Graduate Archives

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Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment

Pratt Names Courtney Knapp New Chair of the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment

An award-winning scholar and professor in the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment’s Urban and Community Planning program, Knapp will assume the role on July 1, 2025, succeeding Eve Baron, who is stepping down to join the full-time faculty.

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Designer, Educator, and Writer Andrew Holder Named Chair of Graduate Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Design

Holder will assume the role of chair on July 1, 2025.

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Graduate Architecture Student Quinn Gregory Named 2025 Fulbright Finalist

Gregory will spend nine months in Europe to study how bicycle theft undermines collective efforts to increase urban cycling.

Construction Management

Audrey Schultz Named Chair of Construction Management, Facilities Management, and Real Estate Practice

Audrey Schultz has been named chair of Construction Management, Facilities Management, and Real Estate Practice in Pratt’s School of Architecture. A tenured professor in the department, she has over 30 years in the field and has concentrated on the whole…

The Alice Austen House Museum on Staten Island (courtesy Vicki Weiner)

Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment

Amplifying an Unsung Site of Queer History on Staten Island

The GCPE students visiting the Alice Austen House Museum (courtesy Vicki Weiner) Students in the Historic Preservation/Urban Placemaking Joint Advanced Studio worked closely with AAHM to propose ideas to help it become a stronger community anchor.

Image from the “Land Given Back to Water” scenario from the Sustainable Communities Studio (all images courtesy Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment (GCPE))

City and Regional Planning

Empowering Coastal Communities in a Future of Rising Shorelines

With the world’s sea levels projected to rise due to global warming, much of the New York City coastline could be underwater by 2100. Planning for these changes is essential and in a recent studio, Pratt Institute students…

Little Island (photo by Timothy Schenck)

Landscape Architecture

Signe Nielsen on Landscape Architecture’s Horizons

As New York City rebuilds in the aftermath of a long pandemic year, Pratt students are partnering in the local Brooklyn community and beyond to support a better, more equitable future with innovative solutions. In the Making a Difference series,…

Brooklyn Botanic Garden (photo by Barrett Doherty, courtesy Brooklyn Botanic Garden)

Landscape Architecture

Pratt School of Architecture Launches Partnership with Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Pratt’s School of Architecture is launching a partnership with Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) that will center on its new Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) program. The initiative will strengthen the offerings of the MLA program through the resources…

Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment

Putting the Community First in Planning for a Brooklyn Neighborhood’s Future

As New York City rebuilds in the aftermath of a long pandemic year, Pratt students are partnering in the local Brooklyn community and beyond to support a better, more equitable future with innovative solutions. In the…

Proposal by Ricardo Palacio, MArch ’21, for the Brooklyn Army Terminal

Graduate Architecture and Urban Design

Architecture Students Explore How Aquaculture Could Transform Industrial Brooklyn with Oysters and Algae

As New York City rebuilds in the aftermath of a long pandemic year, Pratt students are partnering in the local Brooklyn community and beyond to support a better, more equitable future with innovative solutions. In the Making a Difference series,…