The 2024 Fitch Colloquium, “Repairing Architecture Schools,” is a collaboration between the GSAPP Historic Preservation Program and Places Journal.

Inspired by the eponymous article on Places, this year’s colloquium will explore how to rebalance architecture curricula in response to the cascading impacts of climate change. Can we challenge the longstanding pedagogical ideal that the highest service an architect can render society is to design for new construction?

Speakers include Erica Avrami, Nick Axel, Daniel Barber, Deborah Berke, Shumi Bose, Mario Gooden, Olaf Grawert, Josephine Minutillo, Andrea Roberts, and Mireille Roddier.

For more, see the article series Repair Manual, on Places.

Named for the founder of formal preservation education at Columbia University and in the United States, the James Marston Fitch Colloquium became an annual event in 2000. In a day-long colloquium, students, alumni, and guests hear speakers and engage in discussion over current issues in preservation—attempting to discover and define the leading edge of the discipline.

This event is free and open to the public.

Columbia University campus access is restricted to Columbia affiliates (with a valid CUID) and to pre-approved guests. To attend this event at GSAPP, please register below by December 4th to request campus access and bring your ID. Learn more about the current Columbia campus access.:

2024 Fitch Colloquium: Repairing Architecture Schools