School of Architecture Archives

Five Pratt Institute Students Selected for the Do School’s Community Mobility Challenge

Five undergraduate and graduate Pratt Institute students have been selected to participate in the Community Mobility Challenge as part of the 2017 Innovate NYC program, which provides students with the opportunity to learn valuable entrepreneurial skills and tackle real-life…

Graduate Architecture and Urban Design

Renowned Architect Thom Mayne Named Graduate Architecture and Urban Design’s First Critic at Large

Thom Mayne, Pritzker Prize-winning architect and founding principal at the interdisciplinary architectural firm Morphosis, has been appointed the first “Critic at Large” in Pratt Institute’s Graduate Architecture and Urban Design (GAUD) program within the School of Architecture this spring. The…

Architecture

Students Design and Build Machines to Inspire Architectural Ideas In Innovative New Studio

A new studio in the School of Architecture is giving undergraduate architecture students the opportunity to develop and build their own machines to use as tools for generating architectural ideas. Called Designing Machines that Design, the studio is unusual…

School of Architecture

School of Architecture to Celebrate 40th Anniversary of Pratt Rome Program This Spring

Pratt Institute’s School of Architecture will celebrate the Undergraduate Architecture Rome Program’s 40th anniversary with a special five-day event in Rome in April 2017. The program was established in 1978 to provide architecture students with the opportunity to explore Italian…

School of Architecture

Pratt Institute Awarded Ladislav Sutnar Prize 2016 from the University of West Bohemia

Pratt Institute has been awarded the Ladislav Sutnar Prize 2016 from the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic. Provost Kirk E. Pillow traveled to Pilsen to receive the award on behalf of the Institute at a ceremony on…

Architecture

DesignIntelligence Ranks Pratt Among Top 10 Colleges for Interior Design and Architecture

Pratt Institute’s interior design programs and undergraduate architecture program are ranked among the top 10 in the country according to America’s Best Architecture and Design Schools 2017, the newest edition of the annual survey of industry professionals coordinated by DesignIntelligence…

School of Architecture

Eve Baron Selected as Chair of the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment

Eve Baron has been appointed chair of the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment within the School of Architecture. She assumed the role on August 1, 2016, succeeding John Shapiro, who stepped down to join the full-time faculty in…

Graduate Architecture and Urban Design

David Erdman Appointed Chair of Graduate Architecture and Urban Design

David Erdman has joined Pratt Institute as Chair of Graduate Architecture and Urban Design (GAUD). He assumed the position on September 1, 2016, succeeding William MacDonald, who stepped down in July to serve as a full-time professor. Erdman comes to…

City and Regional Planning

Pratt’s Graduate Architecture Program Ranked among Best in Nation in 2016 Student Survey

Pratt Institute is ranked #4 in a list of “2016 Top Architecture Graduate Programs” from education research publisher SR Education Group. Released in July 2016, the “2016 Top Graduate Schools and Programs” rankings present the nation’s top-reviewed graduate schools by…

Architecture

Professor Haresh Lalvani to Give Keynote and Exhibit Work at Symmetry Festival in Vienna

Undergraduate Architecture Professor and Co-director of Pratt’s Center for Experimental Structures, Dr. Haresh Lalvani (M.S. ’72), will participate in the Symmetry Festival 2016, which will be held in Vienna from July 18-22. Lalvani will deliver a public keynote lecture, display…