This fall 2021 semester, Columbia GSAPP’s public programming builds on the School’s ongoing exploration into issues such as climate change, social equity, as well as the impact of data and technology on the built environment through new forms of practices and collaboration across scales, modes of engagement, and geographies. All events will be hybrid: Columbia University affiliates with a green pass may attend in-person, and the general public may join via webinar. The programming is free and open to the public. Please visit the School’s event calendar (times noted in ET) to learn more and register.
Jason Pugh and Pascale Sablan: “Leading with the Future”
September 20, 6pm
National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) President Jason Pugh ’06 MSAUD and President-elect Pascale Sablan ’07 MSAAD will present their work as designers and activists, followed by a conversation with 2019–20 NOMA President Kimberly Dowdell. Amale Andraos, Dean of GSAPP, will introduce the speakers.
Charles L. Davis II: “Building Character”
September 22, 6pm
Charles L. Davis II is Assistant Professor of architectural history and criticism at SUNY Buffalo, and author of Building Character: The Racial Politics of Modern Architectural Style (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019). Davis will be joined in conversation by Reinhold Martin, Professor at GSAPP.
Women in Practice (WIP) Collaborative: “Work in Progress”
September 24, 1pm
A discussion among WIP Collaborative members Abby Coover; Bryony Roberts, Adjunct Assistant Professor at GSAPP; Elsa Ponse; Lindsey Harkema; Ryan Brooke Thomas; Sera Ghadaki; and Sonya Simon on the process of forming a collaborative partnership and models available to small female-led practices.
Wanda Dalla Costa: “Pluriverse Rising: Decolonizing Design”
September 27, 6pm
Wanda Dalla Costa, AIA, LEED A.P. holds a joint position at Arizona State University between The Design School as Institute Professor where she directs the Indigenous Design Collaborative, and the School of Construction as Associate Professor. Dalla Costa will be joined in conversation by Lola Ben-Alon, Assistant Professor at GSAPP.
Mariam Kamara: “atelier masōmī”
October 4, 12pm
Mariam Kamara is Founder of the Niamey, Niger-based architecture and design practice atelier masōmī. Kamara will be joined in conversation by Mario Gooden ’90 MArch, Associate Professor at GSAPP. This lecture is made possible by the John Foerster ’64 Fund.
“Beirut: From Emergency Patchwork to the Long Term”
October 8, 1pm
Organized by the GSAPP Collective for Beirut in collaboration with Richard Plunz, Professor at GSAPP, and Victor Body-Lawson, Adjunct Associate Professor at GSAPP.
Boonserm Premthada: “Non-Human Centered Architecture”
October 11, 6pm
Boonserm Premthada is Founder of the architecture practice Bangkok Project Studio and Assistant Professor at Chulalongkorn University. Premthada will be joined in conversation by Andrés Jaque, Associate Professor of Professional Practice and Director of the M.S. in Advanced Architectural Design program at GSAPP.
Kate Aronoff: “Overheated”
October 14, 6:30pm
Kate Aronoff is a Brooklyn-based journalist covering American politics and climate change and Staff Writer at The New Republic. Aronoff will be joined in conversation by Alyssa Battisoni, Assistant Professor at Barnard College; Kian Goh, Assistant Professor at UCLA; Patrick Houston, Climate and Inequality Campaigns Associate at New York Communities for Change; and Reinhold Martin, Professor at GSAPP and Director of the Buell Center. Organized by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture.
“Brownsville: Building in Place”
October 15, 1pm
Genese Morgan is a Chairperson of the Brooklyn Community Board 16 and Taurean C. Lewis is a Community Engagement Specialist at Brownsville Partnership Inc. Together with additional guests, they will participate in a conversation moderated by Ifeoma Ebo, Adjunct Associate Professor at GSAPP and member of the Blackspace Urbanist Collective.
Maria Charneco, Alfredo Léridainc, Guillermo López, Anna Puigjaner: “MAIO”
October 18, 6pm
MAIO is a Barcelona- and New York City-based architecture practice co-founded by Maria Charneco, Alfredo Léridainc, Guillermo López, and Anna Puigjaner, Associate Professor of Professional Practice at GSAPP. López and Puigjaner will present MAIO's work, followed by a conversation among the co-founders together with Amale Andraos, Dean of GSAPP. The event will be hosted on the occasion of the School's Open House.
Teresa Caldeira: “Youth, Gender, and New Formations of Collective Life in São Paulo's Peripheries”
October 25, 6pm
Teresa Caldeira is Professor of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley. Her research explores the predicaments of urbanization, such as spatial segregation, social discrimination, and the uses of public space in cities of the global south. Caldeira will be joined in conversation by Weiping Wu, Professor and Director of the Ph.D. and M.S. in Urban Planning program at GSAPP.
Wonne Ickx: “Unadapted”
November 3, 6pm
Wonne Ickx is a Co-founder of the Mexico City-based architecture studio, PRODUCTORA, with Abel Perles, Carlos Bedoya, and Victor Jaime. Ickx will be joined in conversation with Hilary Sample, IDC Professor of Housing Design at GSAPP. This lecture is hosted as part of the Kenneth Frampton Endowed Lecture series.
Elias Anastas and Yousef Anastas: “Generic Specificities”
November 8, 12pm
Elias Anastas and Yousef Anastas are Co-founders of the Bethlehem- and Paris-based Palestinian architectural and engineering practice AAU Anastas. They will be joined in conversation by Ziad Jamaleddine, Assistant Professor at GSAPP.
Suzi Hall, Huda Tayob, and Thandi Loewenson: “Race, Space, and Architecture: Reflections on a Curriculum”
November 10, 6pm
Suzi Hall, Associate Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science; Huda Tayob, History and Theory Program Convener at the University of Johannesburg; and Thandi Loewenson, Tutor at the Royal College of Art will discuss the open-access curriculum Race, Space, & Architecture. They will be joined in conversation by Emanuel Admassu ’12 MSAAD ’13 AAR, Assistant Professor at GSAPP.
Brigitte Shim: “Crafting Place”
November 15, 6pm
Brigitte Shim is a Professor at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto and Principal at Shim-Sutcliffe Architects. Shim will be joined in conversation by Eric Bunge, Adjunct Associate Professor at GSAPP.
Amale Andraos: “T.B.D.”
November 22, 6pm
Amale Andraos is the Dean of Columbia GSAPP and co-founder of New York-based architecture firm WORKac. As she concludes her Deanship, Andraos will reflect on what might and could lie ahead for architecture and the built environment as we enter a world of intensifying and entangled crises, serendipitous moments, and opportunities.
