Spring 2025 public programs

66 speakers, 17 public events, 14 weeks

Aligned with its commitment to critically anticipate change, Columbia GSAPP will convene more than 60 of the most relevant voices from design, theory, planning, advocacy, and other fields, from all around the world to think together in New York about the ways in which fair and desirable futures can be enacted through the built environment. The speakers will include Anna Tsing, James Bridle, Thomas Heatherwick, Jack Halberstam, Andrés Jaque, Marjetica Potrč, Mabel Wilson, Marisol de la Cadena, Elizabeth Povinelli, Armin Linke, Laura Tripaldi, Liesbeth Zegveld, Paulo Tavares, Mary Miss, Bernard Tschumi, Mario Gooden, Hilary Sample, Steven Holl, Edmund Asiedu, Ricardo Flores, Ron Daniels, Ignacio G. Galán, David Gissen, Aimi Hamraie, Michael Marder, Abriannah Aiken, Kadambari Baxi, Lola Ben Alon, Jennifer Carpenter, Ignacio G. Galán, Mirea Luzárraga, Mary McLeod, Ivan Lopez Munuera, Libby Porter, Lydia Kallipoliti, Bryony Roberts, Anooradha Siddiqi, Irina Verona, Michael Bell, Anthony Clarke, Laurie Hawkinson, Juan Herreros, Eric Bunge, Rosana ElKhatib, Adam Lubinsky, Ada Tolla, Giuseppe Lignano, Alessandro Orsini, Rachely Rotem, Galia Solomonoff, Marc Tsurumaki, Kate Yeh Chiu, Jia Yi Gu, Fabrizio Gallanti, Florian Idenburg Jing Liu, Feifei Zhou, Libby Porter, David Grahame Shane.

The Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery will reopen with the show Prospecting Ocean by Armin Linke, a multimedia artistic research project that investigates the technocratic entanglement of industry, science, politics, and economics at the frontiers of ocean exploration.

Four ACTIONING SUMMITS will discuss the crucial methodological shifts in the way the disciplines of the built environment operate and collaborate with each other, around the questions of: How to think through/as more-than-human intelligence; How to bring science, spirituality and politics together (acknowledging indigenous knowledge); How to project disability forward; and How to repair.   

A collaborative event together with Feminist Spatial Practices will celebrate the diversity of ways in which feminism is practiced. GSAPP’s commitment to addressing and rethinking urgent questions around housing will manifest in the first ever Kenneth Frampton Endowed Symposium, featuring GSAPP faculty who have expertise in the construction of housing.

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. To receive updates, readings, and reminders on the ACTIONING SUMMITS please sign up using this form.

The Library is Open 14: “Event Cities 5”
Friday, January 24, 1pm
With Bernard Tschumi (GSAPP, Bernard Tschumi Architects)

ACTIONING SUMMIT 5: How to think through/as more-than-human intelligence 
Monday, January 27, 6:30pm
James Bridle, Michael Vieira Marder (UPV/EHU), Laura Tripaldi (NYU Shanghai), Anna L. Tsing (UC Santa Cruz)
With interventions by Catherine Griffiths (GSAPP), Marina Otero (GSAPP), Lindy Roy (GSAPP, Roy Projects), Anthony Vanky (GSAPP), Michael Wang (GSAPP)

The Library is Open 15: “In Depth: Urban Domesticities Today”
Friday, January 31, 1pm
With Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu (SO-IL)

Feminist Spatial Practices x GSAPP
Monday, February 3, 6:30pm
With Abriannah Aiken, Kadambari Baxi (Barnard), Black Student Alliance (GSAPP), Jennifer Carpenter (GSAPP, Verona Carpenter Architects), Rosana ElKhatib (f-architecture), Ignacio G. Galán (Barnard), Jack Halberstam (Columbia), Dean Andrés Jaque, Mary McLeod (GSAPP), Mary Miss, Ivan Lopez Munuera (Bard), Mirea Luzárraga (GSAPP, TAKK), Bryony Roberts (GSAPP), Hilary Sample (GSAPP, MOS), Anooradha Siddiqi (GSAPP), Irina Verona (GSAPP, Verona Carpenter Architects), Mabel O. Wilson (GSAPP, studio&)

