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Pratt Center Report Makes the Case for Bus Rapid Transit in New York City

“Bus” and “rapid” are not the first words that come to mind when New Yorkers think about getting around the city, particularly in areas of the outer boroughs that are significantly underserved by public transportation—but that may be about…

Architecture

The New York Times Features Three Pratt Students in National Showcase of College Creativity

Can creativity be taught? The New York Times recently examined this question through a slideshow of student projects—featuring three pieces from Pratt Institute—that highlight creative problem-solving skills Students from institutions across the country were invited to submit projects…

Architecture

Video: Joseph Mizzi’s 14+ Foundation Works to Build Schools and Orphanages in Africa

Joseph Mizzi has worked in the New York City construction industry for more than 20 years. Today, he is president of Sciame Construction, where he has been responsible for overseeing acclaimed projects including the Morgan Library & Museum and…

Architecture

Pratt Design Programs Ranked Among the Top in the Nation

Pratt Institute’s interior design, industrial design, and architecture programs are ranked among the best in the country according to a recently released annual survey of industry professionals coordinated by monthly architecture and design journal, DesignIntelligence (DI). “Rankings play…

Architecture

Architectural Digest Names Pratt Among Top U.S. Colleges with the Best Architecture

Architectural Digest named Pratt Institute among the top 10 colleges nationwide with the best architecture, making it the only campus in New York City and the only specialty college of art, design, and architecture to make the list. Others…

Architecture

MakerBot Features Architecture Students Who Work on Cutting Edge of Design

MakerBot recently interviewed undergraduate architecture students Andrew Reitz and Leland Jobson for a video piece on how 3D printing helped them realize their ideas in a physical form. The duo, who both work in the Digital Futures Lab in The…

Architecture

Faculty Receive ‘Best New Practice’ Award from American Institute of Architects New York Chapter

The American Institute of Architects New York chapter has honored architecture and design firm form-ula, run by Architecture faculty Richard Sarrach and Ajmal Aqtash, with a 2014 New Practices New York award. New Practices is a competition…

Architecture

Alumnus Young Woo Creates Scholarship Honoring Father

Gift Will Put Undergraduates on Path to Success Young Woo (B. Arch. ’79) has established a reputation as one of the most innovative and enterprising real-estate developers of our time. As founder and principal of Youngwoo & Associates, his projects…

Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment

The New York Times Quotes Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment Chair

John Shapiro, chair of the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment, was quoted in a September 17 New York Times article on the city's redevelopment plans for a vacant area in New York's Lower East Side long…

Giving

$3 Million Bequest Establishes Charles Macchi Scholarship

Architecture Students to Benefit from Late Widow’s Estate Gift Dubbed “our boy wonder” by his colleagues on the 1930 Prattonia yearbook committee, former Pratt Trustee and instructor Charles L. Macchi (Cert. Arch ’30) will have a lasting impact on the…