“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
As a practice, New York-based architecture studio ChoShields has always been interested in environmental and social sustainability. But it wasn’t until founding principal In Cho,…
Home Becoming
As an artist, Alex Schweder—who was trained as an architect and has taught in Pratt Institute’s School of Architecture and Industrial Design and Interior Design…
Painting Visions of Home
A light in a brownstone window, the embracing warmth of a deep tub or an imagined garden, a full bowl, a chair to rest, familiar…
The Making of the Objects We Live With
It was often called a furniture-making class, but instructor Gweny Jin both agreed and disagreed. “I would rather call it the class of ‘making things,’”…
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Designing a Future in Self-Sustainable Housing
Living in cities offers tremendous rewards—proximity to culture and community, knowledge sharing and diversity, and density, posed as a solution to housing scarcity—but at what… -
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Not Only a Place, But a Feeling
“Home is the place where we most intimately meet ourselves, and can build a space where the primary concern is love, and care.” Madeline McQuillan,… -
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Spaces for Us to Live
“Housing is a right. Not a privilege.” “We’ve been trying to find ways to make communities more financially savvy and resilient . . . to… -
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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
Every photo in Kaytlin Bronson’s 2023 senior showcase at Pratt, titled Whittle, was made within Bronson’s Brooklyn home, among “a cocoon of familiar objects” that… -
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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
A graduate of Pratt’s Library and Information Science program, Cynthia Tobar bridges her expertise as an archivist and oral historian with her work as an…
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