Columbia GSAPP has announced its Fall 2020 Semester Public Programs. This Fall 2020 semester, Columbia GSAPP’s public programming will emphasize intersections of racial equity, social justice, and climate change across the built environment. 

All public programming will take place online (times noted in EDT) and is free and open to the public. Below is a selection of the semester’s highlights; please visit the online calendar for the full schedule.

Majora Carter

Virtual Lecture November 9, 6pm

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Affordable Housing Agenda For 2021

Tuesday, November 10, 12pm

A roundtable discussion moderated by Richard Froehlich, Adjunct Associate Professor at GSAPP, on the affordable housing agenda for 2021.

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Emergency Architecture And Planning: Recovering Beirut Post-Explosion

Thursday, November 12, 12pm

Following a series of economic, political and environmental crises that culminated in the Beirut explosion on August 4th 2020, the GSAPP Collective for Beirut, in collaboration with Assistant Professor Hiba Bou Akar invites a group of multidisciplinary professionals to a round table discussion that explores architecture and cities in a time of emergency and political deadlock through ecological, planning, and policy lenses. The discussion will engage questions of the built environment on a variety of social and infrastructural scales.

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The Kenneth Frampton Endowed Lecture: Tatiana Bilbao

Virtual Lecture November 16, 6pm

Fass School and Teachers’ Residence, Senegal. Image © Sofia Verzbolovskis

Toshiko Mori 

Virtual Lecture November 23, 6pm

Conferences

On November 13 and 20, GSAPP hosts a two-part conference on housing, public health and spatial justice, racial equity, and climate justice. In 2020, compounding crises across the globe encompassing economic injustice, racial inequity, and climate change have ignited public dialogue and urgent calls for action. Research and policy experts at Columbia GSAPP lead conversations on how the field can respond to interlocking issues in public health, water, housing, infrastructure, migration, resilience, and resistance.

Part 1

Health And The City

November 13, 1pm

GSAPP Faculty Malo Hutson, Hilary Sample, and Laura Kurganin conversation with invited guests.

Part  2

Climate Justice And The City

November 20, 1pm

GSAPP Faculty Reinhold Martin, Kate Orff and Thad Pawlowski, and Erica Avrami in conversation with invited guests.

Oct 1 – Dec 31, 2020

An online program of films and essays focused on landscape and political imagination. Contributors include David Hartt, Lucy Ives, Armin Linke, Shannon Mattern, C.C. McKee, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Himali Singh Soin, among others. Organized by the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery. View more. 

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