Amandine Kastler and Erlend Skjeseth lecture at Columbia GSAPP

AA alum and Co-Head of Conservation and Reuse Amandine Kastler and AA alum Erlend Skjeseth, from the Oslo-based architecture practice Kastler Skjeseth, lectured at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) in New York City.

The lecture was part of this year’s Fitch Colloquium, titled 'Fragments of the Imagination: Provenance, Preservation and the Afterlives of Architecture'. Organised in collaboration with Provenance Projected: Architecture Past and Future in the Era of Circularity – an international research project directed by Professor Mari Lending at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) exploring the social, material and historical lives of buildings and their futures – the 2025 Colloquium brought together leading voices in preservation, architecture, art history, museum practice and the humanities to examine the conceptual, ethical and artistic stakes of working with architectural fragments. Find out more about the colloquium here and the project here.

Image: Kastler Skjeseth, Nettas Hus II: Pavillion. Photograph by Max Creasy.