Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) is the

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. It is regarded as an important and highly prestigious architecture school.Architecture Graduate School Rankings
America's Top Architecture Schools 2016, referencing "Design Intelligence" as reported by "Architectural Record." Retrieved 11 March 2016. It is also home to the Masters of Science program in Advanced Architectural Design,

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The school's resources include the

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, 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. Recent deans of the school have included architect

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(1972-1987),

Bernard Tschumi Bernard Tschumi (born 25 January 1944 in Lausanne, Switzerland) is an architect, writer, and educator, commonly associated with deconstructivism. Son of the well-known Swiss architect Jean Tschumi and a French mother, Tschumi is a dual French-S ...

(1988-2003),

Mark Wigley Mark Antony Wigley (born 1956) is a New Zealand-born architect and author based in the United States. From 2004 to 2014, he was the Dean of Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Career Wigley receive ...

(2004-2014), Amale Andraos (2014–2021), Weiping Wu (Interim Dean, 2022), and Andrés Jaque (2022-).

History

The Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP) has evolved over more than a century. It was transformed from a department within the

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into a formal School of Architecture by

William Robert Ware William Robert Ware (May 27, 1832 – June 9, 1915), born in Cambridge, Massachusetts into a family of the Unitarian clergy, was an American architect, author, and founder of two important American architectural schools. He received his o ...

in 1881—making it one of the first such professional programs in the country. While the number of specialized programs being offered by the school has multiplied over the years, architecture remains the intellectual core of the school.

Rankings

Columbia GSAPP has been ranked #2 among the Top Architecture Graduate Programs five times over the past ten years on ''DesignIntelligence's'' ranking of programs accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board, including the 2020 rankings.

Notable faculty

Current faculty

* Amale Andraos – Founder of WORKac Architects and former Dean (2014–2021) *

Barry Bergdoll Barry Bergdoll is Meyer Schapiro Professor of art history in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University and from 2007 to 2019 a curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, ...

– Former Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design,

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*Patrice Derrington – Director of GSAPP's Real Estate Development Program *

Andrew Dolkart Andrew Scott Dolkart is a professor of Historic Preservation at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) and the former Director of the school's Historic Preservation Program. Professor Dolkart i ...

– James Marston Fitch Professor of Historic Preservation. Former Director of the Historic Preservation Program (2008–2016) *

Kenneth Frampton Kenneth Brian Frampton (born 20 November 1930) is a British architect, critic and historian. He is the Ware Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University, New York. He has b ...

– Ware Professor of Architecture Emeritus *

Mario Gooden Mario Gooden (born 1965) is an architect in the United States. He is the principal at Huff + Gooden Architects which he co-founded with Ray Huff in 1997. Gooden is also a Professor of Practice at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and ...

– Interim Director of GSAPP's Master of Architecture Program *

Juan Herreros Juan Herreros (born 1958 in San Lorenzo del Escorial) is a Spanish architect. His work promotes a pragmatic review of the tradition of modern architecture. Biography He graduated in 1985 at the Technical School of Architecture of Madrid wher ...

– Founder of

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Steven Holl Steven Holl (born December 9, 1947) is a New York-based American architect and watercolorist. Among his most recognized works are the 2019 REACH expansion of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the 2019 Hunters Point Library in Q ...

– 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 *

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– Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano * Reinhold Martin – Former Director of the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture *

Kate Orff Kate Orff, RLA, FASLA, is the founding principal of SCAPE, a design-driven landscape architecture and urban design studio based in New York. She also is the director the Urban Design Program (MSAUD) at Columbia University's Graduate School of A ...

– Director of GSAPP's Architecture and Urban Design Program, Founder and Principal of SCAPE * Jorge Otero-Pailos – Director of GSAPP's Historic Preservation Program * 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 o
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* 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 *

– designed Alfred Lerner Hall, Columbia's student center, former Dean (1988 to 2003) * Marc Tsurumaki * Mary McLeod – Co-curator of the exhibition

Charlotte Perriand Charlotte Perriand (24 October 1903 – 27 October 1999) was a French architect and designer. Her work aimed to create functional living spaces in the belief that better design helps in creating a better society. In her article "L'Art de Vivre" f ...

