Spring 2026 program

Contributing to the unique momentum of New York City, GSAPP intensifies Avery Hall as a planetary civic engine and an epicenter for coalitions to forge alliances, transform debate into action, and anticipate change through the built environment.

This spring, GSAPP will convene around 75 of the leading voices from all around the world to think together about the ways in which fair and desirable futures can be enacted through the built environment. Bringing architects, filmmakers, activists, artists, scientists, policymakers, planners, developers, and economists into dialogue and collaboration, this spring’s public program will include:

Stan Douglas, Jacques Herzog, Zackary Drucker, Vyjayanthi Rao, Minsuk Cho, Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu, Anne Holtrop, Anthony DiMieri, Debbie Saslaw, Philippe Rahm, Emanuel Admassu, Andrea Bagnato, David Benjamin, Tega Brain, Eric Bunge, Fernanda Canales, Rachaporn Choochuey, Beatriz Colomina, Teddy Cruz, Ana María Durán Calisto, Iñaki Echeverria, Harold Fallon, Fonna Forma, Ignacio Galán, Macarena Gómez-Barris, Nu Goteh, Gökçe Günel, Jack Halberstam, Ed Halter, Laurie Hawkinson, Kent Hikida, Mimi Hoang, Steven Holl, Jong Ho Hong, Dean Andrés Jaque, Ziad Jamaleddine, Lydia Kallipoliti, Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt, Kaja Kuehl, Laura Kurgan, Giuseppe Lignano, Jing Liu, Ivan Lopez Munuera, Adam Lubinsky, Mireia Luzárraga, Robert Marino, Thom Mayne, V. Mitch McEwen, Faranak Miraftab, Ijlal Muzaffar, Amelyn Ng, Kate Orff, Alessandro Orsini, Jorge Otero-Pailos, Bart-Jan Polman, Michaeljohn Raftopoulos, Ainslee Alem Robson, Rachely Rotem, Karla Rothstein, Hilary Sample, Felicity Scott, Deen Sharp,Tom Slater, Galia Solomonoff, Marquise Stillwell, Shirley Surya, Ada Tolla, Marc Tsurumaki, Andrei Vovk, Mark Wasiuta, Mark Wigley, James Wines, Mabel Wilson, Weiping Wu, and others.

In alignment with the School’s commitment to champion New York City as an experimental architectural capital, the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery will present PEOPLE CROSS AGAINST THE LIGHT: Michael Sorkin’s New York. The exhibition, the first critical survey of his work, highlights the uniqueness of Sorkin’s designs and public engagement by showing how his tireless criticism of the hegemonies that shape the city was generative of a specific type of visionary design practice. 

After last year’s success that brought together eighteen GSAPP faculty to discuss housing and domesticity, The Kenneth Frampton Endowed Symposium will return this spring, this time by addressing urgent ecological questions around re-use, repurposing and recycling with a large group of GSAPP faculty. 

Acknowledging that the challenges GSAPP addresses are inherently transnational—and that the GSAPP ecosystem itself is globally distributed—the School is launching the World Actioning Summits: a platform for intensive, action-driven collaboration between scholars, practitioners, and activists from across the world. The inaugural summit will take place in Seoul and operate as a catalyst for collective thinking, strategic intervention, and transdisciplinary collaboration.

Please visit GSAPP’s events calendar for more information and details on spring programming. All events will be livestreamed on GSAPP’s YouTube unless otherwise noted.

Anne Holtrop (Studio Anne Holtrop)
January 26, 6:30pm
Response by Fernanda Canales (GSAPP, FERNANDA CANALES Arquitectura); Dean Andrés Jaque

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Erasure by Design: Racial Protocols of Displacement, Demolition, and Extraction
January 29, 12:30pm
V. Mitch McEwen (Princeton)
Response by Jack Halberstam (Columbia); Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt (GSAPP, CBAC)

COALITION 5: Coalition of Bacteria
On the occasion of the publication: We the Bacteria Notes Toward Biotic Architecture
February 9, 6:30pm
Beatriz Colomina (Princeton), Mark Wigley (GSAPP)
With David Benjamin (GSAPP, the Living), Dean Andrés Jaque, Lydia Kallipoliti (GSAPP), Laura Kurgan (GSAPP), moderated by Bart-Jan Polman (GSAPP)

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Deem Journal
February 13, 1pm
Nu Goteh (Room for Magic) & Marquise Stillwell (openbox)
Response by Emanuel Admassu (GSAPP, AD-WO); Mabel Wilson (GSAPP, Studio &) 

Paul S. Byard Memorial Lecture: ROTOR
February 17, 6:30pm
Organanized by Jorge Otero-Pailos (GSAPP)

