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In a landmark decision last month, Columbia University graduate students won the right to unionize in a case filed against the National Labor Relations Board. As a result, graduate students in private universities across the U.S. now have the right to collectively bargain. What effect does this have on architecture student labor, and the valuation of architecture overall?

We're joined this week by special guest A.L. Hu, a third-year GSAPP MArch student and key organizer with Graduate Workers of Columbia (GWC-UAW). Hu shared what's happening at the school after the landmark decision, and how these organizing efforts can affect the architecture profession overall.

We last spoke with Amale Andraos for our Deans List series, a year after she succeeded Mark Wigley as dean of Columbia University's GSAPP.Since 2011 at GSAPP, before her deanship began, Andraos has ledvarious research studios and seminars around "Architecture andRepresentation: The Arab City"—the results from which she has nowedited, with Studio-X Amman director Nora Akawi, into a newbook, The Arab City.

Andraos spoke with Amelia Taylor-Hochberg about theperpetuated stereotypes and simplifications that plague discussionsof Arab cities—the desert v. the oasis, the traditional v. themodern, etc.—and how her own experiences in Beirut inspired herresearch.

Toru Hasegawa from Proxy Design Studio and Morpholio Project visits the studio and blows our minds. We talk robots, amazon drones, Gary Kasporov vs Deep Blue, he solves a rubik's cube during the podcast...it's a great episode.

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