Onera Prize
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.
Onera Prize Recipients
2025
Anne Maxwell Foster
Awnings for New York: A Retrofit Toolkit for Passing Cooling in Emissions Reduction in Historic and Older Buildings
2024
Eleanor Phetteplace
The Unaccounted Value of Historic Buildings: Sustainable Preservation Design and Embodied Carbon Accounting
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