School of Architecture

The School of Architecture’s mission is to educate the future leaders of the design disciplines in the professional fields of architecture, urban design, city and regional planning, construction and facilities management, and historic preservation. This effort builds upon a strong context of professional education within an art and design institute that stresses the relationship between intellectual development and creative activity. The school provides a broad cultural and intellectual base in the liberal arts and sciences, while providing the specialized knowledge unique to individual disciplines. The importance of lifelong learning is emphasized through studio-based curricula and research-oriented thesis programs.

The School of Architecture is dedicated to maintaining the connection between design theory and practice and to extending the range of knowledge necessary to fully understand the built environment. The diversity of programs within the school and the accessibility of other programs within the Institute enable students to pursue a wide range of interests within the field. Students can take electives in fine arts, illustration, computer graphics, industrial-furniture design, interior design, and photography, as well as electives in advanced architectural theory, design, technology, and management. The faculty, many of whom are practicing in their field, bring to the classroom professional expertise, a strong theoretical base, and the high standards to which they adhere in their client work. Students are further exposed to the professional world through optional internship programs that place them in outstanding New York architectural firms, public agencies, and non-profit design institutions, giving them firsthand work experience as well as credit toward their professional degrees.

In the United States most state registration boards require a degree from an accredited professional degree program as a pre-requisite for licensure. The National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB), which is the sole agency authorized to accredit US professional degree programs in architecture, recognizes two types of degrees: the Bachelor of Architecture and the Master of Architecture. A program may be granted a five-year, three year, or two-year term of accreditation, depending on its degree of conformance with established educational standards.

Master’s degree programs may consist of a pre-professional undergraduate degree and a postprofessional graduate degree, which, when earned sequentially, comprise an accredited professional education. However, the pre-professional degree is not, by itself, recognized as an accredited degree.

The NAAB grants candidacy status to new programs that have developed viable plans for achieving initial accreditation. Candidacy status indicates that a program should be accredited within six years of achieving candidacy, if its plan is properly implemented.

The School of Architecture offers graduate degrees in accredited and non-accredited programs. The M. Arch. I program is a new three-year professional program. The program received full accreditation in Fall 2004 for three years. The M. Arch. II and Urban Design programs are postprofessional and offer a threesemester Master’s degree in Architecture and Urban Design. Post-professional programs in the United States are not accredited by the NAAB. The Graduate Planning Program is accredited by the Planning Accreditation Board and offers a two-year Master of Science degree in City & Regional Planning. Facilities Management program is nonaccredited and offers a two-year Masters of Science degree in Facilities Management.

Pratt’s Center for Community Development, formerly PICCED, one of the oldest community advocacy and technical assistance organizations in the United States, gives students additional opportunities to work on current projects.

The School of Architecture demonstrates daily that learning does not occur solely in the classroom. This is reflected in the annual undergraduate and graduate lecture series that brings some of the most influential architects in the world to campus; the Center for Experimental Structures; students and faculty exhibits that fill three galleries on a regular basis; and the study abroad programs in Rome and France. The school publication, inprocess, documents the work of students throughout the year.

In accordance with the School of Architecture’s belief that students should be exposed to a wide range of subjects related to the field, each student explores a variety of issues through a broad selection of studios and electives. The Pratt faculty includes theoreticians, scholars, and practicing professionals who bring with them “real world” expertise. The program makes rich use of the extended resources of the metropolitan New York community. The school encourages transfer students to apply and will evaluate credits from other colleges, universities, or community colleges.

Architecture students display the same diversity as the faculty. The student body includes many foreign students—all of whom bring different perspectives to the study of architecture. The opportunity to learn from peers is an exciting part of the educational experience.

The Pratt student graduates from the program knowing architecture as a discipline that gathers from the arts, sciences, and liberal arts to produce works of value that are sensitive to the realities of life in all cultures of the world.

The Pratt graduate is imbued with strong ethics and an understanding of architects’ ability to improve quality of life. As a result, Pratt students know how to build, what to build for whom, and how to enhance the surrounding environment, in the city or country, in a public works project or a private home.

scholarships

Please note that for complete information concerning scholarships you should contact your department and faculty advisor

Allwork Scholarship - Part of the AIA New York Chapter - DEADLINE APRIL 18, 2008. Pratt requests that if you wish to compete for this scholarship, submit work to your department by March 14. For details go to info@aiany.org.

SOM FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP - 2 Prizes, $50,000 Research & Travel Fellowship; $20,000 Travel Fellowship
Awarded to Graduating Undergraduate or Graduate Students
INTENT to APPLY: MONDAY, APRIL 14
PORTFOLIO SUBMISSIONS: MONDAY, JULY 14
For details go to www.somfoundation.som.com

NEWH, Inc. The Hospitality Industry Network with scholarship for architecture and design students provided by Boutique Design Magazine
SUBMISSION DEADLINE APRIL 15, 2008
For details and application go to www.newh.org
Applications are also available in the Dean's Office.

