Andrew Dolkart

Andrew Scott Dolkart is a professor of Historic Preservation at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) and Director of the school's Historic Preservation Program. Professor Dolkart is an authority on the preservation of historically significant architecture and an expert in the architecture and development of New York City. He was recently described as someone who is "without peer among New York's architectural researchers" by architectural critic Francis Morrone and he has written extensively on this topic. Before joining the faculty at Columbia he held a position at the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission and worked as a consultant. Dolkart is a popular lecturer and walking tour guide.

Dolkart holds a BA from Colgate University (1973) and an MS in Historic Preservation from Columbia University (1977).

In an interview with the Columbia Daily Spectator Dolkart recalled that he first became interested in Historic Preservation in his first year of doctoral studies in Art History. Dolkart has had a continuous presence in the preservation field in New York since he graduated from the Historic Preservation program at Columbia in 1977. In 2014 he received the Historic District Council's Landmarks Lion award. He has authored many of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission's reports and served as an editor for the first three editions of the Guide to New York City Landmarks. In 2008 he was named Director of the program in Historic Preservation at Columbia University, a position previously held by James Marston Fitch (1964–1977), Robert A.M. Stern, and Paul Spencer Byard (1998–2008). In 2009 he was awarded tenure, becoming the second tenured Director in the history of the Historic Preservation program.

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