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Studio-X Global Network

Studio-X encapsulates a network of collaboration around the urgent ideas and issues facing the built environment today. As a series of laboratories for exploring the future of cities—producing events, research projects, pop-up exhibitions, and publications—Studio-X connects GSAPP faculty, students, and staff with local partners and communities across the globe. Over the past years, Studio-X has incubated conversations about the future of the built environment in Amman, Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, Istanbul, Johannesburg, Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo. It has also sparked additional partnerships with design biennials, including the Istanbul Design Biennial, São Paulo Architecture Biennial, and the Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture in Hong Kong and Shenzhen, among others.

Studio-X has had a sustained presence on GSAPP’s campus through joint projects including the event series “Architecture Practice and the City,” which invited architectural offices from two international cities to present work at GSAPP and hold a comparative discussion on the methods and challenges in their respective homes (Cape Town and Sao Paulo in 2016, Amman and Istanbul in 2017). Major academic conferences at the school, such as Architecture and Representation: The Arab City Conference (2014), Housing the Majority (2015), and Other Desires: The African City (2016), were also developed collaboratively; and in the case of the former, prompted further research that resulted in a major edited volume, The Arab City: Architecture and Representation (published by Columbia Books on Architecture and the City in 2016).

Studio-X Research Guide

The Studio-X Research Guide is curated in collaboration with the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library and Global Studies.

Details

Apr 9, 2019

Professor Felicity D. Scott, Director of the Architecture PhD Program and Co-Director of the MSCCCP Program, delivers lecture entitled "Governing Insecurities" at Studio X Amman

Mar 29, 2017

Studio-X Amman’s Janet Abu-Lughod Library seminar featured on Jadaliyya Cities

Sep 12, 2016

Expanded Metropolis on Archdaily Brazil

Jul 13, 2016

Pedro Rivera's lecture "Who Controls Brazil" at Het Nieuwe Instituut

Jul 8, 2016

Dean Amale Andraos talks about Studio-X and urgent urban issues around the world

Jun 3, 2016

Paraísos Ocupados Exhibition is on Archdaily Brazil

May 26, 2016

Ciclorotas Project is at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale

Mar 29, 2016

O Globo interview with Amale Andraos, GSAPP Dean

Mar 11, 2016

Fifth anniversary of Studio-X Rio is on Archdaily Brazil

Mar 7, 2016

Studio-X Rio Celebrates 5th Anniversary

Dec 19, 2013

MONOCLE New horizons: Columbia's Studio X lands in Istanbul.

Events

Sat, May 4, 2019 7pm

Istanbul95 Talks: Marcos “Barrao” DaSilva

Lecture

Istanbul

Wed, May 1, 2019 5pm

Istanbul95 Talks: Barry Zuckerman

Lecture

Istanbul

Tue, Apr 30, 2019 4pm

Istanbul95 Talks: Einar Jon Skulason Hansen

Lecture

Istanbul

Thu, Apr 25, 2019 7pm

Istanbul95 Talks: Hanna Wright

Lecture

Istanbul

Tue, Apr 9, 2019 5:30pm

Governing Insecurities

Lecture

Amman

Publications

Columbia Books on
Architecture and the City

Questions Concerning Health: Stress and Wellness in Johannesburg

Edited by
Hilary Sample

Purchase Paperback

X-Gram 2014

Edited by
Marina Otero Verzier, Gregory Bugel, Malwina Łyś-Dobradin, Troy Therrien

Paperback

Collecting architecture territories front

Collecting Architecture Territories Phase One Report

Author
MTWTF

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The Arab City: Architecture and Representation

Edited by
Amale Andraos, Nora Akawi

Purchase Read Online Hardcover

The Studio-X New York Guide to Liberating New Forms of Conversation

Edited by
Gavin Browning

Paperback

Dark Space: Architecture, Representation, Black Identity

Author
Mario Gooden

Purchase Read Online Paperback

Housing the Majority, Session 1 and 2

In Housing the Majority, scholars, architects, urban planners, artists, and activists gather from global cities with soaring rates of inequality—Cairo, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, New York City, Mumbai, Istanbul, and London—to define the terms of the debate. Moving beyond traditional and quantifiable definitions of informality, the panels focus on politics, representation, governance, and form as entry points to the difficult humanitarian challenges to “housing the majority.”

Up next

Housing the Majority, Session 1 and 2

Up next

Housing the Majority, Sessions 3 and 4, including Keynote Address by David Sims