Preservation

2021 Fitch Colloquium: The Art of Preservation

Artists are leading a broad rethinking of heritage, and claiming a central role within preservation practice. In recent years, many BIPOC artists have worked...

Building Technology 2

This series of video lectures is intended for stage 1 undergraduate Architecture, Architectural Technology, Construction management and Surveying students. It is intended to give a...

2019 Fitch Colloquium: Record/Replay

Can digital technologies for capturing and reproducing reality deepen our understanding and enrich our experience of built heritage? Can these new technologies not only...

CHC symposium focused on African-American heritage

Preservation of Texas’ historic African-American communities, repositories of black heritage and culture that are increasingly imperiled by natural and economic threats, was the focus...

Fitch Colloquium Ex-Situ

The act of moving historical buildings to new locations has been part and parcel of modern preservation practice since its origins in the early...

Fitch Colloquium: Preservation and War

What are the moral limits to war? The destruction of heritage has, at least since the Enlightenment, been considered a threshold beyond which military...

The Fitch Colloquium: Beyond the Five Boroughs: International Preservation Insights

As Columbia University’s contribution to the Landmarks 50 celebration—the recognition of the fiftieth anniversary of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission—this year’s Fitch...

The Fitch Colloquium: Transformative: Seven Ideas for a New Preservation

In celebration of its 50th anniversary, GSAPP’s Historic Preservation program is convening extraordinary figures to re-imagine the future of preservation. The works of Michèle...

Carpenter: The Fitch Colloquium

The annual James Marston Fitch Symposium hosted by the Historic Preservation Program at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture Planning, and Preservation explores the...