Columbia GSAPP 2025 End of Year Show

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students in pale blue graduation gowns gather closely against a 2m diameter blood red print resembling the moon

Following the identity for GSAPP’s academic year, the end of year show places emphasis on “the end” and combines fonts referential to late antiquity, the dark ages, the enlightenment and the industrial revolution, nodding towards the cataclysmic era in which we find ourselves as a result of geopolitical regime change, looming general artificial intelligence and climate collapse. Measurements along the margins of deliverables keep a diary of my garden in the summer, using moon phases as a unit of measure. Whenever I think about the end of the world I look at the moon and think of an infinite being named Qfwq gathering lunar milk peacefully just before the moment of impact with the Earth’s surface.

Web development by Linked by Air. Collaborators include director of exhibitions / curator: Bart-jan Polman, dean: Andrés Jaque, assistant curator: Jean Im, creative director: Ibrahim Kombarji, assistant director of communications: Ilana Curtis, director of internal exhibitions and events: Kendra Sykes, assistant dean of admissions and outreach: Steffen Boddeker, everyone contributed creative feedback.

a poster with 2 different pairs, one red one blue, of overlapping fonts reading
the same poster tiled in a stairwell landing at Columbia’s Avery Hall
a blue, 2m high wooden icon of a bean pod with faces and yelling mouths instead of beans cut away
a blue icon of a 1m wide wooden tomato plant, roots exposed, growing tomatoes with yelling mouths
website title image for the master in critical, curatorial, and conceptual practices
website title image for the master in urban planning
website title image for the master in historic preservation
website title image for the master in computational design practices
website title image for the intro to architecture
website title image for the tech course