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Architecture School News

October 4, 2007

For GSAPP, the highlight of the year was the school’s 125th anniversary celebration, which saw more than 300 alumni from the U.S. and six foreign countries return to Columbia in late October 2006 to celebrate with faculty, students, and friends.

The weekend’s highlight was the 125th Anniversary Party in Low Library, where current architecture students created and installed a Trusset System using techniques and materials acquired in the Avery Digital Fabrication Laboratory, and lighting studio students worked with lighting designers Tillett Lighting Design, Inc., to create a lighting installation, the first of its kind at Low Library.

Other notable activities included the weekend introduction by Columbia President Lee C. Bollinger LW’71; keynote lectures by Peter Eisenman ARCH’60 and Antoine Predock ARCH’62; a discussion with the three deans—Wigley, Tschumi, and Polshek—about the biggest pedagogical issues facing the School during their tenure and in the present; program sessions led by the faculty; tours of the Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library and the Avery Digital Fabrication Laboratory; cake and champagne toasting 125 years; and a roundtable discussion at the Center for Architecture featuring architectural curators from leading cultural institutions around the world.