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Mark Wasiuta, Director of Critical, Curatorial & Conceptual Practices at GSAPP, together with Theodora Vardouli and Farzin Lotfi-Jam ‘12 MSAAD, have been selected to represent Canada at the 2027 Venice Architecture Biennale.

“Early Warning Architecture situates architecture at the centre of the most urgent technological, environmental and geopolitical issues of our time. The exhibition makes visible an immense structure of physical and informational systems that we collectively inhabit, often unknowingly. These systems continually monitor the environment, translate it into signals, process the signals to calculate risk and issue warnings that drive pre-emptive action and response.”

The exhibition will be presented at the Canada Pavilion from May 8 to November 21, 2027. Congratulations to the team!

NEW LANDSCAPE OF REMEMBRANCE: SACRED TURN IN JEJU ISLAND CAVES reimagines the sealed refuge caves of Seonheul Village, sites where civilians hid during the Jeju 4·3 Incident, as a continuous landscape of memory.

Circular ponds replace metal fences, creating soft boundaries that protect the caves while preserving continuity. Rainwater is collected, stored, and directed toward nearby tangerine farms, connecting remembrance to ongoing agricultural cycles. Community programs further reconnect the caves with everyday life without disturbing their interiors.

Through this approach, water offers a spatial logic rooted in depth, movement, and gradual change. Boundaries operate without walls, circulation follows cycles rather than fixed paths, and memory is maintained through material processes rather than static monuments. In this way, resilience is the design of conditions in which people, materials, and landscapes continually respond to one another over time.

Project by Yeonjoon Kang and Andrew Seungho Yang for Advanced Studio V (Fall 2025), led by Ziad Jamaleddine .

Spring faculty highlight: Takaharu + Yui Tezuka, Dean’s Visiting Assistant Professor | Advanced Architecture Studio VI

TAKAHARU + YUI TEZUKA founded the Tokyo-based firm Tezuka Architects in 1994. Recent recognition includes the Japan Institute of Architects Prize, Association for Children’s Environment Design Award, OECD/CELE 4th Compendium of Exemplary Educational Facilities, and a Global Award for Sustainable Architecture.

This semester, the Tezukas taught SCHOOL FOR SHARING: Toward an Alternative Educational Paradigm (Advanced Studio VI), where students designed a school grounded on the principle of shared knowledge. The studio, Co-taught with Abraham Murrell, asked students to propose spatial, social, and organizational strategies to allow 100 children ranging from ages 3 to 18 to coexist and learn together without hierarchical age divisions.

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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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.

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

Congratulations to GSAPP’s Class of 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.

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

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 .