Graduate Architecture and Urban Design Archives

Professor Jason Vigneri-Beane Receives Pratt Distinguished Teacher Award 2016-2017

Jason Vigneri-Beane, adjunct associate professor of graduate architecture and urban design within the School of Architecture, is the recipient of Pratt Institute’s Distinguished Teacher Award 2016-2017. The Award recognizes exceptional dedication to Pratt’s mission and applauds the recipient’s career accomplishments.

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World-Renowned Architect Grant Booker Discusses His Work in Talk on Brooklyn Campus

Pratt recently welcomed internationally renowned architect Grant Brooker to the Institute’s Brooklyn campus, where he spoke about his career highlights and insights into the field of architecture in front of an attentive audience in Higgins Hall auditorium. The March 7…

Architecture

Pratt Shows 2016 to Celebrate Best Work of Graduating Students

Pratt Institute will display graduating students’ best work in a series of year-end events and exhibitions this spring. Pratt Shows 2016 will allow the general public an exciting opportunity to view the outstanding work of Pratt’s talented students. Pratt Shows…

Architecture

Professor Haresh Lalvani Creates Permanent Artwork for New York City Subway Station

Pratt Institute alumnus and architecture professor Haresh Lalvani has created a series of 24 permanent art panels entitled MORPHING88 for the newly renovated 88th Street subway station on the A line in Queens, New York. Lalvani was one of five…

Graduate Architecture and Urban Design

Pratt Students Partner with Local Business Improvement Group to Build Sidewalk Pavilion

Students from Pratt’s graduate and undergraduate architecture programs have recently devoted their time and skills to a neighborhood project located a few blocks away from Pratt’s Brooklyn campus. Working as volunteers with the Pratt Student International Design Efforts…

Architecture

NASA Project Collaboration Inspires Students to Create Habitat for Travel to Mars

In a challenge presented by NASA, Pratt students are being inspired to address design concerns related to space travel. For an interdisciplinary studio class led by Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture Michael Morris and Adjunct Associate Professor of Industrial Design…

Architecture

Three Years after Superstorm Sandy, How Has New York City Prepared for the Next Storm?

Deborah Gans, professor, School of Architecture, and principal architect of GANSstudio who has been an advocate of coastal resiliency projects and serves on New York City’s Build It Back program, comments on lessons learned from Hurricane Sandy and where our…

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The Frick Collection Abandons Controversial Expansion Plans

In this first News page “Faculty Insight” column, Lisa M. Ackerman, executive vice president, World Monuments Fund, and visiting professor, School of Architecture, provides context surrounding The Frick Collection’s recent decision not to pursue its expansion plans in light of…

Architecture

Video: Robots Bring New Design Possibilities to Pratt Students

Pratt recently acquired two industrial robots and has created a robotics facility where students can access the technology for robotics seminars and studios. The Institute is one of the first art and design schools in the country to incorporate…

Architecture

DesignIntelligence Ranks Pratt Design Programs among Best in Nation

Pratt Institute’s interior design, industrial design, and architecture programs are ranked among the best in the country, according to a recently released annual survey of industry professionals coordinated by DesignIntelligence (DI), a monthly architecture and design journal. The rankings are…