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M.S. Historic Preservation

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Overview

The M.S. in Historic Preservation Program curriculum educates students to create new, future-oriented roles for built heritage that promote inclusive and resilient communities. With a particular focus on adapting to climate change and promoting social justice, the curriculum integrates humanist, scientific, and technological approaches necessary for students to shape the future of the profession: including the reuse of buildings, the design of adaptation technologies, planning and policy innovations, social and historical research, materials science and digital computation applied to the 3D scanning, documentation, assessment, monitoring, and care of built heritage. The program frames preservation both as an experimental form of creative expression and as a critical form of collective action guided by philosophical, ethical, and critical thinking, supported by evidence of its benefits to society, and enabled by emerging technologies and policy tools. We teach preservation as a social, material, and environmental process; as a way of thinking and acting through buildings and places of cultural significance to improve the built environment and people’s quality of life. The program’s curriculum and academic activities express an ongoing commitment to anti-racist systemic change as reflected in its anti-racism statement of purpose and the 2021-2022 anti-racism task force summary report.

Founded in 1964 as the first Masters Program in Historic Preservation in the United States, the program embodies a pioneering spirit by continually questioning how the discipline actively responds to the changing social values and climate challenges associated with architectural and cultural heritage, so as to ensure that the historic built environment better serves present and future generations.

The program prepares its graduates in the theoretical and practical foundations of preservation so they can be agents of positive environmental, cultural, and social change. Students are drawn from multi-disciplinary backgrounds such as architecture, art history, history, urban planning, engineering, science, art, urban design, archeology, anthropology, sociology, philosophy and jurisprudence. Students bring to bear their respective interests on preservation. By focusing on historical, aesthetic, technological, environmental, social and political questions, the program cultivates deep engagement with the ideas and practices that constitute preservation, and the broad multi-disciplinary skill sets that it draws upon.

The program reflects a global outlook in its diverse faculty, alumni, visiting scholars, advanced researchers, as well as in the locales where students work. It emphasizes real-world engagement with buildings, sites and communities near campus and beyond. Through study and engaged research in New York and New Jersey, as well as countries such as Italy, Cuba, Ethiopia, France, Haiti, Mexico, Norway, and the United Kingdom students apply skills in the real world and co-create knowledge with multiple publics. Learning beyond the lab and classroom is likewise enhanced through faculty-led publications, studio reports, research, public lectures and events such as the annual Fitch Colloquium.

Architectural Preservation Technology and Reuse Design Specialization

Columbia GSAPP is pleased to announce the launch of a new opportunity to receive advanced standing within the MSHP program and focus on architectural preservation technology and reuse design in a one-year period. Designed for students with advanced technical training and a strong interest in technology and design, this intensive program enables a critical and creative engagement with the reuse of existing buildings through the lens of experimental preservation.

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Jorge Otero-Pailos, Program Director
Sarahgrace Godwin, Program Manager

Preservation Technology Laboratory

Jorge Otero-Pailos, Director of the MS Historic Preservation Program at Columbia GSAPP introduces the School’s newly renovated laboratory.

Visit the Preservation Technology Laboratory website.

Curriculum

Columbia’s Historic Preservation Program provides a comprehensive foundation in the discipline through place-based studios, field work, laboratory research, lectures, and seminars. The curriculum encourages students to apply theoretical concepts, critical thinking and problem-solving in real-life contexts. With core strengths in design and technology, planning and policy, and history and theory, the curriculum mirrors the disciplines preservationists must engage and collaborate with in the professional world. The course of study provides fundamental knowledge of the spectrum of the discipline, and then affords each student the opportunity to develop an area of deep focus through a one year thesis.

The centerpiece of the curriculum is a three-semester studio sequence, supported by core coursework. These interdisciplinary and cross-cultural learning experiences encompass skill-building in historical, social, and technical research, data collection and visualization, community and stakeholder engagement, formal and material analyses, condition surveys, planning and policy development, interpretive and adaptive design, and the formulation of evidence-based proposals for action. Exploring questions of research and interpretation, cultural identity and values, justice and equity, sustainability and resilience, creative expression and process, these studios position the work in the field within broader societal and environmental contexts, and within broader realms of critical inquiry.

During the summer between the first and second year, the Historic Preservation Program strongly suggests the completion of one or more internships or work experiences as part of a student’s education and career development, and provides support in identifying opportunities in New York and elsewhere.

