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.

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).

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, exploring the publication’s legacy and its continued influence on architectural imagination.

Dean Emeritus Amale Andraos (GSAPP) and Dan Wood (WORKac) present their new book Buildings for People and Plants, on architecture, ecology, and social sustainability.

A Buell Center discussion between Alexander Wood and Jonah Rowen linking the Buell Center’s exhibition Before You Were Here with Building the Metropolis by Alexander Wood.

This month, GSAPP alumni connect worldwide with events in Seoul (Nov 3), Shanghai (Nov 6), and Taipei (Nov 10), alongside gatherings in New York (Nov 7), Providence (Nov 15), and on campus for The Newburgh Cinemabox conversation (Nov 7) and Tuesday Talks (Nov 11 & 25).

• The MSUP Program’s Lecture in Planning Series invites Javier Arbona-Homar and Jake Berman for two talks on the spatial politics of landscapes shaped by explosions and historical patterns of transit construction and development. November 11 and 18, 1:15 PM, GSAPP.

• The MSRED Hotel and Hospitality Club invites Simon Kim for a guest lecture. November 11, 4 PM, GSAPP.

• The MSAAD Program’s Edible Summits: Salt Archaeologies stages a near future where architecture and cuisine collapse into the same mineral substrate. November 13, 4:30 PM, GSAPP.

• GSAPP student organization, Adjacent, invites Kevin Wiesner of MSCHF and Paola Antonelli for conversations on design oriented industries. November 14 and 20, 2025, GSAPP.

• The MSHP Program’s Preservation Lecture Series invites Nathan Eddy for a talk on brutalist buildings. November 19, 1 PM, GSAPP.

• 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 Andrew Dolkart leads a virtual tour of the Tenement Museum as part of the celebration of the reissue of his book, Biography of a Tenement House in New York City: An Architectural History of 97 Orchard Street. Wednesday, November 12, 6:30 PM

• 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.

• At the Chicago Architecture Biennial’s fifth site, faculty Mireia Luzárraga (TAKK) opens “Co-Habitation Dome,” (pictured), while faculty Hilary Sample (MOS Architects), in collaboration with artist Tony Cokes, exhibits “Public Benches”. Presented under the central themes of the larger Biennial, these 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.

• 2026 MSCCCP Program cohort in collaboration with e-flux Architecture publishes a series of essays, offering critical perspectives on the ideas, positions, and practices that shaped the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale.

• 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.

• Faculty Eric Bunge and Mimi Hoang (nARCHITECTS) wins Metropolis Magazine’s 2025 Planet Positive Award in the Pavilion category for the Resiliencity Park Pavilion.

• 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 architects of the Triennale in the series, Talk, Talk, Talk. October 2 - December 8, 2025.