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Buell Center

Conversations on Architecture and Land in the Americas: Counting Land

MArch and MSAAD Students are invited to submit projects for the 2020 Paris Prize by December 18, 2020

Public Works for a Green New Deal

Columbia University’s Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture was founded in 1982. Its mission is to advance the interdisciplinary study of American architecture, urbanism, and landscape. A separately endowed entity within the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, it sponsors research projects, workshops, public programs, publications, and awards.

In recent years, the Center has convened issue-oriented conversations around matters of public concern, such as housing, that are addressed to overlapping constituencies including academics, students, professionals, and members of the general public. The Buell Center’s research and programming articulate facts and frameworks that modify key assumptions governing the architectural public sphere—that is, the arena in which informed public analysis and debate about architecture and urbanism takes place. Buell Center projects utilize a variety of formats, such as specialized academic conferences, small meetings, larger public events, and publications, depending on the issues and audience at hand. In all cases, they offer a context for the study of American architecture that brings underlying issues to light and enables architecture’s various interconnected publics to gain a greater understanding of its cultural significance.

**Please find more information about the Buell Center’s current programs and projects on its website.

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Lucia Allais, Director

Elsa Mäki, Assistant Director

Michelle Huynh Chu, Program Manager

Columbia Books on
Architecture and the City

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The Art of Inequality: Architecture, Housing, and Real Estate

Edited by
Reinhold Martin, Susanne Schindler, Jacob Moore

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The Buell Hypothesis

Edited by
Reinhold Martin, Leah Meisterlin , Anna Kenoff

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Public Housing: A New Conversation

Edited by
Leah Meisterlin

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Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream

Edited by
Barry Bergdoll, Reinhold Martin

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The Modern Architecture Symposia, 1962–1966: A Critical Edition

Edited by
Rosemarie Haag Bletter, Joan Ockman, Nancy Ecklund Later

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The Pragmatist Imagination: Thinking About Things in the Making

Edited by
Joan Ockman

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The Project of Autonomy: Politics and Architecture Within and Against Capitalism

Author
Pier Vittorio Aureli

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Donogoo-Tonka or the Miracles of Science: A Cinematographic Tale

Author
Jules Romains

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Events

Thu, Apr 17 12pm

Site on Earth

Lecture

New York

Fri, Mar 28 5pm

Buell Dissertation Colloquium

Buell Center

New York

Thu, Dec 5, 2024 12pm

Abundance Talks: Flammable Building

Lecture

Thu, Oct 31, 2024 12pm

Abundance Talks: Invasive Building

Lecture

Fri, Sep 27, 2024 9:30am

State Effects

Conference

New York

Public Works Supercrit
November 22, 2019

Students and faculty from nine “Public Works” courses were joined by guest critics Kate Aronoff (Type Media Center), author of “With a Green New Deal, Here’s What the World Could Look Like for the Next Generation” (originally written for the Intercept and since republished on the POWER website); Francisco J. Casablanca (¿Quién Nos Representa?); Billy Fleming (McHarg Center, University of Pennsylvania); and Gabriel Hernández Solano (GND Organizer).

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