A capstone of the curriculum is a student thesis. As a critical piece of independent research, the thesis allows students to augment their course and fieldwork to further develop specialized knowledge in an aspect of the preservation enterprise. Students develop their thesis work with the support of faculty to forge new lines of inquiry and practice, as well as to engage with members of the discipline as they launch their careers.

For those students who would like to like to specialize further or expand their studies, GSAPP offers dual degrees, allowing Historic Preservation students to jointly study Architecture (MArch), Urban Planning, or Real Estate Development.

Studio Reports

Browse the carousel to learn more about research completed through historic preservation studios, and visit the archive of digital publications from 2013 until present.

Podcast

The Historic Preservation Podcast features a series of conversations between Jorge Otero-Pailos, director of GSAPP’s Historic Preservation Program, and leaders in the field of historic preservation and heritage conservation. Subscribe to the podcast on SoundCloud.

Spring 2026 Courses

Course Semester Title Student Work Instructor Syllabus Requirements & Sequence Location & Time Session & Points Call No.
ARCH4080‑1 Spring 2026
HP Elective Internship
 Sarahgrace Godwin

HP II Only
N/A
N/A
Full Semester
1.5 Points
 12446
ARCH6750‑1 Spring 2026
HP Studio II
 Erica Avrami, Anna Gasha

HP I Only
301 Fayerweather
M, TH 2 PM - 6 PM
Full Semester
6 Points
 14171
ARCH6753‑1 Spring 2026
Thesis II
 Jorge Otero-Pailos

HP II Only
N/A
By Appointment
Full Semester
4 Points
 14172
ARCH6786‑1 Spring 2026
Conservation of Concrete, Cast Stone & Mortar
 Norman Weiss, Heather Hartshorn
Preservation Technology Lab (655 Schermerhorn)
TU 3:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Session B
1.5 Points
 14174
ARCH6961‑1 Spring 2026
Studio - Clinic: Erasing the Shoreline
 Nadia Christidi

Clinic w/ ARCH4106-07
700 Avery
TH 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 12052
PLAN6831‑1 Spring 2026
MSRED Studio Clinic - Kokrobitey Sands: An Integrated Design and Development Plan for West African Institute
 Adam Lubinsky