: Interior Equipment, *Mark Wasiuta – Co-director of GSAPP's Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices in Architecture Program *

– directed the exhibition "Deconstructivist Architecture" at

with

Philip Johnson Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906 – January 25, 2005) was an American architect best known for his works of modern and postmodern architecture. Among his best-known designs are his modernist Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut; the po ...

, former Dean (2004–2014) *

Gwendolyn Wright Gwendolyn Wright is an architectural historian, author, and co-host of the PBS television series ''History Detectives''. She is a professor of architecture at Columbia University, also holding appointments in both its departments of history and ...

* Weiping Wu – Director of GSAPP's Urban Planning Program and former Interim Dean

Former faculty

Charles Abrams Charles Abrams (September 20, 1901 – February 22, 1970) was a Polish-born American lawyer, writer, urbanist, and housing expert who created the New York City Housing and Development Administration in the 1960s. He was one of the first to use th ...

Stan Allen Stan Allen (born 1956) is an American architect, theorist and former dean of Princeton University School of Architecture. Biography He received a B.A. from Brown University, a B.Arch. from Cooper Union and an M.Arch. from Princeton Universit ...

– Former Dean of Princeton School of Architecture * Tatiana Bilbao *

William A. Boring William Alciphron Boring (September 9, 1859 – May 5, 1937) was an American architect noted for co-designing the Immigration Station at Ellis Island in New York harbor. Career Boring studied first at the University of Illinois, then spent ...

Peter Cook Peter Edward Cook (17 November 1937 – 9 January 1995) was an English actor, comedian, satirist, playwright and screenwriter. He was the leading figure of the British satire boom of the 1960s, and he was associated with the anti-establishme ...

– Member of

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* Harvey Wiley Corbett * Mark Cousins – Director of the History/ Theory Department at the AA London *

Manuel de Landa Manuel DeLanda (born 1952) is a Mexico, Mexican-United States, American writer, artist and philosopher who has lived in New York, New York, New York since 1975. He is a lecturer in architecture at the Princeton University School of Architecture a ...

(adjunct) * Neil Denari * Hernan Diaz Alonso *

James Marston Fitch James Marston Fitch (1909–2000) was an architect and a Preservationist. In 1964, he was one of the founders of the Historic Preservation Program at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. He was a member ...

Frank Gehry Frank Owen Gehry, , FAIA (; ; born ) is a Canadian-born American architect and designer. A number of his buildings, including his private residence in Santa Monica, California, have become world-renowned attractions. His works are considered ...

Romaldo Giurgola Romaldo "Aldo" Giurgola AO (2 September 1920 – 16 May 2016) was an Italian academic, architect, professor, and author. Giurgola was born in Rome, Italy in 1920. After service in the Italian armed forces during World War II, he was educated ...

Percival Goodman Percival Goodman (January 13, 1904 – October 11, 1989) was an American urban theorist and architect who designed more than 50 synagogues between 1948 and 1983. He has been called the "leading theorist" of modern synagogue design, Philip N ...

Zaha Hadid Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid ( ar, زها حديد ''Zahā Ḥadīd''; 31 October 1950 – 31 March 2016) was an Iraqi-British architect, artist and designer, recognised as a major figure in architecture of the late 20th and early 21st centu ...

* Malo Huston – Dean of the

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(2021–) * Alfred Dwight Foster Hamlin * Wallace Harrison *

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* Henry Hornbostel *

Bjarke Ingels Bjarke Bundgaard Ingels (; born 2 October 1974) is a Danish architect, founder and creative partner of Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG). In Denmark, Ingels became well known after designing two housing complexes in Ørestad: VM Houses and Mountain Dwe ...

