Sheryl Kasak

Sheryl Kasak,  Adjunct Professor, CCE in the Department of Interior Design  currently teaches and Coordinates Graduate Core Design Studio at Pratt Institute. Sheryl is the founder of Interim Design, an architectural, interior design and research practice informed by her undergraduate thesis, “An Interim Architecture” which addressed the 15-Year War in Lebanon and the promised redevelopment of the Beirut city center. The work is grounded on the notion that we live in an interim state, one which is constantly evolving and reacting to our surrounding environment and our actions within it.  Practical and theoretical investigations are based upon the communication of contextual information through developing and everyday technologies and how they affect our perception of space and inform the design of our built environment.

Sheryl has been collecting visual and written data and documenting the outdoor dining constructs [AKA sheds] built in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic throughout New York City with her ongoing project Dining Thresholds and Beyond Dining Thresholds with the invaluable help of Graduate Research Assistants provided by of the School of Design.

Sheryl has presented her research and academic pedagogy at National and International conferences, most recently , “Beyond Dining Thresholds” at the 2024 Livable Cities London, Amps Conference at City University, London,  “Dining Thresholds”, at the 2023 Livable Cities New York, Amps Conference, City Tech,  “Spatial Design in a Constantly Changing World”, Sreda Moscow, Obuchenia Online University  and “Within an Environment of Perceived Atmospheric Distance”,  by Amps, Online Education, Teaching in a Time of Change; 2019, “Spatial Design and the iPhone”, Architectural Conference, Film Symposium, Texas A&M University, College of Architecture of Performance, Moving Image/Film Presentation and Technology and Knowledge and Society, 2019 Annual Conference, The Social Impact of AI: Policies and New Governance Models for Social Change, CosmoCaixa, Barcelona, Spain. She has been published most recently in the 2019 Architecture and Film Symposium Proceedings and RIDE [risk dare experiment] :ON by Pratt Institute, 2017, and several times in Abstract. Sheryl is a recipient of a CIDA Innovation in Interior Design Merit Award.

Kasak holds a BFA and BARCH from The Rhode Island School of Design and a Master of Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and joyfully collaborates with her former classmates and students on a regular basis – design is a collaboration!

BFA, BARCH., Rhode Island School of Design

MSAAD, Columbia University