A video essay composed by the GSAPP Collective for Beirut on the occasion of the discussion Emergency Architecture and Planning: Recovering Beirut Post-Explosion at Columbia GSAPP on November 12, 2020.
EMERGENCY ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING draws on parallels between the Beirut blast and the previous social, ecological, political, and economic crisis that shaped the architecture and planning of the city. The video essay examines Beirut across scales, times, environments built or otherwise, and multiple crises exploring architecture and cities in a time of emergency and political deadlock.
GSAPP Collective for Beirut representatives include alumni, Iyad Abou Gaida (‘19 MS.AAD), Marylynn Pauline Antaki (‘19 MS.AAD), Aude Azzi (‘18 MS.AAD), Charles Hajj (‘16 MS.AAD), Mayssa Jallad (‘17 MS.HP), Ibrahim Kombarji (’20 MS.AAD), Dina Mahmoud (‘14 MS.AAD), Maya Rafih (‘11 MS.AAD), Roula Salamoun (‘11 MS.AAD), and current students Aya Abdallah (‘22 M.ARCH), Mickaella Pharaon (‘22 M.ARCH) with additional contributors Jonathan Dagher, Jad Moghnieh, and Karim Nasser.
GSAPP Collective for Beirut is an interdisciplinary student and alumni organization dedicated to the promotion, discussion, and reflection of contemporary issues in the middle east, and Lebanon specifically. It was founded organically in 2020, in the aftermath of the Beirut blast by a group of like-minded students and alumni who studied asynchronously at Columbia University. They are currently based both in Beirut and abroad (New York, London, Amsterdam, Toronto).
The recording of the full conversation is available here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dlpn27x0Tn0&feature=emb_logo
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