Gerhard Kallmann Gerhard Michael Kallmann (February 13, 1915 – June 19, 2012) was a German-born American architect and academic. Together with Michael McKinnell, Kallman is best known as the lead designer of Boston City Hall, which was constructed in 1968 by ...

* Ada Karmi-Melamede *

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– Founder and CEO of GDSNY * Austin W. Lord – Dean from 1912–15 *

Greg Lynn Greg Lynn (born 1964) is an American architect, founder and owner of the Greg Lynn FORM office, an o. University Professor in the Institute of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and a professor at the UCLA School of the Arts a ...

* Peter Marcuse *

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Michael McKinnell Noel Michael McKinnell (December 25, 1935 – March 27, 2020) was a British-born American architect and co-founder of the Kallmann McKinnell & Wood architectural design firm. In 1962, McKinnell, who was a Columbia University graduate student ...

– former dean of Columbia's architecture school; his projects include the

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Theatre in

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near Billionaires' Row in

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* Hani Rashid – Asymptote *

Jaquelin T. Robertson Jaquelin Taylor Robertson, FAIA, F AICP, informally known as "Jaque," (March 20, 1933 – May 9, 2020) was an American architect and urban designer, working at Cooper Robertson. He was a representative of New Urbanism and New Classical Architectur ...

* Philippe Rahm *

Michael Sorkin Michael David Sorkin (August 2, 1948 – March 26, 2020) was an American architectural and urban critic, designer, and educator. He was considered to be "one of architecture's most outspoken public intellectuals", a polemical voice in contemporar ...

Robert A.M. Stern Robert Arthur Morton Stern, usually credited as Robert A. M. Stern (born May 23, 1939), is a New York City–based architect, educator, and author. He is the founding partner of the architecture firm, Robert A.M. Stern Architects, also known a ...

– former Dean of

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; his recent projects include the

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; the

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; and the

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's Rubenstein,

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, and Wexner buildings *

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– designed numerous Venetian Gothic buildings for

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* Michael Webb – member of

Lauretta Vinciarelli Lauretta Vinciarelli (1943 – August 3, 2011) was an artist, architect, and professor of architecture at the collegiate level. Background and education Born in Arbe, Italy, Lauretta Vinciarelli was the daughter of Alberto and Annunciata Cenc ...

Notable alumni

Abraham H. Albertson Abraham Horace Albertson (April 14, 1872 – April 18, 1964) was an American architect who was one of Seattle, Washington's most prominent architects of the first half of the 20th century. He was born in New Jersey and educated at Columbia Univer ...

(1895), notable early 20th century architect in Seattle, Washington *

Max Abramovitz Max Abramovitz (May 23, 1908 – September 12, 2004) was an American architect. He was best known for his work with the New York City firm Harrison & Abramovitz. Life Abramovitz was the son of Romanian Jewish immigrant parents. He graduat ...

(1931) – 1961

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; designed

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, the

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complex, and the

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* David Aldrich, artist and architect *

Grosvenor Atterbury Grosvenor Atterbury (July 7, 1869 in Detroit, MI – October 18, 1956 in Southampton, NY) was an American architect, urban planner and writer. He studied at Yale University, where he was an editor of campus humor magazine ''The Yale Record'' After ...

(1884) – worked for Columbia campus architects

McKim, Mead & White McKim, Mead & White was an American architectural firm that came to define architectural practice, urbanism, and the ideals of the American Renaissance in fin de siècle New York. The firm's founding partners Charles Follen McKim (1847–1909), Wil ...

; designed

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* Richard F. Bach (1909) – curator of industrial arts at the

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* Turpin Bannister (M.S. 1928) – was one of the leading American architectural historians of his generation * Donn Barber (post-graduate architectural courses) – architect *

– was an American architect; noted for, among other work, codesigning the Immigration Station at

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Temple Hoyne Buell Temple Hoyne Buell (September 9, 1895 – January 5, 1990) was an American architect, real estate developer and entrepreneur namesake of the Buell Theatre in Denver Center Complex, Buell & Company, and the Temple Buell Foundation. Buell was bor ...

