Rescheduled for Fall '25: April 17, 2025, 12 pm: Talks by Yasmina El Chami (Sheffield) and Sophia Roosth (NYU); Response by Spyros Papapetros
Call for 2025 Buell Center Graduate Fellowships for historical research on the built environment
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.”
A new season of occasional talks on landed abundance, as constructed with architectural means, in the United States and beyond.
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.
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)
A public conference, on September 27, 2024, reframing the relationship of the state and the built environment.
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.
Sonali Dhanpal joins Columbia as Buell Research & Teaching Fellow in September 2024. Her project, “Caste and the City,” is a history of land, housing, and caste power in Bangalore, India, in colonial modernity.
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.
Announcing the recipients of the 2024 Buell Center Graduate Fellowships for historical research on the built environment.
Maura Lucking, the Inaugural Buell Teaching & Research Fellow, joins Columbia in January 2024. Her project “Settler Campus” is a book-length architectural history of the public college movement in the 19th-Century United States.
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.