Future Anterior is a peer reviewed scholarly journal that approaches historic preservation from a position of critical inquiry, rigorous scholarship, and theoretical analysis. It is an important international forum for the critical examination of historic preservation, spurring challenges of its assumptions, goals, methods, and results. Future Anterior is a journal of Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture and Preservation that is published twice a year by the University of Minnesota Press.

Future Anterior Journal
Founder and Editor, Jorge Otero-Pailos
Managing Editors, James Oberting & Aaron Luo

Future Anterior is an important international forum for the critical examination of historic preservation, spurring challenges of its assumptions, goals, methods, and results. As the first journal in American academia devoted to the study and advancement of historic preservation, it provides a much-needed bridge between architecture and history.

The journal also features provocative theoretical reflections on historic preservation from the point of view of art, philosophy, law, geography, archeology, planning, materials science, cultural anthropology, and conservation.

Future Anterior is essential reading for anyone interested in historic preservation and its role in current cultural and theoretical debates. Our authors/ guest editors and board members are some of the most prominent architects, designers and professionals working within the preservation field today. A full list of our guest editors can be found below, and an index to the archive of past topics of inquiry can be found here

Thordis Arrhenius, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Erica Avrami, Columbia University GSAPP
Barry Bergdoll, Columbia University GSAPP
Andrew Dolkart, Columbia University GSAPP
Tao DuFour, University of Cambridge
David Gissen, Yale University
Andrew Herscher, University of Michigan
Saburo Horikawa, Hosei University
Mark Jarzombek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Erik Fenstad Langdalen, Oslo School of Architecture and Design
Hannah Lewi, The University of Melbourne
Valérie Magar, ICCROM
Rahul Mehrotra, Harvard University
José de Nordenflycht Concha, Universidad de Playa Ancha
Ikem Okoye, University of Delaware
Dominique Poulot, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Laurajane Smith, Australian National University
Marc Treib, University of California, Berkeley
Aron Vinegar, University of Oslo
Ines Weizman, Royal College of Art
Mechtild Widrich, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Gwendolyn Wright, Columbia University GSAPP

Fallon S. Aidoo
Thordis Arrhenius
Daniel A. Barber
Iñaki Bergera
Charlette Caldwell
William Carruthers
Mary K. Coffey
Tao DuFour
Chad Elias
Jennifer Ferng
Brent R. Fortenberry
Anna Gasha
David Gissen
Adam Jasper
Ijlal Muzaffar
Aron Vinegar
Ines Weizman
Mechtild Widrich
Tim Winter