– designed over 300 buildings in Colorado; designed the first ever shopping mall * Paul Byard (M.S.) – a lawyer and an architect *

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(B.A. 1915) – was an

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American architect; achieved renown through his apartment building designs in

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(M.S. 1989) – Congressman from

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and United States

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* Minsuk Cho – Founder of Mass Studies *

Brad Cloepfil Brad Cloepfil (born 1956) is an American architect, educator and principal of Allied Works Architecture of Portland, Oregon and New York City. His first major project was an adaptive reuse of a Portland warehouse for the advertising agency Wieden ...

– architect, educator *Angela Co (MA, 2005) – 2011

* Jonas Coersmeier – award-winning architect and designer; a finalist and first runner-up in the World Trade Center Memorial Competition *Lonn Combs (MsAAD, 2001) – 2011

William Adams Delano William Adams Delano (January 21, 1874 – January 12, 1960), an American architect, was a partner with Chester Holmes Aldrich in the firm of Delano & Aldrich. The firm worked in the Beaux-Arts tradition for elite clients in New York City, Long I ...

(1896) – architect, partner with

Chester Holmes Aldrich Chester Holmes Aldrich (4 June 1871 – 26 December 1940) was an American architect and director of the American Academy in Rome. Early life Aldrich was born in Providence, Rhode Island. He was the third son of Anna Elizabeth (née Gladding) an ...

in the firm of

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(M.S. 1977) – authority on the preservation of historically significant architecture *

Harry E. Donnell Harry Ellingwood Donnell (May 2, 1867 – February 25, 1959) was an American Beaux-Arts architect, who designed many commercial and residential structures in New York City and Long Island between 1894 and 1915. Biography Donnell (don-Nell ...

(Ph. B. 1887) – Beaux-Arts architect who designed The Grand Madison *

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(B.A. 1931) – architect; known for his prolific architectural design * Boris Dramov (M.Arch. 1970) – architect, urban designer, and President of ROMA Design Group *

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(1960) – designed the

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, amongst other work *

Doug Farr Douglas Lynn Farr is an American architect and urban planner. Farr was born in Detroit, Michigan and received his undergraduate degree in architecture from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and his master's from Columbia Graduate School of ...

(M.Arch. 1970) – architect and urban planner * Romaldo (Aldo) Giurgola (M.Arch) – Italian-American-Australian academic architect, professor, and author. * Nabil Gholam (M.S. in Urban Planning 1988) – architect, founder of award-winning architecture firms in

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* Philip L. Goodwin (1912) – co-designer of the original

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Ferdinand Gottlieb Ferdinand Gottlieb (October 5, 1919 in Berlin, Germany – October 27, 2007, in Dobbs Ferry, New York) was a New York-based architect. He headed his own firm, Ferdinand Gottlieb & Associates, based in Dobbs Ferry (1961–2007). He is perhaps ...

(1953) – designed the original

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Eric Gugler Eric Gugler (March 13, 1889 – May 17, 1974) was an American Neoclassical architect, interior designer, sculptor and muralist. He was selected by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to design the Oval Office.

(1911) – designed the

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of the

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Frances Halsband Frances Halsband FAIA (born October 30, 1943, in New York City) is an American architect and educator. She is a founder, with Robert Kliment, of Kliment Halsband Architects, a New York City design firm widely recognized for preservation, adaptive ...

(M.S.) – architect who has served on juries for design awards and chaired the 1999

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Committee on Design * Michael Hansmeyer (M.S.) – post-modern architect; utilizes algorithmic architecture techniques,

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mentalities, and CAD software to generate complex structures *

Arthur Loomis Harmon Arthur Loomis Harmon (July 13, 1878 – October 17, 1958) was an American architect. He is most famous as the design partner of the firm Shreve, Lamb and Harmon. Biography He was born in Chicago in 1878 and graduated from Columbia University's ...

