Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

Avery Hall.

The Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University in New York City, also known simply as GSAPP, is regarded as one of the most important and prestigious architecture schools in the world. It is also home to the well regarded Masters of Science in Urban Planning, Historic Preservation, and Real Estate Development.

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. While the number of specialized programs being offered by the school has multiplied over the years, architecture remains the intellectual core of the school, providing the central focus for more than half of the students and faculty, in addition to conferring a unique identity onto each of the other affiliated programs. All programs share a commitment to both professional training and research. The curriculum and philosophy stress the necessity of analyzing and challenging the underlying history, premises, and future directions of the design professions, even as students are prepared to become accomplished practitioners in their respective fields of specialization.

Among the school's resources is 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.

Recent deans of the school have included architect James Stewart Polshek and noted architectural theorist and deconstructivist architect Bernard Tschumi. The current dean is Mark Wigley.

Notable alumni

• Max Abramovitz (1931) - designed Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center, the United Nations complex, and the Assembly Hall; 1961 Rome Prize
• Grosvenor Atterbury (1884) - worked for Columbia campus architects McKim, Mead & White; designed Forest Hills Gardens
• Temple Hoyne Buell
• Brad Cloepfil
• Angela Co (MA, 2005) – 2011 Rome Prize^[1]
• Lonn Combs (MsAAD, 2001) – 2011 Rome Prize^[2]
• William Adams Delano (1896)
• Peter Eisenman (1960) - designed the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin
• Hal Foster
• Philip L. Goodwin (1912) - co-designed the original Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Eric Gugler (1911) - designed the West Wing of the White House
• Arthur Loomis Harmon (1902) - co-designed the Empire State Building
• James Monroe Hewlett (1890) - muralist
• Mitchell Joachim
• Rockwell Kent (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
• Sylvia Lavin
• Henry C. Pelton (1889) - co-designed Riverside Church in New York
• John Russell Pope (1894) - designed the National Archives and the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC
• Charles Renfro (1994) - principal of Diller Scolfidio + Renfro.
• Ricardo Scofidio (1960) - founder and principal of Diller Scolfidio + Renfro, first architects to win a MacArthur Prize "genius grant"
• SHoP Architects
• Dan Wood
• Lynch Eisinger Design (1994)

Notable faculty

Includes present as well as past faculty associated with the school.

• Stan Allen - Dean of Princeton School of Architecture
• Barry Bergdoll - Chief Architecture Curator of the MOMA
• Peter Cook Member of Archigram
• Mark Cousins - Director of the History/ Theory Department at the AA London
• Manuel de Landa
• Andrew Dolkart - James Marston Fitch Professor of Historic Preservation
• Kenneth Frampton
• Frank Gehry
• Juan Herreros
• Steven Holl
• Jefferey Inaba
• Bjarke Ingels^[3]
• Paul Lewis
• LTL Architects
• Greg Lynn
• Mary McLeod
• Joan Ockman
• Greg Pasquarelli
• James Stewart Polshek - designed the William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock, Arkansas
• Hani Rashid - Asymptote
• David Reinfurt
• Michael Rock - Founder of 2 x 4
• Linda Roy
• Paul Segal
• Chirstopher Sharples
• Michael Sorkin
• Robert A.M. Stern - Dean of Yale School of Architecture
• Bernard Tschumi - designed Alfred Lerner Hall, Columbia's student center
• William Robert Ware - designed numerous Venetian Gothic buildings for Harvard University
• Michael D. Web - member of Archigram
• Mark Wigley - Directed the exhibition "Deconstructivist Architecture" at MoMA with Philip Johnson

For a comprehensive list of individuals associated with Columbia University as a whole, see the List of Columbia University people.

See also

• Columbia University

References

1. ^ http://archinect.com/schools/release/11064/the-rome-prize-in-architecture-has-been-awarded-to-instructor-angie-co-and-alumnus-lonn-combs/3005330
2. ^ http://archinect.com/schools/release/11064/the-rome-prize-in-architecture-has-been-awarded-to-instructor-angie-co-and-alumnus-lonn-combs/3005330
3. ^ "Invitation - Press Release". Student Housing, International Competition for Architects up to 35. http://www.upto35.com/assets/docs/UPTO35_EXHIBITION_ENG.pdf. Retrieved 2009-10-20. 

External links

• GSAPP Online
• WikiCU - Avery Hall