The Onera Foundation created the Onera Prize at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP) in 2018. The annual $25,000 prize supports GSAPP students graduating from the M.S. Historic Preservation program to test new preservation theories and technologies in practice. The goal is to provide education-oriented grants to students and institutions where financial support can have a significant impact. 

We do not accept donations or provide financial support for specific buildings, sites, or unsolicited grant proposals.

Past Prize Recipients

2023
Hongye Wang
Amplifying and Uncovering Underrepresented Narratives: A New Data-Based Experimental Method for Cultural Heritage Research

2022
Ziming Wang
Living Above the Street: Stewarding New York City’s Historic Built Environment Towards Flood Resilience

2021 - Katlyn Marie Foster
Spatializing Preservation: A New Tool for Understanding Preservation’s Role in Urban Histories and Uncertain Futures

2020 - Sarah Sargent
Toxic Histories: Unearthing Buried Cities

2019 - Aura Maria Jaramillo and Daniella Zamora
Cali Histórica

2018 - Ethan Boote and Morgan O’Hara
Reflective Futures Poughkeepsie

2018 - Halley Ramos
Augmented Reality (AR) at the San Baudelio de Berlanga Hermitage