(1902) – co-designed

Empire State Building The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The building was designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon and built from 1930 to 1931. Its name is derived from " Empire State", the nickname of the ...

; most famous as design partner of the firm

Shreve, Lamb and Harmon Shreve, Lamb, and Harmon, founded as Shreve & Lamb, was an architectural firm, best known for designing the Empire State Building, the tallest building in the world at the time of its completion in 1931. History The firm was founded in 1920 as Sh ...

* James Monroe Hewlett (Ph. B. 1890), painted the celestial mural in the

Grand Central Terminal Grand Central Terminal (GCT; also referred to as Grand Central Station or simply as Grand Central) is a commuter rail terminal located at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Grand Central is the southern terminus ...

, father-in-law of inventor

Buckminster Fuller Richard Buckminster Fuller (; July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an American architect, systems theorist, writer, designer, inventor, philosopher, and futurist. He styled his name as R. Buckminster Fuller in his writings, publishing ...

* Henry Hornbostel (Ph. B. 1891) – American architect who designed the campus for

Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...

and

Emory University Emory University is a private research university in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1836 as "Emory College" by the Methodist Episcopal Church and named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory, Emory is the second-oldest private institution of ...

* John Ike – architect and partner of Ike Kligerman Barkley architectural firm *

Mitchell Joachim Mitchell Joachim (pronounced /jo-ak-um/; born February 3, 1972) is an architect and urban designer. He is the Co-Founder of Terreform ONE, and an Associate Professor of Practice at NYU. Previously he was the Frank Gehry Chair at University of T ...

(M. Arch. 1997) – acknowledged as an innovator in

ecological design Ecological design or ecodesign is an approach to designing products and services that gives special consideration to the environmental impacts of a product over its entire lifecycle. Sim Van der Ryn and Stuart Cowan define it as "any form of des ...

, architecture, and

urban design Urban design is an approach to the design of buildings and the spaces between them that focuses on specific design processes and outcomes. In addition to designing and shaping the physical features of towns, cities, and regional spaces, urban d ...

Rockwell Kent Rockwell Kent (June 21, 1882 – March 13, 1971) was an American painter, printmaker, illustrator, writer, sailor, adventurer and voyager. Biography Rockwell Kent was born in Tarrytown, New York. Kent was of English descent. He lived much of ...

(1902) – painter * Robert Kohn (1890) – designed Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York, the world's largest synagogue * Joseph Kosinski (1999) – directed '' Tron: Legacy''; best known for his computer graphics and computer generated imagery work *

Sylvia Lavin Sylvia Lavin is a Professor of History and Theory of Architecture at Princeton University, School of Architecture. She was previously the head of the Ph.D. in Architecture program from 2007-2017 and Professor of Architectural History and Theory at ...

– a leading figure in contemporary architectural history, theory, and criticism *

V. Everit Macy Valentine Everit Macy (March 23, 1871 – March 21, 1930) was an American industrialist and philanthropist, involved in local government. In the 1910s and 1920s, he served in Westchester County, New York, as commissioner of the Department of Chari ...

(1893) – industrialist and philanthropist; benefactor to

Teachers College, Columbia University Teachers College, Columbia University (TC), is the graduate school of education, health, and psychology of Columbia University, a private research university in New York City. Founded in 1887, it has served as one of the official faculties and ...

* Henry C. Pelton (1889) – co-designed

Riverside Church Riverside Church is an interdenominational church in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, on the block bounded by Riverside Drive, Claremont Avenue, 120th Street and 122nd Street near Columbia University's Mornin ...

* Geeta Mehta – Indian-American social entrepreneur, urban designer, architect and author * Lewis F. Pilcher (1895) – State Architect of New York in the 1910s * Campion A. Platt (B.S. Arch) – architect; included in ''

Architectural Digest ''Architectural Digest'' is an American monthly magazine founded in 1920. Its principal subjects are interior design and landscaping, rather than pure external architecture. The magazine is published by Condé Nast, which also publishes internati ...

