architecture and the future of cities, the environment, and technology. Columbia GSAPP cultivates an expanded culture of making that is simultaneously digital, material, and representational. The newly remodeled Making Studio enables a new culture of making that is imperative to individual expression and creativity as well as to critical thinking, assembling, and recycling. Alongside a 24-hour project space for large-scale mock-ups and experimentation, facilities include 3D printing, robotics and multi-modal making, rapid prototyping, and digital cutting and tooling.
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 1172 Amsterdam Avenue New York, NY 10027 212.854.3510 arch.columbia.edu
Amale Andraos, Dean Student Faculty Ratio: 6:1 Tuition & Fees: $33,574.50/Semester US Students $33,684.50/Semester International Students Number of Students: 783 Including Masters, PhD, and Non-degree students Application Deadlines: 1/3 (MArch), 1/15 Type of Campus: Urban
Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Avery Hall. Photo by Ofer Wolberger.
Located in one of the most vibrant global cities, Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (Columbia GSAPP) is an urban condenser of ideas that fosters the diversity of perspectives, encounters, and backgrounds to re-imagine architecture and the built environment for the future. The school’s distinguished faculty includes some the world’s greatest thinkers, practitioners, and scholars leading the field of architecture, urban design and planning, historic preservation, and real estate development. Since its founding in 1881, Columbia GSAPP has led the constant change and re-invention of the disciplines and practices it holds, and critically considers architecture and the built environment in relation to broader historical and contemporary issues. The faculty and students collectively question what architecture should be, and recast the boundaries of the discipline so that graduates are prepared to address the urgent issues of our time. Columbia GSAPP’s engagement in New York and in various cities across the world offers students an unparalleled network of resources and exchange. In New York, the school’s rigorous programs, exhibitions, and publications make Columbia GSAPP an integral part of the city’s vibrant intellectual and artistic life. On campus, faculty-led academic research centers and experimental labs connect with other schools and institutes at Columbia to create a new context for understanding
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Columbia GSAPP has a long tradition of offering students extensive travel opportunities, studio trips, international summer workshops, and a global network through which new pedagogical models can be developed. This reflects an environment for testing ideas and engaging the expanded field of global contemporary practice, while addressing a range of contemporary issues affected by the built environment—such as climate change, sustainability, the evolving role of technology, and social equity.
Brigette Borders, Peiyu Ding, Jichao Sun, Xingjian Shi, Yanchen Yu, Connie Jan, Caroline Jeon, and Lu Liu. Building Science and Technology course “Fast Pace/Slow Space” led by Mark Bearak and Brigette Borders, Spring 2018. Photo by James Ewing.
PROGRAMS Columbia GSAPP offers seven master degree programs, eight joint-degree options, and three Ph.D. programs. Curriculum details and course listings can be found online: arch.columbia.edu/ programs MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE M.Arch is a three-year accredited professional program regularly ranked as one of the top architecture programs in the country. The program exposes students to architecture as a complex cultural endeavor through an engaged curriculum that spans a globalized History and Theory sequence to cutting-edge Visual Studies
