Abstract 2017

Abstract is the yearly publication of work and research from the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation. 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 2017 edition includes the applied research of the school's laboratories and projects from design studios taught by Eric Bunge and Mimi Hoang, Kersten Geers, Juan Herreros, Steven Holl, Andres Jaque, Momoyo Kaijima and Yoshiharu Tsukumoto, and Laura Kurgan, Jing Liu, LOT-EK, Reinhold Martin, Umberto Napolitano, Kate Orff, Jorge Otero-Pailos, Rural Urban Framework, Hilary Sample, Bernard Tschumi, and Enrique Walker and many 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, and co-founder of WORKac, a 35-person architectural firm based in New York that focuses on architectural projects which re-invent the relationship between urban and natural environments.

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.