Acknowledgements

Many people went into the making of this project. Firstly, we would like to thank Mark Wasiuta and Felicity D. Scott, our two program directors, for their support, encouragement, and feedback throughout this process. We would like to offer a special thanks to Dean Andrés Jacque for his ongoing support of CCCP’s critical engagement with architectural practices, and this project in particular. We would like to thank Joanna Joseph and Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt of Columbia Books on the City, as well as Steffen Boddeker and Paula Volpato for helping us secure invitations to collateral events. A special thanks is also owed to Molly Brandt, CCCP ‘23; without her help coordinating logistics, event planning, and budgets, this project would have been sacrificed to the monster that is thesis year. Molly also introduced us to our superb graphic designer, Lucas Reif. A very big thank you is owed to him for getting a beautiful product together in a short amount of time.

Of course, this project would be impossible without all the amazing people we met in Venice. Thank you to all the artists, architects, and curators who took time out of their hectic schedules to meet with us. We had so many incredible conversations, some of which have not made it into this final project but which have informed its critical lens nonetheless. Their names are listed below. 

We would also like to extend a special thank you to Nicolay Duque-Robayo and Vitor Breder. Nicolay is a PhD student at Columbia, and as Felicity said during the Where is Africa? book launch just outside the Giardini, he was an honorary CCCP student that week in Venice. We would like to thank him not only for his insightful contribution to this project, but for the shared conversations over many dinners and glasses of wine on the Venetian piazzas. Similarly, Vitor was a great interlocutor, and his knowledge of Venice’s crevices was unsurpassed. Thank you for finding us all the best spots for an aperitivo. We would also like to thank Tianyu Yang, CCCP ‘22, for her beautiful visual essay, which is a poetic complement to the texts and interviews. 

Finally, we would like to thank all the espressos and spritzes that kept us going. You were the true heroes on those long, muggy days in Venice.

Thank you to:

Andrés Gobba

Anusha Alamgir

Aurelia Chan

BothAnd Group (Jarek Adamczuk, Alice Clarke, Andrew Ó Murchú, and Kate Rushe)

Carlos Mínguez Carrasco

Courage Dzidula 

Daniel Meir 

Diego Morera

Edith Kofsky

Emanuel Admassu

Faysal Tabbarah

Glenn DeRoché

Helena Huber-Doudová

Heramarte (Era Merkuri and Martin Gjoleka)

Ines Weizmann

Jacek Sosnowski

James Morris

Julian Whorral 

Jurgen Strohemayer

Latifa Alkhayat

Lia Lapithi

Mabel O. Wilson

Manuela Nebuloni

Marija Marić

Marina Tornatora

Maryam Aljomairi

Matías Carballal

Mauricio López

Melvin Tan

Mia Roth

N H D M (Nahyun Hwang and David E. Moon)

Oren Eldar

Ottavio Amaro

Paulo Tavares

Petros Lapithi

Rodrigo Escandón Cesarman

Sam Domingo

Sebastián Lambert

Simon Anton

Tonči Čerina