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  • The Office of Research and Strategic Partnerships’ Building Futures exhibition within the Time Space Existence architecture showcase at the Venice Biennale runs through November 23 and features a range of Pratt research and co-design projects including the Pratt Center’s EnergyFit NYC program, School of Design partnership with Gotham Professional Arts, and the Ice Box Challenge and Passive Housing Training Center from In Cho, visiting assistant professor of undergraduate architecture. The exhibition, developed with Cycle Architecture, explores circular construction, co-living, adaptive reuse, and deep energy retrofit of existing buildings. 

    Jul 16, 2025

    A room featuring display screens, posters, and architectural models.

  • Fine Arts alumnus Mario A. Robinson was selected as the first-ever Save Ellis Island artist-in-residence. “Mario Robinson is the perfect artist to interpret the south side of Ellis Island. His sensitivity to American history is beautifully told through the stillness found in his paintings,” said Jim Dessicino, museum creative director for Ellis Island.

    Nov 04, 2025

  • Kay Moon, BFA Fine Arts ’25, received the Sculptors Guild Roosevelt Scholarship. Their work Beings of Light and Fire is on view at the MORA Museum of International Art in Jersey City, NJ, through December. 

    Oct 31, 2025

  • Gabrielle Nicole, BFA Fine Arts ’13, launched her new jewelry collection, Ruveil, at an event hosted in collaboration with GEM X. The collection is inspired by her work as a sound meditation specialist.

     

    Oct 29, 2025

  • Assistant Professor of Social Science and Cultural Studies Jan Dutkiewicz wrote an article for Vox about a recent consumer safety report regarding lead in protein powder. “The bottom line is that Consumer Reports’s protein lead scare is—pardon the pun—a big nothingburger. But the questions still remain: Are protein supplements completely safe?”

    Oct 28, 2025

  • The Architect’s Newspaper’s Top 50 Architects and Designers in North America list features seven Pratt faculty and alumni, including Tania Chau, MID ’05; Little Wing Lee, MS Interior Design ’06; Mark Lee, visiting assistant professor of Graduate Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Design (GALAUD); Dean Levin, BArch ’12; Jing Liu, senior researcher at the Center for Climate Adaptation and former GALAUD professor; Annabelle Selldorf, BArch ’85; and Michael Yarinksy, BArch ’11.

     

    Oct 28, 2025

  • Pratt’s Brooklyn campus hosted The Oral Storytelling Symposium, “a three-day exploration of innovative practices in oral history and storytelling, while interrogating orality in its broadest sense—through embodied storytelling, visceral narrative composition, music, movement, and diverse presentational forms.” Several Pratt faculty presented during the symposium, including Cisco Bradley, professor of social science and cultural studies; Fulla Abdul-Jabbar, adjunct assistant professor in the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Chelsea Limbird, adjunct assistant professor of interior design; and Ellery Washington, associate professor of writing.

    Oct 27, 2025

  • Guillermo Murcia, MArch ’99, joined HOK’s Atlanta studio as principal designer. “Known for his thoughtful, context-driven approach, Murcia creates architecture that is both enduring and responsive—design that reflects the cultural, environmental, and social fabric of its setting,” HOK writes in The Architect’s Newspaper. “His leadership emphasizes collaboration, innovation, and a deep commitment to design excellence.”

     

    Oct 24, 2025

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