations of our time? How can we address rapidly changing conditions across ecological systems, technological infrastructures, economies, forms of governance, and modes of collective life through which the built environment is produced?

Underlying WORKS is a question of growing urgency: What is the most meaningful use of our disciplines, our practices, and our forms of knowledge today? What capacities must architecture, preservation, real estate and urbanism cultivate if they are to participate substantively in addressing the challenges that define the present? And what enables our fields to earn a meaningful place within the processes where realities are negotiated, assembled, and made consequential?

Faculty Emanuel Admassu and Olalekan Jeyifous delivers the Fall Open House Lecture, followed by a conversation with Dean Andrés Jaque.

Emanuel Admassu (’12 MSAAD, ’13 AAR) is an assistant professor at GSAPP and a founding partner, with Jen Wood, of AD—WO, an art and architecture practice based in New York. His work explores the intersections of spatial justice and urbanism, with a special focus on the African continent and the African diaspora.

Olalekan Jeyifous is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work reimagines the intersections of architecture, community, and the environment through inventive visual storytelling. By merging physical and digital elements with both historical and speculative contexts, his practice offers critical reflections on existing systems while imagining alternative ways of relating to each other and the spaces we inhabit.

• Director of M.S.CDP Laura Kurgan, Faculty Adam Vosburgh, and Faculty Dan Miller’s project, Two Sides of the Same Coin, is featured in the Museum of Modern Art show, Full Disclosure: The Edge of Information Design. (pictured)

• Faculty Hilary Sample (MOS) delivers a lecture on the use of concrete masonry for her project, Laboratorio de Vivienda, at the BLOCKWORK symposium.

• Faculty Mark Wasiuta hosts a book launch and conversation on the occasion of The Archival Exhibition: A Decade of Research at the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, 2006–2016 by Mark Wasiuta, published by Columbia Books on Architecture and the City.

• Skye Duncan ‘07 MSAUD is named in the Time Next 100.

• Dean Andres Jaque is featured in Monocle.

• Amman Design Week opened this week, featuring a permanent urban intervention by faculty member Ziad Jamaleddine (L.E.FT Architects) and installations by GSAPP alumni: Sarah Hejazine & Bisher Tabba (FADAA), Farah Alkhoury & Tigran Kostandya, Jumana Abbas, Mariam Jacob (Studio 402), and Uthra Varghese (UT-R Studio).

• Neeraj Bhatia lectures at University of Luxembourg, Cultures of Assembly.

• Published in ICON MENA, “Can the Majlis Be?” by Ibrahim Kombarji and May Hassan, CCCP faculty and graduate, brings together conversations with GSAPP faculty Ziad Jamaleddine and Sumayya Vally to reconsider the majlis as a contemporary spatial and social practice.

• Faculty Jing Liu (SO–IL), alongside Mel Chin and Deana Haggag, is honored at the Storefront Gala.

• Hiba Bou Akar at Storefront

• The Magazine covers the exhibition, People Cross Against the Light: Michael Sorkin’s New York, available on their new print issue.

• Faculty Mireia Luzarraga and Faculty Philipe Rahm participates in a conversation, INTERIOR ECOLOGIES, for Climate Week.

• The Nature Conservancy Hong Kong interviews Kate Orff for Climate Week.

• Dalia Hamati '11 M.Arch is appointed curator for Venice Architecture Biennale 2027.

• Faculty Michael Wang joins a conversation at Times New York City to reflect on his work, Future Sugarbush, at the Medina Triennial 2026: All That Sustains Us, October 6.

• Faculty Mireia Luzárraga (TAKK) delivers a lecture at MIT Architecture presenting “Unlearning the Anthropocene: Architecture after Human Exceptionalism.”, October 8.

• Faculty Amelyn Ng ‘19 MSCCCP, Christine Giorgio '19 MArch, and Faculty Gabriel Vergara '19 MSAUD (Friends Making Work) exhibit Re-Grounding the Archive at the Van Alen Institute.

Nominated by the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation with the endorsement of the Provost and the recommendation of the President, the Trustees of Columbia University have bestowed the distinction of Professor Emeritus on Dean Emeritus Bernard Tschumi.

This distinction recognizes his extraordinary contributions to architecture and his enduring role in making the School the pinnacle of critical research and experimental architectural pedagogy. GSAPP will celebrate this distinction with the Bernard Tschumi Symposium in Fall 2027, bringing together architects, artists, and cultural practitioners to engage the ideas and questions that Bernard Tschumi has set in motion across more than four decades of architectural practice, writing, and teaching.