The GSAPP Incubator Prize
February 7, 2020
A remote dispatch from New York, Texas, California, Brazil, and China by the 2019 Incubator Prize recipients on the status of their projects responding to Climate Change at the Building Scale.

Labs, Incubators, Colonies
September 7, 2018
A series of conversations convened by GSAPP and NEW INC that address the long and complicated history of innovation, and that discuss the potential of these environments to create the space to change the status quo in art, technology, and design.

GSAPP Incubator: Design and Entrepreneurship
November 3, 2017
A conversation around presentations by current and former Incubator members on their projects with David Benjamin, Dominc Leong, Tei Carpenter, and Karen Wong.

Mimi Hoang responds to Pezo von Ellrichshausen
February 15, 2016
Hoang identifies the careful siting and representation of Sophia von Ellrichshausen and Mauricio Pezo’s work, and asks them to expand on their design process in creating buildings as objects with a distinct internal and external hierarchy.

Adam Frampton responds to Urbanus
September 18, 2017
Frampton considers how Meng Yan’s engagement the urban might be understood as an agenda of moving away from Western models, and pushes the architect to reflect on his role as an urban mediator negotiating the supposed split between city planning and building design.

Emmett Zeifman responds to de Vylder Vinck Taillieu
September 24, 2018
Zeifman prompts Jan de Vylder to expand on the role of references in their work and the tension between the “rules” of material and the unexpected, playful potentials of color and form.

Vo Trong Nghia
November 12, 2015
A talk on building sustainable systems that connect mind and body, city and environment, and that undo traditional notions of nature as something separate from our buildings and ourselves.

Other Desires: The African City
April 8, 2016
A day-long conference on the spatial practices, urban narratives, and manifold identities of African cities as models for thinking through liberation, beauty, memory, tradition, and belonging.

Minsuk Cho ‘92 M.Arch
March 23, 2018
A conversation that retraces Cho’s personal trajectory, from his time at GSAPP to the founding of Mass Studies, and takes stock of how contemporary Korean architecture differs from the American equivalent.

Eleena Jamil
October 14, 2019
A lecture that emphasizes the climatic as the cultural and that reframes the vernacular as a radical practice of local materiality.

What is New?
November 16, 2011
A presentation by Zaha Hadid on the conceptual morphologies of her practice and on building a theoretical and utopian project around the world.

Fuse: In, Re, De, Pro, Con
October 3, 2012
A lecture by Denise Scott Brown on her eighty-first birthday on five architectural acts: to infuse, refuse, defuse, profuse, and confuse.

Critical Dialogues on Race and Modern Architecture
February 26, 2016
A panel discussion organized by Mabel O. Wilson on the how “race,” as an aesthetic category, has been deployed to form spaces of modernity from the building to the city to the nation to the planet; from Winckelmann’s idealization of Greek bodies to Le Corbusier’s evocations of the “primal energy” of Black jazz.

Seesaw: Piedra, Papel, o Tijeras
November 7, 2014
An exchange between Tatiana Bilbao and Frida Escobedo (in conversation with Galia Solomonoff) on what it means to transform the tectonic traditions of Mexico anew through their respective practices.

Urban Rural Framework
April 3, 2017
A talk that ruminates on working against urban upheaval, looking to the countryside, and designing new institutional collaborations for research.

Adrian Lahoud
February 27, 2019
A lecture reflecting on exhibition-making as a cultural project in the context of the first Sharjah Architecture Triennial.

Climate Change and the Scales of Environment
December 10, 2015
A symposium that critically reframes the term “environment” in order to address the real and lived threat of climate change––moving beyond the technocratic conversations that typically frame the terms of debate.

Embodied Energy and Design
April 22, 2016
A conference that reconsiders the act of making a building as an act of energy expenditure and asks questions about a variety of related scales, methods of analysis, and design opportunities.

Climate Change at the Building Scale
February 22, 2019
A series of summits that ask how architects should design for uncertainty and how buildings and building practices can participate in transitioning to a non-anthropocentric paradigm––questions that appear more urgent now than ever.

Piovenefabi
March 28, 2018
Response by Hilary Sample.
A talk selected in solidarity with our Italian colleagues. This mobile duo shows us what is possible when we work across cities, across modes of production, across ideas, across schools of thought, and so on.

Ananya Roy
February 25, 2019
At the Threshold of Empire: Sanctuary Cities in the Age of Trumpism
Response by Weiping Wu.
A lecture on the history and contemporary manifestations of metropolitan segregation, racial banishment, and poverty management. Roy offers us a way to think of cities as enduring sites of resistance and grounds for abolition midst crisis and expressions of state violence.