08/10/2026
Our partner Marcos Zotes presents today the work of Basalt Architects at Columbia GSAPP in New York.
By tracing the spatial, material, and ecological strategies behind their bathing projects, Zotes explores how water acts as both a building medium and a social connector.
These architectural investigations serve as the groundwork for "SOAK: Rituals of Collective Belonging", the official Icelandic contribution to the 20th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2027. The project expands upon this body of built work to reexamine the geothermal pool as a radical form of public space—framing communal bathing rituals as essential spatial mechanisms for collective belonging.
"Bathing in Extreme Landscapes"
Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
Avery Hall, 1172 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027
Thursday, October 8 • 6 PM - 7 PM
Marcos Zotes '12 MSAAD presents the work of Basalt Architects (https://www.basalt.is/), highlighting how the studio’s work at the intersection of architecture and landscape reimagines geothermal infrastructure across Iceland. By tracing the spatial, material, and ecological strategies behind their...