The ZIMMER GUNSUL FRASCA ARCHITECTURAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND of the OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
$5,000 Scholarship and an Internship
For Criteria and Application please go to www.zgf.com and click on firm and then click on scholarship.
For more info contact Ellen Gyllstrom at egyllstrom@zgf.com
APPLICATION DEADLINE MAY 1, 2008

competitions

REINVENTING GRAND ARMY PLAZA
An Ideas Competition
Sponsored by Design Trust for Public Space 7 Grand Army Plaza Coalition
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: APRIL 25
For details and application go to
www.reinventingGAP.org

PETERSON PRIZE 2008 - Measured Drawings Student Competition sponsored by
Historic American Buildings Survey
SUBMISSION DEADLINE JUNE 30, 2008
For more info e-mail: nps_HABS@nps.gov

Assistant/Associate Professor - Two Positions
Undergraduate Architecture
Graduate Architecture & Urban Design
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York

The School of Architecture at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, an internationally recognized professional school offering B.Arch, M.Arch and M.S. degrees, invites nominations and applications for full-time tenure track professorships in the departments of Undergraduate Architecture and Graduate Architecture and Urban Design. With 150 full and part-time faculty members, the Undergraduate Architecture and GAUD programs serve a student body of 750 students. These appointments are scheduled to begin in Autumn 2008.

The Professor of Undergraduate Architecture will be expected to assume a leadership role in the area of new technologies and digital architecture as applied to the practice of architecture. The Professor of Graduate Architecture and Urban Design will be expected to assume a leadership role in the areas of design and design theory with an emphasis on new directions in design research. For both positions, favorable consideration will be given to candidates with a distinguished record of teaching, creative achievement in architectural practice or research, and a strong commitment to innovative design.

The selected candidates will be expected to teach in the core areas of the curricula, develop and coordinate courses with a focus on new technologies and digital architecture, serve on departmental and institutional committees, participate in program accreditations and advise students. Important to the position are outreach efforts and initiatives that include working closely with the program chairs to promote interdisciplinary work and sponsorship collaborations. A Master’s degree and a professional degree in architecture are required. Applicants must have at least four years teaching experience at the college level and recognized standing in the field. Rank and salary will be commensurate with experience.
Applicants should submit a letter of interest, portfolio, and complete curriculum vitae listing three references. Please send all inquiries, nominations, and application materials by February 1, 2008 to:
Thomas Hanrahan, Dean
Re: Professor of Undergraduate Architecture or Professor of GAUD
Pratt Institute, School of Architecture
200 Willoughby Avenue
Brooklyn, New York, NY 11205

Program Chair and Professor - Two Positions
Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York

The School of Architecture at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, an internationally recognized professional school, invites nominations and applications for Chair of the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment (GCPE) and a full-time tenure track Professor of City and Regional Planning. The GCPE has over 30 full and part-time faculty members serving a student body of 70 students, and awards the Master of Science in City and Regional Planning, the Master of Science in Environmental Systems Management and the Master of Science in Historic Preservation. The appointments are scheduled to begin in Autumn 2008.

The Chair of the GCPE reports directly to the Dean of the School and will be expected to provide leadership for the degree programs, noted for their vibrant, innovative and practice-oriented approaches to planning and preservation. The Chair will be expected to manage a diverse group of faculty and students, develop curricula for departments dedicated to the principles of sustainability, equity and public participation, recruit and advise students and participate in program accreditation. Applicants must have a master’s degree in planning and at least three years of administrative experience at the college level and recognized standing in the field. Rank and salary will be commensurate with experience. Favorable consideration will be given to associate professors with tenure and accomplished planning practitioners with a strong commitment to sustainable and community- based planning.

The Professor of Graduate City and Regional Planning will be expected to assume a leadership role in the areas of physical planning and the community development concentration. The selected candidate will be expected to teach in the core areas of the curriculum, develop and coordinate courses, serve on departmental and institutional committees, participate in program accreditation and advise students. Applicants must have a doctorate by September 1, 2008 and at least three years teaching experience at the college level and recognized standing in the field. Rank and salary will be commensurate with experience. Favorable consideration will be given to candidates with a distinguished record of teaching, achievement in planning practice and research, and a strong commitment to sustainable and community-based planning.

Applicants should submit a letter of interest, and complete curriculum vitae listing three references. Please send all inquiries, nominations, and application materials by February 1, 2008 to:
Thomas Hanrahan, Dean
Re: Chair of GCPE or Professor of Graduate Planning
Pratt Institute, School of Architecture
200 Willoughby Avenue
Brooklyn, New York, NY 11205

higgins hall north
room 106
office of the dean
tel: (718) 399-4304
fax: (718) 399-4315

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Pratt Institute School of Architecture
Spring 2008 Kullman Center Conference

Prefab Futures: New Agendas for Mass Customization in Architecture is the inaugural event for the Kullman Center, a research center residing within the School of Architecture with an emphasis on developing new and innovative approaches to modular construction and industrialized building techniques. The one-day conference will present research and scholarship related to the history of prefabrication, contemporary and emerging techniques and approaches to prefabrication, as well as the social and sustainable potential of prefab and prefab technologies. These three topics are key research areas for the Center, which will function both as an intellectual resource and ideas clearinghouse as well as an important laboratory for industrial construction.

APRIL 3, 2008

Higgins Hall Auditorium
Pratt Institute School of Architecture
61 St James Place
Brooklyn, New York

SCHEDULE

8:00 Morning Reception

8:30 Opening Remarks
Avi Telyas CEO Kullman Buildings Corp.

