End of Year Show 2016

Students in each studio or program conceive, design and install their exhibits for the End of Year Show. This format underscores the independence with which students are able to pursue their own direction at Columbia GSAPP, and the results yield a glimpse of the exploratory culture and the vitality of debate at the school. This pamphlet lists primary information for each installation, including faculty, students, course title, and location within Avery Hall. Individual installations in the show articulate course objectives and methods in more detail.

The End of Year Show includes two exhibitions in Buell Hall—Every Building in Baghdad: The Rifat Chadirji Archives at the Arab Image Foundation in the Ross Gallery, and Iraq Damage Surveys in the South Gallery. These two exhibitions highlight the tensions that historical, archival research sparks in relation to contemporary architectural concerns, and the critical importance of sites such as Baghdad for the school as it seeks to foster new forms of intelligence about architecture and urban developments globally.