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Columbia GSAPP's floating 'Cloud' installation seeks to unite a fractious campus

2024-10-24T19:08:00-04:00

Columbia GSAPP has shared details of its new student-led, temporary inflatable Cloud structure in Avery Plaza.

The installation culminates a two-semester seminar led by GSAPP faculty members Laurie Hawkinson and Galia Solomonoff.

Photo: Nicholas Knight/Columbia GSAPP

The temporary pavilion structure, which is made out of metallic foam fabricated by a Spanish manufacturer called Àrea Cúbica, "envisions a participatory experience that emphasizes the interconnectedness of peoples’ actions in shared spaces."

Photo: Nicholas Knight/Columbia GSAPP

Inside, seating is anchored by a cascading series of nets. The pavilion is 66 feet wide and suspended by 25 cables, emerging from a fourth-floor classroom window. Columbia says its appearance works to reframe "the relationship between Avery Hall and Avery Plaza, questioning notions of connectivity between interior and exterior spaces" while also "challenging boundaries of conditioned space."

Photo: Nicholas Knight/Columbia GSAPP

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Lydia Kallipoliti named Columbia GSAPP's new Advanced Architectural Design program director

2024-07-29T19:49:00-04:00

Columbia GSAPP has appointed architect, engineer, and academic Lydia Kallipoliti as the new director of its Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design program. She joins the Morningside Heights campus from the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union, where she has been working as an Associate Professor and Senior Associate at the Institute for Sustainable Design.

Kallipoliti, a noted ecological design expert known for her distinctive “immersive scholarship” approach, will also teach students as a tenured Associate Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation beginning in the Fall of 2024. She recently served as Head Co-Curator (with Areti Markopoulou) of the 2022 Tallinn Architecture Biennale and taught previously at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Syracuse University, the University of Technology Sydney, and her alma mater Princeton in addition to leading the New York-based ANAcycle design+writing studio.

The Architectural League of New York appoints Jacob R. Moore as its new Executive Director

2023-06-15T11:49:00-04:00

The Architectural League of New York has named Jacob R. Moore as its next Executive Director, following a thorough national search. Moore succeeds Rosalie Genevro, who announced her decision to step down last year after leading the organization for nearly 40 years.

“Jacob brings tremendous passion and a deep knowledge of the most important forces and issues impacting the built environment today,” said Mario Gooden, President of The League’s board of directors. “His vision for the future of The League and his commitment to equity, spatial justice, and the environment make him the ideal person to shape our next chapter.”

Moore will assume the position after most recently serving as the Associate Director of the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University’s GSAPP. While at the Buell Center, he led the design, development, and execution of a range of public programs with a focus on the built environment, climate change, and social justice. S...

Columbia GSAPP seeks a Director of Making Studio to lead their digital fabrication activities

2023-06-07T12:40:00-04:00

Following last week’s look at an opening for an Intermediate Architectural Designer at Seed the North, we are using this week’s edition of our Job Highlights series to explore an open role on Archinect Jobs for the Director of Making Studio at Columbia University.

Reporting to the Dean of Columbia GSAPP, the role calls for an individual who will promote the GSAPP’s pedagogy and student engagement in digital fabrication. Among the responsibilities for the role are to “manage fabrication activities from small-scale massing models to full-scale building details” in the school’s Fabrication Shop, to guide and advise students on project execution in the shop, and to oversee student use of a wide variety of materials including wood, plastic, and metal.

Why the role interests us

The open role at Columbia GSAPP offers us the opportunity to look back at some of the recent develop...

Columbia GSAPP establishes new James Stewart Polshek Scholarship in honor of its former Dean

2023-02-01T13:31:00-05:00

Former Columbia GSAPP dean James Stewart Polshek has been posthumously honored with a new endowed scholarship in recognition of the commitment to design excellence and social causes he embodied while helming the school for fifteen years.

The Ennead founder passed away in September and was subsequently remembered with a foundational gift of $125,000 from the firm that was meant to keep alive his enduring legacy as both an architect and educator. The new $350,000 total fund will thus be given in perpetuity to an M.Arch student in their final year of study whose work demonstrates the intellectual rigor and social concern Polshek strove for beginning with his appointment in 1972.

During his tenure in Morningside, Polshek was instrumental in adding degree programs in planning and preservation to the then-named School of Architecture. He also helped to establish the...