Morning Address
Kent Larson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

9:15 Prefab Precedents
Moderator: Bill Menking
Colin Davies, London Metropolitan University
Andrew Blauvelt, Walker Art Center

10:45 Prefab Futures Session I
Moderator: Thomas Hanrahan
Wes Jones, Jones Partners
Charlie Lazor, Lazor Office
Rocio Romero, Rocio Romero
Michael Pitt, Design Buro
James Garrison, Garrison Architects

2:00 Prefab Futures Session II
Moderator: Evan Douglis
John Nastasi, Nastasi Architects / Stevens Institute of Technology
Marcelo Spina, PATTERNS / Sci-Arc
Ada Tolla, Giuseppe Lignano, LOT-ek
David Riz, KieranTimberlake Associates

4:45 Prefab Futures Session III
Moderator: Philip Parker
Michael Meredith, MOS / Harvard University
Jeremy Edmiston, SYSTEMarchitects / City University of New York
Joseph Tanney, Resolution: 4 Architecture

7:00 Closing Remarks
Barry Bergdoll, The Museum of Modern Art

7:30 Conference Reception. Siegal Gallery

Panelist Bios

Kent Larson
Kent Larson is director of Changing Places: a joint MIT Department of Architecture and Media Laboratory research consortium. He also runs the associated House_n consortium and the MIT Open Source Building Alliance within the Department of Architecture. Current research focuses on strategies for creating responsive places of living using new design/fabrication strategies, defining system level standards for an open source approach to building design and construction, and developing ubiquitous sensing/computation technologies that do useful things for people related to proactive health, energy conservation, communication, and learning. Larson's group, with TIAX, has developed a unique research facility called the PlaceLab to systematically prototype and test new technologies and design concepts in the context of everyday life.
Larson practiced architecture for 15 years in New York City in partnership with Peter L. Gluck, and more recently as Kent Larson, Architects P.C., with work published in Architectural Record,
Progressive Architecture, Global Architecture, the New York Times, A+U, and Architectural
Digest. His book, Louis I. Kahn: Unbuilt Masterworks was selected as one of the Ten Best Books in Architecture, 2000 by the New York Times Review of Books. Related work was selected by Time magazine as a "Best Design of the Year" project.

PREFAB PRECEDENTS
Colin Davies is a professor at London Metropolitan University and author of ‘The Prefabricated Home’. Architect, teacher, writer and historian, he is a former editor of The Architects’ Journal and a regular contributor to architectural magazines world-wide. His other books include ‘High Tech Architecture’, various monographs on the work of architects such as Norman Foster, Michael Hopkins and Nicholas Grimshaw, and most recently ‘Key Houses of the Twentieth Century’ published by Laurence King in 2006. He teaches across a wide range of disciplines, including design, architectural history, building technology, and architectural practice. His research interests include technical and semi-technical subjects but he also regularly reviews books on architectural theory for the Architectural Review. He believes that technology, history and theory are closer than is normally supposed and often overlap.

Andrew Blauvelt
Andrew Blauvelt is Design Director and Curator of architecture and design at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. In his role as Design Director, he has provided creative direction for the Walker’s innovative design identity across various media platforms and public spaces, oversees its publications program and design studio, and curates design-related exhibitions and programs.

As curator of architecture and design programs at the Walker he has organized traveling exhibitions such as Ideas for Modern Living, part of The Home Show (2000), which explored the early history of the Walker’s pioneering Idea House project and Everyday Art Gallery; Strangely Familiar: Design and Everyday Life (2003), an international survey of avant-garde architecture and design whose roots lie in the exploration of commonplace materials and daily routines and rituals; and Some Assembly Required: Contemporary Prefabricated Houses (2005), featuring eight modern modular residences in production. Most recently, he co-curated Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes, the first major museum exhibition about the art and architecture of the American suburb (2008), organized by the Walker Art Center in association with the Heinz Architectural Center at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.

Along with colleagues in new media and education at the Walker, he directed the experience planning for the museum’s Herzog & de Meuron-designed expansion, which integrates technological experiences and interpretive strategies. He also recently completed the furnishings program for the Walker’s new administrative offices and launched a new program of rotating furniture designs for its public spaces.

A practicing graphic designer for more than twenty years, he is the recipient of more than 50 design awards including numerous nominations for the Chrysler Award for Design Innovation and the National Design Awards from Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York. His work has been exhibited and published widely in the United States, Europe, and Japan, and has been featured in such publications as Metropolis (US), I.D. (US), Eye (UK), IDEA (Japan) magazines and in the books Area (Phaidon), a survey of the world’s 100 top graphic designers, and c/ID (Lawrence King), an international survey of leading efforts at cultural branding.

Blauvelt writes about design and culture for various publications and has lectured extensively in the United States and abroad. He is a contributing writer for the blog designobserver.com. A former professor, his research continues to focus on the application of cultural and critical theory to design. He served as department chair of graphic design at North Carolina State University’s College of Design, as well as director of the graduate program. He served as interim chair of the 2D Design Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where he received his MFA in Design (1988). He has also served as a visiting tutor at the Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht, the Netherlands, and at University of the Americas, Puebla, Mexico. Recently, he has served as a guest critic at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut; Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, Massachusetts; California Institute of the Arts, Valencia; and Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California.

