NOVEMBER AT GSAPP
This November, GSAPP extends its coalitional fabric beyond New York, convening dialogues that unfold across Shanghai, Taipei, and campus. These encounters trace how architecture mobilizes ideas, materials, and publics across geographies—connecting design education to the infrastructures of labor, ecology, and collective practice.
From Building the Campus, Building the Metropolis and the Edible Summits series to The Library is Open conversations and the Inaugural Terence Riley Summit, the month situates architecture as a medium of collaboration and care. Across exhibitions, lectures, and global gatherings, GSAPP continues to test how design can reimagine institutions, cities, and communities in movement.
Pictured: Scenes from November events and happenings at GSAPP, including XX, and more.
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Yves Béhar (fuse project)
November 19, 6:30pm
Wood Auditorium
Organized jointly with The World Around.
Yves Béhar is the founder and CEO of Fuseproject, a San Francisco-based design and innovation studio. He has launched over 100 early-stage ventures and developed products for brands such as Samsung, Herman Miller, and L’Oréal. His work is rooted in the belief that design accelerates the adoption of new ideas, shaping products that transform how we live.
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Coalition 3: Coalition of Curators. The Inaugural Terence Riley Summit.
November 21, 1pm
Wood Auditorium
The Inaugural Columbia GSAPP Terence Riley Summit will create a worldwide convening to establish a forum where curators of the built environment from around the world can share their experiences, experimentation and methodologies in an afternoon of public conversations. The Summit pays homage to Terence Riley ’82 MSAUD, whose influential career started at the Columbia GSAPP Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery.
The Summit will bring together those whose work is transforming how the built environment is critically mobilized, debated, challenged, and intervened upon. Participants include: Noura Al-Sayeh Holtrop (BACA); Renato Anelli (Sao Paulo Architecture Biennial); Paola Antonelli (MoMA); Charles Aubin (Centre Pompidou x Jersey City); Omar Degan (Pan African Biennale); Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher (SFMOMA); José Esparza (Storefront for Art and Architecture); Beatrice Galilee (The World Around); Shelley Hayreh (Avery Archives); Nikolaus Hirsch (CIVA, e-flux); Jean Im (GSAPP); Andrés Jaque (GSAPP); Justin McGuirk (Design Museum); Ewan McEoin (National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne); Manuela Moscoso (CARA); Maria Nicanor (Cooper Hewitt); Bart-Jan Polman (GSAPP); Florencia Rodriguez (Chicago Architecture Biennial); Raymund Ryan (Carnegie Museum); Felicity Scott (GSAPP); Martino Stierli (MoMA); Irene Sunwoo (Art Institute of Chicago); Abraham Thomas (The Metropolitan Museum of Art); Ikko Yokoyama (M+); Stéphanie Quantin (Centre Pompidou).
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THE LIBRARY IS OPEN 23: Archigram Facsimile
November 14, 1pm
Avery 400
Beatriz Colomina (Princeton), Thomas Evans (D.A.P.), Amelyn Ng (GSAPP), David Grahame Shane (GSAPP), and Bernard Tschumi *(GSAPP, Bernard Tschumi Architects) discuss the new facsimile edition of Archigram. Moderated by *Bart-Jan Polman (GSAPP). |
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Alumni
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CCCP in SEOUL: Broadcasting Architecture
November 3, 5pm
Onground Eumbar, Seoul
Felicity Scott and Mark Wasiuta, Co-Directors of the MSCCCP Program, host a reception and conversation with Jihoi Lee (MMCA) and Jean Im (GSAPP).
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GSAPP in Shanghai
November 6, 6pm
Crossing Art Room Floor 3, Building 2, Changshou Road No. 166, Putuo District, Shanghai
Dean Dean Andrés Jaque and Steffen Boddeker, Associate Dean of Admissions, lead a presentation and discussion followed by a reception.
Hosted by Catherine Lee ’03 MSRED.
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Alumni Conversations: The Newburgh Cinemabox
November 7, 12pm
Avery 100
Supported by the GSAPP Alumni Board, alumni Amy Shell, Razvan Voroneanu, Naomi Hersson-Ringskog, Jake Chai, and Lee Altman discuss their collaborative project in Newburgh, NY.
