The 2025 Fitch Colloquium, titled Fragments of the Imagination: Provenance, Preservation, and the Afterlives of Architecture, brings together leading voices in preservation, architecture, art history, museum practice, and the humanities to examine the conceptual, ethical, and artistic stakes of working with architectural fragments.
Organized by Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) in collaboration with Provenance Projected—an international research collective exploring the social, material, and historical lives of buildings and their futures.
Speakers include: Michael Allen, Eleonora Pistis, Evangelos Kotsioris, Albena Yaneva, Lucian Simmons, Tone Hansen, Amie Siegel, Susan Boynton, Uwe Fleckner, Amandine Kastler & Erlend Skjeseth, Francisco Prado-Vilar, Giuseppe Lignano & Ada Tolla
The colloquium will conclude with a concert in Columbia’s St. Paul's Chapel of choral music from sixteenth-century Iberia. Curated by music historians Susan Boynton and Eric Rice, the program explores the afterlives of medieval chant. The music will be performed by University of Connecticut's Collegium Musicum under the direction of Eric Rice, in collaboration with singers from the Department of Music at Columbia University.
For more imforation and the event schedule, please visit the GSAPP event page.
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 by September 16th to request campus access and bring your ID. Learn more about the current Columbia campus access.
