The Lenfest Center for the Arts was designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop as Columbia University’s first presentation platform for its distinguished School of the Arts. It houses the new, more publicly accessible facilities of The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery; the Katharina Otto-Bernstein Screening Room for film; a flexible performance space for theater, music, dance and cross-dis- ciplinary productions; and a flexible presentation space for readings, lectures, exhibitions and symposia. Like the rest of Columbia’s new Manhattanville campus, the building is intended to be both a University-wide facility, drawing together students and faculty in all disciplines and professions, and a resource that is open to and engaged with the surrounding West Harlem community.