Following a summer semester of experimentation and exchange, the End of Summer Exhibition brings together work from MSAAD, MSAUD, MSCDP, and MSRED. The exhibition reflects GSAPP as a laboratory for critical inquiry, where new ways of understanding and transforming the world are tested through design. On view through September 10.

Issue 77 of the Avery Review presents the winners of the journal’s ninth annual Essay Prize, celebrating the critical writing of students on built, destroyed, and imagined environments.

First prize is awarded to Sofia Rudi Kent for her essay “Mythical Infrastructure: The Strait of Messina Bridge,” which examines Sicily’s perpetually speculated Strait of Messina Bridge, showing how infrastructure can operate as political myth without it ever being built. Second prize is awarded to Kassidy Miller and Patrick Rearden, Noa Mori Machover, and Nina Tiêu.

Issue 77 is edited by Tizziana Baldenebro, Wiam El-Tamami, Joanna Joseph (GSAPP), Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt (GSAPP), Elsa Mäki (GSAPP), Taylor Miller, Jess Myers, Meriam Soltan (GSAPP), Melis Ugurlu, Jordan Whitewood-Neal, and Kate Yeh Chiu.

Columbia GSAPP is saddened by the passing of Robin Middleton, Professor Emeritus of Architectural History, whose scholarship shaped generations of architectural historians.

A member of Columbia’s Department of Art History and Archaeology from 1987 to 2003, Middleton was closely connected to GSAPP through his friendships with many members of our faculty and the doctoral students who studied with him. A leading scholar of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century architecture, he was particularly renowned for his work on French and British architectural history and theory. He also played an instrumental role in the life of the Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, where his papers are now preserved. Columbia GSAPP honors his legacy.

• Patio Magazine, Issue 4: Threshold, the student-edited publication of LatinGSAPP, receives the 2026 Douglas Haskell Award for Student Journals from the Center for Architecture.

• Faculty Ziad Jamaleddine (L.E.FT Architects) discusses language and translation in architecture in the Architect’s Newspaper on L.E.FT’s book At the Edge of Where God Built.

• Paula Vilaplana de Miguel ‘19 MSCCCP is appointed Assistant Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, at the Museum of Modern Art. (pictured)

• Director of MSAUD Neeraj Bhatia is interviewed on the podcast, Frontiers of Commoning.

• Faculty Juan Herreros‘s exhibition design at La Térmica Cultural hosts Eduardo Chillida in its second chapter. (pictured)

• Dean Emeritus Amale Andraos joins MOS on their podcast, Department of Buildings, to discuss OMA’s Qatar National Library.

• Faculty Austin Sakong '11 MSAUD is appointed Principal at FXCollaborative.

• Faculty Sagi Golan '13 MSAUD is selected to co-lead Urban Land Institute’s Mixed-use Green Council.

• Faculty Amelyn Ng (pictured), Susana Chinchilla ‘26 MSAUD, and Jahlik Parkes '25 MSAUD will present their work in the Institute for Public Architecture’s 2026 Summer Residency Exhibition: LIVING LABORATORY.