Architect Amale Andraos debuts first-ever jewelry collection for Judith Ripka

2022-12-19T19:00:00-05:00

“The challenge was adjusting to the scale,” Andraos said. “When I first started sketching, the pieces were much bigger. I remember the reaction — the team was very excited about the ideas but I wasn’t computing the budget,” adding that the process of design is “always the same across scales, but this experience was very different because the scale of jewelry and the way it relates to the body is so precise.”

Andraos, who stepped down as Dean of Columbia's GSAPP last May, told WWD that her inspiration to make jewelry for the first time came from her hometown of Beirut’s Art Deco tradition. Other architects like Elena Manferdini and Rossana Hu have contributed designs for the Judith Ripka brand. Pieces from Andraos’ new Ayah Collection retail for between $550 and $1,995. The WORKac co-founder will now rejoin the faculty in Morningside Heights in September after a yearlong sabbatical.

Related Feature Interview on Archinect: Deans List: Amale Andraos of Columbia University's GSAPP

“If you look at Amale’s body of work, she is known for asymmetry. Most people prefer symmetry in jewelry so it was an interesting challenge for us to wrap our heads around Amale’s aesthetic and make it work in jewelry,” CEO and GSAPP alumnus Robert D’Loren of Xcel Brands, Ripka’s parent company, added. “There are several finishes on the metal work, from shiny to matte which creates this remarkable sense of balance...

Columbia GSAPP appoints Weiping Wu and Mario Gooden to interim leadership roles as Dean Amale Andraos' tenure draws to a close

2021-11-10T18:07:00-05:00

A restructuring at the top of Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning (GSAPP) has been announced to coincide with the end of outgoing dean Amale Andraos' tenure.

Weiping Wu will now serve as GSAPP’s interim dean, while Mario Gooden is the new interim M.Arch graduate program director, replacing Andraos.

Wu was previously the director of the M.S. and Ph.D. in Urban Planning programs and brings to her new position more than twenty years of academic and professional experience. Prior to joining the GSAPP faculty in 2016, Wu served as Chair of the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University.

Her research has been focused on the urbanization of developing countries and China in particular. She has published several books and is the current president of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP), which represents a consortium of educational institutions that offer credentials in urban and regional planning....

Mabel O. Wilson to receive National Building Museum’s Vincent Scully Prize

2021-10-05T19:43:00-04:00

Architect, critic, cultural historian, and current Columbia GSAPP faculty member Mabel O. Wilson has been named as this year’s winner of the National Building Museum’s prestigious annual Vincent Scully Prize recognizing “excellence in practice, scholarship, or criticism in architecture, historic preservation, and urban design.”

The award, named after the late architecture historian, has been given out every year since 1999 and will now honor Wilson as its 23rd recipient. Wilson joins a list of past winners that includes fellow writers Jane Jacobs and Paul Goldberger as well as other important voices like the architect Phyliss Lambert and television commentator Charlie Rose.

The author of Negro Building: Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums and the co-curator of a recent well-received MoMA exhibition, Wilson has steadily made a name for herself through her writing, research, and other creative projects including the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virg...

Amale Andraos steps down as Dean of Columbia GSAPP

2021-05-20T16:10:00-04:00

Today, academic and architectural practitioner Amale Andraos announces her decision to step down as Dean of Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. After succeeding Mark Wigley as Dean in 2014, Andraos has dedicated her time towards serving and improving the GSAPP community. During her seven-year tenure, she also ran her practice WORKac along with her husband, Dan Wood.

Keen on strengthening the institution's connectivity to the city and fostering interdisciplinary collaborations between GSAPP and other disciplines, Andraos' continued involvement with the university will continue. In her open letter to the community, she notes that she will continue to serve the GSAPP community as a Special Advisor to the President. "Climate Change is one of the main reasons I accepted to serve as Dean seven years ago [...] I will be able to continue to advocate for our disciplines' urgent transformations so that they may help address the challenges already...

Winners of the ACSA and Buell Center 2021 Course Development Prize include University of Houston, UH Manoa, & Woodbury University

2021-01-25T13:22:00-05:00

Now in its third edition, the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University announce the winners of this year's 2021 Course Development Prize in Architecture, Climate Change, and Society.

