Gsapp Conversations

Columbia GSAPP Associate Professor Mabel O. Wilson ('91 M.Arch) speaks with Sharon Sutton ('73 M.Arch) about the publication of her new book, When Ivory Towers Were Black, which tells the story of how an unparalleled cohort of ethnic minority students earned degrees from Columbia University’s School of Architecture during a time of fierce struggles to open the ivory tower to ethnic minority students.

In this second episode of GSAPP Conversations, Dean Amale Andraos speaks with Spanish architect and GSAPP Professor Juan Herreros about the relationship between teaching and practicing architecture, and how Herreros has carefully designed a particular way of working globally. Herreros, who co-founded Abalos&Herreros in 1984 and currently leads estudioHerreros, gives insight into how working sensitively in foreign settings also helps to develop a robust local practice, and how he is bringing new models of emerging practices to his students in GSAPP’s Advanced Architecture Studios. "...the students want to know how to establish a practice. And I think we have to stop that question and say, no—the question is not how to establish. The question is why establish, for what, and what is the design of the practice you want to start?" - Juan Herreros

Based on a collection of conversations recorded in Avery Hall at a conference entitled Exhibition Models: Curating Architecture (https://www.arch.columbia.edu/events/292-exhibition-models-curating-architecture), and at the CCA in Montréal, this podcast—written and produced by James Taylor-Foster—considers the format, role, and impact of the architectural exhibition in different settings, ranging from established institutions to project-based Biennale and Triennale.