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10/26/2026

Midterm Review drawing from Advanced V Studio, Neotopia: Suburbia Voyage, which searches for neo-vernacular utopias to counterbalance the dystopian present. The studio examines contemporary informal architectures, looking at NYC’s trailer parks as a new urban model that is both a utopian and dystopian alternatives to the present.

Drawing by 🅜🅘🅒🅗🅐 🅑🅔🅝🅣🅔🅛, studio led by Leopold Banchini Architects and Deniz Mahir.

10/23/2026

ARCTIC SUMMER maps a landscape shaped by migration, permafrost, oil infrastructure, and climate change.

Rather than defining the season by time and temperature alone, it considers summer as a regional condition with three months of continuous daylight, melting ice, and migratory birds. Beginning with birds flying over the polygonal lakes of Arctic Alaska, the project zooms into the North Slope to reveal glacial formations, oil pipelines, ice wedges, nesting grounds, and shifting coastlines.

As permafrost thaws and sea ice retreats, infrastructure and habitats transform. Birds continue to return, adapting their nesting grounds to a changing territory, while Indigenous place names and knowledge reveal generations of observation and movement across the Arctic. ARCTIC SUMMER maps these overlapping realities while asking how a changing Arctic can be represented and what other futures might emerge.

Project by Sewon Min Sewon for Advanced Architectural Design Studio (Summer 2024), led by Elise Misao Hunchuck Elise Misao Hunchuck with Marco Ferrari Marco Ferrari.

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10/21/2026

OPEN HOUSE LECTURE
Monday, October 26 | 6:30 PM

Emanuel Admassu Emanuel Admassu | አማኑኤል አድማሱ AD-WO and Olalekan Jeyifous Olalekan Jeyifous delivers this year’s Fall Open House Lecture, followed by a conversation with Dean Andrés Jaque Andrés Jaque / OFFPOLINN.

Emanuel Admassu (’12 MSAAD, ’13 AAR) is a founding partner, with Jen Wood, of AD—WO, an art and architecture practice based in New York. As a practicing architect, urbanist, and educator, Admassu’s work explores the intersections of spatial justice and urbanism, with a special focus on the African continent and the African diaspora.

Olalekan Jeyifous is an artist whose work reimagines the intersections of architecture, community, and the environment through inventive visual storytelling. By merging physical and digital elements with both historical and speculative contexts, his practice offers critical reflections on existing systems while imagining alternative ways of relating to each other and the spaces we inhabit.

10/20/2026

Scenes from WORKS 2

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.

Introduction Andrés Jaque / OFFPOLINN, moderation Bart-Jan Polman

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.

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