Karen Kubey of Pratt Institute and Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation is presenting a lecture titled “Collaborative Approaches, New Forms of Housing, and a New Kind of Architect” as part of the Gibbs Spring 2022 Goff Lecture Series. Karen is among the 2021-2022 Bruce Goff Chairs of Creative Architecture at the University of Oklahoma.
The lecture will take place April 8th at 2:00p.m. in Gould Hall Rm. 155. Karen Kubey’s work centers questions, people, and places that the discipline of architecture has too often marginalized. Drawing on her creative practice and stories from her book Housing as Intervention: Architecture towards Social Equity, she will explore ways to bring unlikely partners together to design and achieve ambitious shared outcomes.
Karen Kubey is an urbanist specializing in housing and health. She is the editor of Housing as Intervention: Architecture towards Social Equity (Architectural Design, 2018) and served as the first executive director of the Institute for Public Architecture. Kubey co-founded the New York chapter of Architecture for Humanity (now Open Architecture/New York) and co-founded and led the New Housing New York design competition. Holding degrees in architecture from the University of California, Berkeley and the Columbia University Graduate School for Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), Kubey began her career as a designer of below-market housing. She has received support from the New York State Council on the Arts and MacDowell. Currently a Visiting Associate Professor at Pratt Institute and an Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia GSAPP, she was a 2019-20 Faculty Fellow in Design for Spatial Justice at the University of Oregon.
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The Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture announces John Harris as Associate Dean for Research ad interim, effective Aug. 25, 2026, until the permanent position is filled.
Gibbs College is pleased to announce the 2026 Gibbs College Faculty & Staff Awards recipients. These individuals were recognized by Dean Butzer during the Gibbs College Back to School Meeting and will be honored during the Celebration Banquet in October. They were nominated by their colleagues via an open nomination process.
Telesis, the Gibbs College of Architecture’s student journal, has been awarded a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts to support its next two issues, “Pause” (Volume IX) and “React” (Volume X).
