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Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

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GSAPP
TypePrivate architecture school
Established1881
Parent institution
Columbia University
DeanAndrés Jaque
Academic staff
195 (academic staff)
Students629 (total enrollment)
Location
New York City
,
U.S.
CampusUrban
Websitewww.arch.columbia.edu
Avery Hall, Columbia University

The Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) is the architecture school of Columbia University, a private research university in New York City. It is also home to the Masters of Science program in Advanced Architectural Design, Historic Preservation, Real Estate Development, Urban Design, and Urban Planning.

GSAPP Architecture Studios at Avery Hall.

The school's resources include the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, the United States' largest architectural library and home to some of the first books published on architecture, as well as the origin of the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals.[1]

Recent deans of the school have included architects James Stewart Polshek (1972–1987), Bernard Tschumi (1988–2003), Mark Wigley (2004–2014), Amale Andraos (2014–2021),[2] Weiping Wu (Interim Dean, 2022),[3] and Andrés Jaque (2022–present).[4]

History

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The Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP) has evolved over more than a century. It was transformed from a department within the Columbia School of Mines into a formal School of Architecture by William Robert Ware in 1881—making it one of the first such professional programs in the country.[5]

While the number of specialized programs being offered by the school has increased over the years, architecture remains the intellectual core of the school.[6]

Rankings

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Columbia GSAPP has been ranked #2 among the Top Architecture Graduate Programs five times over the past ten years on Design Intelligence's ranking of programs accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board, including the 2020 rankings.[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]

Notable faculty

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See also: List of Columbia University people

Current faculty

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  • Adriana Chavez – Co-Founder of Office for Urban Resilience and Adjunct Assistant Professor
  • Amale Andraos – Founder of WORKac Architects[15] and former Dean (2014–2021)
  • Barry Bergdoll – Former Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, MoMA
  • Patrice Derrington – Director of GSAPP's Real Estate Development Program
  • Andrew Dolkart – James Marston Fitch Professor of Historic Preservation. Former Director of the Historic Preservation Program (2008–2016)
  • Kenneth Frampton – Ware Professor of Architecture Emeritus
  • Mario Gooden – Director of GSAPP's Master of Architecture Program, Founder and Director of Mario Gooden Architect PLLC / Mario Gooden Studio
  • Juan Herreros – Founder of Abalos & Herreros
  • Steven Holl – Founder and Principal of Steven Holl Architects
  • Andrés Jaque – Dean of GSAPP, Director of its Advanced Architectural Design Program, Founder and Principal of Office for Political Innovation
  • Laura Kurgan – Director of GSAPP's Computational Design Program and Director of the Center for Spatial Research
  • LOT-EK – Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano
  • Reinhold Martin – Former Director of the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture
  • Kate Orff – Director of GSAPP's Architecture and Urban Design Program, Founder and Principal of SCAPE
  • Jorge Otero-Pailos – Director of GSAPP's Historic Preservation Program
  • Julia Watson – Author of Lo-TEK
  • Richard Plunz – Director of Urban Design Lab at the Earth Institute and Former Director of GSAPP's Architecture and Urban Design Program
  • Alexandra Quantrill
  • Michael Rock – Founder of 2 x 4, Director of Graphical Arch Studies
  • Karla Maria Rothstein – Director of Columbia University's DeathLAB; co-founder of Latent Productions
  • Hilary Sample – Founder and Principal of MOS Architects
  • Felicity Scott – Co-director of GSAPP's Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices in Architecture Program
  • Galia Solomonoff – architect of Dia:Beacon museum and founding creative director of Solomonoff Architecture Studio
  • Bernard Tschumi – designed Alfred Lerner Hall, Columbia's student center, former Dean (1988 to 2003)
  • Marc Tsurumaki – Founder of LTL Architects
  • Mary McLeod – Co-curator of the exhibition Charlotte Perriand: Interior Equipment,
  • Mark Wasiuta – Co-director of GSAPP's Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices in Architecture Program
  • Mark Wigley – directed the exhibition "Deconstructivist Architecture" at MoMA with Philip Johnson, former Dean (2004–2014)
  • Gwendolyn Wright
  • Weiping Wu – Director of GSAPP's Urban Planning Program and former Interim Dean

