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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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People

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

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.

Fall 2026 Courses

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

HP II Only
N/A
By Appointment
Full Semester
1.5 Points
 10609
ARCH4510‑1 Fall 2026
Studio I - Historic Preservation Studio
 Andrew Dolkart, Kate Reggev

HP I Only
301 Fayerweather, 200 Buell North
TU 2 PM - 6 PM, F 9 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
6 Points
 10611
ARCH6305‑1 Fall 2026
Advanced Studio III - Joint Historic Preservation/Architecture Studio
 Jorge Otero-Pailos, Mark Rakatansky

HP II Only w/ ARCH4105-014
600 + 700 Avery
M 1:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Full Semester
6 Points
 10612
ARCH6631‑1 Fall 2026
Advanced Preservation Planning & Policy Studio
 Erica Avrami
301 Fayerweather
M 2 PM - 6 PM
Full Semester
6 Points
 14207
ARCH6730‑1 Fall 2026
Traditional American Architecture
209 Fayerweather
M 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10610
ARCH6740‑1 Fall 2026
Historic Preservation Theory & Practice
 Jorge Otero-Pailos
Preservation Technology Lab (655 Schermerhorn)
W 3 PM - 6 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10613
ARCH6790‑1 Fall 2026
Thesis Colloquium
 Paul Bentel, Sarah Sher
200 Buell North
W 9 AM - 11 AM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10617
ARCH6767‑1 Fall 2026
Preservation Planning and Policy
 Erica Avrami
409 Avery
W 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10614
ARCH6784‑1 Fall 2026
Conservation of Brick, Terra Cotta + Stone
 Norman Weiss, John Walsh

ALL GSAPP
Preservation Technology Lab (655 Schermerhorn)
M 10 Am - 1 PM
Session B
1.5 Points
 10616
ARCH6965‑1 Fall 2026
Advanced Studio V – Clinic
 Lucia Rebolino

ALL GSAPP
700 Avery
TH 1:30 - 4 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10570
ARCH4312‑1 Fall 2026
Storytelling Through Design
 Hilary Sample

ALL GSAPP + SoA
409 Avery
TH 9 AM - 11 AM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10568
ARCH4352‑1 Fall 2026
Events in Modern Architecture 1850-Present: Exhibitions
 Mary McLeod

ALL GSAPP
409 Avery
TU 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10574
ARCH4427‑1 Fall 2026
Architecture Apropos Art
 Dimitra Tsachrelia

ALL GSAPP
412 Avery
TH 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10583
ARCH4441‑1 Fall 2026
Interlaced Existence: Death, Life, Liminality
 Karla Rothstein

ALL GSAPP
200 Buell North
TU 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 15503
ARCH4442‑1 Fall 2026
If Buildings Had DNA
 Christoph Kumpusch

ALL GSAPP
115 Avery
TU 1 PM - 3 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10584
ARCH4469‑1 Fall 2026
The History of Architecture Theory
 Mark Wigley

ALL GSAPP
114 Avery
W 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10575
ARCH4597‑1 Fall 2026
Extreme Design
 Mark Wigley

ALL GSAPP
412 Avery
TU 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10577
ARCH4625‑1 Fall 2026
Tensile/Compression Surfaces in Architecture: Tactile Methods for Architects
 Robert Marino

ALL GSAPP
Ware Lounge (600 Avery)
TU 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10600
ARCH4845‑1 Fall 2026
Generative Design I
Danil Nagy

ALL GSAPP
Ware Lounge (600 Avery)
TU 9 AM - 11 AM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10590
ARCH4892‑1 Fall 2026
Data Visualization for Architecture, Urbanism and the Humanities
 Jia Zhang

ALL GSAPP
409 Avery
F 9 AM - 11 AM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10591
ARCH4987‑1 Fall 2026
Architectural Photography: From the Models to the Built World
 Michael Vahrenwald
115 Avery
TU 9 AM - 11 AM
Full Semester
3 Points
 19779
ARCH6682‑1 Fall 2026
Subject_Object
 Suchi Reddy

ALL GSAPP
300 Buell North
TH 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10601
ARCH6756‑1 Fall 2026
Make
 Ada Tolla, Giuseppe Lignano

ALL GSAPP
Ware Lounge (600 Avery)
F 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10587
ARCH6768‑1 Fall 2026
Conservation of Architectural Metals
 Richard Pieper

