Spring 2003 - Fitch Colloquium

The Masters Program in Historic Preservation, Columbia University, Graduates School of Architecture, Preservation and Planning presents the James Marston Fitch Colloquium 2003

Authenticity and Innovation:
Ideals for Design with Old Buildings


Saturday, February 22 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall, Columbia University

The basic business of preservation - keeping old buildings around so that we can continue to learn from them - is inescapably a matter of innovation and authenticity, applying the best of today's creative possibilities to carry valued meanings of old buildings into the future and enriching them with their own.

Presentations by :

Giorgio Bianchi of the Renzo Piano Building Workshop of Genoa, Italy, will present projects of the Workshop, including Beaubourg, Genoa Harbor, and recent projects in the United States, the Morgan Library, and the Michigan Law School.

The issues presented in this work will be discussed by Robert Campbell, Senior Fellow in the National Arts Journalism Program at Columbia University, and architecture critic of the Boston Globe; and Jorge Otero-Pailos, Professor, Historic Preservation at Columbia University.

In celebration of the announcement of the James Marston Fitch Professorship in Historic Preservation, Dean Bernard Tschumi will present his work with old buildings, notably, the Studio National des Arts Contemporains.


The day will begin with registration and coffee at 9:30 am. Lunch will be served to those who pre-register. RSVP to: psb1@columbia.edu
Preservation Alumni Inc.'s annual CAREER DAY and BOOK SALE will be held in the atrium outside the lecture hall all day.

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