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Our Summer and Fall 2021 Courses
To address questions about the upcoming summer semester, Department Chair Karen Fairbanks will hold a drop-in Q&A session for students at 12:00 PM on Friday, February 26th. An email invitation to this drop-in Zoom session has been sent to all architecture majors, minors, and enrolled architecture students.
Additionally, our department will hold a Fall 2021 Program Planning Meeting at 12:00 PM on Monday, March 29th, where we will review our course offerings and other details related to the fall semester. An email invitation to this Zoom meeting has been sent to all architecture majors, minors, and enrolled architecture students.
As always, students who are unable to attend our meetings are encouraged to meet with a faculty advisor in our department.
Contact Us
During the 2020-2021 academic year, our department will be operating remotely. Current and prospective architecture students are welcome to call us at 212-854-8430, email us at architecture@barnard.edu, and utilize our Zoom drop-in office hours to address quick questions about our courses or programs of study.
Here is our Zoom drop-in schedule:
Mondays: 3-4 PM
Tuesdays: 3-4 PM
Wednesdays: 2-3 PM
Thursdays: 2-3 PM
Fridays: 2-3 PM
For more in-depth questions, prospective students are encouraged to schedule an appointment with the Architecture Department Chair or Administrator. Current architecture students are encouraged to book an appointment with one of our architecture faculty advisors.
Our Programs of Study
The Barnard and Columbia Architecture Department is excited to launch its revised curriculum beginning in Fall 2020! The new curriculum requirements will apply to all incoming first-year students in Fall 2020. Existing majors (students who matriculated in the academic year 2019-2020 and earlier) can choose to complete either the major requirements in place at the time of their matriculation or the new requirements.
News
We are excited to announce that Professor Siddiqi's working group, Insurgent Domesticities, will be launching at the Center for the Study of Social Difference (CSSD) in the 2020-2021 academic year!
July 15, 2020
Congratulations to our alumna, Anda French (BC’02), on winning the Progressive Architecture (P/A) Award! Anda and her sister, Jenny French, are co-founders of French 2D, an architecture studio located in Boston. Their award-winning project is Bay State Commons Cohousing located in Malden, Massachusetts, which was featured in the March 2020 issue of Architect Magazine.
June 22, 2020
Galán will be participating in the 17th International Architecture Exhibition alongside Matilde Cassani (Architectural Association), Iván L. Munuera (Princeton University), and Joel Sanders (Yale University). The exhibit is curated by Hashim Sarkis.
In light of the current global situation surrounding COVID-19, the Biennale Architettura has been postponed. The exhibit will be held from August 29th through November 29th.
April 24, 2020
Alum Joshua Foster (CC'16) Co-Founds Mint MAG
Joshua Foster (CC'16) is currently an Architectural Designer at KFA Architecture where he passionately works on both affordable and market-rate housing projects throughout Los Angeles, CA. In addition to his work as a designer, Joshua is on the board of the Southern California chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA), a speaker on the topics of Architecture and Community Impact Entrepreneurship, and an entrepreneur who has co-founded multiple community-focused ventures, including MintMAG.
Learn more about Josh's career path in this interview by VoyageLA Magazine and read the latest issue of Mint MAG here.
5 Questions with Shannon Hui (BC'22)
The architecture and psychology major shares her vision for a New York City landmark as a finalist in the Reimagining Brooklyn Bridge Competition.
Read About B+C | A in The Eye
"The metal double doors click open. I step into 116B Lewisohn Hall, down the main aisle, where rows of desks are housed in an entirely white room: white-painted exposed brick walls, white plaster ceilings, and white linoleum floors. Inside, students and a professor critique one student’s architectural model. Huddled together, they squint, furrow their brows, and tilt their heads to the left and to the right. The way they all lean into the discussion draws me in and makes me want to join.
“The desk,” Professor Karen Fairbanks, chair of Barnard and Columbia’s Architecture Department, explains to me in a later interview, “is the beginning of our relationship with our students.” Having taught at Columbia and Barnard for over 21 years, Fairbanks has watched and worked with hundreds of students who, hunched over their desk spaces, toil over models and develop their minds as architects."
Dancing with Design
