This one-day conference organized by Assistant Professor Hiba Bou Akar, brought leading planning and urban scholars who are re-thinking the field of urban planning...
From the graphics of advocacy campaigns to the use of speculative fiction and data visualization in both environmental activism and design practice, multimedia storytelling...
The climate emergency demands that the ways we build, and think about building, change radically. But how? We are in a rapidly evolving, paradoxical...
The United States is an aging society with growing economic inequality and socio-cultural diversity. Age-associated disadvantages, such as declining health, overlap with unequal access...
The development of urban digital technologies and the deployment of digital information have evolved into a mutually reinforcing feedback loop between distributed sites of...
How can ecosystems contribute to quality of life and a more livable, healthier and more resilient urban environment?
Have you ever considered all the different...
A two-day symposium organized by Nasser Rabbat, Aga Khan Professor, and Deen Sharp,
AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow. Sponsored by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture...
Are you an urban planner, designer, policy maker or involved or interested in the creation of good living environments?
This course will broaden your scope...
A one-day conference exploring the future of land-based transportation.
The urgency of radical action to mitigate the causes of climate change is more apparent every...
Definitions of the smart city tend to share an interest in transforming urban life through networked electronics and data collection at all scales: from...
Urban Playspaces Conference,organized as a part of Istanbul95 program, focuses on children’s urban experiences and play opportunities and will bring together speakers from the...
Although generally hidden from consumers, international maritime transport is the backbone of the globalized economy—and accounts for approximately 2.2% of the world’s CO2 emissions....
The development of air travel has been a primary contributor to globalization by collapsing distance and time. Since the mid-twentieth century, demand has consistently...
Preservation of Texas’ historic African-American communities, repositories of black heritage and culture that are increasingly imperiled by natural and economic threats, was the focus...
Technology increasingly mediates the way that knowledge, power, and culture interact to create and transform the cities we live in. Ways of Knowing Cities is a...
You’ll learn about today’s urban challenges focusing on developing countries, referred to as the global south. We will debate the benefits of three pathways,...
In the Arabian Peninsula, public spaces are often most used after darkness falls, and the temperature along with it. This symposium explores typologies of...
A real estate symposium on public-private partnerships featuring conversations about the design and development of the High Line and the Downtown Brooklyn Cultural District...
Other Desires: The African City examines the ways in which rapid urbanization on the African continent in the twenty-first century has given rise to...
The symposium brings together urban educators to discuss how new practices and research have changed urban design conventions and disciplinary assumptions. This is a...
In the wake of events in Ferguson, Staten Island, and around the country, three organizations at the Harvard Graduate School of Design will come together to...
In nearly all American cities, clean drinking water is available with the turn of the tap. Behind the spigot, however, is an energy-intensive system...
Moving beyond reductive notions of identity, myths of authenticity, fetishized traditionalism, or the constructed opposition of tradition and modernity, The Arab City: Architectural and Representation...
With the wave of baby boomers reaching retirement age, America’s older population is in the midst of unprecedented growth. Ensuring that older adults have...
The Five Thousand Pound Life: The Energy Issue was a symposium on energy and architecture organized by The Architectural League and the Columbia University...
Co-sponsored by the Department of Epidemiology at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, the...
Gateway Cities are midsize urban centers in Massachusetts facing stubborn social and economic challenges, but with many assets that have unrealized potential. Our half-day...
The fifth annual conference on cities and modern urban realities will bring together scholars from architecture, civil engineering, sociology, and other disciplines, with practitioners...
In the last two decades, the concept of urban metabolism, aiming to grasp the continuous processes of energy, material and population exchange within and...
Course Description
This course covers theories about the form that settlements should take and attempts a distinction between descriptive and normative theory by examining examples...
A symposium on transportation and development in London and New York organized by Kate Ascher, Columbia University GSAPP, with support from the Durst Family...
No building is an island – and in the context of the city, architecture takes shape in relation to the street. Arcadesand façade treatments, lighting fixtures and...
Leading architects and planners discuss recent urban projects, public space, and architecture in Chile, including redevelopment interventions after the 2010 earthquake that destroyed urban...
The overall theme turns on the difference between absence and presence in the city. This difference lies both physically—who is actually on the street?;...
Colombia at Columbia: Innovations in Architecture and Urbanism seeks to critically explore Colombian urban-design transformations of the past 20 years as potential models of...
The AA has been very central to the evolution of ideas about the informal city and the formulation of strategies to deal with it. The AA Research Cluster...
The contemporary conditions that are shaping the built environment globally are of an unprecedented scale and complexity creating the need for a critical evaluation...
Reflections on 25 Years in Real Estate: Density, Sustainability, and Global Finance A symposium organized by Kate Ascher, Milstein Professor of Urban Development, Columbia...
Ecogram IV: China is curated by Ioanna Theocharopoulou, Parsons The New School for Design and Jeffrey Johnson, GSAPP, in collaboration with Saskia Sassen, Committee...
BitCity 2011: Transportation, Data, and Technology in Cities The Sigurd Grava Symposium on Infrastructure
Opening Remarks
Elliot Sclar, Columbia University GSAPP and SIPA
"Start-Up" Transportation Planning:...
The Architectural Association is pleased to host the 8th AHRA Research Student Symposium. The one–day event will provide a platform for PhD candidates to...
This colloquium addresses the complex relations between urban artifacts and urban life. Architects, planners, and urban designers describe and give shape to the city,...
A panel of landscape architects, urban designers, and other designers discussed the challenges they feel are present within the contemporary evolution of urban design...
A New Infrastructure: Competition announcement
The coordinators of SCI-Arc's Future Initiatives program outline the aspects, rules, and awards of the A New Infrastructure competition which...
After years of decline Liverpool has undergone an astonishing revival, culminating in its designation during 2008 as ‘European Capital Of Culture’, and the recent...
The symposium consists of specialized presentations by the each panelist describing current conditions. David Bergman reviews the history of the 2008 economic crisis, the...
The Intimate Metropolis: Domesticating the City, Infiltrating the RoomThe distinction between ‘public’ and ‘private’ is entrenched in our value judgements, our systems of legislation,...
The video begins with the conclusion of a presentation on the obstacles to low-density housing in Los Angeles by Angela Brooks-Scarpa.
Gary Paige introduces a...
A symposium co-organized by the Housing and Urbanism programme of the AA Graduate School and the Centre for Brazilian Studies of the University of Oxford. As one of...
The Dutch government plans to build one million houses by the year 2010. What makes the Dutch situation unique is the employment – and the influence...
Speakers:
Part 1:
Michael Ellison – Introduction.
Marc Treib – Nature Recalled.
Jeff Kipnis – Revisiting the Building Landscape Threshold.
Q & A session with speakers chaired...
From ‘Architecture and Complexity’ conference. During the late 1960s and early 1970s a call for greater complexity in architecture and urban design arose. Simultaneously,...
A one-day interchange of ideas on urban design in London and Berlin by the Urban Design Group.
Part 1:
Hans Stimmann, Director of Berlin’s Senate Department for...
A memorial event to the late Alvin Boyarsky, Chairman of the AA from 1971 to 1990. The city was one of Boyarsky’s greatest enthusiasms, infusing his...
