A video essay composed by the GSAPP Collective for Beirut on the occasion of the discussion Emergency Architecture and Planning: Recovering Beirut Post-Explosion at Columbia GSAPP on November 12, 2020. EMERGENCY ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING draws on parallels between the Beirut blast and the previous social, ecological, political, and economic crisis that shaped the architecture and planning of the city. The video essay examines Beirut across scales, times, environments built or otherwise, and multiple crises exploring architecture and cities in a time of emergency and political deadlock. GSAPP Collective for Beirut representatives include alumni, Iyad Abou Gaida (‘19 MS.AAD), Marylynn Pauline Antaki (‘19 MS.AAD), Aude Azzi (‘18 MS.AAD), Charles Hajj (‘16 MS.AAD), Mayssa Jallad (‘17 MS.HP), Ibrahim Kombarji (’20 MS.AAD), Dina Mahmoud (‘14 MS.AAD), Maya Rafih (‘11 MS.AAD), Roula Salamoun (‘11 MS.AAD), and current students Aya Abdallah (‘22 M.ARCH), Mickaella Pharaon (‘22 M.ARCH) with additional contributors Jonathan Dagher, Jad Moghnieh, and Karim Nasser.