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NYC’s Racial Equity Reports: Another Look

In a recent City Limits op-ed, Associate Professor Eve Baron and Pratt Center Senior Planner Tara Duvivier highlight the underuse of New York’s Racial Equity Reports (RERs) and share strategies for making them more effective in shaping equitable land use decisions.

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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.

A black and white street portrait of a man standing outdoors in front of a residential brick building with barred windows and wrought iron fencing. He wears a dark T-shirt and a simple necklace, looking directly at the camera with a slight smile. Dappled sunlight and tree shadows fall across the wall behind him. In the foreground, part of a parked car is visible, and a blurred pedestrian passes by on the right edge of the frame.

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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.

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Reflecting on the Past, Designing the Future

The School of Architecture has been shaping the built environment for more than 70 years.

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Building Bridges at the Seoul Biennale

Two Pratt studios were invited to display their designs for bridges crossing the Han River at the Seoul Biennale for Architecture and Urbanism 2023.

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Ice Box Challenge Puts Architecture Students at Forefront of Climate Action

Pratt students designed and built the first-ever US student-led International Passive House Ice Box Challenge.

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Pratt Institute Names Quilian Riano Dean of the School of Architecture

The urban designer and academic has served as interim dean since August 2022 and assumes the new role on May 8, 2023.

Incoming Academic Director of the Undergraduate Architecture Pratt Rome Program Federica Vannucchi with Richard Piccolo, the outgoing academic director, in the Piazza di Santa Maria in Trastevere in Rome

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Federica Vannucchi Named Academic Director of Pratt Rome Program

Architectural historian Federica Vannucchi has been named the new academic director of the Pratt Rome Program. The long-standing program is one of the oldest American foreign studies programs in Italy and is administered by the School of Architecture’s Undergraduate…

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Shaping a Positive Future for NYC

From the increasingly dramatic impacts of climate change to the high cost of housing, New York City faces myriad challenges in the years ahead as it emerges from the heavy toll of the COVID-19 pandemic. Across the city in…