ALL GSAPP
Preservation Technology Lab (655 Schermerhorn)
M 10 AM - 1 PM
Session A
1.5 Points
 10615
ARCH6801‑1 Fall 2026
Structural Daring & The Sublime In Pre-Modern Architecture
 Rory O'Neill

ALL GSAPP
412 Avery
F 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 12268
ARCH6815‑1 Fall 2026
Public Space: Rhetorics + Practices
David Smiley

ALL GSAPP
412 Avery
TU 1 PM - 3 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 15505
ARCH6830‑1 Fall 2026
Difference and Design
 Justin Moore

ALL GSAPP + Tuskegee TSACS
409 Avery
TU 9 AM -11 AM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10604
ARCH6832‑1 Fall 2026
Toward Resilient Cities and Landscapes
 Kate Orff

ALL GSAPP
115 Avery
TU 3 PM - 5 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 15506
ARCH6862‑1 Fall 2026
Cairo Cartographies: Mapping Architecture, Urbanism, and the Evolution of an Arab City
 Yasser Elsheshtawy

ALL GSAPP
409 Avery
M 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 17232
ARCH6921‑1 Fall 2026
AI for Existing Buildings
 Kivanc Kose

ALL GSAPP
Preservation Technology Lab (655 Schermerhorn)
W 6 PM - 8 PM
Session B
1.5 Points
 10715
ARCH6934‑1 Fall 2026
Traditional Building Technology
 Tim Michiels
Preservation Technology Lab (655 Schermerhorn)
TH 9 AM - 11:30 AM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10716
ARCH6937‑1 Fall 2026
Visualization Techniques for Arch Preservation
 André Jauregui

ALL GSAPP
Preservation Technology Lab (655 Schermerhorn)
W 6 PM - 8 PM
Session A
1.4 Points
 10717
ARCH6938‑1 Fall 2026
Rendering Systems
 Seth Thompson

ALL GSAPP
300 Buell South
TU 7 PM - 9 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10595
ARCH6939‑1 Fall 2026
GIS for Design Practices
 Mario Giampieri

ALL GSAPP
408 Avery
F 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10594
ARCH6941‑1 Fall 2026
Architectural Acoustics and Field Recordings
 Ethan Bourdeau

ALL GSAPP
504 Avery
TU 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 17231
ARCH6956‑1 Fall 2026
Spatial AI
 William Martin

ALL GSAPP
115 Avery
TH 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10593
ARCH6966‑1 Fall 2026
Le Corbusier Beyond Europe
 Mary McLeod

ALL GSAPP
412 Avery
W 4 PM - 6 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10581
ARCH6980‑1 Fall 2026
Global Housing Seminar
 Galia Solomonoff

ALL GSAPP
408 Avery
TH 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 14226
ARCH6982‑1 Fall 2026
Planetary Media
 Amelyn Ng

ALL GSAPP
408 Avery
TU 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10592
ARCH6986‑1 Fall 2026
Digital Fabrication at Scale
 Joseph Brennan

ALL GSAPP
408 Avery
M 9 AM - 11 AM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10596
ARCH6990‑1 Fall 2026
Exposed: Advanced Structural Design
 Hermona Tamrat

ALL GSAPP
505 Avery
W 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10777
ARCH6991‑1 Fall 2026
Biogenic Sections
 Marc Tsurumaki

ALL GSAPP
Ware Lounge (600 Avery)
TH 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10606
PLAN4022‑1 Fall 2026
Fundamentals of Urban Digital Design
 Sybil Wa
UP Computer Lab (202 Fayerweather)
TH 3 PM - 5 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10719
PLAN4320‑1 Fall 2026
Urban Design For Planners
 Jonathan Martin
Ware Lounge (600 Avery)
W 9 AM - 11 AM
Full Semester
3 Points
 11901
PLAN4881‑1 Fall 2026
Practicum: Planning the Cultural Space
 Douglas Woodward, Peter Flamm

ALL GSAPP
204 Fayerweather
TU 3 PM - 5 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 11902
PLAN6009‑1 Fall 2026
Environmental Data Analysis
 Peter Marcotullio, Kaz Sakamoto

