Columbia GSAPP works with the communities of the Bronx and Congressmember Espaillat on redesigning the Kingsbridge Armory as a hub for neighborhood empowerment.
The “Extreme Scale” exhibition in Avery Hall documents the first semester of a GSAPP-wide initiative to envision a future for the Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx, the largest armory in the United States.

Thu, Nov 30 1:15pm

Urban Planning PhD and Faculty Research Workshop II

Ph.D UP

Faculty and Students gathered around a table and speaking with two TV screens in the background displaying images, one of a map and one of the room for a livestream recording.

New York

Thu, Nov 30 6pm

We Stand in Crisis With Water: Peri-Urban Water Management in Gujarat - Closing Reception

GSAPP Admissions Info Session

Fri, Dec 15 5pm

Virtual

GSAPP Admissions Info Session

The 2023 GSAPP Open House for Prospective Students took place October 16. View recorded presentations online and register for upcoming Info Sessions.

The 2023 Chicago Architecture Biennial features a strong representation of GSAPP Faculty and Alumni. Professor David Benjamin and the GSAPP Footprint Project collaborated with the Urban Growers Collective on a project, and the related interactive drawing by Daniel Vanderhorst (‘23 M.Arch) can be viewed online.

“100 links” is an installation by The Buell Center and AD-WO (Emanuel Admassu and Jen Wood) currently on view at the Chicago Architecture Biennial.

Many GSAPP alumni - as well as faculty and a current student - are among the grant recipients of Architectural League’s 2023 Architecture + Design Independent Projects.

Nov 27 – Dec 4, 2023

Extreme Scale

Avery 400

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Dec 12

Faculty Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano's firm LOT-EK presents exhibition and film screening in San Francisco

Dec 5

Professor Reinhold Martin presents the lecture "Boundary Problems: The University of Utopia" at KU Leuven on the occasion of the university's 600th anniversary.

Dec 2

Assistant Professor Emanuel Admassu ‘12 MSAAD and Jen Wood ’12 MSAAD present their recent projects at the Art Institute of Chicago

Nov 30

Assistant Professor Lola Ben-Alon presents the work of the Natural Materials lab at the 2023 BioCalibrated Symposium, London

Nov 29

Columbia GSAPP works with the communities of the Bronx and Congressmember Espaillat on redesigning the Kingsbridge Armory as a hub for neighborhood empowerment

Nov 27

Many GSAPP alumni are among the grant recipients of Architectural League's 2023 Architecture + Design Independent Projects

Nov 22

GSAPP Conference "Migrant 'Crisis' in NYC" organized by Associate Professor Hiba Bou Akar with Assistant Professor Hugo Sarmiento is featured in Columbia Spectator

Nov 20

Professor Andrew Dolkart and alumnus Ken Lustbader ’93 MSHP speak about the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project on WNYC's "All of It"

Nov 20

Faculty Uriel Fogué's firm Elii is the Holcim Awards 2023 Gold Winner in Europe for "El 17. Composition of Knowledge House"

Nov 19

Faculty Karla Rothstein and Columbia DeathLAB co-present the event Civic Solidarity at Woodlawn Cemetery.

Nov 17

Columbia News profiles Professor Kate Ascher's cross-disciplinary course co-taught with Engineering faculty Andrew Smith and supported by a grant from the Office of the Provost

Nov 17

Dean Andrés Jaque presents the closing keynote lecture at the annual conference of the Sociedad de Arquitectos del Uruguay, “Hacer Ciudad”

Nov 15

Assistant Professor Emanuel Admassu ‘12 MSAAD lectures at the Knowlton School, Ohio State University

Nov 7

Faculty Nahyun Hwang delivers the lecture "Migrating Commons" as a part of the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Architecture's Fall 2023 lecture series: The Good Life

Oct 31

Queer Harlem Renaissance App, co-created by alumna Abriannah Aiken, ’22 MSAAD, is featured in Columbia News

Oct 27

Conversion of a 144-year-old Mumbai ice factory by alumnus Arjun Malik '05 MSAAD is featured in Dezeen

Oct 27

Assistant Professor Ziad Jamaleddine participates in the conference "Confront[ing] Urbanization" at the Danish Association of Architects

Oct 27

Professor Emeritus Richard Plunz delivers the keynote lecture at the conference commemorating his research at at San Leucio, Italy

Oct 26

Professor Tom Slater participates in the international conference "Gentrification & Displacement" at Boston University

Oct 25

Faculty Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano firm present premiere screening of "WE START WITH THE THINGS WE FIND" about their firm LOT-EK at SVA Theatre

Oct 23

Assistant Professor Lola Ben-Alon delivers lecture at The College of Architecture and Design, University of Houston

Oct 21

HP Program Director and Professor Jorge Otero-Pailos delivers keynote for New Canaan Museum & Historical Society's 2023 Modern House Day Tour

Oct 20

Faculty Albena Yaneva delivers the lecture "Latour for Architects" at Pisa University

Oct 19

Tania Tovar '16 MSCCCP was appointed as a 2023–2025 Wortham Fellow at Rice University

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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Museum of Homecoming

National Geographic defines caves as a veil of darkness that cloaks natural beauty, but Native Americans did not think so. They believe everything in this world has a soul and a spirit even if it’s just a rock. Although the Lenape did not mainly live within…

Students:

Florianne Jacques

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Summer, 2022 - Advanced Architecture Tutorial

See Project

The Loess Collector

Students:

Ting-Hao Chen, Ming Ding

Course:

Summer, 2022 - Advanced Architecture Tutorial

See Project

Students:

Alan Cai, Thiago Lee

Course:

Spring, 2022 - Architecture Studio IV

See Project

Students:

Leo Wan

Course:

Spring, 2022 - Architecture Studio VI

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Students:

Calvin Harrison, Varisa Tantiwasadakran

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Spring, 2022 - Advanced GIS

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Open Space and Green Resources in Harlem

Students:

Elaf Alsibyani, Daoxin Chen

Course:

Spring, 2022 - GIS for Preservation

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

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