GSAPP Conversations

Andrew Nolan Davis, second-year student in the Critical, Curatorial and Conceptual Practices Program at Columbia GSAPP, speaks with Mexican Architect Frida Escobedo, whose exhibition ‘No. 9’ opened at the Arthur Ross Architectural Gallery on October 20, 2017.

They discuss the tension between social and historical time, and how that can shape understandings of architecture. Escobedo also touches on her desire to reactivate forgotten spaces, such as in the Hotel Boca Chica, and how the process of making ‘No. 9’ echoed the creation of the original sculptures.

“Exhibitions and biennials have allowed us to understand architecture in a very different timeframe. When you think about architecture you think about years … But with these temporary installations you get to see architecture from a different perspective, it's almost like compressing the life of architecture.” —Frida Escobedo

More information on Frida Escobedo at http://fridaescobedo.net/paginadeinicio.html

Get the full details of the exhibition at https://www.arch.columbia.edu/exhibitions/63-no-9-an-exhibition-by-frida-escobedo

Andrew Davis, second-year student in the Critical, Curatorial and Conceptual Practices Program at Columbia GSAPP, speaks with Mexican Architect Frida Escobedo, whose exhibition ‘No. 9’ opened at the Arthur Ross Architectural Gallery on October 20, 2017.

They discuss the tension between social and historical time, and how that can shape understandings of architecture. Escobedo also touches on her desire to reactivate forgotten spaces, such as in the Hotel Boca Chica, and how the process of making ‘No. 9’ echoed the creation of the original sculptures.

“Exhibitions and biennials have allowed us to understand architecture in a very different timeframe. When you think about architecture you think about years … But with these temporary installations you get to see architecture from a different perspective, it's almost like compressing the life of architecture.” —Frida Escobedo

More information on Frida Escobedo at http://fridaescobedo.net/pagina_de_inicio.html

Get the full details of the exhibition at https://www.arch.columbia.edu/exhibitions/63-no-9-an-exhibition-by-frida-escobedo

Andrew Nolan Davis, second-year student in the Critical, Curatorial and Conceptual Practices Program at Columbia GSAPP, speaks with Mexican Architect Frida Escobedo, whose exhibition ‘No. 9’ opened at the Arthur Ross Architectural Gallery on October 20, 2017.

They discuss the tension between social and historical time, and how that can shape understandings of architecture. Escobedo also touches on her desire to reactivate forgotten spaces, such as in the Hotel Boca Chica, and how the process of making ‘No. 9’ echoed the creation of the original sculptures.

“Exhibitions and biennials have allowed us to understand architecture in a very different timeframe. When you think about architecture you think about years … But with these temporary installations you get to see architecture from a different perspective, it's almost like compressing the life of architecture.” —Frida Escobedo

More information on Frida Escobedo at http://fridaescobedo.net/pagina_de_inicio.html

Get the full details of the exhibition at https://www.arch.columbia.edu/exhibitions/63-no-9-an-exhibition-by-frida-escobedo

James Brillon, a third-year M.Arch student at Columbia GSAPP, speaks with Joe Noero of Noero Architects on the occasion of his lecture at the school on October 16, 2017.

They discuss the relationship between democracy and architecture and how this is expressed in Noero’s Table House project: stacking structures that provide shack dwellers with a framework to both improve their homes and acquire skilled labor. They also consider what an architect gains from teaching, and Noero shares his advice for students: “Go where the work is. Leave America. Leave Western Europe: they’re finished. … Africa’s population is going to double in forty years time. It’s going to be the continent of the future. That’s where you should go.”

More information on Noero Architects at http://www.noeroarchitects.com/

Watch the full Jo Noero lecture video at https://www.arch.columbia.edu/events/729-jo-noero

James Brillon, a third-year M.Arch student at Columbia GSAPP, speaks with Joe Noero of Noero Architects on the occasion of his lecture at the school on October 16, 2017.