'' (2010) as one of Top 100 Architects and Designers in the world *

John Russell Pope John Russell Pope (April 24, 1874 – August 27, 1937) was an American architect whose firm is widely known for designing major public buildings, including the National Archives and Records Administration building (completed in 1935), the Jeff ...

(1894) –

; designed the National Archives and the

Jefferson Memorial The Jefferson Memorial is a presidential memorial built in Washington, D.C. between 1939 and 1943 in honor of Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence, a central intellectual force behind the A ...

Washington, DC ) , image_skyline = , image_caption = Clockwise from top left: the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall, United States Capitol, Logan Circle, Jefferson Memorial, White House, Adams Morg ...

Antoine Predock Antoine Predock ( ; born 1936 in Lebanon, Missouri) is an American architect based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is the principal of Antoine Predock Architect PC, the studio he founded in 1967. Predock first gained national attention with the La ...

(B. Arch.) – architect,

(1985);

AIA Gold Medal The AIA Gold Medal is awarded by the American Institute of Architects conferred "by the national AIA Board of Directors in recognition of a significant body of work of lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture." It is the Ins ...

(2006),

National Design Award The American National Design Awards, founded in 2000, are funded and awarded by Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. There are seven official design categories, and three additional awards. Supplemental awards can be given at the discretio ...

(2007) *

Wallace A. Rayfield Wallace Augustus Rayfield (1874–1941), was an American architect and educator. He was the second formally educated practicing African American architect in the United States of America, United States. Biography Wallace Augustus Rayfield was bor ...

(B. Arch. 1899) – was the second formally educated practicing

African American African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of ens ...

architect in the United States * Charles Renfro (1994) – principal,

Diller Scofidio + Renfro Diller has several uses including: People with the surname *Barry Diller (b. 1942), American businessman *Burgoyne Diller Burgoyne A. Diller (January 13, 1906 – January 30, 1965) was an American abstract painter. Many of his best-known w ...

; among the first architects to win a

MacArthur Prize The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 indi ...

"genius grant" * Marcus T. Reynolds (1893), architect who designed the

SUNY System Administration Building SUNY Plaza, or the H. Carl McCall SUNY Building, formerly the Delaware & Hudson Railroad Company Building, is a public office building located at 353 Broadway at the intersection with State Street in downtown Albany, New York, United States. Loc ...

and

The Albany Academy The Albany Academy is an independent college preparatory day school for boys in Albany, New York, USA, enrolling students from Preschool (age 3) to Grade 12. It was established in 1813 by a charter signed by Mayor Philip Schuyler Van Rensselae ...

James Rossant James Stephan Rossant (August 17, 1928 – December 15, 2009) was an American architect, artist, and professor of architecture. A long-time Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, he is best known for his master plan o ...

(1928-2009) – architect; best known for his master plan of

Reston, Virginia Reston is a census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia and a principal city of the Washington metropolitan area. As of the 2020 U.S. Census, Reston's population was 63,226. Founded in 1964, Reston was influenced by the Garden City move ...

Lower Manhattan Lower Manhattan (also known as Downtown Manhattan or Downtown New York) is the southernmost part of Manhattan, the central borough for business, culture, and government in New York City, which is the most populated city in the United States with ...

Plan, and UN-sponsored master plan for

Dodoma, Tanzania Dodoma ( in Gogo), officially Dodoma City, is the national capital of Tanzania and the capital of the Dodoma Region, with a population of 410,956. In 1974, the Tanzanian government announced that the capital would be moved to Dodoma for social a ...

Friedrich St. Florian Friedrich St. Florian (born 1932) is an Austrian- American architect. He moved to the United States in 1961, and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1973. Early life and education St. Florian was born Friedrich St. Florian Gartler in the Austr ...

