CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/14/2025

Columbia GSAPP presents 'The Library is Open 23: Archigram Facsimile' with Beatriz Colomina Thomas Evans, Amelyn Ng, David Grahame Shane, Bernard Tschumi & Bart-Jan Polman

Friday, November 14, at 1PM, Columbia GSAPP presents a special Library is Open panel discussing the new facsimile edition of Archigram magazine published by D.A.P. and Designers & Books, together with Beatriz Colomina (Princeton), Thomas Evans (D.A.P.), Amelyn Ng (GSAPP), David Grahame Shane (GSAPP), and Bernard Tschumi (GSAPP, Bernard Tschumi Architects), who will be in a conversation moderated by Bart-Jan Polman (GSAPP). Register here if you are a non-CU affiliate and would like to attend this event.

Beatriz Colomina is an internationally renowned architectural historian and theorist who has written extensively on questions of architecture, art, technology, sexuality, and media. She is the Howard Crosby Butler Professor of Architecture and the Founding Director of the interdisciplinary Media and Modernity Program at Princeton University.

Her books include Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media (1994), Domesticity at War (2007), Clip/Stamp/Fold (2010), Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design (2016), X-Ray Architecture (2019), and Radical Pedagogies (2022). Her exhibitions include Clip/Stamp/Fold (2006), Playboy Architecture (2012), Radical Pedagogies (2014) and Sick Architecture (2022). In 2016 she was co-curator with Mark Wigley of the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial on the theme of "Are We Human?" She is Doctor Honoris Causa by the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. In 2020 she was awarded the Ada Louise Huxtable Prize for her contributions to the field of architecture. In 2022 she was inducted as member of the Royal Academy of Doctors of Spain and in 2024 she received an Architecture Award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York. She recently co-curated with Mark Wigley the exhibition We the Bacteria: Notes Toward Biotic Architecture for the 2025 Milan Triennale.

Thomas Evans is the Editorial Director at Artbook | D.A.P. He is the author of Furniture Without Rest and editor of The Outwardness of Art: Selected Writings of Adrian Stokes among other publications.

Amelyn Ng is an architect, researcher, and Assistant Professor of Architecture at Columbia GSAPP. She has previously taught at the Rhode Island School of Design and Rice University.

Ng holds a Master of Science in Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices at Columbia GSAPP, and a Master of Architecture and Bachelor of Environments from the University of Melbourne. She is a registered architect in the State of Victoria, Australia.

Working at the intersection of architecture and media studies, her research and creative practice contend with relationships between matter and representation, and seek alternate narratives to the status quo of building.

Ng is a co-founder of Friends Making Work, a design collective based in NYC. Her creative practice engages themes of waste, material economy, and planetary extraction, while her research examines the socio-technical relations of architectural representation with a focus on entanglements between labor, technology, and material conditions. From time to time, she also draws cartoons.

David Grahame Shane is Adjunct Professor in the Urban Design program at Columbia GSAPP. Shane studied architecture at the Architectural Association, London, graduating in 1969 with his Dream City Thesis published in the AA125 Volume (1972). He continued with an M.Arch in Urban Design (1971) and then an Architectural and Urban History Ph.D. (1978) with Colin Rowe at Cornell University. Professor Rowe incorporated Shane’s Urban Patterns in London drawing into Collage City (1978). After Cornell Shane organized the First Year Unit 1 Urban Design studio for Alvin Boyarsky at the AA 1972-76 and then taught at Bennington College while completing his PhD., coming to Columbia in 1985. During this period he published widely in Architectural Design (London), Lotus International (Milan) and Artforum (NYC). In 1990 he started teaching Urban Design studios and added UD seminars from 1991-97. He then switched to the Recombinant Urbanism Seminar in the Spring Semester 1998. During this period he also taught at the University of Pennsylvania, the Cooper Union, and at City College with Professor Michael Sorkin in the UD Program (2000-2005).

He has published in architectural journals in Europe, the USA and Asia. Recent examples include Block, Superblock and Megablock; A Short History (2014) online at Archiduecitta, Chinese Rapid Urbanization and the Megacity in Cities in Transition (NAi, 2015) and A Short History of Hong Kong Malls and Towers in Stefan Als (Ed.) Mall City (2016).

Bernard Tschumi is an architect based in New York and Paris. First known as a theorist, he exhibited and published The Manhattan Transcripts and wrote a series of theoretical essays collected in Architecture and Disjunction. Major built works include the Parc de la Villette in Paris; the Acropolis Museum in Athens; Le Fresnoy in Tourcoing, France; concert halls in Rouen and Limoges, France; architecture schools in Marne-la-Vallée, France and Miami, Florida; Binhai Science Museum in Tianjin, China; and large educational centers for Paris-Saclay University and for Institut Le Rosey near Geneva. Tschumi is Professor and Dean Emeritus at Columbia University’s GSAPP, where he served as Dean from 1988 to 2003. He is the author of many publications including Architecture Concepts: Red is Not a Color and the five-volume Event-Cities series. His drawings and models are in the collections of major museums including The Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, which each presented a major retrospective of his work in 1994 and 2014.

THE LIBRARY IS OPEN 23: Archigram Facsimile
Friday, November 14, 1 PM
Columbia University
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
1172 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, New York 10027

Register here if you are a non-CU affiliate and would like to attend this event.