The Columbia Program is supported by 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.

Future Anterior

In 2004, Professor Jorge Otero-Pailos founded Future Anterior, the first peer-reviewed scholarly journal of preservation history, theory and criticism.

Both first and second year student editors participate in Future Anterior. Student editors receive a TAship. Interested students should apply during their first semester at Columbia by contacting Prof. Otero-Pailos. Click here to go the the Future Anterior website.

Fitch Colloquium

Named for the founder of formal preservation education at Columbia, and in the United States, the James Marston Fitch Colloquium became 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?

The next Fitch Colloquium will be held on March 31, 2012 at Wood Auditorium in Avery Hall.

Program Council

Class of 2012:  Tony Baragona, Susan Bopp, Kelly Carroll, Sarah Ripple
Class of 2013: Dena Kefallinos, Mayank Patel

Program Council is responsible for coordinating events relating to new and prospective students, acting as intermediaries between HP students and the department as well as between the GSAPP and HP students. Program Council  helps develop the Historic Preservation portion of the GSAPP-wide Open House in October, an Open House for admitted, prospective students in the spring, and the Orientation for new students in the summer.  The HP Program Council members work with Program Council members from other programs in the school to organize and run schoolwide meetings and events. The members are also responsible for fielding questions from prospective students throughout the year.

Elections for Program Council are usually held at the beginning of each school year.

Academic Calendar

2011-2012 Conferences

Weekly E-Mail

Spring 2012

Fall 2011