“Housing is one of my favorite topics to teach in design studios because it forces students to confront what exactly a house is, questioning every aspect of everyday life.”
—School of Architecture Dean Quilian Riano, in conversation with President Frances Bronet
Prattfolio’s Fall 2023 issue explores the ways we create spaces to live, from visualizing home to designing with community care.
Passive House, Climate Action
Architecture professor In Cho brings her expertise in energy-efficient design to equip the next generation of architects to address climate change.
Home Becoming
In Islands, a work of performance architecture cocreated by Alex Schweder, BArch ’93, Professor CCE of Industrial and Interior Design, there is no perfect house.
Painting Visions of Home
What brings us home?
The Making of the Objects We Live With
An Interior Options Lab course and exhibition explore the process behind the things that shape our spaces.
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Designing a Future in Self-Sustainable Housing
Pratt architecture students consider resource sharing and co-living models to address critical issues around the housing crisis. -
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Not Only a Place, But a Feeling
Five Pratt photography alumni speak to origins, place, and belonging in their recent work. -
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Spaces for Us to Live
Experts in Architecture and Development Examine Culture, Care, History, and Advocacy in Housing for Black Communities -
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New and Noteworthy Fall 2023
Recent products and publications of Pratt Institute alumni and faculty include home decor, playful literature, and a new Forever stamp honoring a celebrated Pratt writer-illustrator.… -
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Cover Story: The Things We Call Home
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![Pratt President Frances Bronet and Dean Quilian Riano talking to one another in a naturally lit hallway in Pratt’s Higgins Hall]()
In Conversation with the President: Living Spaces
From my years teaching architecture, one studio in particular stays with me to this day. It focused on a concept for a multiunit living space… -
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Class Notes Fall 2023
Class Notes is Pratt alumni news on work and life compiled from alumni submissions, items shared by faculty and staff, and media mentions. Read on… -
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Amplifying NYC’s Bold Women
Artist, filmmaker, and activist-scholar Cynthia Tobar, MSLIS ’08, shifts storytelling power to women who are “the heroes of their own lives.”
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