Abstract 2016

Abstract is the yearly publication of work and research from the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP). Produced through the Office of the Dean Amale Andraos, the archive of student work contains documentation of exceptional projects, selected by faculty at the conclusion of each semester. The 2016 edition includes the applied research of the school's laboratories and projects from design studios taught by Kunlé Adeyemi, Benjamin Aranda, Gro Bonesmo, Eric Bunge and Mimi Hoang, Frida Escobedo, Jeanne Gang, Juan Herreros, Andrés Jaque, Laura Kurgan, Jing Liu, LOT-EK, Kate Orff, Jorge Otero-Pailos, Thomas Phifer, Hilary Sample, Bernard Tschumi, and others. This encyclopedic volume is conceived as both an organizational model for the school and a testament to the global distribution of the work included within.

Amale Andraos is the dean of Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. She has taught at numerous institutions including the Princeton University School of Architecture, the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the University of Pennsylvania Design School, and the American University in Beirut. Andraos is committed to research and publications. Her work has recently explored the question of representation by re-examining the concept of the 'Arab City.' Andraos was born in Beirut, Lebanon. She has lived in Saudi Arabia, France, Canada, and the Netherlands prior to moving to New York in 2002. She serves on the board of the Architectural League of New York, the Advisory Board of the Arab Center for Architecture in Beirut and is a member of the faculty steering committee for the Columbia Global Centers - Middle East.

Jesse Seegers is an Editor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. He received a Masters of Architecture degree from Princeton University and a Bachelors of Arts from New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Previously, he was 2013-2014 Power Corporation of Canada Curatorial Intern at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, edited AGENDA: Can We Sustain Our Ability to Crisis? (Actar, 2009) at JDS/Julien De Smedt Architects in Brussels and Copenhagen, worked for Rem Koolhaas' Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in New York, and creative Parisian strategy and fashion brand Surface to Air Studio.