Instructor Approval
203 Fayerweather
F 12 PM - 2 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 12056
ARCH4063‑1 Spring 2026
Spatial Data Narratives
 Josh Begley
300 Buell South
W 7 PM - 9 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 12379
ARCH4124‑1 Spring 2026
Modern Building Technology
 Theodore Prudon
Preservation Technology Lab (655 Schermerhorn)
F 9 AM - 11 AM
Full Semester
3 Points
 12447
ARCH4324‑1 Spring 2026
Climate Justice + Digital Reenactments
 Catherine Griffiths Syllabus
115 Avery
M 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points Points
 12402
ARCH4325‑1 Spring 2026
Multi Graphics & Representation
 Wael Morcos
505 Avery
W 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 12306
ARCH4327‑1 Spring 2026
Waste/Works
 Amelyn Ng
504 Avery
W 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 12307
ARCH4334‑1 Spring 2026
Modern American Architecture
 Jorge Otero-Pailos
300 Buell South
W 3 PM - 5 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 12459
ARCH4407‑1 Spring 2026
Methods in Spatial Research
 Adam Vosburgh
300 Buell South
F 9 AM - 11 AM
Full Semester
3 Points
 15512
ARCH4427‑1 Spring 2026
Architecture Apropos Art
 Steven Holl, Dimitra Tsachrelia
Ware Lounge (600 Avery)
TH 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 12058
ARCH4432‑1 Spring 2026
Nervous Systems
 Lindy Roy
200 Buell North
W 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 12060
ARCH4507‑1 Spring 2026
Unorthodox Practices 3: Practice as a Project
 Juan Herreros
408 Avery
TH 9 AM - 11 AM
Full Semester
3 Points
 12064
ARCH4618‑1 Spring 2026
Architecture: The Contemporary (Ideas and Concepts from 1968 to the Present)
 Bernard Tschumi, Deniz Mahir Dagtekin
412 Avery
TH 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 12240
ARCH4642‑1 Spring 2026
Contested Grounds: The Spatial Politics of Memory
 Mabel O. Wilson
200 Buell North
TU 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 12242
ARCH4715‑1 Spring 2026
Re-Thinking BIM
 Joseph Brennan
200 Buell North
M 9 AM - 11 AM
Full Semester
3 Points
 12407
ARCH4716‑1 Spring 2026
Graphic Architecture Project I: Design and Typography
 Yoonjai Choi
115 Avery
TU 3 PM - 6 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 12315
ARCH4778‑1 Spring 2026
Metatool
 Dan Taeyoung
Ware Lounge (600 Avery)
W 9 AM - 11 AM
Full Semester
3 Points
 12427
ARCH4839‑1 Spring 2026
Building Conditions Assessment
 Kyle Normandin
Preservation Technology Lab (655 Schermerhorn)
TU 3:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Session A
1.5 Points
 14160
ARCH4845‑1 Spring 2026
Generative Design I
Danil Nagy
115 Avery
TU 9 AM - 11 AM
Full Semester
3 Points
 12412
ARCH4861‑1 Spring 2026
Footprint: Carbon and Design
 David Benjamin
409 Avery
M 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 12086
ARCH4880‑1 Spring 2026
Making Senses
 James Nanasca
115 Avery
W 9 AM - 11 AM
Full Semester
3 Points
 12087
ARCH4891‑1 Spring 2026
Designing Affordability: Housing, Design and Finance
 Galia Solomonoff
209 Fayerweather
TH 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 19617
ARCH4980‑1 Spring 2026
Virtual Architecture: World Building and Virtual Reality Workshop
 Nitzan Bartov
Ware Lounge (600 Avery)
M 9 AM - 11 AM
Session A
1.5 Points
 14411
ARCH4990‑1 Spring 2026
Performance
 Jonathan González
409 Avery
M 9 AM - 11 AM
Full Semester
3 Points
 14404
ARCH4995‑1 Spring 2026
Power Tools
 Jelisa Blumberg
200 Buell North
M 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 12317
ARCH4996‑1 Spring 2026
Physical Computation
 Daniel Leithinger
505 Avery
TH 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 12414
ARCH6414‑1 Spring 2026
Digital Heritage Documentation
 Bilge Kose
301 Fayerweather, Preservation Technology Lab (655 Schermerhorn)
W 5 PM - 7 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 14162
ARCH6451‑1 Spring 2026
Recombinant Renaissance
 Mark Rakatansky
300 Buell North
W 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 12248
ARCH6454‑1 Spring 2026
The Arab City
 Amale Andraos
408 Avery
M 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 12249
ARCH6455‑1 Spring 2026
Military Urbanism in the Early Modern Era
 Victoria Sanger
408 Avery
F 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 12252
ARCH6516‑1 Spring 2026
Architecture and Socialism
 Reinhold Martin
300 Buell South
M 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 12256
ARCH6678‑1 Spring 2026
The Long History of Architectural Technologies
 Lucia Allais
300 Buell South
TU 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 12263
ARCH6702‑1 Spring 2026
Investigative Techniques
 Amanda Thomas Trienens
Preservation Technology Lab (655 Schermerhorn)
TU 1 PM - 3:30 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 14164
ARCH6712‑1 Spring 2026
Conservation of Architectural Finishes
 Mary Jablonski
Preservation Technology Lab (655 Schermerhorn)
F 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 14165
ARCH6717‑1 Spring 2026
Comparative Hertitage Management
 Carolina Castellanos
200 Buell North
TU, TH 9 AM - 11 AM
Session B
3 Points
 14168
ARCH6801‑1 Spring 2026
Structural Daring & The Sublime In Pre-Modern Architecture
 Rory O'Neill
