Fall 2025
Climatic Architecture and Diasporic Cities
Common Cook
Project by Sara Song
The project suggests that condensing vendors’ daily routes in a building …
Fall 2025
An Arab American Museum in New York
Museum of Absence
Project by JIN GYUNG CHOI
The Museum of Absence is an architectural project located on Washing…
To Reveal the Future Museum
Project by Maya Yildirim
The Contemporary Arab American Studio Museum proposes the reveal as a…
Arab Cultural Museum
Project by Kentaro Komazawa
The Arab Cultural Museum reclaims the erased footprint of Little S…
The Living Archive at Washington Street
Project by Adriana Gambirazio
Little Syria was an Arab American neighborhood in lower Manhatta…
Arabic Press / Works
Project by Levan Kiladze
/// Museum of Arabic Press / Works /// situates printing as both a cu…
Set Between Acts: An Archive and Performing Arts Center for Arab American Culture
Project by Benjamin Garcia
The Museum of Arab American Performance illuminates histories and o…
The Space Between: Memory, Exchange, and Making
Project by Sebastian Suarez
This project proposes a contemporary Arab American museum conceive…
The Arab American Museum and Library of New York
Project by Libby Owen
The Arab American Museum and Library of New York is a space dedicated to…
Architecture Against Forgetting: Memory, Migration, and Spatial Resistance
Project by Cuishujun Zhang
My idea is that the concept unfolds in three vertical parts, establ…
Continuum: An Arab-American Museum in New York
Project by Yutian Zhu
The project envisions an Arab-American Museum composed of three interrel…
The Arab-American Journey: From Peddler to Identity
Project by Churui Wang
In this project, the concept is to create a journey for visitors to und…
Fall 2025
Unwritten Programs / New Transcriptions / Technologies and Topologies
Floaters
Project by Mario Ramirez-Arrazola
An analysis and transcription of the haptic, structural, and…
Dissolving Boundaries
Project by Junge Huang Chih Chia Huang
Dissolving Boundary explores how an architectural syste…
Transcript as Masque
Project by Alexandra Zhao
Through Stanley Saitowitz’s Transvaal House, each component is disse…
A House that Glass Built
Project by Julian Krusic O'Donnell
Toledo, Ohio, the city that glass built, was surveyed as a…
The Subject is the Only Origin of Space
Project by Josh Allen
Finding the smallest change with the biggest effect: shifting how a pers…
The New Arch
Project by Juyeon Park
This project started from transcribing the existing building to suggest…
Masque of Suburban Attunement
Project by Camryn Locascio
The Masque of Attunement is an architectural inquiry into suburban …
Fall 2025
Sacred Turn: Investing in Architecture’s Unstable, Yet Persistent, Notion of the Sacred
New Landscape of Remembrance
Project by Andrew Seungho Yang, Yeonjoon Kang
This project reimagines the sealed refuge caves …
From Altar to Sacred Cloth
Project by Hee Leong Lim
This project reimagines the Church of the Holy Communion as a new for…
Sinapis Alba, Permanence Through Rooting
Project by Bernardo Malatesta
Sinapis Alba is a project that uses research, endowment document…
Capitalized Sacredness
Project by Sangbum Kai Park
This project begins with research on the cultural and historical b…
Fall 2025
Oral (Infra)Structures
Fall 2025
Memory, Archive, and Spaces: Cultural Preservation as Past, and Future
Amara Nanu Ranna
Project by Tamzid Jaigirdar
Amara Nanu Ranna reinterprets the spacial qualities of Curry Row t…
LOC: Line of Connection
Project by Nutdanai Paisantuksin
This project studies how annual floods transform the river be…
အရွက်မှာ လက်ဖက် (of all the leaves, lahpet’s the best)
Project by Aye Aye Tha Esther Su
lacing lahpet, language, lingering (lahpet, Burmese tea) လ…
An ambiguous space for queer bodies
Project by Elise Cloutier
What is left of Clit Club is fragmented, scattered, blurry. Its form…
Weaving Home
Project by Mahum Erkin
“Weaving Home” is a feminist ethnography rooted in the embodied practic…
Fall 2025
MATTER(ing): on Materiality and State Change
Where the Water Meets Sky
Project by Alyssa Duran
This project proposes a reimagining of Four Freedoms Park as an archit…
Repairing Perceptions of Once-Sacred Waters in the Basin of Mexico
Project by Eugenia Lopez Valdes
By uncovering the buried Mexica temple of Cihuacoatl and recon…
Copper as Environmental Witness
Project by Khalid Abunayyan
Centered on the landscape surrounding Daughter’s Palace situated i…
House of Sugar : Edible membranes and mortars for a contaminated architecture
Project by Shannon Levkovitz
The NYCHA Cooper Park housing complex, situated at the convergenc…
Fall 2025
VITAL: Reimagining Buildings and Carbon at Scale
Holobiont futures
Project by Valeria Ramirez, Sofia Paniagua
Holobiont Futures begins with a simple question: wh…
Sweetransition - From Olympic Legacy to Carbon Sink
Project by Guan-Yi Siao & Sungjik Kim
To combat Rio de Janeiro’s climate crisis, our design …
The Vault of Trust: Architecture as a Civic Ledger for Carbon, Value, and Governance
Project by Yunhao Zhong
The Vault of Trust recasts architecture as a civic ledger, making carb…
CARBON “TEMPLES”: A Campaign For Carbon Conviction
Project by Lorennah Marianna (Granfors) + Kelsey Wang
Located on 125th and Lexington in East H…
LOCKED.