The jury selected five courses "that seek the kind of realism that redefines problems and leaves room for imagination. The courses will reach out to neighbors to cultivate skills fostering a more resilient society." $50,000 in prize money will be split amongst each winner. In addition to funding, each course will receive support to lead their course at their host institution within the next two years.

ACSA and the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University have announced the winning entries of the 2021 Course Development Prize in Architecture, Climate Change, and Society. Image courtesy of Buell Center / ASCA.

2021 winners are:

GULF: ARCHITECTURE, E...

Get Lectured: Columbia GSAPP, Spring '21

2021-01-12T16:16:00-05:00

As we enter the Spring term, schools begin to roll out their events and lecture series. For most schools, much of their Fall and Winter lecture programming was spent adjusting and addressing current events happening across the nation. This year schools have taken what they've learned from last year's challenging months and present a new set of public talks from impactful voices.

Archinect's ongoing Get Lectured series features each school's lectured series and their graphic design prowess with eye-catching lecture posters.

With many schools holding virtual events, distance is no longer an issue when it comes to hearing from design professionals and academics within the industry. Check back regularly to keep track of upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

From January through March Columbia GSAPP ...

GSAPP establishes $1 million Norma Merrick Sklarek Scholars Fund to support DEI in graduate study

2020-10-29T12:54:00-04:00

Dean Amale Andraos announced this month that GSAPP will commit $1 million to establish the Norma Merrick Sklarek '50 B.Arch Scholars Fund, intended to promote diversity, inclusion, and equity towards access for graduate study.

Sklarek was the first Black woman to become a registered architect in the State of New York. After graduating from Columbia University, she worked at the Department of Works for New York City and later accepted a position at SOM before moving to Los Angeles for a position at Gruen Associates.

While at Gruen, Sklarek was named the firm's Director in 1966 before transitioning to work at Welton Becket's firm as the organization's Vice President. Moreover, Sklarek became the first Black woman to receive a fellowship by the AIA in 1980 after which she founded Siegel, Sklarek, Diamond with Margot Siegal and Katherine Diamond.

According to Columbia University, "the Norma Merrick Sklarek ’50 B.Arch Scholars Fund will be used over the next three academic years to suppo...

Get Lectured: Columbia University, Fall '20

2020-10-26T14:59:00-04:00

Columbia GSAPP's public events and lecture series covers an array of topical issues that focus on architecture and its involvement in race, social justice, politics, and climate change.

Archinect's ongoing Get Lectured series features each school's lecture series and their graphic design prowess with graphic lecture posters.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Starting in September, GSAPP welcomed Stephen Burks, Bryan C. Lee Jr., Yasmeen Lari, and Lola Ben-Alon. Discussions on Site and History: On the Question of Repair and The Preservation of Disability dove into conversations moderated by Galia Solomonoff and David Gissen. Also during the month of September was GSAPP's symposium that focused on the recent book launch Race and Modern Architecture: A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present, published by the University Pittsburgh Press and edited by Mabel O. Wilson, Irene Cheg, and Charle...

Mabel O. Wilson receives UVA's Distinguished Alumni award

2020-07-24T20:46:00-04:00

Architect, historian, and educator Mabel O. Wilson has been named as the 2020 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient by the University of Virginia (UVA) School of Architecture.

Wilson graduated from UVA with a Bachelor of Science in Architecture in 1985, and has been selected to receive the prestigious award among other "exceptional graduates from the School of Architecture who have demonstrated creativity, innovation, leadership, and vision through their distinguished body of work, within the professional, academic, civic, or artistic realms, as well as their service to the University of Virginia," according to the school's website.

Professor Wilson is the Nancy and George E. Rupp Professor of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation and Professor of African American and African Diasporic Studies at Columbia University. She also serves as the Director of the Institute for the Research in African American Studies, the Director of Graduate Studies for the African American and African...

Black Columbia GSAPP faculty and students push school for comprehensive reforms

2020-06-30T18:54:00-04:00

A growing chorus of Black students and faculty members at prestigious universities across the country are pushing for substantive change with regards to the persistent lack of diversity and representation within these institutions.

Two weeks ago, following a blistering letter from the African American Student Union and AfricaGSD student groups at Harvard University, Harvard Graduate School of Design Dean Sarah Whiting published a list of initiatives the school would undertake in coming months to begin to address these concerns. Students at Yale, Rice University, and many other schools have also published open letters imploring school administrators to take basic, concrete steps toward incorporating and valuing the work, scholarly contributions, and perspectives of Black students, faculty, critics, and academics.

