School of Design

Giving

Alumna Hiroko Nakamoto Funds Scholarships and Campus Enrichment

Alumna and longtime Pratt Institute donor Hiroko Nakamoto has committed significant funding for three gifts that will advance student diversity through interior design scholarships and improve spaces and landscapes on the Brooklyn and Manhattan campuses. A leading architectural interior…

Graduate Interior Design

Architect and Educator David Foley Named Chair of Interior Design Department

David Foley has been named chair of Pratt Institute’s Interior Design Department. Foley, who assumed the role on December 1, 2020, has led the Interior Design Department as acting chair since July 2019. David Foley has been…

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The Pratt Community Rallies Voter Awareness as the 2020 Election Approaches

With the US presidential election just weeks away, members of the Pratt Institute community have been finding creative ways to get out the vote and rethink how elections can be more inclusive and accessible. From reimagining voting in an age…

School of Architecture

Balenciaga and The Black Alumni of Pratt Partner on Full Scholarships to Diversify Art and Design

Balenciaga and The Black Alumni of Pratt (BAP) have partnered to establish two full undergraduate scholarships for Pratt Institute students in the School of Design, School of Art, and School of Architecture. These scholarships, funded by a generous gift…

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Students Reclaim Waste by Transforming Plastic Bags, Lint, and Avocado Pits into New Materials

Plastic grocery bags, the lint that collects in a dryer, the pits of avocados, and old newspapers usually all end up in the same place: the trash. Pratt Institute students are revealing their untapped possibilities as new design materials that…

Foundation

How First-Year Foundation Courses Are Being Reimagined as a Virtual Collaborative Experience

Work by Foundation student Elizabeth Vasquez completed in the spring Space, Form, Process class led by Visiting Instructor Matthew Northridge. Students were asked to recreate an image with available objects.  In rethinking a pivotal first-year experience…

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Rowena Reed Kostellow Fund Honors Industrial Design Alumni Everardo Jefferson & William Cotton

The 2020 Rowena Reed Kostellow Awards honorees: Everardo Jefferson, BID ’68, & William Cotton, BID ’07 For the 30th anniversary of the Rowena Reed Kostellow Awards, Everardo Jefferson, BID ’68, and William Cotton,…

Architecture

Critiques at a Distance: Pratt Faculty Members Rethink Reviews in the Digital Space

Teaching and learning at Pratt Institute changed rapidly this spring as the response to the COVID-19 pandemic forced a move off the physical campus, and into digital spaces. Among the classroom and studio practices that needed to be reimagined were…

Graduate Interior Design

Interior Design Students Envision Noguchi Museum Viewing Rooms for a Time of Social Distancing

How to view art when the usual experience of visiting a museum is impossible is a question that institutions are now confronted with around the globe. Pratt Institute interior design students in the MFA Graduate Foundations Design Studio course were…

Architecture

New Pratt Shows Portfolio Website Showcases Work by Graduating Students

A new website is offering a digital window into an exciting range of bold creative work by this year’s graduating Pratt students. Launched this May, the Pratt Shows portfolio website showcases individual student work and projects from across Pratt’s…