Project by Neha Sarah Abraham, Ridhi Sawhney
Many projects are framed around a distant end goa…
The Rising Intertidal
Project by Chang Cao
This Rising Intertidal envisions an intertidal education and remediation …
Charloop Residence
Project by Cong Zhang
This residential project imagines the apartment building as a living car…
Fall 2025
Building Communities: Adaptive Reuse and Housing in NYC
Living Threads Along the Greenline
Project by Alex Ching-Chen Liu
Living Threads Along the Greenline explores how housing can co…
Craft Yards
Project by Yun Chen Chen
Set within the Murray Cheese Factory, this project treats adaptive re…
Fall 2025
The EoS Studio: Elements of Sustainability
Neosardis
Project by Jason Li
My project repositions underutilized Pier 76, a former NYPD tow pound, int…
Hudson Botanical Garden
Project by Violeta Mastronardi
The Hudson Botanical Garden proposes the adaptive reuse of Pie…
FLOW COMMONS- Fish Farm
Project by Runyu Tang
This Pier 76 fsh-farming complex blends public space with aquatic produc…
Fluid Metabolism: Reimagining Pier 76
Project by Mi Zhou
Fluid Metabolism explores an alternative future for Pier 76 in New York Cit…
Fall 2025
Peaceable Kingdom
Sweet Negotiation
Project by Minjae Kim, I Fu Chang
New Yorkers have been advised to kill the Spotted Lanternfly…
Mussel Built
Project by Raven Huang and Shiki Xu
This project is a deep architectural reverie stemming from…
Curtain Wall Canvas
Project by To Quynh Pham
This architectural intervention confronts the growing challenge of bi…
Fall 2025
The Midtown Block Re-edition
Unfolding Midtown
Project by Nien Lee, Fern Sripongtanakul, Ashley Broyles
This project reimagines a typical Mid…
THE COOLING LOOP: Re-Editing a Midtown Block
Project by Akshara Vinayagam, Mihika Pawar, Abhishek Patel
The Cooling Loop reimagines a mono-…
The Midtown Organism
Project by Nicole Kertznus, Krish, Aditi
The Midtown Organism reimagines a single Midtown East…
Thermal Commons: Reclaiming Public Life in Midtown
Project by Abhishek Patel, Mihika Pawar, Akshara Vinayagam
This project reimagines a mono-func…
Vertical Commons and the Architecture of Shared Urban Life
Project by Danielle Seunghyun Min and Keenan Bellisari
The project proposes a block-scale urba…
Fall 2025
Harlem Lane: Scalar Archives and the Counter-Gravitational Forms
Materializing the Sacred and Profane
Project by Claire Wolsk
New York’s history of policing lawful dissent, through mitigation of p…
GENESIS: A COUNTER-GRAVITATIONAL PROTOTYPE FOR MULTI-GENERATIONAL WEALTH
Project by Jagger Udy, Jonah Johnson
GENESIS refuses the gravitational pull of maximum density…
Fall 2025
Impermanent Matters: Biogenic Materials and Regeneration in Jamaica Bay
Stalk Exchange: A Cycle of Building and Rebuilding
Project by Swezya Joshi and Angela Che Jin Lee
This project explores the spatial and material …
The Living Shoreline
Project by Julio Viejo Romero-Mazariegos and Hyunyoung Kim
The Living Shoreline addresses Jama…
After the Runway: Cracking Concrete into Agricultural Infrastructure
Project by Xiaoyu Zhang
This project positions depaving as a deliberate architectural act by t…
Mycoentropy
Project by Hyoju Kim + Andrea Hernandez
Mycoentropy is a temporary artistic space proposed for…
Fall 2025
Architecture of Solidarity: Solidarity as Design Praxis
Mwangola
Project by Gelmira Gourgel
Mwangola is an archival curatorial project that explores the memori…
The Powers of Manganese Nodules
Project by Vasiliki Zochiou
This project traces the entanglement of scientific knowledge, extr…
Free To Speak?
Project by Shahnaj Sharmin Rimu
On March 13, 2025, Columbia student and president of Student W…
Fall 2025
Re-commissioning International Exchanges: Designing an Irish-American Center/Museum reusing the decommissioned US Dublin Embassy
Fall 2025
Melting Archies: Preserving, Registering and Reimagining the Arctic’s Future