This week, Black students and faculty at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP) published separate statements arguing ...

ACSA and Temple Buell Center announce $50,000 in prize money to support climate change coursework

2020-02-28T18:50:00-05:00

The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University have announced the winning entries of the 2020 Course Development Prize in Architecture, Climate Change, and Society.

The competition, launched in 2019, aims to bring $50,000 in funding to five university teams that are each tackling a different facet of the climate crisis through cross-disciplinary research that proposes "methods and themes that innovate within their institutional setting" while also "asking hard questions of students that are equal in weight to the hard questions being asked of society as it grapples with the intertwined causes and effects of climate change."

According to the organizers, the prizes seek to find a middle ground between the expansive creative capabilities of design education and the more focused, practical realities of professional practice that sometimes complicate the application of design i...

Get Lectured: Columbia GSAPP, Spring '20

2020-02-10T15:46:00-05:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Winter/Spring 2020

A new school term means it's time for Archinect's latest edition of Get Lectured, an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back regularly to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

For their Spring '20 event series, Columbia GSAPP kicked off with lectures by Bjarke Ingels and Jesse Reiser. Upcoming speakers include Carme Pinós, Emre Arolat & Gonca Pasolar, Sophie Hochhäusl, Marc Norman, Tatiana Bilbao, Anna Puigjaner, Andrea Fraser, Amanda Levete, and Toshiko Mori.

Poster courtesy of Columbia GSAPP.

Other events include discussions like “Stone Men”, “Global Circuit: Biennials & Triennials”, “Frontiers in the Oceanic Anthropocene”, and “Nervous Systems” (which explores the intersection of neuroscience ...

Four university architecture exhibitions to kick off 2020

2020-01-10T17:00:00-05:00

With the new year (and new semester) just getting under way, now is as good a time as any to take in a good architecture exhibition.

We have collected a few of the most interesting exhibitions currently (or soon-to-be) on view at four university campuses across the country, highlighting curatorial efforts by firms that include NEMESTUDIO and Architecture Office. Model-lovers will find much to love about the exhibitions developed by these two firms, while the other two highlighted exhibitions focus on environmental and urban planning initiatives.

Remember, the Spring semester moves fast, however, so don't wait to check these exhibitions out!

Installation photo from 74 Things by NEMESTUDIO at the Knowlton School of Architecture. Image courtesy of Philip Arnold / The Ohio State Knowlton School of Architecture.

Knowlton School of Architecture

74 Things by NEMESTUDIO

San Francisco Bay Area-based practice NEMESTUDIO is presenting 74 Things, an exhibition that positions the Knowlton Hall Banv...

GSAPP launches interdisciplinary affordable housing lab

2019-09-16T14:15:00-04:00

The Columbia University Gradate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation has launched a new interdisciplinary research initiative called the Columbia GSAPP Housing Lab. The lab is to be led by GSAPP dean Amale Andraos.

Architect and GSAPP associate professor Hilary Sample has also been named to the school’s first endowed professorship position. GSAPP's new IDC Foundation Professorship of Housing Design is made possible by a $2 million donation from the Institute of Design and Construction Foundation, a group that "provides grants to educational institutions in Greater New York City to advance research and the training of students in fields relating to architectural design, engineering, and building construction," according to the IDC website.

Sample has led the school's housing design curriculum since 2011, including the school’s impressive housing studio, and is a co-founder of architecture firm MOS. MOS recently masterplanned an experimental housing community in Mexico th...

UPenn and The Architecture Lobby to livestream "Designing a Green New Deal" symposium

2019-09-12T07:00:00-04:00

This Friday, the University of Pennsylvania will hold Designing a Green New Deal, a day-long symposium aimed at articulating a design perspective for "a still-abstract set of proposals for decarbonizing the economy, eliminating poverty, creating green, working-class jobs, and retrofitting communities for the coming effects of climate change."

The day-long event features a series of panel discussions made up of some of the leading voices in the climate, sustainability, labor, and design communities, including Peggy Deamer of The Architecture Lobby, landscape architect Kate Orff of SCAPE, and Billy Fleming, director of UPenn's Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism + Ecology.

