Introduction
CLINICS
The Clinic is a new pedagogical format engaged in an active de-centering of the school and instead prioritizes the skill and knowledge-based collaboration of all degree programs.
In 2022, GSAPP launched the Design Clinics, which have pioneered the possibility for faculty, researchers, and students from all the disciplines of the built environment – spanning architecture, real estate, urban planning, and historic preservation – to work hand-in-hand with communities and leaders in New York and across the world to provide impactful solutions to urgent and unprecedented crises that can only be addressed through an interdisciplinary approach. This format consolidates GSAPP’s legacy of anticipating formats that lead the evolution of the disciplines of the built environment by pioneering pedagogical formats never tested before – moving from knowledge to action and ideas to impact.
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Data Mourning
DATABLIND
The Pacific island of Tuvalu is the world’s least visited country, with its highest point 15 f...
Plastic Shores: Waste as Land in Tuvalu
This project investigates Tuvalu’s waste landscape as both material crisis and living archive....
Imprinting Tuvalu’s future: Archiving life, culture and landscape through coconut plant
Coconuts in Tuvalu are proliferating all the time, but they only do so selectively at certain ...
The Island Beneath: On the Unseen Loss of Tuvalu
Long before Tuvalu is physically erased by rising sea levels, it is already becoming uninhabit...
Oceanic sovereignty: Beyond the Coordinates of Loss “Alternative maps as testimonies, not territories.”
This project interrogates the legal and spatial assumptions underlying sovereignty, proposing ...
Moving Waters: Reading and Sensing Oceanic Space in Tuvalu
Moving Waters proposes an infrastructural and epistemological framework for coexisting with wa...
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Transition Spaces
Transitions Studio_Clarke/Ortega
In response to the specific psychological needs of individuals with claustrophobia, architectu...
Slow Care, Let Go
Slow Care, Let Go is a transitional living center in Greenfield, Massachusetts, designed for w...
Dual Domesticities
In Japan, a growing number of elderly women are committing petty crimes to enter prison, not o...
Traces of Contact
This is not a space for observation. It is a space for participation, interruption, and return...
Carrying the Unseen: Uncovering Transgenerational Trauma
Carrying the Unseen traces the transgenerational trauma carried by Indigenous youth in Canada....
Accessing Esteem: Juniper House
Accessing Esteem proposes an adaptive reuse strategy for a residential care center for adolesc...
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Private Equity and Housing Scarcity
Chasing Light
A single-family home that uses sunlight for energy generation and shapes how it feels, moves, ...
Solar Dividend Housing
Solar Dividend Housing reimagines homeownership and energy equity by challenging the inefficie...
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The Well School
Senso-scape
The project envisions a transformative redesign of Avery Hall’s studio spaces at GSAPP, addres...
The Well School Manifesto
Manifesto and Syllabus to reimagine GSAPP as the Well School
Making Learnscape / The Interspecies Picnic
This project reimagines architectural pedagogy as a tapestry of collaboration, fostering inter...
Visual Buffer for Avery
The concept of “visual noise” encompasses the discomfort caused by the visual perc...
Living Exhibition: An Architecture School as a Living Archive of Collective Effort
A significant part of being in architecture school is the competitive dynamic among peers—ever...
The Courtyard Reimagined: Redefining Space for Nature and Gathering
The Courtyard Reimagined transforms the central courtyard of Columbia GSAPP’s Avery Hall into ...
Nooks of Avery
Project that [lans to use ll the unused nooks, corners, empty spaces to enable student agency ...
Adaptive Islands
The studio, where students with diverse personalities, tendencies, and backgrounds converge, i...
Scales of Care: Telehealth Pavilions
Designed as a resource for both physical and virtual health support, the Telehealth Pavilions ...
Modernizing Avery
Modernizing Avery is a project that updates Avery Hall to address modern student needs. Workin...