Blauvelt is an elected member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI).

PREFAB FUTURES I
Wes Jones
Wes Jones is a partner in Jones, Partners: Architecture, a California-based architectural practice founded in 1993 by Jones and the design staff from HHPJ, where Jones had served as Design Partner since its inception. His technologically inspired designs for completed buildings and theoretical projects have received acclaim for their critical engagement with the contemporary cultural scene and their disciplinary sophistication. His eight Progressive Architecture Design Awards include recognition for the Astronauts' Memorial at Kennedy Space Center and the $180M South Campus Chiller Plant for UCLA. The work of J,P:A and HHPJ has been featured in many publications and exhibited widely.

A recipient of the Rome Prize in Architecture, Mr. Jones has lectured internationally on technology and the work of the firm, and has taught in the schools of Architecture at Harvard, Princeton, IIT, Columbia, UCLA, UC Berkeley, the Ohio State University, and the Southern California Institute of Architecture. Jones received the AB with Highest Honors from UC Berkeley in 1980, and the MArch with Distinction from the HGSD in 1983.

In early 1998 Princeton Architectural Press published a monograph of his work, Instrumental Form, which covers the first ten years of J,P:A’s existence; the firm is presently working on the next volume due in Fall 2007, titled El Segundo, which will bring the coverage up to date.

Charlie Lazor
Charlie Lazor co-founded the furniture design office, BLU DOT in 1997 with his partners, John Christakos and Maurice Blanks. Blu Dot's work has been recognized for its precise and often inventive use of materials, fabrication technology and assembly methods to produce furniture that is both elegant and accessible.

In 2002, BLU DOT was nominated as a finalist for The Cooper Hewitt National Design Awards. Their work has received numerous awards, including the 2003 International Contemporary Furniture Show Editor's Award, an ID citation and numerous Good Design awards from the Chicago Athenaeum. Their work has been exhibited by the Museum of Modern Art, The Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, the Walker Art Center, and the Centres Pompidou. BLU DOT has been published in Spoon, New American Furniture Design, and Inside Design Now as well as national and International magazines.

In 2003 Charlie founded LAZOR OFFICE to pursue a broader spectrum of design programs and scales, including architecture and environments. The design work of LAZOR OFFICE begins with observation and analysis of a need or problem and seeks an elegant, cost efficient solution. Using the latest generation of digital fabrication technology or the simplest tool in the shop, our knowledge of tools and materials is the basis of a design process that yields functional and beautiful forms that are easily made.

Charlie is a Cass Gilbert Professor in Practice at the University of Minnesota College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, where he investigates the question of the manufactured building systems. This Fall Charlie is the Max Fisher chair at the University of Michigan Taubmann School of Architecture. He was named a Design Fellow at the MIT Media Lab for the 2003 Simplicity Program and a Fellow of the Design Institute in 2000.

In 2005 Charlie was a finalist for the Athena emerging designer sponsored award by RISD and Surface. Charlie is a frequent lecturer at design schools and museum symposium, including the Walker Art Center, The Hammer Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. The work of Lazor Office will be included in the Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt Design Biennale for 2006 and in the Walker Art Center Exhibition, “Some Assembly Required” in 2005.
Lazor graduated with a Masters of Architecture in 1993, from Yale University and a BA from Williams College in 1987.

Rocio Romero
Rocio Romero is the first designer to offer modern prefab homes in the United States since the Arts & Architecture Case Study Homes of the fifties and to date, through Rocio Romero, LLC, have sold 154 LV unites in 23 states with more than 50 currently under construction or completed.
We are a multidisciplinary firm that designs, manufactures, builds, ships, and sells prefabricated kit homes. It is our philosophy that by marrying all these disciplines we are able to better deliver quality design easily and affordably. It is through prefab efficiencies that we are able to control the cost and quality of our homes.
The LV Home Series are affordable, easily built, and highly customizable homes. Homeowners are provided with a prefabricated kit of parts that makes up the exterior shell of the LV home and can be delivered anywhere in the United States. The LV employs traditional construction materials and techniques; therefore, any General Contractor can build the LV home
Romero received her bachelor’s degree in environmental design from the University of California at Berkeley and a master of architecture degree from the Southern California Institute of Architecture.

Michael Pitt
Michael qualified with an Honours degree and Diploma at Aston University and the Birmingham School of Architecture in 1970, and is a Chartered Member of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

He started Michael Pitt Associates in 1976, and having already had some experience in timber frame construction, spent the next five years focusing on a successful export system called ‘Nomad’ with the Potton Group. In 1981 he returned to the UK market, investing heavily into timber frame computer systems, becoming the leading practice in this field in the UK.

Michael merged his firm with a Warwick practice, Corstorphine & Wright, in late 1986, becoming Group MD with a Group turnover of £4.25m in 1990, the practice then being in the top 20 UK practices.

Michael started The Design Büro as a specialist architecture/offsite solutions practice at the beginning of 1991. Over the following years, The Design Büro expanded, reaching a total group staff of over 50 by today.

