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Brook Boughton, MArch ’22, is included in the 2022 Metropolis Future100. It recognizes some of the top graduating architecture and interior design students in the United States and Canada as nominated by their instructors and mentors.

The spring 2022 issue of Aperture features work by Marilyn Nance, BFA Communications Design ’76, from 1977 when she traveled to Nigeria and photographed the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (FESTAC). The images will be featured in a forthcoming book called Last Day in Lagos.

“Hyperbolic Sericulture” by undergraduate architecture student Ellis Donahue takes inspiration from arachnid and lepidoptera silk spinning to create a landscape of traversable thresholds upon which visitors can climb, hang, and rest. See more @prattsoa.

Follow @pratt_institute_jewelry for updates from the ongoing Pratt Shows, such as Jaeil You’s functional “Lamp Ring 1 (LR-01)” from the recent BFA Jewelry Thesis Exhibition.

Film/Video student Mackie Mallison is screening the experimental documentary Chuu Chuu as part of the Documentary Shorts lineup at the Atlanta Film Festival, available to watch virtually through May 1.

The spring 2022 issue of the student-run literary magazine The Prattler is now available in print and online. Themed on “Education,” it includes stories on the depth of resources in Pratt Libraries, a comparison between students studying art and medicine, and a student’s experience coming to New York from Puerto Rico.

Supertall: How the World’s Tallest Buildings Are Reshaping Our Cities and Our Lives by Stefan Al, visiting associate professor in Graduate Architecture and Urban Design (GAUD), is out now from W. W. Norton. Al spoke about the book on American Public Media’s Marketplace, and it was reviewed in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal.

The BFA Sculpture & Integrated Practices Thesis Show is now on view through May 8 on the Brooklyn campus in the DeKalb Gallery and Schafler Gallery. See more @prattfineart.

The Brooklyn Rail reviewed From Forces to Forms which is on view at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery through April 27. The exhibition explores the nature of form by engaging with the potent forces and processes of nature.

Historic Preservation students visited EverGreene Architectural Arts Studio as part of their Materials Conservation class and explored Central Park to observe how materials change over time. The class is led by faculty members Theodore Prudon and Debora Barros. See more @prattpreservation.