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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... View full entry
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... View full entry
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... View full entry
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... View full entry
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... View full entry
“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.” — WWD
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... View full entry
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... View full entry
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... View full entry
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... View full entry
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... View full entry
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... View full entry
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... View full entry
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... View full entry
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... View full entry
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... View full entry
