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Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum Features Mars Transit Habitat Designed by Students

A Mars transit habitat project designed by Pratt architecture and industrial design students was on view at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in Manhattan from July 13–18. The project was the result of a challenge presented by NASA,…

Architecture

Architectural Digest Cover Story Features Home Designed by Alumnus Ralph Choeff

The cover story of Architectural Digest magazine’s June 2016 issue features a Miami, Florida home designed by Pratt alumnus Ralph Choeff (B.Arch. ’78) for professional baseball player Alex Rodriguez. The Architectural Digest story has been picked up by USA Today,…

Graduate Architecture and Urban Design

Professor Jason Vigneri-Beane Receives Pratt Distinguished Teacher Award 2016-2017

Jason Vigneri-Beane, adjunct associate professor of graduate architecture and urban design within the School of Architecture, is the recipient of Pratt Institute’s Distinguished Teacher Award 2016-2017. The Award recognizes exceptional dedication to Pratt’s mission and applauds the recipient’s career accomplishments.

Architecture

World-Renowned Architect Grant Booker Discusses His Work in Talk on Brooklyn Campus

Pratt recently welcomed internationally renowned architect Grant Brooker to the Institute’s Brooklyn campus, where he spoke about his career highlights and insights into the field of architecture in front of an attentive audience in Higgins Hall auditorium. The March 7…

Architecture

Pratt Shows 2016 to Celebrate Best Work of Graduating Students

Pratt Institute will display graduating students’ best work in a series of year-end events and exhibitions this spring. Pratt Shows 2016 will allow the general public an exciting opportunity to view the outstanding work of Pratt’s talented students. Pratt Shows…

Architecture

Video: Students Explore New Physical Structures and Technologies in Undergraduate Morphology

Believed to be the first programs of their kind anywhere, the Minor in Morphology and Concentration in Morphology at Pratt leverage the long history of morphology study at the Institute dating from the early 1970s. Morphology is the study…

School of Architecture

SuperTall Buildings Transform New York City’s Skyline, Bringing Challenges and Benefits

For this “Faculty Insight” column, John Shapiro, chair, Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment, School of Architecture, comments on the recent landscape shift in Manhattan, where an increasing number of buildings now stand taller than 800 feet. Many have…

School of Architecture

Changes in US-Cuba Relations Inspire New Pratt Academic Initiatives and Travel to Cuba

Recent changes in United States policy toward Cuba are opening up new potential for educational exchange and travel between the two countries. Pratt Institute is offering new opportunities for Pratt students, faculty, and alumni to visit Cuba to explore its…

Architecture

Professor Haresh Lalvani Creates Permanent Artwork for New York City Subway Station

Pratt Institute alumnus and architecture professor Haresh Lalvani has created a series of 24 permanent art panels entitled MORPHING88 for the newly renovated 88th Street subway station on the A line in Queens, New York. Lalvani was one of five…

Architecture

DesignIntelligence Survey Ranks Pratt Design Programs among Best in Nation

Pratt Institute’s interior design, industrial design, and architecture programs are ranked among the best in the country, according to America’s Best Architecture and Design Schools 2016, the newest edition of the annual survey of industry professionals coordinated by DesignIntelligence (DI),…