Dear Apen, you are an anthropologist specialized in heritage and community building and gender perspective in urban development. Do you believe there is a need to increase the collaboration between…
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On the last 22nd of October, we had Brett Moore as a guest professor of our program, we took this opportunity to interview him about humanitarian Architecture and the relevance…
In February, we welcomed back our guest professor Sergio Palleroni to teach the seminar Public Interest Design and Development Metrics. In this seminar based on a case study approach, our…
In October, guest professor Gonzalo Lizarralde visited to teach the seminar “Unnatural Disasters – Controversies in Low-Cost Housing and Post-Disaster Reconstruction”. During the seminar, our students explored the connections between social injustices,…
“In terms of access to housing and right to the city, the question is, how do you help poor people access enough power to lay claim to space?” This week…
During his last workshop for our master program, we sat down with our guest professor Nabeel Hamdi, participatory planning pioneer and professor at Oxford Brookes University, for a quick interview…
Alejandro Haiek downplays his role as architect in defense of a slow yet transformative architecture ultimately powered by the community. Last November, we welcomed Venezuelan architect Alejandro Haiek as visiting…
We interviewed the director of Columbia University GSAPP’s Latin Lab, Clara Irazabal, during her two two-week workshop “Learning from Latin American Cities: Planning and Urbanization” with our students. The Caracas-born…
Listen to Camillo Boano talk about his recent workshop with our students, in which he emphasized the importance of understanding critical theory in transforming and improving the development practice. Throughout…
“What we regularly see in developmental efforts around the world is that the economic ambitions of a few are predatory of the environment and detrimental to equity.” Clara Irazabal is…
