Diana Cristobal Olave, ‘13 MS.AAD, Bart-Jan Polman,‘10 MS.AAD, and Lealla Solomon '23 MS.AAD will host a virtual information session organized by GSAPP Career Services, providing an opportunity for alumni to share their experiences with current students regarding their application journeys and career development. A Q&A session will follow.
Please note: This is not an event detailing how the GSAPP PhD program and admissions are organized.
Diana Cristobal Olave is an architect and scholar, with a joint Ph.D. degree in History and Theory of Architecture and the Interdisciplinary Humanities, at Princeton University. Diana was trained as an architect at ETSABarcelona. As a Fulbright Fellow she graduated from the MSAAD at Columbia GSAPP and received an Architectural Applied Research Certificate by the same school. Her research interests are situated at the intersection of architecture, technology, and politics, with a special focus on histories of computing, information visualization, and participatory design techniques. In her PhD dissertation she theorizes the rise of algorithms during late Francoist Spain and traces its applications and impacts in modern architecture and urban design. Her work has been published in TAD, Dialectic IX, Design Issues, Bitacora, NNJ, and Contour Journal.
Bart-Jan Polman is the Director of Exhibitions and Public Programming, and curator of the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, at Columbia GSAPP. He is an architect, curator, and academic with degrees from Columbia GSAPP, Princeton University, and Delft University of Technology who has been actively involved in architectural research and education through his doctoral work at Princeton, and he has taught both design and history/theory courses for multiple years at GSAPP, as well as at Delft University, Princeton, Barnard College, and Pratt Institute. His research explores the intersection of welfare states with neoliberalism in the context of global inequalities, and he is an experienced curator who has been a consulting curatorial research specialist for the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and has developed exhibitions for the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel, the Power Station of Art in Shanghai, and Princeton University
Lealla Solomon is a PhD student in the History and Theory of Architecture track at Princeton University. Her current research focuses on micro-histories of 19th-century European architectural practice. She is an alumnus of the MS.AAD program at Columbia GSAPP, where she received the school’s CAA Campbell prize. Her work has been exhibited at the London Design Biennale, Jerusalem Design Week, and Holon Design Museum.
The conversation will be moderated by Patricio A. Muñoz, '25 MS.AUD.
When: September 27th, 2024, 1:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Register in advance for this meeting
Organized by Karen Cover, Associate Director of Career Services.
Open to currently enrolled Columbia GSAPP students.