Fall 2018 semester public programs

The fall 2018 semester at Columbia GSAPP includes a full schedule of lectures, conferences, and special events that play an integral role in fulfilling the school’s commitment to fostering a lively community of intellectual generosity and the open exchange of ideas. Following is a selection of the semester’s highlights; please visit the website event calendar to see the full schedule. All activities are free and open to the public.

“Excerpts: A Bookish Party”
September 20, 7pm, Powerhouse Arena, 28 Adams St, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Join us for a night of drinks, snacks (discursive and real), and books to celebrate Columbia Books on Architecture and the City. Past publications and fall 2018 releases will be available including  including A House Is Not Just a House by Tatiana Bilbao with additional texts by Amale Andraos, Gabriela Etchegaray, Hilary Sample, and Ivonne Santoyo-Orozco, and The Ordinary by Enrique Walker in conversation with Denise Scott Brown, Rem Koolhaas, and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto.

Model Projections
September 27–December 15, 2018, Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, Buell Hall
This exhibition investigates the complex pathways between architecture and its representations through an examination of the practice of model making. Drawing primarily upon the special collections of the Department of Drawings and Archives at Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, the exhibition focuses on an ecosystem of architectural model making during the mid-twentieth century. 

“It’s Simple: Histories of Architecture and/for the Environment”
October 19, 1pm, Room 114, Avery Hall
As a part of the Canadian Centre for Architecture’s ongoing research project “Architecture and/for the Environment”and in conjunction with the Buell Center’s “Power: Infrastructure in America” initiative, this afternoon event will offer new directions and agendas for environmental histories of architecture that combine a planetary perspective with an assertion that national centers of power, particularly those in the United States, continue to hold outsize influence and responsibility. Speakers include: Daniel Barber (‘10 Ph.D. Arch), Aleksandr Bierig, Nerea Calvillo (‘02 MSAAD), Jiat-Hwee Chang, Isabelle Doucet, Hannah le Roux, Kiel Moe, and Paulo Tavares. Response by Kim Förster and Meredith TenHoor. Moderated by Reinhold Martin.

“Unnatural Disaster: Infrastructure in Puerto Rico before, during, and after Hurricane Maria”
November 9, 1pm, Room 114, Avery Hall 
Co-organized by Columbia GSAPP Urban Planning, Urban Design, and Historic Preservation Programs, the Center for Spatial Research, and the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, in conjunction with the Buell Center’s “Power: Infrastructure in America” research initiative. Participants include Ivis Garcia Zambrana, Marcelo López-Dinardi (’13 MSCCP), Mark Martin Bras, Andrés Mignucci, Frances Negrón-Muntaner, and Ingrid Olivo in conversation with Hiba Bou Akar and Monxo López.

“Acts of Design: New Housing Paradigms in North America” 
November 16, 9:30am
This day-long conference will assess the current state of housing in North America through a combination of case-studies and expanded thematic discussions among architects, academics, and advocates. Participants include: Jorge Ambrosi, Michael Bell, Tatiana Bilbao, David Brody, Fernanda Canales, Gabriela Etchegaray, Adam Frampton, Simon Hartmann, Hans Ibelings, Lisa Chun Lee, Reinhold Martin, Marc Norman, Anna Puigjaner, Lorcan O’Herlihy, and Brigitte Shim. Organized by Hilary Sample.

Lecture Series
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall

Evan Sharp
September 7, 6:30pm​

Felecia Davis
September 13, 6:30pm

amid.cero9
September 17, 6:30pm

Architecten de Vylder Vinck Taillieu
September 24, 6:30pm

Kennedy & Violich Architecture
October 1, 6:30pm

Neri & Hu
October 8, 6:30pm

Gaetano Pesce
October 15, 6:30pm

David Benjamin
October 22, 6:30pm

Kenneth Frampton Endowed Lecture Series: Kongjian Yu
October 29, 6:30pm

LA-Más
November 8, 6:30pm

Mark Wigley
November 12, 6:30pm