Max Goldner

Max Goldner is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia GSAPP. As a writer, curator, educator, and designer, his practice looks to ways of decolonizing and expanding Jewish memory by examining it alongside various histories of trauma—the Holocaust, Palestine, and transatlantic slavery—through the built environment, visual culture and performance. He is a graduate of GSAPP’s MArch and CCCP programs, where his thesis, “Shooting and Crying: Constructions and Translations of (Para-)Jewish Subjecthood” received outstanding honors. He received his BA in Urban Studies from Columbia as well, graduating magna cum laude. Max has curated exhibitions at the Boston Society for Architects and the Institute for Arab and Islamic Art, and currently works at Modellus Novus, an architecture firm committed to shaping and defining culture. Alongside his practice, Max is a Jewish educator at Lab/Shul, an artist-driven, God-optional pop-up experimental community, and was a recent grant recipient from The Neighborhood for his project, Wandering Sukkah.