412 Avery
F 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 12268
ARCH6815‑1 Spring 2026
Public Space: Rhetorics + Practices
David Smiley
115 Avery
TU 1 PM - 3 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 12070
ARCH6880‑1 Spring 2026
Towards a Trans-Species Architecture—Rethinking Lina Bo Bardi
 Mark Wigley
412 Avery
TU 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 15564
ARCH6892‑1 Spring 2026
1:1 Crafting and Fabrication of Details
 Zachary Mulitauaopele
412 Avery
F 3 PM - 5 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 14398
ARCH6911‑1 Spring 2026
Metabolic Materialities: Between the Animate and the Inanimate
 Michael Wang
408 Avery
W 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 12093
ARCH6912‑1 Spring 2026
Emerging Optimism: Resources + The Fourth Industrial Revolution
 Sean Gallagher
408 Avery
M 9 AM - 11 AM
Full Semester
3 Points
 12096
ARCH6936‑1 Spring 2026
Old Buildings, New Energy: History and Current Sustainable Practices
 Francoise Bollack
203 Fayerweather
M 11 AM - 1 PM
Session A
1.5 Points
 14185
ARCH6950‑1 Spring 2026
Raw Material Libraries and Cataloguing the Irregular
 Lola Ben-Alon
409 Avery
W 9 AM - 11 AM
Full Semester
3 Points
 14401
ARCH6954‑1 Spring 2026
Agroecological Urbanism
 Ana María Durán Calisto
504 Avery
TH 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 14415
ARCH6956‑1 Spring 2026
Spatial AI
 William Martin
209 Fayerweather
W 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 12445
ARCH6970‑1 Spring 2026
Business of Preservation
 Kate Allen
203 Fayerweather
M 11 AM - 1 PM
Session B
1.5 Points
 14195
ARCH6972‑1 Spring 2026
Classicisms
 Reinhold Martin
408 Avery
TU 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 14402
ARCH6975‑1 Spring 2026
Design, Power, and Imaginaries: Critical Histories and Futures
 Zarith Pineda
Ware Lounge (600 Avery)
M 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 14416
ARCH6978‑1 Spring 2026
Climate and the Existing Built Environment
 Erica Avrami
408 Avery
TH 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 14409
ARCH6981‑1 Spring 2026
Industry, Practice & Research – Intersecting Design & Entrepreneurship in Architecture
 Wendy Fok Syllabus
409 Avery
F 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 15635
PLAN4010‑1 Spring 2026
Planning For Urban Energy Systems
 Peter Marcotullio
409 Avery
TH 9 AM - 11 AM
Full Semester
3 Points
 14196
PLAN4022‑1 Spring 2026
Fundamentals of Urban Digital Design
 Sybil Wa Syllabus
UP Computer Lab (202 Fayerweather)
M 5 PM - 7 PM
Session A
1.5 Points
 17543
PLAN4585‑1 Spring 2026
Urban Political Economy
 Tom Slater
114 Avery + 203 Fayerweather, 204 Fayerweather, 415 Schermerhorn
W 10 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 14197
PLAN4587‑1 Spring 2026
Urban Technologies, Innovations & Planning Institutions
 Anthony Vanky
114 Avery + 409 Avery, 203, 204 Fayerweather
TU 10 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 14199
PLAN6065‑1 Spring 2026
Environmental Impact Assessment
 Graham Trelstad
200 Buell North
F 9 AM - 11 AM
Full Semester
3 Points
 14210
PLAN6067‑1 Spring 2026
On Spatial Exclusion and Planning
 Hiba Bou Akar
204 Fayerwaether
TH 3 PM - 5 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 14211
PLAN6108‑1 Spring 2026
Land Use Planning
 Jonathan Martin
200 Buell North
F 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 14212
PLAN6113‑1 Spring 2026
Exploring Urban Data with Machine Learning
 Jonathan Stiles
UP Computer Lab (202 Fayerweather)
TH 3 PM - 5 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 14213
PLAN6232‑1 Spring 2026
Advanced Spatial Practice
 Jonathan Stiles
UP Computer Lab (202 Fayerweather)
W 5 PM - 7 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 14215
PLAN6613‑1 Spring 2026
AI and the Future of Cities
 Kate Wittels, David Gilford
204 Fayerweather
TU 5 PM - 7 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 14217
PLAN6617‑1 Spring 2026
Climate Justice in Our Own Backyard
 Thad Pawlowski
204 Fayerweather
TH 5 PM - 7 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 14219
PLAN6645‑1 Spring 2026
Prototyping in Urban Tech
 James Piacentini
UP Computer Lab (202 Fayerweather)
TU 3 PM - 5 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 14221
PLAN6647‑1 Spring 2026
Project Management: From Idea to Execution
 Charlie Stewart
412 Avery
M 11 AM - 1 PM
Session B
1.5 Points
 14222
PLAN6700‑1 Spring 2026
Real Estate Finance and Development
 Amelia Guise, Clarence Radin
203 Fayerweather
TU 5 PM - 7 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 14223
PLAN6773‑1 Spring 2026
Climate Adaptation in Cities
 Adam Freed
204 Fayerweather
M 5 PM - 7 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 14224
PLAN6827‑1 Spring 2026
Gentrification and Displacement: Power, Planning + Political Action
 Tom Slater
115 Avery
TH 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 14225
PLAN6852‑1 Spring 2026
Migrant Policy and the City
 Vojislava Cordes
204 Fayerweather
M 1 PM - 3 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 14412
ARCH4333‑1 Spring 2026
Transscalar Architecture: Construction Details as Cosmopolitical Enactments
 Andrés Jaque Syllabus

