The Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation has launched the Columbia GSAPP Housing Lab, a new interdisciplinary research initiative to encourage the design and development of innovative, sustainable, and affordable housing around the world.
The initiative is supported by a donation of more than $2 million from the IDC Foundation, which grew out of the now-closed Institute of Design and Construction, in Brooklyn. The gift will also fund a new endowed professorship — the IDC Foundation Professorship of Housing Design — and financial-aid and student- research programs.
The Housing Lab will be led by GSAPP dean Amale Andraos.
Hilary Sample, an architect who has helped oversee GSAPP’s housing-design curriculum since 2011, will be the inaugural recipient of the endowed professorship.