After many years of timber frame design, a growing demand for lightweight steel frame led to research into UK and US systems. Michael is an active member of The Steel Construction Institute, the UK’s leading technical body, plays an active role in the production of technical and promotional manuals, and is recognised as a leading expert in the field.

Most recently Michael has been focusing on the really exciting opportunities in the US, where his skills, knowledge, and experience can be used to great effect. He has joined The Kullman Buildings Corporation as SVP Design, working on a variety of exciting new initiatives, and is the process of setting up a New York base. KBC is building on its considerable experience with new systems and techniques, blending the best solutions from both sides of the Atlantic.

James Garrison
James Garrison is an architect and educator whose work expands the boundaries of sustainability. Garrison believes that teaching and
practice reinforce one another; in addition to work with his own firm, he also teaches at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture in Brooklyn, NY and the Parsons School of Architecture in New York City. He is the principal of Garrison Architects, a firm he founded in 1991 to practice in a diverse and personalized studio setting. The firm has focused on a wide range of building types from university residences to urban plazas, emphasizing the relationship between sustainability and modular delivery systems. The firm's buildings have received numerous awards from The American Institute of Architects, The Chicago Athenaeum, and The General Services Administration Design Excellence Program.

PREFAB FUTURES II
John Nastasi
John Nastasi is a practicing architect and design educator. He serves as the Founding Director of the Product-Architecture Lab, an interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Product Design, Architecture and Engineering at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey and is also the Founding Design Director of the award-winning Hoboken-based design build studio, Nastasi Architects. Mr. Nastasi is an alumnus of Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, a recipient of Harvard’s Rice Prize for advancement in Architecture and Engineering and a 1996 recipient of the Young Architects Award from the New York Architectural League among other honors. He resides in Manhattan.

Nastasi founded his architectural studio in 1991. Throughout his professional endeavors as principal of his own design studio and as a professor of advanced design, John has remained committed to the creation of an architecture that is informed by philosophical thought while responsive to practical and performative concerns. This philosophy continues to guide the work of the studio today which is distinguished by a consistency of process; a rigorous detailed investigation of real and theoretical issues; and a high level of craftsmanship that accompanies the art of making.

Marcelo Spina
Established in 1999 and headed by principals Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich, PATTERNS is a design research architectural practice based in Los Angeles and operating globally. PATTERNS work has gained international recognition for its innovative approach to design and architecture that fuses advanced computation with an extensive understanding of form, tectonics and materials. PATTERNS’s vision is to generate innovative spatial forms that actively engage, enhance and influences the body, constantly challenging its relationship to the built environment akin to the complexity of contemporary life.

PATTERNS has received numerous prizes and awards including first prizes in the competitions for the Vertical Garden at the Schindler House in West Hollywood and the New SCI_Arc Café, the third prize in the prestigious Young Architect of the year Award in 2003 and most recently, an honorable mention for a Concert Hall in Skopje, Macedonia. Current projects include Sunset 8746 Boutique, and the SCI_Arc Café both to be completed in 2008 in Los Angeles, a Hybrid Office Building in Chengdu and an Entertainment Pavilion in Ningbo, both in China, and a vertical apartment building in Rosario, Argentina.

PATTERNS work has been shown and exhibited worldwide, most notably at the Art Institute of Chicago, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Venice Biennale in Italy, The Architectural League of New York, and its first solo show “UniBodies” at Artists Space also in New York. PATTERNS’ work is part of the Permanent Architecture Collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the MAK center in Vienna and the Sculpture Collection at Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation in Korea.

PATTERNS partners Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich have lectured extensively in the US, South America and Europe and their work has been published internationally in books, exhibition catalogues, magazines and newspapers such as Los Angeles Times, Next Generation Architecture, A+U and Architectural Record which selected PATTERNS to integrate their prestigious “Design Vanguard” in 2004.

Marcelo Spina is a Design Faculty at SCI_Arc since 2001where he also coordinates the Applied Studies Program. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Harvard GSD, Tulane, Berkeley and Innsbruck, Austria and has previously taught at the National University of Rosario and The Di Tella University in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Born in Rosario, Argentina, Mr. Spina holds a Professional Degree from the National University of Rosario and a Master in Architecture from Columbia University in New York where he was the recipient of several honors including the William Kinne Fellowship and the Honor Award for Excellence in Design.

LOT-EK®
LOT-EK is a design studio based in New York City. Founded in 1993 by Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano, it has been involved in residential, commercial and institutional projects in the US and abroad, as well as exhibition design and site-specific installations for major cultural institutions and museums, including MoMA, the Whitney Museum and the Guggenheim.

LOT-EK’s founding partners, Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano, have a Master Degree in Architecture and Urban Design from the Universita’ di Napoli, Italy (1989) and have completed post-graduate studies at Columbia University, New York (1990-1991). Besides heading their professional practice, they are currently teaching at Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, in New York. They are also lecturing in major universities and cultural institutions throughout the U.S. and abroad.

