Mapping Malcolm
Edited by Najha Zigbi-Johnson

Into the Quiet and the Light: Water, Life, and Land Loss in South Louisiana
by Virginia Hanusik

Aeropolis: Queering Air in Toxicpolluted Worlds
by Nerea Calvillo

Deserts Are Not Empty
Edited by Samia Henni

Not What I Meant But Anyway
Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen

Art after Liberalism
by Nicholas Gamso

Preservation, Sustainability, and Equity
edited by Erica Avrami

Nights of the Dispossessed: Riots Unbound
edited by Natasha Ginwala, Gal Kirn, and Niloufar Tajeri

Paths to Prison: On the Architectures of Carcerality
edited by Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt

Proxemics and the Architecture of Social Interaction
by Larry D. Busbea

Superpowers of Scale
by Andrés Jaque

Everlasting Plastics
Edited by Tizziana Baldenebro, Lauren Leving, Joanna Joseph, and Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt
How can we live without plastics? But, also, how can we live without plastics? These two questions, which index a different set of urgent concerns, haunt Everlasting Plastics. Exploring the infinite ways in which plastics permeate our bodies and our world, the book offers intimate and political accounts of our fraught yet enmeshed kinship with these materials. Rather than making a case for or against the material, the writings and artworks collected in this volume attempt to register our ongoing toxic dependencies on plastic, its impact on other material cultures and behaviors, and the harm and possibilities it entangles for our collective futures. Everlasting Plastics records and expands upon the exhibition of the US Pavilion at the 2023 Venice Biennale, which excavated the ways synthetics both shape and erode contemporary ecologies, economies, and the built environment. Refusing to see the exhibition as a static event and instead imagining it as an invitation to evolve the stakes of a shared conversation, the book gathers the work of the exhibition alongside research, reflections, sketches, and newly commissioned critical essays. More than a catalog, Everlasting Plastics is itself an exercise in plasticity—staging interactions between institutions and disciplines, between editorial and curatorial practice, between book and exhibition. Through its range of formats, the book unfolds, broadens, revises, and expands the histories, relations, preoccupations, and discourses on and around our relationship to plastic matter and thought.

The Archival Exhibition: A Decade of Research at the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, 2006–2016
Mark Wasiuta
Just as information and media are products of design, they themselves leave indelible marks on the environments in which they circulate and help structure. Architecture has irrevocably been altered by the proliferation and advancement of new media technologies and forms of communication, but architecture, too, is capable of mediating these forms of mediation—their materiality, their transmission, and the motivations they carry. From 2006–2016, the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery under the directorship of Mark Wasiuta at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation was the center of a sustained research practice experimenting with these intersections. As the title suggests, this book both records the possibilities of the archival exhibition as a mode, method, and problem of architecture, and is itself a record of a decade-long curatorial project that sought to reframe the documents, authors, environments produced by and producing architecture.

Book Fair:
Press Play
12:00PM–7:00PM, December 7–8, 2024
Pioneer Works, Brooklyn

Book Fair:
Storefront Book Bash
12:00PM–6:00PM, December 14–15, 2024
Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York

Shameekia Shantel Johnson, “Charting a Better World Through Malcolm X’s New York,” Hyperallergic, September 17, 2024.

Michael Ando, “In Louisiana, a Photographer Charts Storms and Weather as Markers of Time,” Aperture, September 12, 2024.

Rachel Hunter Himes, “Malcolm was Here,” New York Review of Architecture vol 42, September 11, 2024.

Valerio Franzone x KoozArch, “The Many (Political) Lives of Air: Nerea Calvillo in conversation,” KoozArch, November 6, 2023.

Jaffer Kolb, “Nerea Calvillo’s Aeropolis: Queering Air in Toxicpolluted Worlds,” BOMB Magazine, June 1, 2023.

Ali Ismail Karimi, “Deserts Are Not Empty, edited by Samia Henni, explores the contested politics of supposedly empty terrain” The Architect’s Newspaper, April 6, 2023.

Erasure by Design
by V. Mitch McEwen

States of Emergency: A Spatial History of the French Colonial Continuum
by Léopold Lambert

Material Variance
edited by Lola Ben-Alon

Disembodied Territories
edited by Menna Agha and Sara Salem

“Why Publish? Reframing the Stakes of Student Publications” is an open source record and archive of a workshop our office held at the end of July 2022 dedicated to reconsidering the limits and possibilities attendant to printed work. Now available for reading and reference, Why Publish? offers students the space to join us in reconsidering publishing as a collective project with collective consequences.

Nicholas Gamso, “Reorienting Toward Each Other: A Conversation with Nitasha Dhillon and Amin Husain,” in Art After Liberalism (New York: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2021).