Join the Post-Conflict Cities Lab and GSAPP MS and PhD Students for a talk with Nora Akawi (The Cooper Union) and Léopold Lambert (The Funambulist).

Nora Akawi is a Palestinian architect and an assistant professor at The Cooper Union. She focuses on erasure and bordering in settler colonialism and works at the intersection of architecture with border studies, cartography, and archive theory. Nora previously taught at GSAPP, where she was the director of Studio-X Amman since 2012, and the founding director of the Janet Abu-Lughod Library and Seminar since 2015. Read more. 

Léopold Lambert is the editor-in-chief of The Funambulist,  a platform that engages with the politics of space and bodies. He is a trained architect, as well as the author of four books that examine the inherent violence of architecture on bodies, and its political instrumentalization at various scales and in various geographical contexts. Read more. 

Please note that in-person attendance is limited to GSAPP affiliates and that seating is first come, first served. Other CUID holders and members of the public can attend via Zoom.