(M. Arch. 1961) – Austrian–American architect;

;

National World War II Memorial The World War II Memorial is a national memorial in the United States dedicated to Americans who served in the armed forces and as civilians during World War II. It is located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The memorial consists ...

, Washington, D.C. * Ashley Schafer (1998) – founding editor of PRAXIS journal and curator of the US Pavilion at the 2014

Venice Biennale The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of ...

* Sy Schulman (1954) – civil engineer and urban planner, Mayor of White Plains (1993–1997) * Ricardo Scofidio (1960) – founder, principal of

, first architects to win a

"genius grant";

Royal Institute of British Architects The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is a professional body for architects primarily in the United Kingdom, but also internationally, founded for the advancement of architecture under its royal charter granted in 1837, three supp ...

SHoP Architects SHoP Architects is an architecture firm in Lower Manhattan, New York City, with projects located on five continents. Led by four principals, the firm provides services to residences, commercial buildings, schools and cultural institutions, as wel ...

(each of the six founding partners has a M.Arch. from GSAPP) – 2009 National Design Award for Architecture Design; firm's work in permanent collection,

* David Serero (M.S. Arch) –

French French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents ** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ...

architect;

* Lawrence L. Shenfield (B. Arch. 1914) –

advertising Advertising is the practice and techniques employed to bring attention to a product or service. Advertising aims to put a product or service in the spotlight in hopes of drawing it attention from consumers. It is typically used to promote a ...

executive, instrumental in promoting

Radio broadcasting Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radio ...

during the 1920s and 30s; prominent

philatelist Philately (; ) is the study of postage stamps and postal history. It also refers to the collection and appreciation of stamps and other philatelic products. Philately involves more than just stamp collecting or the study of postage; it is possi ...

, collector of Confederate postage stamps * Norma Merrick Sklarek (M.Arch 1950) –

architect who accomplished many firsts for black women in architecture * Galia Solomonoff (M.Arch 1994) – architect, founder of Solomonoff Architecture Studio * Laurinda Hope Spear (M.S. Arch 1975) – architect and landscape architect;

; one of the founders of

Arquitectonica Arquitectonica is an international architecture, landscape architecture, interior design, and urban planning design firm headquartered in Miami, Florida’s Coconut Grove neighborhood. The firm also has offices in ten other cities throughout ...

* Gustave E. Steinback (B.S. 1900) – architect; particularly known as designer of Roman Catholic schools and churches * Chauncey Stillman – American heir, grandson of

James Stillman James Jewett Stillman (June 9, 1850 – March 15, 1918) was an American businessman who invested in land, banking, and railroads in New York, Texas, and Mexico. He was chairman of the board of directors of the National City Bank. He forged alli ...

* Arthur Alexander Stoughton (Ph. B. 1888) – partner of

Stoughton and Stoughton Stoughton & Stoughton was a New York-based architectural firm comprising the partnership of Charles (1860—1944) and Arthur Alexander Stoughton (1867—1955), brothers who were born in Mount Vernon, New York. Arthur graduated from Columbia Unive ...

; founded the architecture department at the

University of Manitoba The University of Manitoba (U of M, UManitoba, or UM) is a Canadian public research university in the province of Manitoba.Max W. Strang (M.Arch 1988) –

Miami Miami ( ), officially the City of Miami, known as "the 305", "The Magic City", and "Gateway to the Americas", is a coastal metropolis and the county seat of Miami-Dade County in South Florida, United States. With a population of 442,241 at ...

based architect known for his Regional Modernist design; founding principal of Strang Design and recipient of Medal of Honor from Florida AIA * Sharon Sutton (M.Arch 1983) – professor, architecture and urban design; first

woman to become a full professor in accredited architectural degree program * Alexander Tzannes (M.S. Arch & Urban Design) – Australian architect; founder of high-profile, multi-award-winning architectural practice Tzannes Associates * Samuel Breck Parkman Trowbridge (1883), partner of

Trowbridge & Livingston Trowbridge & Livingston was an architectural practice based in New York City in the early 20th-century. The firm's partners were Samuel Beck Parkman Trowbridge and Goodhue Livingston. Often commissioned by well-heeled clients, much of the firm ...