A description for the event, which will be livestreamed below, says, "Domestically, a Green New Deal would constitute a generational investment in planning and design, reshaping the social and physical landscape of the U.S. in ways matched only by the Industrial Revolution, New Deal, and postwar suburban boom. But th...

Get Lectured: Columbia GSAPP, Fall '19

2019-08-23T15:00:00-04:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Fall 2019

With a new school year upon us yet again, it's time for Archinect's latest edition of Get Lectured, an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back regularly to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

For their Fall '19 events, Columbia GSAPP will host a series of lectures, discussions, book launches, and more. The series starts off on September 6 with the conversation, “Building Cultures: Making in Nairobi, Lagos, Accra, and Johannesburg”. The speaker lineup also includes Shohei Shigematsu, Marina Tabassum for the Kenneth Frampton Endowed Lecture, Paola Antonelli, Henry Cobb, David Adjaye, Richard Sennett, Elizabeth Diller, and Emanuel Christ, to name a few.

Check out previous posters on the Get Lectured Pinte...

Get Lectured: Columbia GSAPP, Fall '18

2018-09-10T19:30:00-04:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Fall 2018

With a new school year upon us, it's time for Archinect's latest Get Lectured, an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back regularly to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Columbia GSAPP is inviting everyone to their lectures, conferences, exhibition, and special events for the Fall '18 semester. Listen in on discussions about topics like housing, the environment, questions on the role of power and infrastructure in response to Hurricane Maria, to name a few.

Upcoming speakers include Felecia Davis, Kennedy + Violich Architecture, Neri+Hu, David Benjamin, LA-Más, Mark Wigley, and more.

Check out previous posters on the Get Lectured Pinterest page!

Want another way to share your school's events? Send th...

New Museum appoints V. Mitch McEwen as curator of IdeasCity initiative

2018-07-24T18:04:00-04:00

The New Museum announced today the appointment of V. Mitch McEwen as Curator of IdeasCity, the museum's initiative exploring the future of cities. McEwen is the principal and cofounder of A(n) Office, a collaborative of design studios in Detroit and New York exploring the intersection of architecture and exhibition.

IdeasCity is a creative and collaborative enterprise operating through conferences, workshops, commissions, projects, and exhibitions in order to investigate key issues and proposes solutions. The Curator is a two-year appointment linked to the biennial presentation of IdeasCity in New York and is responsible for the two-year cycle leading up to this presentation.

As Curator of IdeasCity, McEwen will head up the 2018–19 cities and launch an open call for cities around the world to apply for the 2020–21 cycle. The next IdeasCity will take place in Toronto on September 15, 2018, in partnership with the Bentway.

Since 2017, McEwen has been Assistant Professor at Princeto...

Andrés Jaque appointed as Columbia GSAPP's new Director of Advanced Architectural Design Program

2018-05-23T14:11:00-04:00

Columbia GSAPP Dean Amale Andraos announced today that Andrés Jaque will be the new director of the school's Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design program, effective June 1, 2018. As founder of the Office for Political of Innovation and a teacher of advanced design studios at GSAPP since 2013, Jaque will succeed Associate Professor Enrique Walker, who has directed the program since 2008.

The three-semester Advanced Architectural Design program is for outstanding students who already have a bachelor's or M.Arch degree, and is best known for offering students a framework through which they can explore professional and academic concerns. In directing the program, Jaque aims to further develop architecture's role as a critical practice that is based on constructive debate of ideas and innovative experimentation.

“More than ever, architecture is now a key player in the challenges the world faces. The AAD program occupies a unique position from which the relevance of architec...

Get Lectured: Columbia GSAPP, Spring '18

2018-01-18T14:44:00-05:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Winter/Spring 2018

Archinect's Get Lectured is an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back regularly to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Columbia GSAPP's jam-packed Spring '18 lecture series kicks off next Monday with a lecture by Rozana Montiel, who won the 2017 Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture. Other speakers include Jürgen Mayer H, Keller Easterling, Andrés Jaque, Philip Yuan, T+E+A+M, and more.

Here's a selection of upcoming lectures, conferences, and exhibitions.

LECTURES

Jan 22, 6:30pm
Rozana Montiel
Response by Amale Andraos

Jan 29, 6:30pm
T+E+A+M: Thom Moran, Ellie Abrons, Adam Fure, and Meredith Miller
Response by Ada Tolla

Feb 5, 6:30pm
AGENdA: Camilo Restrepo Ochoa
Response by Enrique Wal...

