Art and Architecture

This collaboration between Columbia University School of the Arts and Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) focuses on the study and incubation of contemporary overlaps between the disciplines of art and architecutre. Featured guests in the ongoing series of joint lectures, performances and screenings include Doug Aitken, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Thomas Demand, Michelle Fornabai, Liam Gillick, Josiah McElheny, Heather Rowe (’01SOA), Galia Solomonoff, and Andrea Zittel. 

Upcoming Events:

Fri, Jun 17, 8:30 pm
PLAT/FORM Lecture with MONAD Studio / Eric Goldemberg + Veronica Zalcber:
Pulsation: Rhythmic Perception in Space
BOB the Pavilion, Columbia University between Avery and Fayerweather Halls (2960 Broadway at 116th St)

PLAT/FORM is an exclusively student-run event series from the Graduate School of Design, Planning and Preservation - GSAPP  that regularly provides a venue for those within the student body who wish to express their ideas in an informal setting.

Bob The Pavilion was supported by a grant from Columbia University School of the Arts (SOA) and Graduate School of Architecture, Preservation, and Planning (GSAPP).

FREE and open to all.

Past Events:

Mon, Oct 4, 2010
Doubtful Utopia: A Gathering of Scheerbart Scholars
Organized by Josiah McElheny in association with Goethe-Institut New York

Participants included Carol Becker, Dean of Faculty, Columbia University School of the Arts; Spyros Papapetros, Princeton University School of Architecture; moderated by Branden W. Joseph, Professor, Columbia University Department of Art History and Archaeology Screenings by Heather Rowe (’01SOA); Eileen Quinlan (’05SOA); Josiah McElheny and Jeff Preiss, Epoch Films

Thu, Feb 11, 2010
Artists in Conversation: Pictures and Places
Michael Craig-Martin and Liam Gillick, Visual Arts Adjunct Faculty
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall

Tue, Jan 26, 2010
No Fixed Points in Space: Transferring Form, Time, and Narrative
between Architecture and Performance
Miller Theatre

Performances by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company’s Repertory Understudy Group
Panel discussion with Trevor Carlson, Michelle Fornabai, Paul Kaiser, Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky), Tere O’Connor, and Bernard Tschumi
Moderated and curated by Annie K. Kwon

Cosponsored by Barnard Dance, and Cunningham Dance Foundation

Thu, Nov 19, 2009
Cross-disciplinary dialogue on materials and artistic and architectural practice
Heather Rowe (’01SOA) and Michelle Fornabai (GSAPP Faculty)
Studio-X

In conjunction with Studio-X, a downtown studio for experimental design and research run by GSAPP

Wed, Nov 11, 2009
Energetic Accumulators and Ideological Resonators
Andrea Zittel
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall


Wed, Apr 1, 2009
Doug Aitken
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
 

Wed, Apr 15, 2009
Fiction, Fact & Fabrication
Thomas Demand
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall