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Faculty Raven Chacon opens his solo exhibition "Conductus" on July 30 at Kunstverein Hannover, featuring major sculptural works, films, installations, and two new live performances shaped by Diné musical traditions and experimental practice.

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nARCHITECTS uses a unique floorplan for CLT House CLT House designed by nARCHITECTS for the firm’s own cofounders, Eric Bunge and Mimi Hoang, is located in Duchess County, New York.

CLT House by nARCHITECTS (faculty Eric Bunge, Mimi Hoang) published in AN Interiors, sharing how materiality shaped an embrace of new, fun form.
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Faculty Mario Gooden speaks with Columbia Global Centers’ on the "Black Holes Ain’t So Black," his installation-performance exploring space as a site of memory, violence, and liberation.
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Meet an Architect Who Is Also an Engineer, Scholar, and Curator Lydia Kallipoliti engages in a wide-ranging practice, and encourages her GSAPP students to do the same.

Faculty Lydia Kallipoliti, 1 year into her role as MSAAD program director, speaks with CU News about her teaching at the intersections of environmental systems and architectural practice, sharing new pedagogical formats, like GSAPP’s Edible Summits. news.columbia.edu/news/meet-ar...

13 ‘Green’ Buildings from Columbia Architects These eco-friendly projects from alumni architects have all earned LEED ratings from the US Green Building Council.

21 GSAPP alumni are featured in recent Columbia Magazine piece on LEED-certified projects around the world.

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The summer studio AAD Summer Studio, CLIMATES ↔ MODELS ↔ IMAGES led by Elise Hunchuck Hunchuck with Marco Ferrari visited the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) in Palisades, NY.

More than Human review – a utopia of self-weaving grass and psychedelic dolphins Design Museum, LondonFrom 3D-printed coral reefs to fungal facades and living fabrics grown from roots, this show embraces a future of nature-centric design

Dean Andrés Jaque and faculty Kate Orff featured in The Guardian’s review of More than Human at the Design Museum, London for new architectures designed to tune into more-than-human life.

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The latest edition of Architectural Design, Staged: Architecture for Performance, Exhibition, and Fiction, edited by Ashley Simone ‘07 M.Arch, includes works and words from faculty Mark Wasiuta, Mireia Luzárraga (TAKK), and Bart-Jan Polman

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SCAPE receives 2025 Landscape Architecture Firm Award from American Society of Landscape Architects - SCAPE July 1, 2025 (New York, NY) — The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has given its prestigious Landscape Architecture Firm Award to SCAPE, the landscape architecture and urban design prac...

Kate Orff, Director of the MSAUD program and founder of SCAPE, received the 2025 ASLA Landscape Architecture Firm Award, the profession’s highest honor. www.scapestudio.com/news/2025/07...

Non-exceptional humanitarian spaces: the emergency reception of Ukrainian refugees as contingency planning for domestic mass displacement in Romania - City, Territory and Architecture Current policy and practice on shelter and settlements solutions in global displacement management promote limited engagement with long-term plans for the built environment of host communities receivi...

Faculty Håvard Breivik-Khan publishes, “Non-exceptional humanitarian spaces” on the emergency reception of Ukrainian refugees as contingency planning for domestic mass displacement in Romania for “City, Territory and Architecture”
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Two pavilions by nArchitects promote climate resiliency Brooklyn-based firm nArchitects has left its mark in New York and New Jersey with the creation of two pavilions that build on community need while providing a framework for melding climate resilient i...

nARCHITECTS, led by Eric Bunge and Mimi Hoang, was featured in Abitare and The Architect’s Newspaper for recent projects that combine climate-resilient design with public space—from a CLT house upstate to flood-adaptive pavilions in Manhattan and Hoboken.

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A Contemporary House Soars in Rural Rhode Island

WORKac, led by Dean Emeritus Amale Andraos and Dan Wood is featured in the NY Times for their new residential project in rural Rhode Island, a contemporary second home aligned with Passive House standards.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/r...

TAKK, led by faculty Mireia Luzarraga Alvarez** with Alejandro Muiño, receives Spain’s prestigious 2025 FAD Award, in the category _Ephemeral Architecture for Seasonal House
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Djerba: Prototype 366 The AZ Awards recognizes the world's best projects, products, and ideas in 10 categories.

