cohabitations

How do we live together and share our built environment?

Across the Pratt School of Architecture, our students, staff, and faculty work deeply in looking at the design, planning, and management of affordable and equitable housing, structures that serve the public, as well as how to improve public space design and use – all while considering environmental justice and social equity.

cohabitations is a school-wide provocation to bring together the work of our community – across our four departments of the School of Architecture – around this question.

cohabitations is both a descriptive adjective, a qualifying adverb and a transitive verb that calls us all to action. We hope that in reflecting on this term this year, we foster spirited discussion and exchanges across our community and the communities in which we find ourselves as cohabitors.

ADAPTATION(S)

Exhibition
September 1–October 29, 2023
Governors Island, Nolan Park 11 & 14

SO-IL: Grounding Adaptations
BIG: Adaptive Archipelago
CONDENSATIONS: Living With Water
ARCHIPELOGICS 2.0

Interventions in the Eternal City


Pratt Rome 50 New York Celebration

Buildings for People and Plants

Lecture
September 14, 2023, 6:30 PM
Higgins Hall Auditorium

Amale Andraos and Dan Wood, WORKac

Laboratorio Roma

Lecture
September 21, 2023, 6:30 PM
Higgins Hall Auditorium

Federica Vannucchi

Pratt Rome 50 New York Celebration

ROME REDUX: the Pratt Rome Program after 50 years

Book Talk
September 22, 2023, 5:30 PM
Higgins Hall Auditorium

Frederick Biehle

Pratt Rome 50 New York Celebration

IA: ISLAND(ing) Adaptations

Conversation
September 22, 2023, 4:30 PM
Governors Island, The Admiral’s House

Disrupting D.C.: The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City

Book Talk
September 29, 2023, 5:30 PM
Pratt Institute, Engineering Building, Room 307

Discussion with the authors Katie J. Wells, Kafui Attoh, and Declan Cullen

Moderators:
Eve Baron, Chair, Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment
Alexa Kasdan, Executive Director, Pratt Center for Community Development
John Lauermann, Faculty Director, SAVI

Presented by the Pratt MS in Urban and Community Planning (UCP) program, Pratt Center for Community Development, and SAVI.

Make Space

October 5, 2023, 6:30 PM
Higgins Hall Auditorium

Gary Bates, SPACEGROUP & Make Make
Graduate Architecture and Urban Design Critic-at-Large

Presented by Pratt Graduate Architecture and Urban Design.

The Matter of Memory: A Monument to Memory-Making

Lecture
November 6, 2023, 6:30 PM
Higgins Hall Auditorium

Richard Yoo and Eric Moed

Curated by Richard Yoo and Eric Moed

Landscape Seminar Series: Neil Brenner “Non-City Territory”

Discussion
November 16, 2023, 6:30 PM
Higgins Hall North, Room 304

Neil Brenner in discussion with Rosetta S. Elkin

Presented by the Pratt Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) program.

Africatown: a collaborative approach

Lecture
October 18, 2023, 6:30 PM
Higgins Hall Auditorium

Farida Abu-Bakare
Victor Body-Lawson
Jerome Haferd
Mario Gooden
Jack Travis
Claire Weisz

Co-sponsored with the Architectural League of New York.

Making Architecture: the work of John McAslan + Partners

Conversation
October 26, 2023, 6:30 PM
Higgins Hall Auditorium

John McAslan in conversation with Gary Hattem

Sekou Cooke: Fresh and Clean

Lecture
November 2, 2023, 6:30 PM
Higgins Hall Auditorium

Presented by Pratt Undergraduate Architecture (UA).

Inwood Sacred Sites

November 15, 2023, 6:30 PM
Higgins Hall Auditorium

Panelists:
Joe Baker
Mark Gardner
Elizabeth Kennedy
Moderator:
Quilian Riano