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05/28/2026

The Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design MSAAD Arguments lecture series returns this summer with eight contributions engaging architecture through extraction economies, material assemblies, post-crisis urbanism, infrastructural and housing projects, and cinematic futures. Each guest shares a critical text in advance, using the lecture as a site for collective discussion and debate.

The Arguments lecture series is organized by MSAAD Director Lydia Kallipoliti and Associate Director Xiaoxi Chen

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05/26/2026

Spring faculty highlight: Fernanda Canales, Dean’s Visiting Assistant Professor | Advanced Architecture Studio VI

FERNANDA CANALES holds a PhD from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid and is the author of several books, including My House, Your City, Shared Structures, Private Space, and Barragan Outside Barragan. Named one of the world’s “100+ Best Architecture Firms” by DOMUS, she was also recognized by The New York Times as one of the 10 female figures reshaping leadership in architecture.
Her work spans cultural buildings, private projects, research, public space interventions, and furniture design, and has been exhibited internationally, including at the Royal Academy of Arts in London and the Venice Biennale. She has taught at Harvard GSD, Princeton, Politecnico di Milano, and Yale School of Architecture.
This semester, Canales taught Non-Binary Habitable Landscapes: Co-Op Interieur / Exterieur (Advanced Studio VI), where students questioned the divisions between public and private, back and front, interior and exterior, seclusion and sharing, living and working, and rich and poor. The students searched for a post-typological solution away from modern housing references that shaped living under a pre-set universal program.

05/21/2026

Congratulations GSAPP Class of 2026 on reaching this milestone after semesters of rigorous experimentation, and critical inquiry across architecture, urbanism, preservation, real estate, computation, curatorial practice, and beyond.

The GSAPP End of Year Show, featuring work from across all programs at the School, is on view in Avery Hall and online through June 1: https://www.arch.columbia.edu/eoys-2026/

Photos by Hatnim Lee

05/20/2026

Congratulations to GSAPP’s Class of 2026!

05/14/2026

GSAPP End of Year Show 2026
Avery Hall
May 16 - June 1

Blooming through more than 1,000 student work from across all GSAPP programs, this year’s End of Year Show continues the School’s tradition of displaying works that push the boundaries of the fields of architecture, urbanism, preservation, and real estate.

The exhibition extends both physically and digitally, launching as an online platform on the same day.

The End of Year Show opens on Saturday, May 16 in alignment with GSAPP graduation and university Commencement and will be on view through June 1. More at the link in bio.

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Student work sampled from Haoyu Hu, Runhe Song, and Ziqian Xu; Heeryung Yu; Ziteng Wang; and Jonah Johnson and Jagger Udy.

05/14/2026

GSAPP End of Year Show 2026
Avery Hall
May 16 - June 1

Blooming through more than 1,000 student work from across all GSAPP programs, this year’s End of Year Show continues the School’s tradition of displaying works that push the boundaries of the fields of architecture, urbanism, preservation, and real estate.

The exhibition extends both physically and digitally, launching as an online platform on the same day.

The End of Year Show opens on Saturday, May 16 in alignment with GSAPP graduation and university Commencement and will be on view through June 1. More at the link in bio.

Student work sampled from Haoyu Hu, Runhe Song, and Ziqian Xu; Heeryung Yu; Ziteng Wang; and Jonah Johnson and Jagger Udy.

Graphic design by .

05/13/2026

Columbia GSAPP is pleased to announce the appointment of Neeraj Bhatia as Director of the M.S. in Architecture and Urban Design program and Associate Professor, effective July 2026.

“GSAPP’s Urban Design program has pioneered an ecological approach to the urban, and serves as a critical arena for testing and anticipating how the world operates,” highlights Dean Andrés Jaque. “Neeraj brings a rare ability to articulate design experimentation with climate, housing, spatial justice, governance, and the politics that organize collective life, while also ensuring that these investigations percolate beyond exhibitions and academic discourse into built realities, policy, and decision-making.”

Bhatia is one of the world’s leading voices in urban design today, particularly at the intersection of climate and housing urgencies. This appointment marks a significant moment for the program and reaffirms the School’s continued commitment to engaging territorial realities and infrastructural ecologies at the intersection of architecture and urbanism.

Bhatia succeeds Kate Orff following her transformative ten-year tenure as Director of the M.S. in Architecture and Urban Design program. A globally leading voice in landscape architecture and climate urbanism, Orff will continue to focus on the GSAPP global super studios and her strategic role in bridging GSAPP’s design strategy and action-oriented impulse with the scientific strengths of the Columbia Climate School.

We are thrilled to welcome Neeraj Bhatia to Columbia GSAPP.

05/12/2026

Spring faculty highlight: ATEYA KHORAKIWALA, Assistant Professor | Ph.D Colloqium

ATEYA KHORAKIWALA is an architectural historian and Assistant Professor of Architecture at Columbia GSAPP. Her research focuses on India’s development decades and the aesthetics and materiality of its postcolonial infrastructure and ecological and political landscapes. Her current book project, Famine Landscapes, is an infrastructural and architectural history set in India’s postcolonial countryside.

Khorakiwala’s essays and articles have appeared in e-flux Architecture, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (CSSAAME), and Grey Room. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University and was trained as an architect at KRVIA in Mumbai, India.

This semester Khorakiwala is teaching Ph.D Colloqium and Questions in Architectural History II. Her teaching focuses on the spatial and bodily politics of food; on architectural histories of technocracy and development; and on colonial and postcolonial histories of nature and the environment.

05/08/2026

CRAFT YARD is a layered infrastructural condition embedded within the industrial fabric of Long Island City. Operating around and beneath the expressway and the Montauk Cutoff, it repositions existing infrastructure as an active ground for living, making, and collective life. The project preserves its informality while threading housing and communal programs through its residual spaces.

Housing is introduced as an elevated addition above active warehouses, remaining legible as an infrastructural extension rather than a hybridized object. This separation preserves ongoing production while creating shared circulation, platforms, and social programs within scaffolded roofs and underused structures.

Through layered circulation and strategic detachment, the project constructs a framework where industry and domestic life coexist without subsumption, allowing collective life to emerge in the space between.

Project by Vincent Zhang and I Lok U for Advanced Studio V (Fall 2025), led by Ricardo Flores , Eva Prats , and Pimchid Chariyacharoen.

View more at the link in bio.

05/07/2026

Scenes from GSAPP’s inaugural Architecture Review Summit.

Students and instructors from Advanced Studios VI in conversation with Lucia Allais, David Benjamin, Håvard Breivik-Khan, Johnny Chiu, Christopher Gardner, James Heard, Kian Hosseinnia, Stella Ioannidou, Ziad Jamaleddine, Ateya Khorakiwala, Reinhold Martin, James Nanasca, Amelyn Ng, Phuongminh Nguyen, Alessandro Orsini, Lasse Rau, Lidia Ratoi, Lindy Roy, Mahdi Sabbagh, Regina Teng, Dimitra Tsachrelia Holl, Anthony Vanky, Adam Vosburgh, Michael Wang, Mark Wigley, among others.

The half-day laboratory of exchange served as the culminating moment of the reviews, bringing all projects into a shared setting where students presented their work, compared approaches, and situated the studios’ investigations in dialogue with critics across studios and disciplines from GSAPP and beyond.

The Review summit is organized by the Directors and Associate Directors of M.Arch and AAD programs: Lydia Kallipoliti , Marc Tsurumaki , Xiaoxi Chen , and Darwin Eng .

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