LOT-EK has achieved high visibility in the architecture/design/art world for its sustainable and innovative approach to construction, materials and space, for the use of technology as an integral part of architecture, for addressing issues of mobility and transformability in architecture and for blurring the boundaries between art, architecture and entertainment. Its projects are published in national and international publications, magazines and books, including The New York Times, The London Times, Herald Tribune, The Wall Street journal, Wallpaper, Domus, A+U, Interior Design, Wired, Surface, Metropolis, Vogue, Graphis and more. LOT-EK’s first monograph, URBANSCAN, was published by PAP in February 2002. LOT-EK MIXER, by Edizioni Press, came out in 2000 and MDU Mobile Dwelling Unit, published by DAP, came out in June 2003.

LOT-EK’s sustainable approach to construction through the adaptive reuse of existing industrial objects and systems has been the basis of projects at all scales. Committed to ecologically-responsible, intelligent methods of building, our team takes advantage of the technological properties of existing industrial objects resulting from decades of expert development, to create architecture. We not only recycle the objects themselves, we also recycle the intelligence that went into their development. Beyond the inherent sustainability of our design methodology, LOT-EK is committed to researching and implementing innovative ways of conserving materials and energy. As with all technological elements, we are interested in highlighting sustainable technologies visually, as ingredients to emphasize overall design concepts.

PREFAB FUTURES III
Michael Meredith
Michael Meredith is Associate Professor of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He teaches in the architecture core design studio sequence. His professional practice engages interdisciplinary discourses, ranging from art to technology, producing a spectrum of design work which includes furniture, products, sound, exhibition design, speculative architecture projects and residences in New York, Massachusetts, Ontario, Texas, and California. He was a finalist for the design of the Pentagon 9-11 memorial and the PS1/MoMA Young Architects competition. Recent projects include the Le Corbusier Puppet Theater in collaboration with Pierre Huyghe, artist studio in Upstate NY, a proposal for the PS1/MoMA Young Architects Program invited competition, the Ballroom Marfa Drive-In , and the UTEC non-profit Teen Center in Lowell , MA. In 1998, he was a winner of the Young Architects Competition at the Architectural League of New York.

His design work has been published in numerous periodicals including A+U, Architecture, Architectural Record, Azure, Casa Brutus, Competitions, Mark, McSweeney's, the New York Times, Oculus, Wallpaper, and Surface, books including Weaving (ed. Toshiko Mori), VERB: Natures, and featured in exhibitions at Cooper Hewitt, Columbia University, and Henry Urbach Architecture. His writings have appeared in A+U, Artforum, Domus, Perspecta (upcoming), and Praxis. He has produced two DVDs about architecture, Beyond the Harvard Box: Interviews and Notes for Those Beginning the Discipline of Architecture.

Meredith previously taught architecture at the University of Michigan, where he was awarded the Muschenheim Fellowship, and the University of Toronto, where he was the co-recipient of a Canadian Foundation for Innovation grant. He received his BArch from Syracuse University, and his MArch with distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he was also awarded the Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship. In 2003, he was a resident at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and in 2000, he completed a residency at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas.

Jeremy Edmiston
Jeremy Edmiston has been practicing, teaching and researching architecture in New York City for 17 years. Originally from Sydney, Australia, he moved to the United States when he won the prestigious Fulbright, Harkness and Byera Hadley scholarships all in the same year. His practice is based in re-evaluating the relationship between the built and natural environments in all its permutations. Since setting up an architectural studio here (SYSTEMarchitects), he has won the Architectural League of New York's Young Architect award with Douglas Gauthier, a Lindbergh Fellowship, and a Department of Energy's Center of Excellence Fellowship for his study into improving the environmental efficiency of high rise buildings.
Edmiston's newest project is Burst*, a kit home which establishes a whole new paradigm for environmental residential building. In the summer of 2008, it will be exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art as part of its Home Delivery show, the first full scale architectural exhibition MoMA has mounted in 50 years. The house was designed in collaboration with Gauthier, with whom Edmiston worked for more than 10 years at SYSTEMarchitects, and in 2005 a prototype was built on Australia's East coast. It won the Royal Australian Institute of Architects 2006 Wilkinson award, the most prestigious national award given to residential architecture and an Australian Timber Design Award. It was also featured on the cover of Metropolis magazine and in Time magazine's Innovators series.

In 2006 Edmiston and Gauthier were finalists in The Ferrous Park Housing Competition, The Syracuse Connective Corridor Urban Design Competition, and the City of the Future: A Design and Engineering Challenge sponsored by the History Channel.
Edmiston holds a Master in Architecture from Columbia University and a Bachelor in Architecture from the University of Technology, Sydney-graduating first in his class with three medals for design and academic work. Currently, he teaches thesis students at City University of New York's architecture department. He has also taught at Pratt Institute, Syracuse University and has lectured at Yale, Columbia and Princeton Universities, as well as the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany. He has contributed essays to Sites and Stations: Provisional Utopias and Techno-Fiction: Zur Kritik der Technologischen Utopien.