They discuss the relationship between democracy and architecture and how this is expressed in Noero’s Table House project: stacking structures that provide shack dwellers with a framework to both improve their homes and acquire skilled labor. They also consider what an architect gains from teaching, and Noero shares his advice for students: “Go where the work is. Leave America. Leave Western Europe: they’re finished. … Africa’s population is going to double in forty years time. It’s going to be the continent of the future. That’s where you should go.”

More information on Noero Architects at http://www.noeroarchitects.com/

Watch the full Jo Noero lecture video at https://www.arch.columbia.edu/events/729-jo-noero

Columbia GSAPP student Jarrett Ley speaks with James Wines on the occasion of his lecture at the school on October 9, 2017. Wines founded SITE, an environmental art and design organization, in New York City in 1970. His architecture, landscape and public space designs have been influential for decades. The work is based on a response to surrounding contexts, and spans more than one hundred and fifty projects internationally. Wines is also a Professor of Architecture at Penn State University, and he continues to write and lecture on integrative thinking and environmental issues internationally.

More information on SITE at http://www.siteenvirodesign.com/

See the full lecture video at https://www.arch.columbia.edu/events/727-james-wines

Columbia GSAPP student Jarrett Ley speaks with James Wines on the occasion of his lecture at the school on October 9, 2017. Wines founded SITE, an environmental art and design organization, in New York City in 1970. His architecture, landscape and public space designs have been influential for decades. The work is based on a response to surrounding contexts, and spans more than one hundred and fifty projects internationally. Wines is also a Professor of Architecture at Penn State University, and he continues to write and lecture on integrative thinking and environmental issues internationally.

More information on SITE at http://www.siteenvirodesign.com/

See the full lecture video at https://www.arch.columbia.edu/events/727-james-wines

GSAPP faculty and alumni Justin Garrett Moore (M.Arch/MSUD '04) speaks with alumni Rosanne Haggerty (MSRED '89) on the occasion of her lecture at the school on October 2, 2017. Haggerty is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Community Solutions, an organization dedicated to building effective local housing systems and creating new models of housing and community development to prevent homelessness.

Watch the lecture video at: www.arch.columbia.edu/events/725-rosanne-haggerty

More info about Community Solutions at: www.community.solutions

GSAPP faculty and alumni Justin Garret Moore (M.Arch/MSUD '04) speaks with alumni Rosanne Haggerty (MSRED '89) on the occasion of her lecture at the school on October 2, 2017. Haggerty is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Community Solutions, an organization dedicated to building effective local housing systems and creating new models of housing and community development to prevent homelessness.

Watch the lecture video at: www.arch.columbia.edu/events/725-rosanne-haggerty (http://www.arch.columbia.edu/events/725-rosanne-haggerty)

More info about Community Solutions at: www.community.solutions (http://www.community.solutions)

Dean Amale Andraos speaks with Mimi Hoang and Eric Bunge, founding partners of nARCHITECTS. Hoang and Bunge are Adjunct Assistant Professors at Columbia GSAPP, where they teach Core Architecture Studios. In this episode, they discuss the need to rethink a building’s interaction with the city and its occupants, teaching students to consider typological, social, and economic units in new ways, and finding an alternative way of presenting their office in print – as a project in itself, rather than a through a series of projects – with their forthcoming book “Buildings and Almost Buildings”. 

“Carmel Place is trying to reflect and respond to how we have changed — how the family structure has changed, how the demographics of cities have changed. All of that is pushing against our known assumptions of how we live. It was an extremely inspiring act to inset architecture into these much larger discussions about housing policy, zoning codes, etc., and to really insert architecture as a necessary act to respond to change.”

—Mimi Hoang on nARCHITECT's modular housing project for Kips Bay, New York.

nARCHITECTS: http://narchitects.com/

Carmel Place: https://www.aia.org/showcases/25486-carmel-place