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Advanced Architectural Design Open House

In-Person Open House Program

October 20	MS Advanced Architectural Design Open House Schedule
9:00am – 10:00am	Check-in and Breakfast The Teatro, Casa Italiana
10:00am – 10:45am	Admissions Q&A Session The Teatro, Casa Italiana
10:45am – 11:30am	MSAAD Guided Tour Departs from Casa Italiana
11:30am – 12:15pm	Campus Tour with Prof. Mark Rakatansky Departs from Avery Hall Entrance
12:30pm – 1:30pm	Lunch with GSAPP Faculty and Student Representatives The Rotunda, Low Memorial Library
1:30pm – 2:00pm	Welcome and School Overview by Dean Andrés Jaque The Rotunda, Low Memorial Library
2:00pm – 3:00pm	MSAAD Curriculum Presentation by Program Director Lydia Kallipoliti Avery 114
3:00pm – 4:00pm	Conversations with current MSAAD students Avery 114
4:00pm – 5:30pm	Open Studios: Advanced V Architecture Studios Avery 600 & 700
5:30pm – 6:15pm	Life at GSAPP: Presentations by Student Groups and Organizations Avery 100
6:15pm – 6:30pm	Pre-Lecture Reception Wood Auditorium, Avery 100
6:30 – 8:30pm	GSAPP Open House Lecture by LOT-EK: Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano Wood Auditorium, Avery 100

Please reference the Columbia Morningside campus map for in-person event locations, and see the main Open House page for additional details and all upcoming online sessions.

Online Open House Program

Date	Event
October 22, 9:00am	MSAAD Curriculum Presentation with Program Director Lydia Kallipoliti Please register in advance
October 24, 10:00am	Admissions Info Session and Q&A with the GSAPP Admissions Office team Please register in advance

Additional Resources

Student Work

Visit the online 2025 End of Year Show to see student work from the Advanced Studios.

You can also browse the digital archive for work associated by studio and instructor.

Qingyang Fan

Joonbae Seo

Jinjian (Jacky) Chen

Ahad Ibrahim

Yuanlong Zhu

Junming Liao, Zhihao Xu

Xander Wu, Kiera Chen

Career Services at Columbia GSAPP

Career Services at Columbia GSAPP strives to keep students in touch with the professional world beyond Avery Hall and professionals aware of our excellent students. Career Services organizes events throughout the year including career fairs, workshops, alumni networking events, and panel discussions.

Watch an interview with Karen Cover, Assistant Director of Career Services, recorded in March 2021.

Arguments Lecture Series

This ongoing series brings together a diverse group of speakers whose work addresses today’s most pressing challenges⁠—environmental, political, and social and beyond.

AAD Arguments

AAD Arguments
Chip Lord
July 19, 2023

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Mio Tsuneyama and Fuminori Nousaku
July 26, 2023

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Techno-Critical Assemblies

This ongoing series brings together a speakers whose work incorporates cutting-edge technologies using critical methodologies.

Urban Data

Lecture by Violet Whitney and Jared Friedman
April 6, 2021

Visit the event page here.

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Columbia GSAPP Lecture and Event Series

The Dean’s lecture and event series invites guests from across the world to deliver talks and participate in discussions with the GSAPP community. Below is a selection of events featuring M.S.AAD faculty members.

AFFIRMATION 3: DESIGN POLICY
Vicki Been, Christopher Hawthorne
October 2, 2023

Abstract

Abstract is the annual print publication of faculty-selected student work from Columbia University GSAPP, produced through the Office of the Dean.

rAADio

rAADio is an investigation by Advanced Architectural Design students in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University. As a cohort from a plurality of diverse backgrounds, we aim to observe the many polycentric entanglements of architecture. We explore the questions of how we expand the traditional role and associations of architecture between assemblages, interrelationships, bodies, and technologies; beyond simple scalar translations.

Follow rAADio on Instagram at @gsapp_raadio.

Columbia GSAPP · rAADio

You can also find a self-guided audio walking tour of Columbia University’s historic campus by Professor and Historic Preservationist Andrew Dolkart (‘77 MS HP) here.