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2024 at GSAPP:
46+ Public Programs & Events
190+ Participants
70+ Hours of Recordings to View

GSAPP and Columbia Climate School Launch New Dual Degree Program

GSAPP installs “Cloud,” a student-designed, temporary inflatable pavilion for Avery Plaza

Amelyn Ng joins GSAPP Full-time Architecture Faculty as Assistant Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

Catherine Griffiths joins GSAPP’s Computational Design Practices Program as Full-time Faculty

Marc Tsurumaki Promoted to Professor of Professional Practice in the Faculty of Architecture, Panning, and Preservation

Faculty as Assistant Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Coordinates M.Arch Core I Studios, fall 2024

Lydia Kallipoliti is Named Director of the Columbia GSAPP Advanced Architectural Design Program

Professor Erica Avrami Promoted to James Marston Fitch Associate Professor of Historic Preservation with tenure

Professor Mabel O. Wilson is Named Chair of Columbia University AAADS

GSAPP Launches the ACTIONING SUMMITS, a New Public Programming Series for the 2024-25 Academic Year

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Dec 18

Faculty Mireia Luzárraga (TAKK) delivers lecture at the Munster School of Architecture.

Dec 12

Juan Herreros participates in The City from the Peripheries panel at Espai Fotogràfic Can Basté, Barcelona

Dec 10

Junho Lee ‘22 MSAAD joins the Graphics department at the New York Times as a graphics editor focused on 3-D modeling and visualization

Dec 6

Faculty Kaja Kühl moderates NY Center for Architecture Talk, "Designing Climate Corridors: Re-envisioning Urban Arterials in New York City"

Dec 5

Faculty Ateya Khorakiwala delivers lecture “Shells and Silos: An Epistemic Accounting of Instability and Cracks” for e-flux Architecture Lectures

Dec 4

Faculty Wonne Ickx (PRODUCTORA) will speak at the “International Architectural Roundtable: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle - Innovations in Adaptive Reuse”

Dec 3

L.E.FT Architects (faculty Ziad Jamaleddine) selected as one of the AD 100 2025: The Best Designers in the Middle East and North Africa

Dec 2

Gizem Karagoz ’22 M.Arch MSUP, Senior Project Manager, New York City Economic Development, is among the 21 Columbians on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list

Nov 30

Faculty Erica Avrami's new book, "Second-Order Preservation" featured in New York Times article "How Can We Save the Best Parts of Our Cities?" by Michael Kimmelman

Nov 25

Faculty David Benjamin serves as Guest of Honor and delivers keynote lecture at Ikigai event in Kashmir, India

News Releases

18 December 2024
2024 at Columbia GSAPP: Year in Review

31 October 2024
GSAPP and Columbia Climate School Launch New Dual Degree Program

21 October 2024
GSAPP installs “Cloud,” a student-designed, temporary inflatable pavilion for Avery Plaza

28 August 2024
GSAPP Launches the ACTIONING SUMMITS, a New Public Programming Series for the 2024-25 Academic Year

23 August 2024
Amelyn Ng joins GSAPP Full-time Architecture Faculty as Assistant Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

14 August 2024
Catherine Griffiths joins GSAPP’s Computational Design Practices Program as Full-time Faculty

12 August 2024
Marc Tsurumaki Promoted to Professor of Professional Practice in the Faculty of Architecture, Panning, and Preservation

7 August 2024
Mireia Luzárraga joins GSAPP Full-time Architecture Faculty as Assistant Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Coordinates M.Arch Core I Studios, fall 2024

29 July 2024
Lydia Kallipoliti is Named Director of the Columbia GSAPP Advanced Architectural Design Program

22 July 2024
Professor Erica Avrami Promoted to James Marston Fitch Associate Professor of Historic Preservation with tenure

9 July 2024
Professor Mabel O. Wilson is Named Chair of Columbia University AAADS

9 February 2024
Columbia GSAPP celebrates the 40th Anniversary of Bernard Tschumi’s Parc de La Villette

29 November 2023
Columbia GSAPP works with the communities of the Bronx and Congressmember Espaillat on redesigning the Kingsbridge Armory as a hub for neighborhood empowerment

24 August 2023
Columbia GSAPP launches AFFIRMATIONS public program series

4 August 2023
Alexandra Gonzalez ’11 MSAUD Named Obama Foundation Leader

17 July 2023
Columbia GSAPP is pleased to announce that Hiba Bou Akar has been promoted to associate professor with tenure, effective July 1, 2023.

