The Adapting the Existing Built Environment Network centers on decarbonization and climate resilience of the existing built environment through interdisciplinary and justice-oriented education approaches to community-engaged research, design, technology, and policy. This Network seeks to challenge traditional education paradigms in the professions dedicated to the design, construction, and management of the built environment — namely architects, engineers, preservationists, conservators, attorneys, and urban planners – by advancing the interdisciplinary learning and community-engaged research needed to adapt and decarbonize existing buildings. Without intentional integration of social-spatial histories and analyses, climate justice, community development, law and public policy, design and engineering, and more, decarbonization and climate-resilient adaptation of the existing built environment can perpetuate exclusion and inequity. This Network’s approach seeks to engage a range of disciplinary perspectives on evolving the curricular development of the built environment professions and to establish critical connections to allied fields in ways that integrate academic and community-engaged research, policy development, and professional practice.
| Name | Title | |
| Silver, Adrian | Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation | ajs2256@columbia.edu |
| Bridges, Allison | Lecturer in Professional Studies | alb2303@columbia.edu |
| Turner, Amy | Associate Research Scholar, Cities Climate Law Initiative | aturner@law.columbia.edu |
| Golubitsky, Andronik | Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation | ag3300@columbia.edu |
| Maron, Ariella | Adjunct Associate Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation | arm2266@columbia.edu |
| Meinrenken, Christoph | Professor of Practice | cjm2177@columbia.edu |
| Mathis, Dan | Lecturer in Professional Studies | d.mathis@columbia.edu |
| Benjamin, David | Associate Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation | deb2024@columbia.edu |
| Cook, Elizabeth | Assistant Professor in Environmental Science | ecook@barnard.edu |
| Sclar, Elliott | Special Research Scholar | sclar@climate.columbia.edu |
| Bollack, Francoise | Adjunct Associate Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation | fab2@columbia.edu |
| Sarmiento, Hugo | Assistant Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation | hs3327@columbia.edu |
| Grapengeter, Janet | Director of Design and Compliance, CU Facilities and Operations | jg3322@columbia.edu |
| Bajpai, Jitendra | Lecturer in Architecture, Planning and Preservation | jnb2133@columbia.edu |
| Williams, John | Director, Student Affairs and Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI) | jew2159@columbia.edu |
| Otero-Pailos, Jorge | Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; Director-MS in Historic Preservation Program; Director-PhD in Historic Preservation Program | jo2050@columbia.edu |
| Klein-Rosenthal, Joyce | Adjunct Associate Research Scientist | jr438@columbia.edu |
| Dale, Lisa | Senior Lecturer in Climate | lad2189@columbia.edu |
| Widder, Lynnette | Professor of Professional Practice | lw268@columbia.edu |
| Gerrard, Michael | Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice in the Faculty of Law and Professor of Professional Practice in the Faculty of Climate; Director | mbg2@columbia.edu |
| Naraghi, Mohammad | Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering | mhn22@columbia.edu |
| Smith, Nick | Assistant Professor, Architecture and Urban Studies | nrsmith@barnard.edu |
| Gallay, Paul | Senior Staff Associate III and Director, Resilient Coastal Communities Project | pag57@columbia.edu |
| Ben Alon, Rachel | Assistant Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; Director in the Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Preservation | rlb2211@columbia.edu |
| Ghoche, Ralph | Assistant Professor, Architecture | rghoche@barnard.edu |
| Bell, Rick | Adjunct Associate Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics; Deputy Director of the Center for Buildings, Infrastructure, and Public Spaces | fmb12@columbia.edu |
| Gallagher, Sean | Adjunct Assistant Professor | sag2119@columbia.edu |
| Pawlowski, Thaddeus | Research Scholar | t.pawlowski@columbia.edu |
| Prudon, Theo | Adjunct Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation | thp1@columbia.edu |
| Schaperkotter, Thomas | Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation | tns2135@columbia.edu |
| Michiels, Tim | Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation | tlm2145@columbia.edu |
| Modi, Vijay | Professor of Mechanical Engineering, of Earth and Environmental Engineering and of Climate | modi@columbia.edu |