Columbia GSAPP launches the nation's first Ph.D in Historic Preservation

2018-01-16T15:32:00-05:00

The Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (Columbia GSAPP) announced today that it will be launching a new Ph.D. Program in Historic Preservation—the first of its kind in the U.S. GSAPP has been a leader in the field of preservation education since it established the first Master in Historic Preservation program back in 1964. The introduction of the new program will set the standard for doctoral level education, provide intellectual leadership by training future generations of preservation scholars, and expand the discipline’s range.

"The Ph.D. in Historic Preservation recognizes the fact that the profession has matured into a vibrant discipline, with a specific body of theoretical and practical knowledge on how to learn from and intervene in historic buildings, cities and landscapes, such that they not only retain their values as historical documents but also serve as resources for designing the future" the school said in their announcement....

Get Lectured: Columbia GSAPP, Fall '17

2017-09-06T15:18:00-04:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Fall 2017

Ready or not, the start of the new school year is coming up. Back for Fall 2017 is Archinect's Get Lectured, an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back regularly to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Columbia University GSAPP has a packed schedule of events for Fall 2017, including lectures, conferences, exhibitions, and more.

LECTURES

Sept 11, 6:30pm
Lacaton & Vassal: Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal
Response by Amale Andraos

Columbia GSAPP at the Chicago Architecture Biennial
Sept 15, 1-4pm
Making Books Now
at Chicago Cultural Center

Sept 18, 6:30pm
URBANUS: Meng Yan
Response by Adam Frampton

Sept 25, 6:30pm
Ensamble: Antón García-Abril and Débora Mesa
Response by Mimi Hoang

Oct 2, 6:30pm
Rosanne Hagger...

GSAPP displays unusual + intriguing photographs of famed architectural models with "Stagecraft: Models and Photos"

2017-02-02T18:31:00-05:00

Photographer James Ewing was given a studio and several weeks to creatively photograph architectural models made by students of the Columbia GSAPP between 1994 and 2003. The resulting work will form a show, "Stagecraft: Models and Photos," that opens at the GSAPP on February 9th.

Featuring photographs of models of structures such as Le Corbusier's Pavillon des Temps Nouveaux, Norman Foster's Renault Distribution Center, and Peter Zumthor's Saint Benedict Chapel among others, the photographs avoid the atmosphere of your typical two-in-the-morning-on-a-work-day professional studio snaps, instead investing each of these models with unusual drama.

Because the models and the photographer are so removed from the original architectural design process, the work is necessarily interpretive. These are miniature echo chambers of history, models of models of structures some of these students undoubtedly visited in real life, photographed against occasionally surreal backdrops.

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Get Lectured: Columbia GSAPP, Spring '17

2017-01-18T17:19:00-05:00

Archinect's Get Lectured is back in session for Winter and Spring 2017. Get Lectured is an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back frequently to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss. Mark those calendars!

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

The Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation kicks off their Spring 2017 events with lectures, exhibitions, a symposium, book launches, and discussions — including a timely series called “The First 100 Days”. Starting January 20, the series will provide opportunities for students and faculty to discuss, organize, and plan for the changes to come during the Trump administration.

Unless noted*, lectures take place on Mondays at 6:30 p.m. in Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall.

Jan 20*, 1 p.m. at Ware Lounge, Avery Hall
The First 100 Days: ...

Columbia GSAPP and the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library host a collection of 20,000 images of 20th century architecture projects

2016-09-13T13:35:00-04:00

Are you looking for design inspiration for a new project? Historical references to bolster your design proposal? The Columbia GSAPP Visual Resources Collection (VRC) and the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library host an online collection of 20,000 images of 20th century architectural projects. Underway for nearly two years now, the project includes drawings, images and photographs, primarily of modernist projects spanning from 1871 to 2013.

Unbuilt projects, like the Chicago Tribune Tower and the Lenin Library, are showcase alongside a collection of built projects. In total, the archive includes 1,000 projects from 55 countries. The project was curated by Ayesha Ghosh, who was assisted by Carsten Rodin and James Brillon.

The archive has a Plans and Sections project alongside collections of digital images, 35mm slides, and lantern slide formats. There’s also VHS and DVD recording of over twenty years of lectures hosted by GSAPP. Unfortunately, you’ll need a Columbia email to access...