26 June 2023
The fifth edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial opening on September 21, 2023 features a strong representation of Columbia GSAPP affiliates.

26 June 2023
Assistant Professor Hiba Bou Akar, director of the Post-Conflict Cities Lab at Columbia GSAPP, in collaboration with artist and scholar Mohamad Hafeda (Leeds Beckett University) and Temporary Art Platform (TAP), has launched a program of five artists’ interventions in Beirut.

20 June 2023
Hilary Sample and Tom Slater are Named Provost Leadership Fellows

5 June 2023
Professor Reinhold Martin has been selected to steer the Columbia University Committee on Global Thought as its next Chair, effective July 1, 2023

18 May 2023
“The Outside-In Project” seminar led by Faculty Galia Solomonoff and Laurie Hawkinson unveils three student-designed inflatable pavilions around Avery Hall.

16 May 2023
GSAPP at the 2023 Venice Biennale of Architecture

31 January 2023
Columbia GSAPP Announces the James Stewart Polshek Scholarship Fund

5 December 2022
Mabel O. Wilson Named Co-Director of Commission on History of Race and Racism at Columbia

5 December 2022
Domus names Steven Holl and Toshiko Mori Guest Editors

October 11, 2022
Columbia GSAPP Announces the Recipients of the 2022-2023 GSAPP Incubator Prize for Alumni-led Projects

18 August 2022
Andrés Jaque is Appointed Dean of Columbia GSAPP

15 August 2022
It’s Time to Re-think School Rankings

15 December 2021
Columbia GSAPP announces the Recipients of the 2021-2022 GSAPP Incubator Prize for Alumni-led Projects

10 November 2021
Weiping Wu Appointed Interim Dean of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

9 November 2021
Lucia Allais is Appointed Director of the Buell Center as Reinhold Martin Steps Down in December 2021

12 October 2021
GSAPP Announces Inaugural Community Fellows

30 September 2021
MSRED Program Announces New Faculty Appointments

7 September 2021
GSAPP announces the launch of the new Master of Science in Computational Design Practices (M.S.CDP) program

4 June 2021
GSAPP receives $100,000 grant from the IDC Foundation to establish the Hilyard Robinson Scholars Fund

1 June 2021
GSAPP Faculty and Alumni participate in the 17th Venice Biennale of Architecture

30 April 2021
Columbia GSAPP Installs Avery Spot

2 March 2021
“Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America” on view the Museum of Modern Art features work and contributions by GSAPP alumni and faculty members

9 February 2021
Hugo Sarmiento Joins GSAPP Faculty

1 February 2021
Center for Spatial Research at Columbia GSAPP and the Global Health Justice Partnership of the Yale Law School and Yale School of Public Health launch interactive map on COVID-19 vaccine allocation

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11 December 2020
Emanuel Admassu Joins the GSAPP Faculty

17 November 2020
13th Shanghai Biennale is curated by Associate Professor Andrés Jaque

2 November 2020
GSAPP launches new Part-time Options for MS in Historic Preservation and MS in Urban Planning

28 October 2020
Center for Spatial Research at Columbia GSAPP and the Global Health Justice Partnership of the Yale Law School and Yale School of Public Health launch Mapping the New Politics of Care

26 October 2020
GSAPP Commits $1 Million to Establish the Norma Merrick Sklarek Scholars Fund Supporting Full-tuition Scholarships Over Three Years

26 October 2020
Recipients of the 2020-2021 GSAPP Incubator Prize for Alumni are Announced

21 September 2020
GSAPP Alumni Board announces appointment of Ruth Benjamin ‘10 MArch as President and Jennifer Romeo ‘12 MArch as Vice President

16 May 2020
GSAPP launches annual End of Year Show online, giving access to nearly 3,000 images and documents of student work from across the programs

16 April 2020
GSAPP MSRED Students Among Winning Team for ULI Hines Competition

21 February 2020
ULI Hines Student Competition Recognizes Columbia GSAPP Students

19 February 2020
Congratulations to GSAPP’s 2020 New Practices New York Winners

6 February 2020
Buell Center announces 2019 Paris Prize Winners

27 January 2020
Prospecting Ocean, a solo exhibition by Armin Linke at Columbia GSAPP’s Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery

