Two Columbia affiliates are featured in this year’s Journées Nationales de l’Architecture at Atelier 11 in Paris: Columbia GSAPP Professor Mario Gooden and former Institute for Ideas and Imagination Fellow Hiie Saumaa. The events, taking place October 17–18, 2025, mark the 150th anniversary of Atelier 11, the last active artist studio of La Cité Falguière. Under the theme Architectures du quotidien / Architecture of the Everyday, the program explores how the daily life of an artist’s studio forms part of architectural and cultural heritage while remaining a vital site of contemporary creation within the city.
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Mario Gooden, cultural practice architect and Professor at Columbia GSAPP, presents Black Holes Ain’t So Black, an installation he worked on during his research residency at Atelier 11. His work reflects on the intersections of architecture, identity, and cultural practice. Learn more about Gooden’s work in Paris.
Hiie Saumaa, a somatic movement artist and 2018–2019 Fellow at Columbia’s Institute for Ideas and Imagination, joins violinist Christopher Brooks for Aligned with the Cube, a performance that engages with the Atelier space and its installations to explore new modes of interaction between movement, sound, and architecture. The performance on October 18 will be followed by a discussion and Q&A with the artists.
