Design Excellence for a Sustainable and Equitable Future
Throughout our program, you will develop skills acquired from core to advanced design, to transform ideas into work that promotes a more equitable, resilient, and sustainable built environment
Cultural and Critical Thinking in a Collaborative Environment
Our innovative and collaborative teaching embodies an ethos of equity and inclusion. The curriculum fosters critical thinking, as you learn to apply creative and intellectual agility to architectural problems. Through an understanding of our discipline’s body of knowledge, you will be prepared to contribute meaningfully to the discourse in the discipline.
“At Pratt, I was able to explore a more emotional aspect of form making. [My professor] really pushed me to express—architecture was more than the function of a building. You could also tell a story, and evoke spiritual engagement.”
Andrew Reach, BArch ’86
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State of the Art Technology and Innovation
Through the use of emerging technologies in representation, fabrication, and building science, we seek to advance innovation in research and practice toward a more ethical, sustainable future.
Explore Urbanism in New York City
You will draw from the urban context of our beautiful Brooklyn campus as well as the discourse and culture that shape the city and the program’s pedagogy and learn firsthand how to integrate research into design while understanding its impact on the urban environment and the people who live there.
Professional Degree Accredited by NAAB
Pratt’s Bachelor of Architecture is a professional degree-granting program accredited by the National Architecture Accrediting Board (NAAB). In most states, individuals intending to become architects are required to hold a degree from an accredited institution.
Student Work
Take a look at examples of work by Undergraduate Architecture students and alumni, and imagine what you might be able to do!
Live and Study in Rome
This 50-year-old study-abroad program—open to fourth-year students in their spring semester—has inspired countless students to reevaluate their preconceptions about architecture and city life. Examine how to synthesize the old with the new as we explore Rome’s ancient and contemporary urban context.
Additionally, there are opportunities to study abroad during the summer in Japan, Venice, Rome, Kigali, Porto, and beyond.
Minors and Concentrations
Undergraduate architecture students may pursue a Minor in Construction Management or a Concentration in Morphology, as well as options combining the undergraduate degrees with various master’s degrees in planning and facilities management.
Our Faculty
Our faculty are outstanding creative professionals and scholars who share a common desire to develop each student’s potential. Bringing different views, methods, and perspectives, they provide a rigorous educational model in which students make and learn. See all undergraduate Architecture faculty and administrators.
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Lawrence Blough
Professor
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Ann Dinh
Visiting Assistant Professor
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Deborah Gans
Professor
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Duks Koschitz
Professor
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Zehra Kuz
Adjunct Professor – CCE
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Haresh Lalvani
Professor
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Jason Lee
Associate Professor
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Yetunde Olaiya
Adjunct Assistant Professor
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Scott Ruff
Adjunct Associate Professor
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Laura Salazar-Altobelli
Assistant Professor
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Jonathan Scelsa
Professor; K-12 Center Instructor
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Meredith TenHoor
Professor
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Jason Vigneri-Beane
Professor
After Graduation
Pratt’s distinguished alumni are leading thriving careers, addressing critical challenges, and creating innovative work that reimagines our world. Our graduates work at a diverse selection of companies and institutions, while others become entrepreneurs and principals leading their own studios and businesses.
Where Our Alumni Work
- Pascale Sablan, former President of NOMA
- Peter Zumthor, Peter Zumthor & Partner
- Molly Claypool, Automated Architecture (AUAR) Labs
- Bradley Rothenberg, nTopology
- Annabelle Selldorf, Selldorf Architects
- Rodney Leon, Rodney Leon Architect
- Carlos Zapata, Carlos Zapata Studio
- Vicky Chan, Avoid Obvious Architect
- Charles Gwathmey, Gwathmey Siegel Kaufman Architect
Career Support for Life
Students and alumni can schedule one-on-one appointments with career strategists in Pratt’s Center for Career and Professional Development. A career strategist can work with you to develop your job/internship search strategies and life and business plans, as well as review résumés, cover letters, websites, and other marketing materials.
“You never know what exists unless you at least take the steps toward discovery. For me, that was simply attending the career fair … and putting myself out there. Never did I think that special-event architecture existed, but it’s become my career after a fateful meeting with a small firm on that early, cold morning that I debated skipping for an extra bit of sleep.”
Shane Davis, BArch ’17
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