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10/16/2026

WORKS 2
Monday, October 19 | 6:30 PM

Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu of Amateur Architecture Studio discuss their Ningbo Historic Museum as part of WORKS. Wang Shu is the 2012 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate, and both are curators of the 2027 Venice Architecture Biennale.

WORKS is a new series that throughout the upcoming semesters will discuss a selection of projects that have contributed to the production of realities through the mobilization of resources, agendas and constituencies; by connecting distant scales and actors; and as active components within broader social, ecological, cultural, and political transformations.

10/15/2026

Fall faculty highlight: Ziad Jamaleddine of L.E.FT Architects | Advanced V Studio

Ziad Jamaleddine is an Assistant Professor at Columbia GSAPP and co-founder and partner of L.E.FT Architects, based in New York and Beirut. His research focuses on architecture in the Middle East, including religious architecture, public space, infrastructure, and post-war reconstruction. His writings have been published in International Journal of Islamic Architecture, and Thresholds Journal. He is the recipient of the Emerging Voices Award from the Architectural League of New York and was named one of the Nine Arab American Architects You Should Know by the AIA in 2024.

This Friday, Jamaleddine reflects on At the Edge of Where God Built, a critical examination of L.E.FT Architects’ diverse body of work from the past decade, with speakers Waleed Arafa Dar Arafa Architecture, Nebahat Avcıoğlu, Iheb Guermazi, Nasser Rabbat, Kishwar Rizvi, Avinoam Shalem, and Sumayya Vally Sumayya Vally COUNTERSPACE.

10/13/2026

Scenes from WORKS 1.

The first WORKS session looks into the HIGH LINE with James Corner (Field Operations) Field Operations and Elizabeth Diller (DS+R, Princeton) Diller Scofidio + Renfro.

WORKS is a new GSAPP series that discusses projects that have contributed to the production of realities through the mobilization of resources, agendas, and constituencies; by connecting distant scales and actors; and as active components within broader social, ecological, cultural, and political transformations. Underlying WORKS is a question of growing urgency: What is the most meaningful use of our disciplines, our practices, and our forms of knowledge today? What capacities must architecture, preservation, real estate, and urbanism cultivate to participate substantively in addressing the challenges that define the present?

Introduction Andrés Jaque / OFFPOLINN, moderation Bart-Jan Polman

10/08/2026

WORKS 1
Monday, October 12 | 6:30 PM

The first WORKS session looks at the HIGH LINE with James Corner (Field Operations) Field Operations and Elizabeth Diller (DS+R, Princeton) Diller Scofidio + Renfro, among others.

WORKS is a new GSAPP series that discusses projects that have contributed to the production of realities through the mobilization of resources, agendas, and constituencies; by connecting distant scales and actors; and as active components within broader social, ecological, cultural, and political transformations. Underlying WORKS is a question of growing urgency: What is the most meaningful use of our disciplines, our practices, and our forms of knowledge today? What capacities must architecture, preservation, real estate, and urbanism cultivate to participate substantively in addressing the challenges that define the present?

Photos: Iwan Baan Iwan Baan, Courtesy of DS+R.

10/07/2026

Scenes from 2026 Fitch Colloquium: Preserving Independence.

The 2026 Fitch Colloquium, organized by Columbia GSAPP’s Historic Preservation Program and MoMA’s Department of Architecture and Design, explores contemporary preservation practices in western Africa and the architectural and cultural legacies of independence and decolonization. The colloquium is organized in conjunction with the exhibition Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western Africa, now on view at MoMA MoMA The Museum of Modern Art.

Speakers include Jeanne Autran-Edorh Studio NEiDA, Stephen Angus Battle, Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann, Ishanlosen Odiaua, Ikem S. Okoye Ikem Stanley Okoye, Prita Meier, Francis Sossah, and Martino Stierli Martino Stierli. Moderation and responses by Jorge Otero-Pailos Jorge Otero-Pailos, Lucia Allais Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, Erica Avrami, and Mabel Wilson mabel o. wilson.

10/05/2026

CUTOFF PLAZAS explores housing within the industrial landscape of Long Island City’s Montauk Cutoff, a former freight rail line.

The project partially removes an existing warehouse to open the ground as a series of public plazas and introduces two housing blocks along the railway landscape. Large shear walls organize different housing types and establish a sequence from public plazas to shared residential spaces and individual units.

Project by Alex Ching-Chen Liu Alex CC Liu for Advanced V Studio (Fall 2025), led by Ricardo Flores and Eva Prats Flores & Prats .

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09/30/2026

FITCH COLLOQUIUM
Friday, October 2 | 1:30 PM

The 2026 Fitch Colloquium, organized by Columbia GSAPP’s Historic Preservation Program and MoMA’s Department of Architecture and Design, explores contemporary preservation practices in western Africa and the architectural and cultural legacies of independence and decolonization. The colloquium is organized in conjunction with the exhibition Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western Africa, now on view at MoMA MoMA The Museum of Modern Art.

Speakers include Jeanne Autran-Edorh , Stephen Angus Battle, Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann, Ishanlosen Odiaua, Ikem S. Okoye Ikem Stanley Okoye, Prita Meier, Francis Sossah, and Martino Stierli Martino Stierli. Moderation and responses by Jorge Otero-Pailos Jorge Otero-Pailos, Lucia Allais Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, Erica Avrami, and Mabel Wilson mabel o. wilson.

Graphic identity incorporating a photograph of Centre International du Commerce Extérieur du Sénégal (CICES), Dakar, Senegal, 1971–74, by Jean-François Lamoureux and Jean Louis Marin. Photograph: Michel Fegyveres, 1974. Image provided by The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, for the exhibition Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western Africa.

Jean-François Lamoureux and Jean Louis Marin, Centre International du Commerce Extérieur du Sénégal (CICES), Dakar, Senegal, 1971–74. View of regional pavilions, 1974. Photograph: André Lepage. Aga Khan Visual Archive, Aga Khan Documentation Center, MIT Libraries. Image provided by The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, for the exhibition Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western Africa.

09/29/2026

BODY ECOLOGY

For the first assignment, two weeks in, M.Arch 1 students design and prototype bodily architectures, exploring ways of responding to toxicity, amplifying our senses, translating more-than-human capacities, and rethinking how subjectivity is constructed.

Student Work by Sol Kim, F***y Osorio Saldana, Layali Almoaibed, Tianjian Li, Jingming Ji, Semin Lee, Anger Kinsey, Hanna Kerez, Celine Dastori, Tsovinar Karapetian

GSAPP Core 1 takk Arinjoy Sen Daryan Knoblauch studio sumrow Galen Pardee inés miño izquierdo F I E R R O SabrinaMorreale + LorenzoPerri Oscar M Caballero OCHAP | Office for Cohabitation Processes

Photo Amy Suzuki

09/25/2026

FITCH COLLOQUIUM
Friday, October 2 | 1:30 PM

The 2026 Fitch Colloquium, organized by the Historic Preservation program, explores contemporary preservation practices in western Africa and the ways they have grappled with the architectural and cultural legacies of independence and decolonization.

Speakers include Jeanne Autran-Edorh + Fabiola Büchele, Stephen Angus Battle, Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann, Ishanlosen Odiaua, Ikem Okoye, Prita Meier, Francis SOSSAH, and Martino Stierli. Moderation and responses by Jorge Otero-Pailos Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture Erica Avrami mabel o. wilson

Image 3: Alan Vaughan-Richards: Vaughan-Richards House, 12 James George Street, Lagos, Nigeria, 1963–1970. Photo: François-Xavier Gbré. Source: Museum of Modern Art.

Image 4: Armand Salomon: Ministère des Postes et Télécommunications, Yaoundé, Cameroon, 1975. Photo: François-Xavier Gbré. Source: Museum of Modern Art.

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