; designed the

St. Regis Hotel St. Regis Hotels & Resorts is a luxury hotel chain owned and managed by Marriott International. History In 1904, John Jacob Astor built the St. Regis New York as a sister property to his part-owned Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Exhibiting luxury and ...

American Red Cross National Headquarters The American Red Cross National Headquarters is located at 430 17th Street NW in Washington, D.C. Built between 1915 and 1917, it serves both as a memorial to women who served in the American Civil War and as the headquarters building for the Ame ...

, and

23 Wall Street 23 Wall Street (also known as the J.P. Morgan Building) is an office building in the Financial District of Manhattan in New York City, at the southeast corner of Wall Street and Broad Street. Trowbridge & Livingston designed the four- ...

UrbanLab UrbanLab is an American architecture and urban design firm with headquarters in Chicago. Founded by Martin Felsen, FAIA, and Sarah Dunn in 2001, the office is known for its focus on sustainability, creative experimentation and a collaborative appr ...

(both founders,

Martin Felsen Martin Felsen (born 1968) is an American architect and Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA). He directs UrbanLab, a Chicago-based architecture and urban design firm. Felsen's projects range in scale from houses such as the He ...

and Sarah Dunn, graduated in 1994) – 2009 Latrobe Prize from the

College of Fellows * Franklin B. Ware (B.S. Arch) – American architect best known for serving as the

State architect Many national governments and states have a public official titled the state architect or government architect. The specific duties and areas of responsibility of state architects vary, but they generally involve responsibility for the design and ...

(1907–1912) *

Whitney Warren Whitney Warren (January 29, 1864 – January 24, 1943) was an American Beaux-Arts architect who founded, with Charles Delevan Wetmore, Warren and Wetmore in New York City, one of the most prolific and successful architectural practices in the U ...

(attended 1883–1884), founder of

Warren and Wetmore Warren and Wetmore was an architecture firm in New York City which was a partnership between Whitney Warren (1864–1943) and Charles Delevan Wetmore (June 10, 1866 – May 8, 1941), that had one of the most extensive practices of its time and w ...

that designed New York City's

Alexander McMillan Welch Alexander McMillan Welch (1869–1943) was an American architect trained in the Beaux-Arts tradition, who led the New York City firm of Welch, Smith & Provot, in partnership with Bowen B. Smith and George Provot. Life and career Welch, a descen ...

(1890), American architect who designed the Benjamin N. Duke House * Jan V. White (1952) –

communication design Communication design is a mixed discipline between design and information-development which is concerned with how media communicate with people. A communication design approach is not only concerned with developing the message in addition to th ...

er, educator and writer

Research Centers

Center for Spatial Research

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.

Center for Urban Real Estate

The Center for Urban Real Estate was founded in 2011 in order to address the challenges of a rapidly urbanizing world and the most complex problems of the real estate industry. From the concerns of inequitable socio-economic outcomes in the urban environment, through the spectacular revitalization of urban centers, such as Lower Manhattan, after the devastation of terrorism, natural disaster, and deteriorating infrastructure, to creating technological systems for optimized investment decisions, the Center serves as a forum for robust discussions and rigorous analysis by real estate professionals and scholars. A major current focus of the Center is the development of advanced applied technology that can be achieved by bridging the gap between the compelling needs of the real estate industry and the advanced research and resources in technology within the extensive Columbia University ecosystem.

Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture

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 governing the architectural public sphere—that is, the arena in which informed public analysis and debate about architecture and urbanism takes place. The center is located in

Buell Hall Buell Hall is an academic building on the Morningside Heights campus of Columbia University in New York City. Built in 1885 as Macy Villa, it is the oldest building on Columbia's campus, and the last remaining building at Columbia which dates bac ...

Columbia Laboratory for Architectural Broadcasting

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

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