Joseph Tanney
Joseph Tanney founded Resolution: 4 Architecture with Robert Luntz in New York in 1990. Since its inception, his ten-person office has been internationally published and highly acclaimed, completing projects in the residential, commercial, and public realms. Tanney has both studied under and worked for Peter Eisenman and Charles Gwathmey, prior to the formation of Resolution: 4 Architecture, a.k.a. RES4.
The firm’s most recent preoccupation is THE MODERN MODULAR by Resolution: 4 Architecture, a systematic methodology of design that attempts to leverage existing methods of prefabrication for residential construction. These efforts are an attempt to offer an option of 'Mass Customization' to the to the single-family housing market, thereby aesthetically transforming the sub-urban fabric of the American domestic landscape. In 2003, his office won an International Competition for a modern prefabricated home, The Dwell Home. It has been noted by the Washington Post as the “highest profile modern prefabricated home in America”, and is considered the “Holy Grail” for modern prefab enthusiasts by the Wall Street Journal.

In addition to being featured in numerous publications and exhibitions, Tanney's work has received critical recognition within the profession. THE MODERN MODULAR by Resolution: 4 Architecture has received a 2005 American Architecture Award by the Chicago Athenaeum, a 2006 National AIA Housing Award for concepts in Innovative Housing, and a 2006 Honor Award for Housing Design Research from the Boston Society of Architects and the AIA New York Chapter.

dean's statement

Thomas Hanrahan, Dean

The development of a modern architecture has been synonymous with technological invention, but for much of the last century technology has been slow to catch up with the conceptual possibilities of design. It is only recently that the technical advances of today now allow experimental designs to be realized, as a new and challenging architecture has emerged in a sustained creative burst starting as recently as fifteen years ago. Advances in glass, concrete and steel construction, particularly with respect to high strength, lightweight and flexible typologies have paralleled advances in digital imaging that have radically changed architecture and the way it is made. Contemporary architecture now has an unprecedented formal and material sophistication, enabled by extraordinary advances in digital and architectural technology that have finally 'come of age'. The last fifteen years have witnessed the appearance of a breathtaking array of work, both within and without the academy, placing us at the brink of a seemingly limitless future for creative architectural production.

The work of the students here at Pratt shows a clear appreciation and understanding of the possibilities of architecture today, as the mission of the school is dedicated to design and a complete understanding of the making of cities and buildings. The teaching methodologies within the school embrace contemporary design by stressing the possibilities of form and new techniques of making, both by analogical and digital means. The spirit of advancing architectural ideas in terms of both form and technique is at the essence of the transformation of contemporary design, and this edition of inprocess demonstrates the commitment of students to this new way of thinking.

But if we stand on the brink of a completely new and unprecedented realm of architectural form and construction, it has also become clear that this same technology has brought us to an entirely different threshold with respect to the natural world. We may be looking out towards a future where architecture as currently conceptualized may not solve the most urgent problem of the day. While the buildings of today inspire our imagination, these same buildings, both in terms of the way they are made and the energy they consume, are arguably the two most important contributors to climatic change and environmental degradation. The human subject that emerged with the Enlightenment was accompanied by the growth of technologies that served only the most narrowly defined human needs, ignoring the impact of these technologies on the natural world. The threshold we stand at now will demand a new definition of the human that includes an ecological dimension and an understanding that human life exists in a continuum with other forms of organic life.

While this crisis is very real, what is also clear is that the study and practice of architecture stands poised to transform itself again in response to this challenge. As creatively explosive as the last fifteen years have been, it seems certain that, as students mature and enter the disciplines of design, planning and construction, the new generation of work will not only be as formally and materially sophisticated as today, but will be infused with a radically new environmental dimension. Students today have already begun the work of converging digital research with an ecological perspective, as new software maps not only form but performance. Materials are being explored in new and transformative ways, as their inherent qualities – fluidity, transparency and malleability – are shaped toward an environmentally responsible architecture.

This convergence of knowledge will result in a new, more broadly educated student, and will place schools of architecture at the center of the debate about the future of our world. Architecture, planning and urban design will play a pivotal role, and the creativity and inventiveness of our students will usher in a new, ever more inventive and ethically responsible architecture. This issue of INPROCESS is a preview of this convergence.

Thomas Hanrahan

Spring 2008, Brooklyn Campus

All lectures take place in the Higgins Hall Auditorium at 6pm unless otherwise noted (*). Please note schedule subject to change.

Calvin TSAO, Tsao & McKown Architects, New York
"Innovations" - An Interior Design Department Lecture
Thursday, February 14
The 3rd Annual Anna and Joseph Syrop Lecture Endowed by the Selz Foundation

Thom MAYNE, Morphosis, Santa Monica, California
"Heritage Transformed"
*Friday,February 22 at 5pm
*Memorial Hall

Ben VAN BERKEL,UNStudio Architects, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
"Motility and Recent Works"
A Graduate Architecture and Urband Design Lecture
Monday, February 25

Brian MCGRATH & Victoria MARSHALL, Columbia University, New York
"Patch Dynamics and the Procedure of Difference"
A Graduate Architecture and Urban Design Lecture
Thursday, March 6

Stephen DUNN
Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet
"Forms and Structures"
The Annual Christina Porter Art & Poetry in the Schools Lecture
*Monday, March 10 at 12:30pm

Jose OUBRERIE
Architect and Professor, Ohio State University
"Illegitimate Work - Realizing a Master's Concept"
Monday, March 31

PREFAB FUTURES - A Symposium on New Agendas for Mass Customized Architecture, sponsored by the KULLMAN CORPORATION Discussion Panels include the following: Colin DAVIES, Kent LARSON, Marcelo SPINA, Michael MEREDITH, Jeremy EDMINSTON, Joe TANNEY, Ada TOLLA, Giuseppe LIGNANO and other guests TBA
* Thursday, April 3rd. This is an all day event beginning at 8:45am.

