Footnotes on Climate: A Reading List on Architecture and Climate Change

Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (Columbia GSAPP) is represented at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale through original programming and the participation of its faculty and alumni in various national pavilions and Alejandro Aravena’s main exhibition Reporting from the Front.

Book launch for Climates: Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary

The reception celebrates Climates: Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary, a print project of the Avery Review, co-published by Columbia Books on Architecture and the City and Lars Müller Publishers. The volume features contributions from over 40 authors, including Amale Andraos, Daniel Barber, Shantel Blakely, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Heather Davis, Jeanne Gang, David Gissen, Delhia Hannah, Phu Hoang, Eva Horn, Adrian Lahoud, Reinhold Martin, Jorge Otero-Pailos, Philippe Rahm, Saskia Sassen, Emily Eliza Scott, Felicity D. Scott, Catherine Seavitt, Pelin Tan, and many others. Remarks by Dean Amale Andraos and Director of Publications James Graham will be accompanied by drinks and refreshments. RSVP recommended for the launch.

Footnotes on Climate: A Reading List on Architecture and Climate Change

This installation of nearly 100 books serves as a collection of documents that asks us to consider how climate intersects with architectural ideas. Organized by Columbia GSAPP’s Publications team and the Avery Review, the entries are largely drawn from the recently published Climates: Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary, and are organized by themes that emerged in the process of editing the book: earths, political ecologies, corporealities, and enclosures. Gathered in the form of footnotes, the wide-ranging ideas and research on the histories, theories, and practices that confront the problem of climate are offered in anticipation of thoughts, conversations, and texts yet to come.

Faculty from Columbia GSAPP are participating in the 2016 Venice Biennale through events, national pavilions, and the central exhibition:
–Hilary Sample and her firm MOS are participating in The Architectural Imagination in the US Pavilion.
–Juan Herreros and his firm estudioHerreros are participating in the Spanish Pavilion exhibition Unfinished.
–Studio-X Rio Director Pedro Rivera and his firm Rua Arquitetos are participating in the Brazilian Pavilion exhibition Juntos, including Casa do Jongo by Rua Arquitetos as well as the urban intervention Ciclo Rotas do Centro, co-produced by Columbia GSAPP’s Studio-X Rio.
–Kunlé Adeyemi and his firm NLÉ will create an installation as part of Alejandro Aravena's main exhibition Reporting from the Front.
–A book launch will take place for Tabula Plena, a collaboration between Columbia GSAPP and the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, published by Lars Müller Publishers and edited by Bryony Roberts at the Nordic Pavilion, Giardini, on May 26 at 4pm.
–Columbia GSAPP faculty and alumni Lluís Alexandre Casanovas Blanco, Ignacio González Galán, Carlos Mínguez Carrasco, Alejandra Navarrete Llopis, and Marina Otero Verzier who make up the After Belonging Agency curating the 2016 Oslo Architecture Triennale, will launch the After Belonging triennale program with an event at the Nordic Pavilion, Giardini, on May 28, 2016 at 1pm.
–Yehuda Safran curated the exhibition Adolf Loos: Our Contemporary, opening at the Biblioteca Marciana on May 31 at 6pm.
–Columbia GSAPP Director of Publications James Graham presents The Avery Review at the event “P.O.P. (Published on Paper),” held at Cotonificio Auditorium, IUAV on May 25, 2016 at 3pm.

Columbia GSAPP alumni and students at the Venice Biennale include:
–Marcelo López-Dinardi and V. Mitch McEwen and their firm A(n) Office, current members of the GSAPP Incubator, are participating in the US Pavilion’s exhibition The Architectural Imagination.
–PhD candidate Manuel Shvartzberg, as co-editor of The Architecture Lobby, is presenting the book Asymmetric Labors: The Economy of Architecture in Theory and Practice at the New Zealand Exhibition, Palazzo Bollani on May 27 at 3pm. The event also includes professor Leah Meisterlin.
–Saphiya Abu Al-Maati is one of ten graduate students and recent alumni contributing to the exhibition Between East and West: a Gulf at the Kuwait National Pavilion.
–Michelle Tabet is collaborating with the architecture studio Aileen Sage to create the installation The Pool – Architecture, Culture and Identity in Australia for the Australian Pavilion, Giardini.
–Alireza Razavi and his firm Studio Razavi Architects are participating in the exhibition Time – Space – Existence, organized by the European Cultural Center and Global Art Affairs Foundation at the Palazzo Bembo, Palazzo Mora, and Palazzo Rossini, San Marco.
–Nina Valerie Kolowratnik and alumnus Johannes Pointl contributed as authors to the publication Places for People for the Austrian Pavilion, which addresses issues of refugee accommodations in Austria.