Other Resources and Opportunities

The Columbia Program is supported by all the resources of the School of Architecture Planning and Preservation and of Columbia University. The Program's architectural conservation lab, the nation's first, is fully equipped for contemporary analytic work. Research at Columbia is supported by the resources of the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, the finest in the Western Hemisphere. Columbia studios, courses and workshops take full advantage of its home in New York, the most important historic city in the United States.

The Center for Preservation Research

The Program's Center for Preservation Research is a vehicle for funded research and advocacy involving laboratory work and independent study. It takes the lead in initiatives like its Target Architecture: The Role of Old Buildings in the Management of Global Conflict working with other Schools and Departments in the University. It collaborates in pursuing interests of other departments of the University such as the School of International Affairs, Engineering, and Archaeology. Its materials research addresses questions applicable to School-wide interests in contemporary design.

Future Anterior

In 2004, Columbia's Historic Preservation Program launched Future Anterior, the first journal of preservation ideas and innovation. Solicitation and selection of articles, editing and layout is student-led, guided by faculty member Jorge Otero-Pailos. Both first and second year students are welcome to participate in Future Anterior; graduates are encouraged to submit articles based upon their thesis or other professional and academic work.

Historic Preservation Lecture Series

Students in the Historic Preservation Program are encouraged to participate in the department's Lecture Series, which brings visitors from around the world to present their work. The lecture series specializes in introducing people and ideas that are outside the mainstream, or presented in the normal course of classroom work. Students take the lead in identifying lecturers and organizing their visit to campus.

Kinne Travel

All second year students are eligible for funds from the GSAPP in support of student travel to enrich their education in architecture, planning and preservation. Trips are student-designed, with a faculty member as a sponsor. In recent years, Columbia Historic Preservation students have traveled under the Kinne program to Cuba, Nepal, Venezuela, Brazil, Mexico, and Venice.

Fitch Colloquium

Named for the founder of formal preservation education at Columbia, and in the United States, the James Marston Fitch Colloquium was begun as an annual event in 2000. In a day-long colloquium, students, alums, and guests hear speakers and engage in discussion over current issues in preservation, attempting to discover and define the leading edge of the discipline. Past topics have included Target Architecture: The Role of Old Buildings in the Management of Global Conflict, Authenticity and Innovation: Ideals for Design with Old Buildings, and Drawing the Line: Are There Bounds to Preservation?

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