Interior Design magazine interviewed Alexandra Barker, assistant chair of Graduate Architecture and Urban Design (GAUD), about her work on projects like City Kids, a new Brooklyn preschool, and Design Advocates, which helped design outdoor retail and learning spaces, that have promoted wellness through design during the pandemic: “With public projects, you can’t know every single person who will experience a space, but hopefully there’s something in the design that will resonate.”
The Daily Hub
A roundup of ideas and projects from around the Institute
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Jennifer Wen Ma, MFA ’99, has an installation at the New Britain Museum of American Art through October 24 that examines the experience of the past months through firsthand stories narrated over a dark ocean of waves above which a pendulum swings. The exhibition was reviewed by the Brooklyn Rail.
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Pratt Libraries’ Iron & Glass blog highlighted the picture file collections at Pratt and the New York Public Library: “Both the Pratt and the NYPL picture collections arose in the early twentieth century out of growing demand for images that could be browsed and circulated, due largely to innovations in printing and photography that allowed for more accessible and reproducible images.”
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Dezeen featured the work of Charlotte Böhning and Mary Lempres, both MID ’23, who designed a collection of water filters using kitchen waste. Called “Strøm,” their project recently received the School of Design’s Material Lab Prize. As Lempres told Dezeen: “By utilizing an existing waste stream, we can reduce the negative lifecycle impact of water filtration.”
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The Ascendant Heritage Apartments in East Harlem that were preserved by Ascendant Neighborhood Development (AND) led by Chris Cirillo, visiting assistant professor of construction/facilities management, in co-development with MDG Design + Construction and Forsyth Street Affordable Housing, were named the Preservation Winner in the Affordable Housing Finance’s Readers’ Choice Awards.
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For a studio led by Jason Vigneri-Beane, architecture student Grace Soliman created a tea room designed to be placed in Tokyo Bay in response to rising water levels due to climate change. Read more @prattsoa.
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Mickalene Thomas, BFA Fine Arts ’00, is featured in a New York Times Magazine profile that explores the evolution of her work, including her time at Pratt and her approach to painting: “I’m thinking of Romare Bearden, Faith Ringgold, at the same time while thinking of Picasso and Matisse and Andy Warhol and all of these different ways that they’ve painted, and how you can bring that in.”
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The BlueBlock Gardens on the industrial coastal edge of Red Hook will be offering tours this weekend as part of Open House New York. The project is a partnership between the Resilience Education Training and Innovation Center (RETI) and thread collective, an urban design firm that includes School of Architecture faculty members Gita Nandan and Elliott Maltby.
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Fashion design and industrial design faculty member Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman was featured on Core77’s list of “20 Woman-led Industrial Design & Innovation Firms You Should Know.”
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The American College Health Foundation (ACHF) Emotional Well-Being survey has been sent to the inboxes of Pratt staff, students, and faculty. The survey invites the Pratt community to share how they are faring so the Institute can better serve their needs. For questions contact healthpromotion@pratt.edu. The survey closes on Friday, October 29.
