Fall 2022 public programs

This fall 2022 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. In-person events are open to Columbia University affiliates and live-streamed for the public on the GSAPP YouTube Channel. Please visit the school’s event calendar (times noted in ET) to learn more and register.

Eyal Weizman, Forensic Architecture
September 14, 6:30pm
Eyal Weizman is a professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures and founding director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London, and founder of the research agency Forensic Architecture. This lecture is co-presented by the Dean’s Office and the Computational Design Practices Program.

GSAPP Incubator Prize presentations
September 16, 1pm, Columbia University Faculty House
GSAPP Alumni Prize Recipients Mustafa Faruki, Fabrizio Furriassi, Nelson de Jesus Ubri and Luis Miguel Pizano-Andrade, Aayushi Joshi, Zarith Pineda, Parul Sharma, Adam Susaneck, Luciana Varkulja, and Cheryl Wong present work completed during the 2021-2022 awards cycle, which supported new forms of anti-racist professional practice and community engagement.

Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius, Raumlabor
September 19, 6:30pm 
Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius is a member of the collective Raumlabor and co-founder of the Floating University in Berlin.

Green Reconstruction: A Curricular Toolkit for the Built Environment
September 21, 6:30pm
This book launch, organized by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, includes a discussion among editor Reinhold Martin, Weiping Wu, Mario Gooden, and respondent Quilian Riano.

Kabage Karanja and Stella Mutegi, Cave Bureau
September 28, 6:30pm
Cave Bureau is a Nairobi-based architecture and research studio that charts explorations into architecture and urbanism within nature.

Helle Søholt, Gehl Studio
October 3, 6:30pm
Helle Søholt is a founding partner and CEO of Gehl, an urban design and research consultancy offering expertise in the fields of architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, and city planning. This lecture is co-presented by the Dean’s Office and the Urban Design Program.

Raven Chacón
October 10, 6:30pm 
Raven Chacón is a composer, performer, and installation artist from the Navajo Nation.

Emanuel Admassu, AD—WO
October 17, 6:30pm
Emanuel Admassu ’12 MSAAD ’13 AAR is an assistant professor at Columbia GSAPP and founding partner, with Jen Wood, of AD—WO. He is also a co-founding board member of the Black Reconstruction Collective. This lecture is hosted on the occasion of GSAPP’s Open House.

Yung Ho Chang, Atelier FCJZ
October 31, 6:30pm
Yung Ho Chang is the principal architect of Atelier Feichang Jianzhu (FCJZ) and a professor of the practice of architecture at MIT. 

Deserts Are Not Empty Book Launch
November 4, 1pm
This book launch, organized by Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, features a discussion with author Samia Henni. 

Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine
November 14, 6:30pm
Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine are video-artists, filmmakers, producers and publishers who experiment new narrative and cinematographic forms in relation to contemporary architecture and urban environment. 

Scenes of Subjection
November 21, 6:30pm
This discussion, organized by the Institute for Research in African-American Studies and the African American and African Diaspora Studies Department at Columbia University, includes a discussion with author Saidiya Hartman, professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. 

Sumayya Vally, Counterspace
November 28, 6:30pm
Sumayya Vally is the founder of the Johannesburg and London-based design research practice Counterspace.

During the Fall 2022 semester, The Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia GSAPP is hosting three discussions as part of its “Conversations on Architecture and Land in and out of the Americas series:

Soil, Land, Fill on October 20 at 12pm featuring a discussion among Catherine Fennell, Seth Denizen, and Linda F. Chavez Baca.
 
Architecture, Land, Ground on October 27 at 12pm featuring a discussion among Tatiana Bilbao, Michael Meredith, and Gary Leggett.
 
Building, Land, Coal on December 8 at 12pm featuring a discussion among Zeynep Çelik Alexander, Aleksandr Bierig, and Jonathan Levy.