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Jun 1, 2011 · GSAPP offers a range of academic programs that study the built environment at multiple scales and through different critical methods. Learn more about the School’s various degree programs in Architecture, Urbanism, Preservation, and Real Estate Development.
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) is the architecture school of Columbia University, a private research university in New York City. It is regarded as an important and prestigious architecture school.
Building on the School’s recent commitment to advancing architecture alongside more global and contemporary perspectives, GSAPP’s Master of Architecture program has focused on expanding its design capacities, building practices, and discursive potentials.
The Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (Columbia GSAPP) was founded in 1881 as one of the first schools of its kind in the United States.
The program’s goals are to introduce the fields of architecture, planning and preservation; encourage their exploration in the contexts of history, theory and practice; and identify and analyze their interrelationships, especially in regard to the making of cities.
The program focuses on the city as an agent of resilient change and on the role of design in redefining the twenty-first century urban landscape, advancing new paradigms of research, practice, and pedagogy to meet the challenges of climate change, rapid urbanization, and social inequality.
The Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) offers students not only expertise in the current state-of-the-art in architecture but also the capacity to change the field and redefine it, acting as a laboratory for testing new ideas about the roles of designers in a global society.