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GSAPP in Taipei
November 10, 6pm
School of Continuing Education, Chinese Culture University Da-Xia Building, B1 International Conference Hall No. 231, Section 2, Jianguo South Road, Taipei City, Taiwan
Lydia Kallipoliti, Director of MSAAD, presents “Histories of Ecological Design”, which has been recently translated into Chinese.
In partnership with AIA Taipei and the Taiwan Columbia Alumni Association.
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Degree Programs & Organizations
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Javier Arbona-Homar
November 11, 1:15pm
Fayerweather 209
A talk on the spatial politics of explosive landscapes, drawn from Arbona-Homar’s new book “Explosivity: Following What Remains”.
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AAD EDIBLE SUMMITS
November 13, 6:30pm
Avery 100
An evening exploring the overlap of architecture and cuisine through speculative design.
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ADJACENT x MSCHF
November 14, 6:30pm
Wood Auditorium
Kevin Wiesner, co-founder and CCO of MSCHF, in conversation on design, pop culture, and media.
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Jake Berman
November 18, 1:15pm
Fayerweather 209
Jake Berman discusses The Lost Subways of North America and how design shaped urban transit.
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Nathan Eddy
November 19, 1pm
209 Fayerweather
Filmmaker Nathan Eddy explores how late modern and postmodern architecture is revalued as heritage.
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ADJACENT x Paola Antonelli
November 20, 6:30pm
Ware Lounge
Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator at MoMA, shares insights on design’s role in shaping the future.
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GSAPP RECOMMENDS
Faculty Adam Lubinsky and Dare Brawley of WXY are featured in Searching for Superpublics, on view at the Center for Architecture, exploring how architects and urban designers reimagine New York City’s public spaces, proposing inclusive and adaptive environments that foster collective urban life. October 3, 2025 - March 28, 2026. Faculty Jorge Otero-Pailos opens Onera Foundation’s inaugural exhibition with, “Treaties on De-Fences”, sharing a selection of sculptures and prints inspired by and derived from his work as the preservation architect for the decommissioned Saarinen-designed US embassy in Oslo. October 1, 2025 - March 28, 2026. Faculty Steven Holl in conversation with Peter Eisenman as part of the Island Editions series, celebrating the relocation of the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center to the Tata Innovation Center on the Cornell Tech campus, Roosevelt Island. Hosted by Eisenman and critic Cynthia Davidson, the series brings together leading architects to reflect on the evolution of design across academia, practice, and public life. Wednesday, November 12, 7:00 PM. |
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NEWS
At the Chicago Architecture Biennial’s fifth site, opening November 7, Mireia Luzárraga (TAKK) with opens “Co-Habitation Dome,” (pictured) alongside “Public Benches” a joint project by faculty Hilary Sample (MOS) with artist Tony Cokes. Presented under the central themes of the larger Biennial, this installations across the site engage architecture’s and design’s response to the interconnected systems that define our world—climate, technology, food, and the human body. Nov 7, 2025–Jan 31, 2026. e-flux Architecture commissions a series of essays in collaboration with the 2026 MSCCCP Program cohort. The collection features reflections on the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, offering critical perspectives on the ideas, positions, and practices that shaped the exhibition. Faculty Sebastián Adamo’s firm Adamo-Faiden, in collaboration with faculty Hilary Sample’s firm MOS Architects and Equipo de Arquitectura, receives the Holcim Foundation Prize for Latin America for the project Chacarita Alta Social Housing. At the 2025 Lisbon Architecture Triennale: How Heavy is a City?, on view through December 8, faculty Mireia Luzarraga (TAKK) shares works in the The Sixth Sphere and Associate Director of MSAAD Xiaoxi Chen MArch ’15 with Lily Chishan Wong MArch ’15 exhibit TA-CHIM: Weighing A City’s Colonial Legacies. Additionally, Dean Andrés Jaque spoke alongside curators and architwctures of the Triennale in the series, Talk, Talk, Talk. October 2–December 8, 2025. |
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