Exhibition opening: PEOPLE CROSS AGAINST THE LIGHT: Michael Sorkin’s New York
February 26, 6-8pm
Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery

COALITION 6: The Michael Sorkin Symposium
February 27, 2pm
Teddy Cruz & Fonna Forma (Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman), Ana María Durán Calisto (Yale, Estudio A0), Kent Hikida (OJT), Thom Mayne (Morphosis), Bart-Jan Polman (GSAPP), Vyjayanthi Rao (GSAPP), Deen Sharp, Andrei Vovk (Ralph Appelbaum Associates), James Wines (SITE) 

Inaugural GSAPP World Actioning Summit in Seoul
March 14
With David Benjamin (GSAPP, the living), Rachaporn Choochuey ((all)zone), Minsuk Cho (Mass Studies), Jong Ho Hong (SNU), Dean Andrés Jaque (GSAPP), Lydia Kallipoliti (GSAPP), Mireia Luzárraga (GSAPP, TAKK), Bart-Jan Polman (GSAPP), Philippe Rahm (Philippe Rahm architectes), Wang Shu & Lu Wenyu (Amateur Architecture Studio), Shirley Surya (M+), Mark Wasiuta (GSAPP), Weiping Wu (GSAPP)

Open House Lecture: Steven Holl (GSAPP; Steven Holl Architects) and Mireia Luzárraga (GSAPP, TAKK)
March 23, 6:30pm
In conversation with Dean Andrés Jaque

CCCP Lecture: Stan Douglas
March 26, 12pm
Stan Douglas
Followed by a conversation with Felicity Scott (GSAPP) & Mark Wasiuta (GSAPP)

 PhD in UP Annual Lecture: Faranak Miraftab
March 30, 6:30pm
Followed by a conversation with Tom Slater (GSAPP)

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Terra Infecta: Disease and the Italian Landscape
April 3, 1pm
Andrea Bagnato 

 PhD in Architecture Symposium: On the Edge of Legibility—Architecture and its Peripheries
April 1- April 2
Keynote by Ijlal Muzaffar (RISD)

 Iñaki Echeverria
April 6, 6:30pm 
Followed by a conversation with Kate Orff (GSAPP; Climate School; SCAPE)

Planetary Media: Climate, Crisis and the Technological Imagination Symposium
April 8, 10am
With Tega Brain (NYU), Macarena Gómez-Barris (Brown University)
Gökçe Günel (Rice University), Ainslee Alem Robson (Media Artist) and others. 
Organized by Amelyn Ng (GSAPP, Friends Making Work)

COALITION 7: Of Filmmakers
Co-curated with Ivan Lopez Munuera (Bard College), as a collaboration between Columbia GSAPP and Bard College
Anthony DiMieri & Debbie Saslaw (Meltedsolids), Zackary Drucker, and Ed Halter (Bard College; Light Industry)
Moderated by Ivan Lopez Munuera (Bard College) & Bart-Jan Polman (GSAPP)
April 10, 1pm

Kenneth Frampton Endowed Symposium
On recycling, repurposing, and re-use
April 13, 6:30pm
With Emanuel Admasu (GSAPP; AD-WO), Amale Andraos (GSAPP; WorkAC), Eric Bunge and Mimi Hoang (GSAPP; nArchitects), Harold Fallon (GSAPP; AgwA), Laurie Hawkinson (GSAPP; Smith-Miller + Hawkinson), Steven Holl (GSAPP; Steven Holl Architects), Ziad Jamaleddine (GSAPP; L.E.FT), Dean Andrés Jaque (GSAPP; OFFPOLINN), Kaja Kühl (GSAPP; youarethecity), Jing Liu (GSAPP; SO-IL), Adam Lubinsky (GSAPP; WXY), Mireia Luzárraga (GSAPP; TAKK), Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano (GSAPP; LOT-EK), Bob Marino (GSAPP; Robert Marino Architects), Alessandro Orsini (GSAPP; Architensions), Jorge Otero-Pailos (GSAPP; Otero Pailos Studio), Michaeljohn Raftopoulos (GSAPP; Area Architecture Office), Rachely Rotem (GSAPP; MODU), Karla Rothstein (GSAPP; latent), Hilary Sample (GSAPP; MOS), Galia Solomonoff (GSAPP; SAS), Bernard Tschumi (GSAPP; Bernard Tschumi Architects), Marc Tsurumaki (GSAPP; LTL), and others.

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Architecture’s Kinships
April 17, 1pm
Ignacio Galán (Barnard)

John Foerster ‘64 Fund Lecture: Jacques Herzog (Herzog & deMeuron)
April 23, 6:30pm
In conversation with Dean Andrés Jaque