8 January 2020
Columbia GSAPP students receive the 2019 John A. Notaro Memorial Scholarship from the AIA New York State

4 December 2019
Columbia GSAPP participates in the new university-wide Scholarship for Displaced Students

6 November 2019
Columbia GSAPP students win the 2019 AIANY + ASLANY Transportation and Infrastructure Excellence Awards

18 October 2019
Buell Center and Queens Museum co-host “The Green New Deal: A Public Assembly” on November 17, 2019

1 October 2019
Columbia GSAPP Faculty, Students, and Alumni Participate at Important Domestic and International Biennials and Triennials Throughout Fall 2019

6 September 2019
Architectural Historian and Critic Lucia Allais is appointed Associate Professor at Columbia GSAPP

5 September 2019
Recipients of the 2019-2020 GSAPP Incubator Prize for Alumni are Announced

21 August 2019
1919: Black Water, a solo exhibition of new work by Torkwase Dyson at Columbia GSAPP’s Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery

30 April 2019
Columbia GSAPP opens annual End of Year Show celebrating highlights of student work from all academic programs

25 April 2019
Assistant Professor Leah Meisterlin is honored with a 2019 Presidential Teaching Award by Columbia University

10 December 2018
The Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery opens Offestted, an exhibition conceived and designed by Cooking Sections, on February 21, 2019

31 August 2018
The Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery opens Model Projections, an exhibition curated in collaboration with Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, on March 30, 2018

18 July 2018
Full-time Faculty Appointments for Ziad Jamaleddine, Anna Puigjaner, Andrés Jaque, and Mark Wasiuta

23 May 2018
Andrés Jaque appointed Director of the Advanced Architectural Design Program at Columbia GSAPP

18 April 2018
Columbia GSAPP at the 2018 Venice Biennale of Architecture

12 February 2018
Center for Resilient Cities and Landscapes launched at Columbia GSAPP

26 January 2018
The winners of the first Buell Center Paris Prize for GSAPP students are announced

17 January 2018
The Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery opens an exhibition of drawings, writings, and research by Arakawa and Madeline Gins on March 30, 2018

16 January 2018
Columbia GSAPP launches a Ph.D. Program in Historic Preservation, the first in the U.S.

2 October 2017
No. 9 by Frida Escobedo opens at the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery on October 20, 2017

15 September 2017
GSAPP Faculty and Alumni participate in the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial

29 August 2017
Living in America: Frank Lloyd Wright, Harlem & Modern Housing at the Wallach gallery

5 May 2017
Columbia GSAPP’s 2017 End of Year Show celebrates student work from all academic programs

27 April 2017
Malo Hutson is appointed Associate Professor of Urban Planning

8 March 2017
Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery presents Liam Young: New Romance, the first U.S. solo exhibition by Liam Young

7 March 2017
Columbia GSAPP faculty and alumni win 13 of 35 AIA NY Design Awards

31 January 2017
Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery presents Stagecraft: Models and Photos

17 January 2017
Spring 2017 Events and Exhibitions at Columbia GSAPP

21 December 2016
Associate Professor Leah Meisterlin receives Junior Faculty Diversity Grant from Columbia University’s Office of the Provost

4 October 2016
Columbia GSAPP at the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial

13 September 2016
20,000 Architectural Images Made Available by Columbia GSAPP Visual Resource Center (VRC) and Avery Library Partnership with Artstor

8 September 2016
Columbia GSAPP at the 2016 Oslo Architecture Triennale

7 September 2016
The Other Architect opens at the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery

30 June 2016
Weiping Wu Appointed Director of Urban Planning Program

16 May 2016
Columbia GSAPP presents its research on architecture and climate change at the 2016 Venice Biennale

31 March 2016
Every Building in Baghdad: the Rifat Chadirji Archive at the Arab Image Foundation opens at the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery

30 March 2016
Visual Resources Collection (VRC) and Avery Library Partner with Artstor

7 December 2015
Jorge Otero-Pailos Appointed Director of Historic Preservation Program

1 December 2015
GSAPP Incubator Launches

21 September 2015
Center for Spatial Research at Columbia University

8 September 2015
Patrice Derrington Appointed Director of Real Estate Development Program

1 June 2015
Kate Orff Appointed Director of Urban Design Program