The Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University in New York City, also known simply as GSAPP, is one of the leading architecture schools in the United States. It was transformed from a department within the Columbia School of Mines into a formal School of Architecture by William Robert Ware in 1881. 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, Mark Wigley, was appointed in 2004 and is also a notable proponent of deconstructivism.

Notable alumni

• Max Abramovitz (1931) - designed Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center, the United Nations complex, and the Columbia Law School building
• Grosvenor Atterbury (1884) - worked for Columbia campus architects McKim, Mead & White; designed Forest Hills Gardens
• William Adams Delano (1896)
• Hernan Diaz Alonso of Xefirotarch (1999) - Subject of a 2006 SFMoMA Exhibition
• Peter Eisenman (1960) - designed the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin
• 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
• Rockwell Kent (1902) - painter
• Robert Kohn (1890) - designed Congegation Emanu-El of the City of New York, the world's largest synagogue
• 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

Notable faculty

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

• Manuel de Landa
• James Stewart Polshek - designed the William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock, Arkansas
• Michael Sorkin
• Bernard Tschumi - designed Alfred Lerner Hall, Columbia's student center
• William Robert Ware - designed numerous Venetian Gothic buildings for Harvard University
• Mark Wigley - Directed the exhibition "Deconstructivist Architecture" at MoMA with Philip Johnson
• Steven Holl
• Peter Cook

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

See also

• Columbia University

External links

• GSAPP Online