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Pratt Design Programs Ranked Among the Top in the 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 monthly architecture and design journal, DesignIntelligence (DI). “Rankings play…

Architecture

Architectural Digest Names Pratt Among Top U.S. Colleges with the Best Architecture

Architectural Digest named Pratt Institute among the top 10 colleges nationwide with the best architecture, making it the only campus in New York City and the only specialty college of art, design, and architecture to make the list. Others…

Architecture

MakerBot Features Architecture Students Who Work on Cutting Edge of Design

MakerBot recently interviewed undergraduate architecture students Andrew Reitz and Leland Jobson for a video piece on how 3D printing helped them realize their ideas in a physical form. The duo, who both work in the Digital Futures Lab in The…

Architecture

Faculty Receive ‘Best New Practice’ Award from American Institute of Architects New York Chapter

The American Institute of Architects New York chapter has honored architecture and design firm form-ula, run by Architecture faculty Richard Sarrach and Ajmal Aqtash, with a 2014 New Practices New York award. New Practices is a competition…

Architecture

Alumnus Young Woo Creates Scholarship Honoring Father

Gift Will Put Undergraduates on Path to Success Young Woo (B. Arch. ’79) has established a reputation as one of the most innovative and enterprising real-estate developers of our time. As founder and principal of Youngwoo & Associates, his projects…

Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment

The New York Times Quotes Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment Chair

John Shapiro, chair of the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment, was quoted in a September 17 New York Times article on the city's redevelopment plans for a vacant area in New York's Lower East Side long…

Giving

$3 Million Bequest Establishes Charles Macchi Scholarship

Architecture Students to Benefit from Late Widow’s Estate Gift Dubbed “our boy wonder” by his colleagues on the 1930 Prattonia yearbook committee, former Pratt Trustee and instructor Charles L. Macchi (Cert. Arch ’30) will have a lasting impact on the…

Graduate Communications Design

Architecture Professor Authors Op-Ed for The New York Times

Alec Appelbaum, a visiting assistant professor in Pratt Programs for Sustainable Planning and Development (PSPD), recently authored an Op-Ed in The New York Times about technology and urban life. In response to the “Smarter Cities” movement to equip cities with complex technology,…

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Metropolis Magazine Features Excerpts from Ron Shiffman’s Jane Jacobs Medal Acceptance Speech

Read excerpts from Professor Ron Shiffman's Jane Jacobs Medal acceptance speech in Metropolis Magazine. Shiffman has spent more than 50 years working to promote community-based activism and empower local groups to participate directly in the development of…

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Curbed NY Features Futuristic Student Architecture Proposal for Parking Garage for Grand Central

Curbed NY highlights a futuristic, balloon-shaped parking garage designed by Pratt architecture students Jordana Vasquez and Boris Leokumovick.