Paul S. Byard Memorial Lecture: Ricardo Flores (Flores & Prats Architects)
Thursday, February 13, 6:30pm
Response by Jorge Otero-Pailos

The Library is Open 16: “Material Acts”
Friday, February 14, 1pm
With Kate Chiu (USC, yyyy-mm-dd) and Jia Yi Gu (Harvey Mudd College, Spinagu)

ACTIONING SUMMIT 6: How to bring science, spirituality and politics together (acknowledging indigenous knowledge) 
Monday, February 17, 6:30pm
With Marisol de la Cadena (UC Davis), Elizabeth A. Povinelli (Columbia Department of Anthropology)  
With interventions by Ziad Jamalledine (GSAPP, L.E.FT) and Karla Rothstein (GSAPP, Latent)

Opening reception and event: Prospecting Ocean
Thursday, February 27
Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery

John Foerster ‘64 Fund Lecture: Thomas Heatherwick (Heatherwick Studio)
Monday, March 24, 6:30pm
Response by Amelyn Ng (GSAPP) and Bart-Jan Polman (GSAPP)

Grahame Shane: Celebrating 40 Years of Pedagogy at GSAPP
Wednesday, March 26, 5pm
With David Grahame Shane (GSAPP), Kate Orff (GSAPP, Columbia Climate School, SCAPE), David Smiley (GSAPP)

ACTIONING SUMMIT 7: How to project disability forward 
Thursday, March 27, 6:30pm
This session is co-curated with Ignacio G. Galán. Edmund Asiedu (DOT), Ignacio G. Galán (Barnard College, Columbia University), David Gissen (Parsons/The New School), Aimi Hamraie (Vanderbilt). With interventions by Virginia Black (GSAPP, f-architecture) and Mario Gooden (GSAPP, Mario Gooden Architects) 

Open House Lecture: Lydia Kallipoliti (GSAPP, ANAcycle)
Monday, March 31, 6:30pm
Response by Dean Andrés Jaque

PhD in Urban Planning Lecture: Libby Porter (RMIT)
Tuesday, April 1, 6:30pm
Response by Tom Slater (GSAPP) 

The Library is Open 17: “Classroom, a Teenage View”
Friday, April 4, 1pm
With Fabrizio Gallanti (arc en rêve centre d’architecture)

ACTIONING SUMMIT 8: How to repair
Monday, April 7, 6:30pm
With Ron Daniels (NAARC), Marjetica Potrč, Paulo Tavares (autonoma, University of Brasília), Mabel Wilson (GSAPP, AAADS, studio&), and Liesbeth Zegveld (University of Amsterdam)

The Library is Open 18: “Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene: The New Nature”
Friday, April 11, 1pm
With Feifei Zhou (GSAPP)

The Kenneth Frampton Endowed Symposium
Monday, April 21, 6:30pm
With Michael Bell (GSAPP, Bell-Seong Architecture), Anthony Clarke (GSAPP, BLOXAS), Mario Gooden (GSAPP, Mario Gooden Architects), Laurie Hawkinson (GSAPP, Smith-Miller + Hawkinson), Juan Herreros (GSAPP, estudio Herreros), Eric Bunge (GSAPP, nArchitects), Steven Holl (GSAPP, Steven Holl Architects), Dean Andrés Jaque, Adam Lubinsky (GSAPP, WXY), Ada Tolla & Giuseppe Lignano (GSAPP, Lot-EK), Mireia Luzzaraga (GSAPP, TAKK), Alessandro Orsini (GSAPP, Architensions), Rachely Rotem (GSAPP, MODU), Hilary Sample (GSAPP, MOS), Galia Solomonoff (GSAPP, SAS), Bernard Tschumi (GSAPP, Bernard Tschumi Architects), Marc Tsurumaki (GSAPP, LTL)