MARCH AT GSAPP
This month at GSAPP blah blah begins with the intensity of final reviews, turning classrooms into sites of shared inquiry and collective testing. Surrounding this momentum, a set of exhibitions, recognitions, and public programs expands the School’s reach. Projects led by faculty and alumni in Venice, Florence, Germany, and Chile show how design and research operate trans-locally, producing encounters and tensions that keep reconfiguring the GSAPP ecosystem. |
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INAUGURAL GSAPP WORLD ACTIONING SUMMIT IN SEOUL
March 14, 10:30am
Seoul, Korea
On Saturday March 14, the inaugural GSAPP World Actioning Summit will take place in Seoul, Korea.
Although the need to move beyond a world structured by extractivism is widely acknowledged, the ways in which the built environment can actively enable relations of coexistence and care remain insufficiently addressed. Aligned with GSAPP’s commitment to bridging the gap between critical thinking and action, the World Actioning Coalition will serve as a catalyst for collective thinking, strategic intervention, and transdisciplinary collaboration between architects, economists, planners, artists, curators, researchers, engineers, academics, and all those shaping the built environment.
Speakers throughout the day will include: David Benjamin ’05 M.Arch (GSAPP, the living), Minsuk Cho ’92 M.Arch (MASS Studies), Rachaporn Choochuey ’98 MSAAD ((all)zone), Jong Ho Hong (SNU), Nahyun Hwang (GSAPP, NHDM), Dean Andrés Jaque (GSAPP), Lydia Kallipoliti (GSAPP, ANAcycle), Mireia Luzzarága (GSAPP, TAKK), Bart-Jan Polman ’10 MSAAD (GSAPP), Philippe Rahm (GSAPP, Philippe Rahm architectes), Wang Shu & Lu Wenyu (amateur architecture studio), Shirley Surya (M+), Marc Tsurumaki (GSAPP, LTL Architects), Mark Wasiuta (GSAPP), Weiping Wu (GSAPP), and many others.
The Coalition advances an ecological paradigm for the built environment that understands architecture and urbanism not as bounded objects, but as active agents within complex territorial systems. In this view, the urban exceeds the figure of the city, operating across scales, infrastructures, climates, and economies. The city is approached not as a fixed place, but as a transterritorial enactment that is distributed, political and ultimately ecological.
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Preservation Lecture Series: Cormac Murray
March 4, 1pm
203 Fayerweather
Cormac Murray is an Irish architect, lecturer at TU Dublin, and series editor at TYPE.ie. His research and publications focus on twentieth‑century Irish architecture, and he is actively involved in the conservation and advocacy of Ireland’s recent built heritage. His books include The Dublin Architecture Guide, 1937-2021 (The Lilliput Press) and America at Home: The Architecture and Politics of the US Embassy in Dublin (The Phibsboro Press).
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A Public Symposium: Making and Unmaking Property
March 13, 12pm
Fayerweather 209
Organized by Buell Fellows Sonali Dhanpal and Chelsea Spencer, with concluding remarks by Kalyani Ramnath (Columbia).
This symposium asks how property is made and unmade—not just through legal instruments or physical acts of seizure but also, crucially, through architectural objects and processes. It will bring together architectural historians with scholars of racial capitalism, colonialism, and law to illuminate new questions about how architecture and property are co-constituted across symbolic, social, spatial, and material registers.
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The Lecture in Planning Series (LiPS): Miriam Greenberg
March 24, 1:15pm
Ware Lounge (Avery 600)
Miriam Greenberg is Professor of Sociology at the University of California Santa Cruz, and co-director of the Center for Critical Urban and Environmental Studies. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the City University of New York Graduate Center, and is author of Branding New York: How a City in Crisis was Sold to the World (Routledge, 2008) and co-author of Crisis Cities: Disaster and Redevelopment in New York and New Orleans (Oxford, 2014); and co-editor of The City is the Factory: New Solidarities and Spatial Tactics in an Urban Age, (Cornell, 2017).
The Lecture in Planning Series (LiPS) is co-organized by the MSUP Program and second-year PhD students in Urban Planning.
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GSAPP Asia Alumni Forum
March 15, 1:30pm
Haenglim Architecture Office, Gwacheon Creation Tower, 46 Gwacheon-daero 7-gil, Gwacheon-si
From Columbia to Asia | 6 × 6 Conversations
A platform bringing together GSAPP alumni across Asia to share perspectives, experiences, and insights on design, cities, and leadership in a rapidly evolving regional context.
Please register here if you would like to attend the event, and if you are interested in participating as a speaker in one of the sessions.
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The Lecture in Planning Series (LiPS): Dan Pitera
March 3, 1:15pm
Ware Lounge (Avery 600)
Dan Pitera FAIA, NOMA, Hon. FALA has practiced, taught, and researched methods focused on the social, ecological, equitable, and political dimensions of architecture and urban design, advancing thoughtful design for all people.
The Lecture in Planning Series (LiPS) is co-organized by the MSUP Program and second-year PhD students in Urban Planning.
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