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Pratt Institute Welcomes Its 12th President Frances Bronet

Frances Bronet became Pratt Institute’s 12th president on January 2, 2018. She is the first woman president to lead Pratt Institute, one of the world’s most renowned art and design colleges. Bronet succeeds President Thomas F. Schutte who stepped…

Architecture

Pratt Students Curate Interactive Exhibition from New York Public Library Picture Collection

A group of Pratt Institute students recently used images from the New York Public Library (NYPL) Picture Collection to curate The Naming of Things, an interactive exhibition on view at the Pratt Photography Gallery this fall. The show explores…

School of Architecture

Innovative Studio Course Provides Students with Real-World Experience in Planning and Policy

Students in Pratt’s Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment (GCPE) gained real-world experience in land use, policy, and planning through an innovative new studio class this past spring that focused on the East New York/Cypress Hills area of…

Architecture

The Transformers: Jack Esterson, BArch ’75

Across industries, Pratt alumni have been influential in reimagining and reshaping the way we live, responding to the challenges, needs, and questions of their times. Part four of six from Prattfolio’s feature on Pratt alumni leading the way in a changing…

Graduate Interior Design

Refugees Around the World Spur Pratt Students and Faculty to Develop New Ideas and Designs

According to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, there are 65.3 million people around the world today who have been forced from their homes, including 21.3 million refugees—the highest levels of displacement on record. As…

Architecture

The Impact of Technology on Education: A Look at What’s Next

Technology continues to transform our personal and professional lives at an incredibly rapid pace. These changes are bringing tremendous opportunities for revolutionizing the ways in which we live and learn, as well as challenges related to areas such as…

City and Regional Planning

Five Pratt Institute Students Selected for the Do School’s Community Mobility Challenge

Five undergraduate and graduate Pratt Institute students have been selected to participate in the Community Mobility Challenge as part of the 2017 Innovate NYC program, which provides students with the opportunity to learn valuable entrepreneurial skills and tackle real-life…

Graduate Architecture and Urban Design

Renowned Architect Thom Mayne Named Graduate Architecture and Urban Design’s First Critic at Large

Thom Mayne, Pritzker Prize-winning architect and founding principal at the interdisciplinary architectural firm Morphosis, has been appointed the first “Critic at Large” in Pratt Institute’s Graduate Architecture and Urban Design (GAUD) program within the School of Architecture this spring. The…

Architecture

Students Design and Build Machines to Inspire Architectural Ideas In Innovative New Studio

A new studio in the School of Architecture is giving undergraduate architecture students the opportunity to develop and build their own machines to use as tools for generating architectural ideas. Called Designing Machines that Design, the studio is unusual…

School of Architecture

School of Architecture to Celebrate 40th Anniversary of Pratt Rome Program This Spring

Pratt Institute’s School of Architecture will celebrate the Undergraduate Architecture Rome Program’s 40th anniversary with a special five-day event in Rome in April 2017. The program was established in 1978 to provide architecture students with the opportunity to explore Italian…