Communication — and representation, for that matter — is a mainstay in architecture curriculums. Aside from the technical proficiency one expects to gain from this curriculum, architecture students are also encouraged to develop their integrative thinking. As such, it is no surprise that a curriculum that demands students to apply concepts to reality has earned architectural institutions the reputation of cultivating expressions and commentary of all kinds. However, there is a type of friction that arises when students direct their inquisitive nature towards the school itself. This project investigates this micro-infrastructure at Columbia University GSAPP: inside the walls of Avery Hall in a span of a few years, architecture students attempt to frame themselves within and outside of how GSAPP curates itself as a design institution. Any documentation of their efforts are often short-lived as students graduate and new students matriculate. In view of this, what agency do architects — and by extension architecture students — have in questioning the relationship between theory and practice?