ALL GSAPP
412 Avery
M 3 PM - 5 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10724
PLAN6088‑1 Fall 2026
Introduction to International Planning
 Ebru Gencer
204 Fayerweather
M 1 PM - 3 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10725
PLAN6121‑1 Fall 2026
Practicum: Residential Planning in Global Cities
 Kate Dunham
203 Fayerweather
F 11 AM - 1 PM
Session A
1.5 Points
 10727
PLAN6328‑1 Fall 2026
Site Planning & Support Systems
 Graham Trelstad
204 Fayerweather
M 5 PM - 7 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10728
PLAN6434‑1 Fall 2026
Introduction to Transportation Planning
 Rachel Weinberger
204 Fayerweather
TH 1 PM - 3 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10729
PLAN6612‑1 Fall 2026
Planning for Justice in a Low Carbon Future
 Javier Lopez
408 Avery
M 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10730
PLAN6619‑1 Fall 2026
Intro to Urban Data and Informatics
 Timothy Yoshimura

ALL GSAPP
UP Computer Lab (202 Fayerweather)
F 9 AM - 11 AM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10731
PLAN6621‑1 Fall 2026
Law, Politics, and Planning Practice
 Howard Slatkin

ALL GSAPP
203 Fayerweather
W 5 PM - 7 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 11916
PLAN6642‑1 Fall 2026
Metropolitan Planning
 Thomas Wright

ALL GSAPP
204 Fayerweather
W 5 PM - 7 PM
Session A
1.5 Points
 11903
PLAN6646‑1 Fall 2026
Affordable Housing in High Demand Cities
 Kristin Miller, Evan Easterbrooks-Dick

ALL GSAPP
203 Fayerweather
TH 5 PM - 7 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10732
PLAN6921‑1 Fall 2026
Practicum: Urban Analytics for Social Good
 Boyeong Hong
UP Computer Lab (202 Fayerweather)
M 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10735
PLAN6923‑1 Fall 2026
Data Infrastructure and Management in the Context of AI
 Suprima Bhele Syllabus
UP Computer Lab (202 Fayerweather)
TU 6 PM - 8 PM
Session B
1.5 Points
 11917
PLAN6928‑1 Fall 2026
Global Best Practices in Public Transportation
 Syllabus
200 Buell North
TU 6 PM - 8 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10737
PLAN6942‑1 Fall 2026
Community Development Finance Practicum
 Kevin McQueen
412 Avery
M 5 PM - 7 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10738
PLAN6946‑1 Fall 2026
Housing the Unhoused: A Practicum
 Jessica Katz

ALL GSAPP
204 Fayerweather
W 5 PM - 7 PM
Session B
1.5 Points
 11904
ARCH4518‑1 Fall 2026
Exhibition Histories, Curating Theories
 Mark Wasiuta

ALL GSAPP
300 Buell South
TH 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 14824
ARCH6987‑1 Fall 2026
Simulations, Models, Twins
 Adam Vosburgh

ALL GSAPP
300 Buell South
TH 9 AM - 11 AM
Full Semester
3 Points
 17234
PLAN6272‑1 Fall 2026
New York Rising: How Real Estate Shapes a City
 Kate Ascher

ALL GSAPP
114 Avery
F 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10567
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May 12
Faculty Andrew S. Dolkart ('77 MSHP) is honored as a Pillar of New York by the Preservation League of New York State for their work co-founding the NYC LGBTQ Historic Sites Project.
Apr 29
Faculty Mary Jablonski receives the 2026 Sheldon & Caroline Keck Award, recognizing excellence in the education and training of conservation professionals.
Apr 28
Anne Maxwell Foster '25 MHSP is joined by MSHP Director Jorge Otero-Pailos for her talk, Passive Cooling Revisited, at the Onera Foundation.
Apr 22
Faculty Krzyzstof Wodizko's projection on the National Gallery of Art in Washington is covered in the Washington Post.
Feb 27
Director of M.S.HP Jorge Otero-Pailos delivers the keynote lecture for the AIA 2026 Taliesin West Colloquium on Historic Preservation in an Age of Disruption
Feb 19
Faculty Erica Avrami, PhD, and k. kennedy Whiters deliver lecture "In Search of “Black Bohemia” in Manhattan’s Tenderloin: Black Life Before Harlem"
Feb 13
Faculty Håvard Breivik-Khan contributes to GSAPP’s Future Anterior journal with book review of 'The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement' by Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi
Feb 13
Faculty Jorge Otero-Pailos featured in "The Architect as Repairer: The Retrofit Imperative" In Architecture Now, New Zealand
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
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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
Award-Winning Graduation Portfolio

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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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