ALL GSAPP
Ware Lounge (600 Avery)
W 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 15543
ARCH6714‑1 Spring 2026
Experimental Preservation
 Jorge Otero-Pailos
412 Avery
W 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 14167
ARCH6931‑1 Spring 2026
Architectures of Display
 Ibrahim Kombarji

ALL GSAPP
300 Buell North
W 9 AM - 11 AM
Full Semester
3 Points
 14414
ARCH6974‑1 Spring 2026
Spectacular Pedagogies: Audiovisual Architecture and Learning Machines
 Mark Wasiuta
300 Buell South
TH 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 14403
ARCH6977‑1 Spring 2026
Monument, Testimony, Protest
 Krzysztof Wodiczko

ALL GSAPP
Preservation Technology Lab (655 Schermerhorn)
TU, TH 9 AM - 11 AM
Session A
3 Points
 14410
ARCH6979‑1 Spring 2026
Design, Public, Gardens: NYC
 Hilary Sample

ALL GSAPP
409 Avery
TH 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 15634
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Feb 7
Faculty Erica Avrami, PhD, and Faculty k. kennedy Whiters, RA, join "Matters of Inclusion and Exclusion in Historic Preservation" panel
Nov 12, 2025
Faculty Andrew Dolkart leads a virtual tour of the Tenement Museum as part of the celebration of the reissue of his book, Biography of a Tenement House in New York City: An Architectural History of 97 Orchard Street. Wednesday, November 12, 6:30 PM
Oct 15, 2025
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Faculty Jorge Otero-Pailos, Bilge Kose, and Kivanc Kose featured in Columbia Global for PreservAI
Oct 8, 2025
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Faculty Andrew Dolkart speaks with NYT architecture critic Michel Kimmelman about "Bigorgaphy of a Tenement House in New York City: An Architectural History of 97 Orchard Street" at the Tenement Museum
Oct 1, 2025
Faculty Jorge Otero-Pailos moderates "Transformation of the villa: the example of the Thieleck estate in Berlin (1927–1931)" at the Italian Academy
Sep 18, 2025
Faculty Lola Ben-Alon presents at the Copenhagen Architecture Biennial, introducing “Speak to the Earth” and leading the panel “Femme Lineages of Slowness.”
Apr 24, 2025
Faculty Erica Avrami joins Books on Planning podcast to chat about her new book, “Second Order Preservation”
Apr 21, 2025
Lizzie Olson '08 MSHP, Senior Project Manager for the Frick Collection Restoration shares details of undertaking on the Collection's YouTube
Mar 27, 2025
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Faculty Jorge Otero-Pailos joins panelists for “The Larger Landscape Conversation” series at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on the topic of preservation
Mar 17, 2025
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Faculty Jorge Otero-Pailos moderates panel at the celebration of the NY Landmark's Law 60th anniversary at the Brooklyn Public Library
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Fitch Colloquium

2022 Fitch Colloquium: Preservation in China’s Future

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Student Portfolios

Tonia Sing Chi ‘18 MArch/MSHP
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Andrea Tonc ‘16 MArch/MSHP Award-Winning Graduation Portfolio

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Woodlawn Papers

Studio I is the central class for first semester students in the Historic Preservation Master’s Program at the Columbia University School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Each fall since 2009, with the exception of 2016, one of the first exercises in this studio class has focused on Woodlawn Cemetery. Each student chooses a mausoleum (in 2017 some students worked on mausoleums and others on monuments). They complete measured drawings of their mausoleum, examine materials and conditions, and undertake biographical research on those interred in the mausoleum. The final project is a presentation and paper analyzing the information that they have compiled.

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