Call for Applications: 2026 Buell Graduate Fellowship, an annual award for historical research on the built environment, including but not limited to architecture, urbanism, landscape, and the building sciences
Frederik Braüner joins as Buell Research & Teaching Fellow in August 2026. His project, "Building a Modern High North," examines how architecture and urban planning functioned as tools of colonial expansion and welfare governance across the Global High North
Announcing the winners of the 2026 Course Development Prize in "Architecture, Climate Change, and Society" from the Buell Center and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA)
February 26, 2026, 12 pm: A talk by Byron Hamman; Response by Benjamin Anderson
March 13, 2026: A conference on property through histories of its fabrication and episodes of its destruction. Organized by Buell Fellows, Sonali Dhanpal and Chelsea Spencer
March 27, 2026: This symposium, part of the Beyond France series in the University Seminar, examines architecture and urban planning in 20th Century Senegal. Organized by Lucia Allais and Ralph Ghoche
An architectural history of Columbia’s campus’s land, as told from its oldest surviving building
Announcing Grey Room Fall 2025 No. 101, developed in conjunction with the Center’s 2024 conference, State Effects
October 31, 2025, 12 pm: Talks by Yasmina El Chami (Sheffield) and Sophia Roosth (NYU); Response by Spyros Papapetros
October 23, 2025, 12 pm: Talks by Jonathan Levy (UChicago) and Courtney Bender (Columbia); Response by Chelsea Spencer
November 20, 2025, 12 pm: Book talk with Alexander Wood; Response by Jonah Rowen (Vassar)
A new season of occasional talks on landed abundance, as constructed with architectural means, in the United States and beyond.
Announcing the recipients of the 2025 Buell Graduate Fellowship, an annual award for historical research on the built environment, including but not limited to architecture, urbanism, landscape, and the building sciences
Chelsea Spencer joins as Buell Research & Teaching Fellow in August 2025. Her project, "The Contract, the Contractor, and the Capitalization of American Building," traces how building became contracting in the United States during the 19th century’s “age of contract.”
March 28-29, 2025: This biennial colloquium brings together doctoral students working on topics related to the history, theory, and criticism of American architecture, urbanism, and landscape.
A public conference, on September 27, 2024, reframing the relationship of the state and the built environment.
Announcing the winners of the 2025 Course Development Prize in "Architecture, Climate Change, and Society" from the Buell Center and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA)
The Buell Center hosts discussions with scholars, artists, and practitioners whose work helps to redefine architecture’s imbrications with land in and out of the Americas.
This Buell Center and AD—WO installation for the 5th Chicago Architecture Biennial unsettles the historical and ongoing dynamics of enclosure and dispossession, by juxtaposing them with reminders of living otherwise.
A November 2 discussion marking the launch of "Architecture and Land in and out of the Americas" at Chicago's Thompson Center in conjunction with the Fifth Chicago Architecture Biennial
Celebrating 3 Buell projects : a book launch, an installation, and toast to 40 years of the Buell. With talks by Jo Guldi, Timothy Hyde, Manu Karuka, Alek Bierig, Floating Museum and AD-WO.
This biennial colloquium brings together doctoral students working on topics related to the history, theory, and criticism of American architecture, urbanism, and landscape.
A March 3rd discussion marking the launch of "Architecture in Development: Systems and the Emergence of the Global South" (Routledge, 2022)
On September 21st, the Buell Center marked the launch of "Green Reconstruction: A Curricular Toolkit for the Built Environment"
A digital archive tracing the spatial cultures of Broken Windows policing, developed in collaboration with the Queens Museum's "Year of Uncertainty"
POWER challenges participants to think about how infrastructure relates to life across a series of intersecting concerns, including democratic governance and climate justice.
How to live together? Wright’s exurban settlement of single-family houses offered one possible answer; large public housing in cities presented another. Although these two visions seem a world apart, they share a common history. Exhibited at the Wallach Gallery in the fall of 2017.