Aug 21, 2025

publics

How are publics shaped?  

The shaping of the public sphere is inherently open, created through discourse in time and space. In a time when discourse is challenged, how can we open dialogue and investigate the ephemeral but lasting impact of publics? The lecture series over the 2025-2026 academic year will be open to multiple voices and creation of publics both within and outside our community.

EXHIBITIONS

RESONANCE: SPATIAL ECHOES BETWEEN FORM, CITY, AND SYSTEM | MS.Arch and MSUD Selected Works | 2024-2025

Opening Reception: August 28, 2025, 6:15 PM

On View: August 28–September 12, 2025

Presented by Graduate Architecture, Landscape Architecture, & Urban Design (GA/LA/UD).

Works on Paper: A Retrospective Celebration|
Dr. Sharon Egretta Sutton, FAIA

In celebration of her Golden Anniversary of teaching at Pratt

Opening Reception and Talk:

Four Stages of My Creative Journey: 1975 – Present

September 22, 2025, 6:15 PM

On View: September 22–October 24, 2025

LECTURES & EVENTS

Designing for Abolition

Deanna Van Buren

Allan Co

Courtney Knapp

September 3, 2025, 6–8 PM

Higgins Hall Auditorium

Presented by the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment (GCPE).

BUILDING BETTER: Design Build and Tailored Project Delivery

Patrick Askew
Eve Michel

September 8, 2025, 6–9:30 PM
Pratt Manhattan Campus, Second Floor, Room 201

Presented by the BPS Construction Management program.

Franklin D, Israel: A Life in Architecture

Todd Gannon

September 11, 2024, 6:15 PM

Higgins Auditorium

Presented by Undergraduate Architecture (UA) and Graduate Architecture, Landscape Architecture, & Urban Design (GA/LA/UD).

Pratt Session: Nader Tehrani

September 18, 2025, 6:15 PM
Higgins Hall Auditorium

Presented by Graduate Architecture, Landscape Architecture, & Urban Design (GA/LA/UD).

Pratt Sessions: JohnstonMarkLee

Sharon Johnston
Mark Lee
Critics-At-Large

September 23, 2025, 6:15 PM
Higgins Hall Auditorium

Presented by Graduate Architecture, Landscape Architecture, & Urban Design (GA/LA/UD).

IA: Island(ing) Adaptations 3.0

September 24, 2025 @ 3–4:30 PM
NY Climate Exchange, Building #309 (The Church), Governors Island

Presented by Graduate Architecture, Landscape Architecture, & Urban Design (GA/LA/UD).

Speaking of Environments

Jing Liu
Greg Lynn
Michael Osman
Meredith TenHoor
Marion Weiss
Catherine Ingraham (interlocutor)

September 25, 2025, 6:15 PM
Higgins Hall Auditorium

Presented by Graduate Architecture, Landscape Architecture, & Urban Design (GA/LA/UD).

The Inaugural Consortium for Sustainable Architecture Academic Lecture in collaboration with UNHabitat and Pratt Institute

Anacláudia Rossbach, Executive Director, UN-Habitat

September 26, 2025, 10:45 AM–12:15 PM
Higgins Hall Auditorium

Presented by the School of Architecture.

Overlay: Architecture at the Intersection of History, Community, and Culture

Susan T. Rodriguez 

October 2, 2025, 6:15 PM 
Higgins Hall Auditorium

Presented by the School of Architecture.

Leaving Home for Uncharted Territory | Dr. Sharon Egretta Sutton, FAIA  

October 9, 2025, 6:15 PM

Higgins Hall Auditorium

Presented by the School of Architecture.

Equity Research + Public Practice

Roger Smith
Lisa Cholmondeley
Gensler Research Institute’s Center for Research on Equity and the Built Environment

October 16, 2025, 6:15 PM 
Higgins Hall Auditorium

Presented by Undergraduate Architecture (UA).

Passion, Practice, Purpose: How Architects Shape Meaningful Careers Seven Fellows of the American Institute of Architecture presenting their pathways

Alexandra Barker, FAIA
Graciela Carrillo, FAIA
Laura Heim, FAIA
Carol Kurth, FAIA
Vivian Lee, FAIA
Porie Saikia, FAIA
Georgeen Theodore, FAIA


October 20, 2025, 6:15 PM 
Higgins Hall Auditorium

Presented by AIA Brooklyn Women in Architecture, in partnership with the School of Architecture.

Greatness: Diverse Designers of Architecture

Pascale Sablan

October 22, 2025, 6:15 PM
Higgins Hall Auditorium

Presented by Pratt Institutional Advancement | Office of Alumni Engagement.

Jessica B. Harris: Lessons from The African American Garden

Jessica B. Harris
Henry Obispo

October 23, 2025,  6:15 PM
Higgins Hall Auditorium

Presented by the Master of Landscape Architecture program.

Log #64 The New Brutalism Cynthia Davidson and Emmet Zeifmann

October 27, 2025, 6:15 PM
Higgins Hall Auditorium

Presented by Graduate Architecture, Landscape Architecture, & Urban Design (GA/LA/UD).

Bridging Continents: Architecture, Identity & the African Diaspora

Pan-African Biennale (PAB)
NYC Pre-Launch Event 

October 30, 2025, 6:15 PM
Higgins Hall Auditorium

Presented by Undergraduate Architecture (UA).

Pratt Sessions: José Aragüez

November 3, 2025, 6:15 PM 
Higgins Hall North 304

Presented by Graduate Architecture, Landscape Architecture, & Urban Design (GA/LA/UD).

Pratt Sessions: Pezo von Ellrichshausen

Mauricio Pezo
Sophia von Ellrichshausen

November 13, 2025, 6:15 PM
Higgins Hall North 304

Presented by Graduate Architecture, Landscape Architecture, & Urban Design (GA/LA/UD).