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Emeriti

Richard Plunz

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Professor Emeritus

M.S. Advanced Architectural Design

M.S. Architecture and Urban Design

Master of Architecture

Urban Design Lab

Earth Institute Urban Design Lab

Richard Plunz is Professor Emeritus at Columbia GSAPP, where he has served as Chair of the Division of Architecture and Director of the post-professional Urban Design Program. He is also Earth Institute Professor and Director of the Urban Design Lab at Columbia. He received his engineering and architecture degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Faculty appointments have included Rensselaer, Penn State and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He is known for a wide range of urban research, development and design projects both nationally and internationally, with a particular expertise in urban infrastructure and fabric. He has been recipient of the Andrew J. Thomas Pioneer in Housing Award from the American Institute of Architects for his contributions to housing research. A revised edition of his book, A History of Housing in New York City (Columbia 1992) is forthcoming in 2016.

Plunz is the author of many articles, studies, and reports on urban development and ecology including (with M.P. Sutto), Urban Climate Change Crossroads (Ashgate 2010). His long-term study of environmental change on the Turkish Aegean coast (with S. Ozkan), Turgutreis 1974 (Literatür 2016) will be released in June. Major research support has included the Ford foundation (for community development), the United Health Foundation and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (for urban health and food systems). His National Science Foundation support has included projects related to urban infrastructural innovation and urban coastal resilience.

Courses

Course Semester Title Student Work Instructor Syllabus Requirements & Sequence Location & Time Session & Points Call No.
ARCH4105‑7 Fall 2021
Architecture Studio V
Arch body lawson plunz xueyinlu fa21 02 renderingstreet
Arch body lawson plunz jasonyoungkim sunghyunkim fa21 07 apartment
Arch body lawson plunz hendersonbeck fa21 07 exteriorperspective
Richard Plunz, Victor Body-Lawson
600 + 700 AVERY
FULL SEMESTER
0 Points
 10829
ARCH6837‑1 Fall 2021
Fabrics and Typologies: NY/Global
 Richard Plunz
409 AVERY HALL
W 9 AM - 11 AM
FULL SEMESTER
3 Points
 11672
ARCH4104‑8 Spring 2021
Architecture Studio IV
Arch plunz woodward anaysgonzalez katherinsibel sp21 02 floorplan sm
Arch plunz woodward daniel vanderhorst hanyin zhang sargassum harvesting unit
Arch plunz woodward estefaniaserrano zhaoxiangyun sp21 05 sm
Richard Plunz, Douglas Woodward
500S AVERY + WARE
F 9 AM - 1 PM
FULL SEMESTER
0 Points
 11390
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Publications

Recent News

Nov 2, 2022
Professor Richard Plunz delivers a virtual keynote lecture on “Agriculture As Urban Infrastructure” At The First International Green Development Conference, Provincial Department Of Housing And Urban-Rural Development" in Jiangsu
Jan 24, 2022
Professor Richard Plunz has been named Project Lead for the recently announced Columbia World Project "Building Resilient Communities in the Dominican Republic"
Jan 25, 2021
"The Urban Lifeworld. Formation, Perception, Representation," co-edited by Professor Richard Plunz with Peter Madsen, released as a Chinese-language edition by the China Architecture and Building Press
Dec 4, 2020
Professor Richard Plunz delivers keynote, “Lessons Learned. Toward a Field Urbanism” to the Urban Architecture Universal Planning Group International Symposium in Seoul
Nov 20, 2020
Urban Design Lab, directed by Professor Richard Plunz, releases video documenting the Lab's research project "Density, Equity and the History of Epidemics in New York City"
Nov 12, 2020
Professor Richard Plunz speaks at FIABCI International Real Estate Federation Online Forum, How Can Urbanism Help In Future Pandemics?
Nov 1, 2020
Professor Richard Plunz's essay “Reflections on Leuven as Martyred City and the Realignment of Propinquity” published in Revival after the Great War, Leuven University Press
Oct 26, 2020
Professor Richard Plunz addresses AIA Built Around Health Conference, on “Will COVID-19 Change Everything? Five New York City Prompts”
Sep 1, 2020
Professor Richard Plunz's essay, “Kenneth Frampton: Apropos Housing and Cities,” published in Modern Architecture and the Lifeworld: Essays in Honor of Kenneth Frampton, Thames & Hudson
Oct 14, 2019
Professor Richard Plunz delivers keynote "Digital Social Media and Urban Public Space Cognition" at First International Conference on Urban Computing and Smart Planning, Nanjing University
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Mar 19, 2024, 6pm

New York_Global Book Launch with Professor Emeritus Richard Plunz

East Gallery, Buell Hall

Oct 8, 2021, 1pm

Beirut

Wood Auditorium, Virtual

Jul 23, 2020, 3pm

Building Sovereign Systems

Virtual

Jun 10, 2019, 6pm

How New York City Came to Be

114 Avery
Dec 1, 2017, 5:30pm

Architecture Monographs

Avery Hall, 100 level cafe
Sep 21, 2017, 6pm

City Riffs: Urbanism, Ecology, Place

Italian Academy, Columbia University, 1161 Amsterdam Ave.
Jun 4, 2016, 4pm

Turgutreis 1974

Studio-X İstanbul
Mar 10, 2015, 12am

Housing the Majority

Wood Auditorium
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