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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.

By Clinton Krute

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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,…

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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,’”…

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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…

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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…