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“The Outside-In Project” seminar led by Faculty Galia Solomonoff and Laurie Hawkinson unveils three student-designed inflatable pavilions around Avery Hall.

GSAPP Faculty participate in the 18th Venice Biennale of Architecture

The digital resource Avery/GSAPP Mosaic launches on Artstor

The End of Year Show 2023 online platform is now live, showcasing work across all of GSAPP’s programs.

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May 30

Graham Foundation Grants awarded to L.E.FT Architects (led by Assistant Professor Ziad Jamaleddine and Makram El Kadi), N H D M (led by Faculty Nahyun Hwang and David Eugin Moon), Faculty Feifei Zhou, Sharon Leung '16 M.Arch, J. Yolande Daniels '90 MArch, Andrea Molina Cuadro '22 MSCCCP, Marco Piscitelli '21 MSCCCP, Jori Erdman '95 MArch, John Keenen '83 MArch, and Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió '19 PhD Architecture

May 30

Architect's Newspaper features student-designed pavilions in the article "At Columbia GSAPP three inflatable pavilions light up using solar power"

May 30

Steven Holl Architects featured in a group exhibition of new educational projects throughout Latin America titled "CAMPUS AULA" at the Center for Architecture in New York

May 30

Professor Steven Holl featured in a solo exhibition at Antonia Jannone Disegni di Architettura in Milan titled "Steven Holl: Half Earth"

May 27

Professor Felicity D. Scott delivers the lecture "An Eye Half Open Only to Architecture" hosted as part of the e-flux Architecture Lectures series

May 26

PRODUCTORA, co-led by Faculty Wonne Ickx, wins competition to design through adaptive reuse the new headquarters of Chile's national train company (EFE) in Santiago

May 25

Columbia News publishes "GSAPP Lab Looks for Solutions to New York’s Housing Crisis"

May 24

Professor Michael Bell publishes "Haptic, Discrete and Catastrophic” in the May issue of Domus, guest edited by Professor Steven Holl

May 23

Carol Loewenson '79 MArch awarded Columbia Alumni Medal

May 22

Dwayne Dancy '09 MSAAD profiled in New York Amsterdam News

May 10

Faculty Joe Brennan delivers lecture on "Building Thriving Cities: Exploring Adaptive Work Flows" at NYIT

May 5

Juan Herreros discusses “Architectures for Art” as the first guest of the series “Lectures with Paella” hosted by the artist Carlos Garaicoa

May 5

Faculty Lindsey Wikstrom '16 M.Arch hosts the culmination of the Material Worlds lecture series with Carson Chan at the Center for Architecture

May 4

Abitare features Dean Andrés Jaque on “Sustainability as a Strategy”

Apr 28

"Making with Earth" course led by Assistant Professor Lola Ben-Alon opens exhibition at 1014

Apr 28

In Memoriam: We are deeply saddened by the loss of Brandon Cook '00 M.Arch

Apr 27

Professor Hilary Sample delivers lecture with MOS co-founder Michael Meredith at the Royal Danish Academy

Apr 26

Professor Jorge Otero-Pailos discusses his book "Historic Preservation Theory" at the Australian Centre for Architectural History, Urban and Cultural Heritage

Apr 24

Professor Juan Herreros delivers the lecture "Dissident Strategies: Inhabiting Another Planet” at the Universidad de Los Lagos

Apr 23

Dean Andrés Jaque's firm Office for Political Innovation featured in Architectural Digest's "Sustainable Living Now: 6 Cutting-Edge Design Ideas for a Greener World"

Apr 23

Faculty Lindsey Wikstrom '16 M.Arch celebrates the launch of her book "Designing the Forest and other Mass Timber Futures" at the International Mass Timber Conference

Apr 23

The Center for Resilient Cities and Landscapes helps deliver Belize’s Strategy for Reef Resilience

Apr 23

Assistant Professor Erica Avrami '93 MSHP named Co-chair of Advisory Council on Historic Preservation's Experts Advisory Committee

Apr 19

Professor Reinhold Martin and Professor Felicity D. Scott participate in a discussion with Anthony Vidler on “Architecture and Utopia” hosted by Columbia's Center for Contemporary Critical Thought

Congratulations
Class of 2023!