Faculty Ziad Jamaleddine's firm L.E.FT Architects is awarded Azure Magazine’s Merit Award in the category “Temporary and Experiential Installation,” for Djerba: Prototype 366

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The Graham Foundation’s 2025 Grants to Individuals will support the projects of many GSAPP affiliates: faculty Mario Gooden with Thuto Durkac-Somo, Jonathan González; Dean Emeritus Mark Wigley with Beatriz Colomina; Farah Alkhoury** ‘21 MSAAD with Ameneh Solati.
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Home The Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB) is a non-profit organization dedicated to convening the world to explore innovative ideas and bring people together to collectively imagine and shape the future...

Faculty including Mireia Luzárraga, Alessandro Orsini, Hilary Sample, and Amaia Sánchez-Velasco + Jorge Valiente-Oriol are among the participants in the upcoming edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial: SHIFT
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Introducing the winners of the 2025 Best of Practice Awards Meet the winners, honorable mentions, and editors' picks in AN’s 2025 Best of Practice Awards, recognizing firms who excel at the design of business.

CoPa, led by faculty Galen Pardee with Manuel Cordero, was named Honorable Mention in the category New Firm (Northeast) in the 2025 Architect’s Newspaper Best of Practice Awards
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Juan Manuel Balsa, Rocio Crosetto Brizzio, and Leandro Piazzi of BALSA CROSETTO PIAZZI - The Architectural League of New York

Balsa Crosetto Piazzi, led by Rocio Crosetto ’22 MSAAD with Leandro Piazzi and Juan Manuel Balsa, is among the six winners of the 2025 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers.
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Spanning Avery 400 , is a special section of the EoYS with 7 tables, one per ACTIONING SUMMMIT, situating the research, projects, and conjectures of students alongside different forms of specialized knowledge and engagement actioned at each summit throughout the academic year.

The annual END OF YEAR SHOW shares a cross-section of design, research, and experimentation from across GSAPP’s degree programs, centers, and labs. Woven through the fabric of the exhibition, these works trace the deep entanglements shaping our shared planetary futures.

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE GSAPP CLASS OF 2025 on reaching this pivotal moment following many semesters of critical discourse and meaningful contributions across architecture, urbanism, preservation, real estate, curatorial practice, computation, and their intersections!

Faculty Laura Kurgan, Faculty Dan Miller + Assistant Director of the MSCDP Program Adam Vosburgh ’22 M.Arch, were awarded the Bee Award, "Best Original Project," at the 2025 Triennale Milano for their project “Two Sides of the Same Coin." Congratulations!

Special Mention: Elephant Chapel by 2023 Dean’s Visiting Assistant Professor, Boonserm Premthada.

Special Mention: Holy See Pavilion, "Opera Aperta," co-curated by faculty Marina Otero Verzier ‘13 MSCCCP with Giovanna Zabotti with Art Direction and Architectural Design by Tatiana Bilbao and Anna Puigjaner.

The Golden Lion: Canal Cafe, by Charles Renfro ’94 AAD and the late Ricardo Scofidio ’60 B.Arch of Diller Scofidio + Renfro.

The opening week of the 2025 Venice Biennale of Architecture concluded with an awards ceremony with members of the GSAPP ecosystem recognized.
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ACTIONING SUMMIT 8: How to repair - Columbia GSAPP Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

ACTIONING SUMMIT 8 discusses the expert knowledge and methodologies that surround questions of repair, with key experts on the topic of repair and reparations: Dr. Ron Daniels Marjetica Potrč, and Paulo Tavares. Intervention by Mabel Wilson.
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Grahame Shane is an Adjunct Professor in the MSAUD program and has both participated in and documented the evolution of urban design as a discipline and practice since its establishment at Columbia during the Deanship of James Stewart Polshek (1972-87).

Grahame Shane: Celebrating 40 Years of Pedagogy at GSAPP - Columbia GSAPP Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

Save the date: Celebrating 40 years of GRAHAM SHANE at GSAPP. Lecture by Graham Shane in conversation with Kate Orff and David Smiley. Wednesday, March 26, 5 PM in Wood Auditorium and livestreamed on GSAPP’s YouTube.

www.arch.columbia.edu/events/3736-...

John Foerster '64 Fund Lecture: Thomas Heatherwick - Columbia GSAPP Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

The John Foerster ‘64 Fund Lecture will be delivered by THOMAS HEATHERWICK with a response by Amelyn Ng and Bart-Jan Polman. Monday, March 24, 6:30 PM in Wood Auditorium and livestreamed on GSAPP’s YouTube.

www.arch.columbia.edu/events/3770-...