Passive House, Climate Action
Architecture professor In Cho brings her expertise in energy-efficient design to equip the next generation of architects to address climate change.
Home Becoming
In Islands, a work of performance architecture cocreated by Alex Schweder, BArch ’93, Professor CCE of Industrial and Interior Design, there is no perfect house.

Not Only a Place, But a Feeling
“Home is the place where we most intimately meet ourselves, and can build a space where the primary concern is love, and care.” Madeline McQuillan,…

The Making of the Objects We Live With
It was often called a furniture-making class, but instructor Gweny Jin both agreed and disagreed. “I would rather call it the class of ‘making things,’”…

Painting Visions of Home
A light in a brownstone window, the embracing warmth of a deep tub or an imagined garden, a full bowl, a chair to rest, familiar…

Amplifying NYC’s Bold Women
A graduate of Pratt’s Library and Information Science program, Cynthia Tobar bridges her expertise as an archivist and oral historian with her work as an…
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In Conversation with the President: Living Spaces
From my years teaching architecture, one studio in particular stays with me to this day. It focused on a concept for a multiunit living space… -
Spaces for Us to Live
“Housing is a right. Not a privilege.” “We’ve been trying to find ways to make communities more financially savvy and resilient . . . to… -
Class Notes Fall 2023
Class Notes is Pratt alumni news compiled from alumni submissions, items shared by faculty and staff, and media mentions. Read on for the Fall 2023… -
New and Noteworthy Fall 2023
Recent products and publications of Pratt Institute alumni and faculty include home decor, playful literature, and a new Forever stamp honoring a celebrated Pratt writer-illustrator.… -
Cover Story: The Things We Call Home
Every photo in Kaytlin Bronson’s 2023 senior showcase at Pratt, titled Whittle, was made within Bronson’s Brooklyn home, among “a cocoon of familiar objects” that…