Photo by Omer Gorashi ‘24 MArch

Photo by Hatnim Lee

Photo by Omer Gorashi ‘24 MArch

Photo by Hatnim Lee

Photo by Omer Gorashi ‘24 MArch

GSAPP develops new forms of pedagogy, research, and practice to engage the crucial issues of our time across all scales of the built environment.

Learn more about the School’s ongoing, interconnected investigations on
Climate, Equity, and Data & Design.

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Programs

GSAPP offers a range of academic programs that study the built environment at multiple scales and through different critical methods. Learn more about the School’s various degree programs in Architecture, Urbanism, Preservation, and Real Estate Development. Visit the Student Work Archive to browse over 8,000 recent projects from across academic programs.

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The Loess Collector

Students:

Ting-Hao Chen, Ming Ding

Course:

Summer, 2022 - Advanced Architecture Tutorial

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The Cursed Eden Garden

This project was inspired by the Bible Genesis, which tells the story of God punishing Adam and Eva through the toil of eating food from the field and growing painful thistles. We rearticulate Genesis by illustrating a hypothetical phenomenon of future New York City as the…

Students:

Runxin Fu, Ann Long

Course:

Summer, 2022 - Advanced Architecture Tutorial

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Students:

Nuofan Xu, Que Zhang

Course:

Summer, 2022 - Advanced Architecture Tutorial

See Project

Students:

Alan Cai, Thiago Lee

Course:

Spring, 2022 - Architecture Studio IV

See Project

Students:

Calvin Harrison, Varisa Tantiwasadakran

Course:

Spring, 2022 - Advanced GIS

See Project

Students:

Surabhi Dahivalkar, Rae Lei, Zhifan Li, Aishwarya Mathukumilli

Course:

Fall, 2021 - Urban Design Studio II

See Project

Research

GSAPP strives to redefine the roles of architecture and urbanism within a research university, envisioning new forms of practice as research and new research practices. The School’s Centers, Labs, Incubator, and Initiatives lead groundbreaking investigations that tackle emerging challenges in the disciplines of the built environment and create opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration.

(Re)Coding Walkups
Housing Lab

Learn more about the Housing Lab’s latest report, “(Re)Coding Walkups: A Business Plan for Advancing Inclusive, Accessible, and Resilient Housing in Existing Unsubsidized Buildings Across NYC.”

(Re)Coding Walkups Publication by the Housing Lab

Green Reconstruction
Buell Center

Green Reconstruction is an outline, an open work, for the repair of a world ravaged by three intersecting crises—of mutual care, of racial oppression, and of climate, all intersecting in turn with economic inequality—that moves along two axes, the Green axis of ecological transformation, and the gilded axis of material redistribution, or Reconstruction.

Mapping Historical New York
Center for Spatial Research

The Center for Spatial Research launched Mapping Historical New York City, a collaboration to map immigration and neighborhood change in NYC during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries..

Engaged Practice

GSAPP alumni across the globe are pioneering new models of practice that engage with emerging political, technological, intellectual, and environmental issues. Learn more about the innovative and imaginative ways that GSAPP’s network is reshaping the design professions.

“(EXTRACTOPIA) And then what?: New world-making strategies” by GSAPP Incubator Prize Recipient Linda Schilling Cuellar ‘18 MSAUD with Claudio Astudillo

“Non-typology: Ollas Comunes” by GSAPP Incubator Recipient Rafaela Olivares ‘20 MSAAD with Ernesto Silva ‘13 MSAAD

“TREE.3” by GSAPP Incubator Prize Recipient James Piacentini ‘20 MARCH, ‘20 MSUP with Eric Pietraszkiewicz ‘18 MSUP

“Segregation is Killing Us” by Territorial Empathy, presented during GSAPP’s Alumni Conversations Series

“Weaving for Nature”
2019-20 Incubator Prize

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