Jan 15, 2025

transects

How do we relate to each other across disciplines, scales, densities, environments and communities?

As we celebrate the 70th anniversary of the School of Architecture in the 2024-2025 academic year, we invite our community to join us as we explore transects—the connections across, within, and outside of our school—through diverse programs and departments. We will lay out the various approaches to dealing with some of the pressing issues faced by the built environment. It is a way to, through the cut, bring immense diversity together.

Join us as we connect across and within disciplines and find out what a cut through our connections looks like and discussions on what is driving our transects now and into the future.

Her Practice: the architecture of Debora Reiser

Lecture
September 12, 2024, 6:15 PM–7:30 PM
Higgins Hall Auditorium

Introduction:
Quilian Riano
Alicia Imperiale
Lori Gibbs
Interlocutor:
Sandford Kwinter
Speakers:
Jesse Reiser
Maya Reiser
Deborah Berke
Dana Cupkova
Laurie Hawkinson
August Ventura

Presented by the Pratt School of Architecture Dean’s Office.

Our Dirty Footprint – A Lecture by Lydia Kallipoliti

Lecture
September 19, 2024, 6:15 PM
Higgins Hall Auditorium

Presented by Pratt Graduate Architecture, Landscape Architecture, & Urban Design (GA/LA/UD).

Climate Week NYC Events

Global and Local Perspective on Just Energy Transition

Panel Discussion
September 23, 2024, 6:15 PM
Zoom Virtual Presentation

Speakers:
Leonel Lima Ponce
Martha Molfetas
Summer Sandoval

Presented by the Pratt MS in Sustainable Environmental Systems (SES) program and the Pratt Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment (GCPE).

Environmental Justice Through Block-by-Block Microclimates in North Brooklyn

Walking Tour
September 28, 2024, 11:00 AM–2:00 PM
North Williamsburg

Facilitators: Yuliya Dzyuban, Assistant Professor, Pratt Institute GCPE and Lisa Bloodgood, Visiting Assistant Professor, Pratt Institute GCPE; Director of Horticulture and Stewardship, North Brooklyn Parks Alliance

Co-sponsored by the Pratt MS in Sustainable Environmental Systems (SES) program, the North Brooklyn Parks Alliance, the Pratt Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment (GCPE), and the Pratt School of Architecture.

Collaborative Change: Four Years of Design Advocates

Conversation
September 30, 2024, 6:30 PM
Higgins Hall Auditorium

Speakers:
Michael K. Chen , MKCA
Fauzia Khanani, Studio For
Abigail Coover, Overlay Office
Jane Lea, Lea Architecture
Nicholas McDermott, Future Expansion
Alexandra Barker, BAAO

Co-presented by Pratt Graduate Architecture, Landscape Architecture, & Urban Design (GA/LA/UD) and The Architecture League of New York.

Endless Journey for an Equitable City: Medellín – A Lecture by Alejandro Echeverri

Lecture
October 10, 2024, 12:30 PM
Higgins Hall Auditorium

Presented by the Pratt School of Architecture Dean’s Office.

Unfinished – A Lecture by Billie Tsien

Lecture
October 24, 2024, 6:15 PM
Higgins Hall Auditorium

Presented by the Pratt School of Architecture Dean’s Office.

Preservation in a Time of Precarity: Intersecting Indigenous Intelligence & Artificial Intelligence

Symposium
October 29, 2024, 12–6 PM
Pratt Manhattan Center

Closing Keynote and Plenary: Nour Abuzaid and Eyal Weizman of Forensic Architecture, in conversation with Jeffrey Hogrefe.

Panel Discussions Featuring: Lisa Ackerman, Columbus Citizens Foundation; Nalikutaar, Jacqueline Cleveland, Alaska Venture Fund; Ahmed Elgammal, Art and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of Rutgers University; Dr. Harriet Harriss, Pratt Institute School of Architecture; Jeffrey Hogrefe, Pratt Institute School of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Alex Jimmerson, Seneca Nation of Indians; Dr. Robbie Jimmerson, Seneca Nation of Indians and Rochester Institute of Technology; Cequyna Moore, Monuments Toolkit Initiative, World Heritage U.S.A.; Dr. Chuutsqa L. Rorick, Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures and University of Victoria; Dr. Helio Takai, National Science Foundation and Pratt Institute; K. Kennedy Whiters, (un)Redact the Facts and Black in Historic Preservation; Dr. Lorna Williams, Gesturing Toward Decolonial Futures and First Peoples Culture Council.

Organized by the Pratt Historic Preservation Program (HP) and the Pratt School of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Landscape Seminar Series 03 – Keller Easterling: ATTTNT

Conversation
October 31, 2024, 6:30 PM
Higgins Hall North Room 304

Presented by the Pratt Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) program.

…So that you all won’t forget – A Lecture by Curry J. Hackett

Lecture
November 7, 2024, 6:15 PM
Higgins Hall Auditorium

This event is part of Critical Conversations: creating space for and educating one another about our multiple cultural contexts, activism, civil discourse, and academic engagement.

Presented by Pratt Undergraduate Architecture (UA).