Following a week of midterms (pictured), GSAPP carries the momentum forward with lectures, conversations, and opportunities that extend beyond Avery Hall.

The MSCDP Conversations with Practitioners Series brings together designers, technologists, and architects whose work reflects a wide range of contemporary practices and perspectives.

Lucia Rebolino ‘23 MSCDP is an artist, architect and research-based computational designer. She is currently a researcher with Forensic Architecture in London, and one of the first graduates of the CDP program.

Deborah Lopez and Hadin Charbel are founders of Pareid, an interdisciplinary design and research studio whose work addresses topics related to climate, ecology, policy and storytelling through what they refer to as “Alternate Endings”.

Lopez and Charbel will present the lecture “Climate F( r )ictions” for AAD Arguments. They will be introduced by Beril Sarisakal Erkent, with responses by Uriel Fogué and AAD students.

David Vega-Barachowitz is an Associate Principal and the Director of Urban Design at WXY studio, where he leads the firm’s urban design, master planning, and mobility practice. At WXY, he has led several of New York City’s most complex planning efforts, including the NYC Greenways Plan, the Brooklyn Marine Terminal Master Plan, the BQE Corridor Vision, and the Meatpacking District Public Realm Plan.

Tuesday Talks, July 14, continues to expand the conversation, bringing recent graduates into the school’s arenas.

• Out Now: Dear Mazie,: Sanctuary, Speculation, and Sky features contributions from Faculty Mario Gooden and Mabel O. Wilson, and includes an interview featuring Faculty Emanuel Admassu and Jen Wood ‘12 MSAAD (AD-WO). (pictured)

• Dean Andrés Jaque is featured on El Diario following his presentation at the UIA World Congress of Architecture in Barcelona.

• Faculty Steven Holl, Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano (LOT-EK), Kate Orff (SCAPE), and Alumni Dominic Leong '03 MSAAD and Charles Renfro '94 MSAAD, among others, are recognized in Wallpaper USA 400.

• Faculty Juan Herreros participates in the panel, “Museums and City,” at Fundación MACBA’s World Capital of Architecture.

• Just Announced: Faculty Ziad Jamaleddine (L.E.FT Architects) and Hiba Bou Akar participate in the third edition of the Sharjah Architecture Triennale, Architecture Otherwise: Building Civic Infrastructure for Collective Futures. (pictured)

• Faculty Marina Otero-Verzier ‘13 MSCCCP’s book, Floating Lithium, receives the FAD Award for Thought and Criticism 2026.

• Faculty Amelyn Ng presents her paper, “Reading the Landfill from the Stockpile”, at the EAHN 2026 Conference in Aarhus, Denmark.