Former faculty

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Notable alumni

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Research Centers

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Center for Spatial Research

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The Spatial Research Center was established in 2015 as a center for urban research that combines design, architecture, urbanism, humanities, and data science. It sponsors research, and curricular activities built around new technologies of mapping, data visualization, data collection and data analysis.[28]

Center for Urban Real Estate

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The Center for Urban Real Estate was founded in 2011 in order to address the challenges of an urbanization and the complex problems of the real estate industry. From inequitable socio-economic outcomes in the urban environment, through the revitalization of urban centers, to creating technological systems for optimized investment decisions, the Center serves as a forum for discussions and analysis by real estate professionals and scholars. A focus of the Center is the development of technology that meets needs of the real estate industry integrated with advanced research and resources in technology within the Columbia University ecosystem.[29]

Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture

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The Buell Center was founded in 1982. Its mission is to advance the interdisciplinary study of American architecture, urbanism, and landscape. In recent years, the Center has convened issue-oriented conversations around matters of public concern, such as housing, that are addressed to overlapping constituencies including academics, students, professionals, and members of the general public. The Center's research and programming articulate facts and frameworks that modify key assumptions in which public analysis and debate about architecture and urbanism takes place.[30] The center is located in Buell Hall.

Columbia Laboratory for Architectural Broadcasting

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Columbia Laboratory for Architectural Broadcasting (also known as C-Lab[31]) was founded in 2005 by Jeffrey Inaba.[31] It is an experimental research unit which investigates how cities would evolve and studies urban and architecture issues related to new technologies.

References

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  4. ^ Russell, James S. (August 18, 2022). "Columbia names Andrés Jaque Dean for the Architecture School". The New York Times. Retrieved August 20, 2022.
  5. ^ Chewning, J. A. "William Robert Ware at MIT and Columbia."Journal of Architectural Education, v33 n2 p25-29 Nov 1979
  6. ^ Why Design Education Matters
  7. ^ Architecture Graduate School Rankings, America's Top Architecture Schools 2016, referencing "Design Intelligence" as reported by "Architectural Record". Retrieved March 11, 2016.
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  9. ^ America's Top Architecture Schools 2014 | 2013-11-19 | Architectural Record
  10. ^ Cramer, James (November 2, 2007). "The Top Architecture Schools in USA". ARCHITECT. Retrieved March 22, 2023.
  11. ^ New Leaders in Annual Design School Rankings – DesignIntelligence
  12. ^ Top Architecture Schools of 2018 | 2017-09-01 | Architectural Record
  13. ^ Top Architecture Schools of 2019 | 2018-09-04 | Architectural Record
  14. ^ Top Architecture Schools of 2020 | 2019-10-01 | Architectural Record
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  21. ^ Finding aid for the Richard F. Bach records (1913–1953). Metropolitan Museum of Art Archives. Retrieved July 31, 2014.
  22. ^ a b "The Rome Prize in Architecture has been awarded to UK/CoD Instructor Angie Co and Alumnus Lonn Combs | University of Kentucky". Archinect. Retrieved March 4, 2012.
  23. ^ Hamlin, Prof. A.D.F. (January 1923). "The State Architect and His Works" (PDF). The Architectural Record. LIII (1): 27–43. Retrieved July 13, 2018.
  24. ^ Hoffman, Milt (September 1, 2012). "Former White Plains Mayor Sy Schulman dead at age 86". The Journal News. Retrieved October 3, 2012.
  25. ^ "Black Architectural Legacy". Black Enterprise magazine. Vol. 21. Earl G. Graves, Ltd. February 1991. p. 86.
  26. ^ Anderson, Susan Heller (November 4, 1989). "John L. Wilson Jr., 91, Architect Of Harlem River Houses, Is Dead". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 21, 2023.
  27. ^ Wilson, Dreck Spurlock (March 1, 2004). African American Architects: A Biographical Dictionary, 1865–1945. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-95628-8.
  28. ^ "Laura Kurgan by Noah Chasin". Bomb Magazine.
  29. ^ "Center for Urban Real Estate (CURE.)". Columbia University. Archived from the original on July 31, 2012. Retrieved August 17, 2012.
  30. ^ "Buell Center". Columbia University. Archived from the original on September 3, 2012. Retrieved August 17, 2012.
  31. ^ a b "Columbia Laboratory for Architectural Broadcasting (C-Lab) : Columbia Abstract".

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