Zaha HADID of Zaha Hadid Architects, London
Ms. Hadid will present recent works.
Please note that this lecture, originally scheduled for April 11th HAS BEEN RE-SCHEDULED FOR THURSDAY, MAY 8 AT 5PM to take place in Higgins Hall Auditorium. Ms. Hadid will also be receiving an honorary degree from Pratt at its Commencement Ceremony the following day, Friday, May 9.

Spring 2008, Manhattan Campus

All lectures will take place in the Pratt Manhattan Gallery beginning at 6:30pm unless otherwise noted (*).

Pecha-Kucha: Management Panel Discussion
Diane KAUFMAN-FREDETTE, moderator
Thursday, February 7

JEOPARDY: CM Student Competition
Host, Linton STABLES, Perkins Eastman Architects
Wednesday, February 27

Michael RATNER President, Ratner + Ratner Construction
"Design and Construction in the Retail World"
Construction & Facilities Management Lecture
Monday, March 24

Dr. Michelle BERENFELD, Director of Initiatives, World Monuments Fund
"Global Warming and World Cultural Heritage"
Historic Preservation Lecture
*Thursday, April 10 at 6pm

Jeffrey NG, Principal, Thornton Tomasetti Engineers
"The Craft of Curtain Wall Design"
Construction & Facilities Management Lecture
Tuesday, April 22

research

Kullman Center for Prefabricated Construction

Center for Experimental Stucture

Hunter Douglas Light Research Studio

Pre-Fab China

Design Tex Materials Research Studio

Christina Porter Lighting Lab

Publications

InProcess: Jounal of Student Work

InProcess is the Annual journal of the School of Architecture publishing work from all nine undergraduate and graduate programs. This 200 plus page journal is one of the most recognized journals of student work in the United States.

GCPE News

The GCPE News is a bi-annual newsletter that focuses on current events and research projects conducted by students and faculty in the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment. This newsletter reaches a broad spectrum of student faculty and alumni, providing an up to date accounting of all of the activities in the Planning, Environmental Systems and Historic Preservation programs.

TARP

Tarp is a magazine that seeks to investigate the project of architecture, to allow architecture to grow and develop into realms that are not supported by the presentation of a final product. To this end, Tarp seeks content which is exploratory, experimental, and inspiring. This content does not need to conform to any predominant style or trend, but should directly and truthfully address the continued project of architecture as a catalyst for social change. Tarp is a student edited publication, is published bi-annually, and is always accepting submissions. Tarp is made possible through the support of the Pratt School of Architecture and the Graham Foundation.

Sustainable Pratt is a group of faculty, administrators, students and staff of Pratt Institute from a variety of disciplines including art, design, architecture, planning, and science who have been meeting monthly since October 2005. Sustainable Pratt is dedicated to identifying, interpreting, inspiring, incorporating and instituting ecologically responsible practices into curricula, operations and programs at Pratt Institute. The group meets monthly – in 2006-07, on the first Wednesday of each month in the small faculty dining room in North Hall. The 2006-2007 coordinator is Eva Hanhardt, an adjunct faculty member in the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment in the School of Architecture and the coordinator of the Environmental Systems Management Program. Sustainable Pratt has been supported through the Faculty Development Fund and the Academic Senate.

Two Positions
Undergraduate Architecture
Graduate Architecture & Urban Design
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York

The School of Architecture at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, an internationally recognized professional school offering B.Arch, M.Arch and M.S. degrees, invites nominations and applications for full-time tenure track professorships in the departments of Undergraduate Architecture and Graduate Architecture and Urban Design. With 150 full and part-time faculty members, the Undergraduate Architecture and GAUD programs serve a student body of 750 students. These appointments are scheduled to begin in Autumn 2008.

The Professor of Undergraduate Architecture will be expected to assume a leadership role in the area of new technologies and digital architecture as applied to the practice of architecture. The Professor of Graduate Architecture and Urban Design will be expected to assume a leadership role in the areas of design and design theory with an emphasis on new directions in design research. For both positions, favorable consideration will be given to candidates with a distinguished record of teaching, creative achievement in architectural practice or research, and a strong commitment to innovative design.

The selected candidates will be expected to teach in the core areas of the curricula, develop and coordinate courses with a focus on new technologies and digital architecture, serve on departmental and institutional committees, participate in program accreditations and advise students. Important to the position are outreach efforts and initiatives that include working closely with the program chairs to promote interdisciplinary work and sponsorship collaborations. A Master’s degree and a professional degree in architecture are required. Applicants must have at least four years teaching experience at the college level and recognized standing in the field. Rank and salary will be commensurate with experience.
Applicants should submit a letter of interest, portfolio, and complete curriculum vitae listing three references. Please send all inquiries, nominations, and application materials by February 1, 2008 to:
Thomas Hanrahan, Dean
Re: Professor of Undergraduate Architecture or Professor of GAUD
Pratt Institute, School of Architecture
200 Willoughby Avenue
Brooklyn, New York, NY 11205