Graduate Architecture and Urban Design Archives

Designer, Educator, and Writer Andrew Holder Named Chair of Graduate Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Design

Holder will assume the role of chair on July 1, 2025.

A black and white street portrait of a man standing outdoors in front of a residential brick building with barred windows and wrought iron fencing. He wears a dark T-shirt and a simple necklace, looking directly at the camera with a slight smile. Dappled sunlight and tree shadows fall across the wall behind him. In the foreground, part of a parked car is visible, and a blurred pedestrian passes by on the right edge of the frame.

Graduate Architecture Student Quinn Gregory Named 2025 Fulbright Finalist

Gregory will spend nine months in Europe to study how bicycle theft undermines collective efforts to increase urban cycling.

Proposal by Ricardo Palacio, MArch ’21, for the Brooklyn Army Terminal

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Architecture Students Explore How Aquaculture Could Transform Industrial Brooklyn with Oysters and Algae

As New York City rebuilds in the aftermath of a long pandemic year, Pratt students are partnering in the local Brooklyn community and beyond to support a better, more equitable future with innovative solutions. In the Making a…

A “slice” of Harrison Atelier’s Pollinators Pavilion at the Bee Conservancy on Governors Island (photo by Adam Elstein)

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School of Architecture Advocates for Climate Education with Pavilions & Projects on Governors Island

As New York City rebuilds in the aftermath of a long pandemic year, Pratt students are partnering in the local Brooklyn community and beyond to support a better, more equitable future with innovative solutions. In the Making a…

Architecture

Pratt Architecture & High School Students Collaborate on Designing for Hidden Heritage in Weeksville

Every neighborhood is made up of layers of planning design, where decisions about what to preserve, prioritize, and build have shaped the architecture, greenspaces, and streets. Weeksville in Brooklyn has particularly deep layers of that history as the site of…

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Technology Expands Creativity and Extends Community at Ģ��ý

The pandemic may have accelerated it, but hybrid learning has its foundation in Ģ��ý’s longstanding commitment to incorporating technology into its curriculum and making its educational experience accessible to as many students as possible. The…

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A New Augmented Reality App Brings Architecture Student Work into Your Home

You can now transform any open space into an exhibition of Ģ��ý student work that you can explore with just your smartphone. Released this spring, the Pratt Virtual Exhibitions app was created for iPad and iPhone…

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New Pratt Shows Portfolio Website Showcases Work by Graduating Students

A new website is offering a digital window into an exciting range of bold creative work by this year’s graduating Pratt students. Launched this May, the Pratt Shows portfolio website showcases individual student work and projects from across Pratt’s…

City and Regional Planning

Pratt Initiatives and Research Projects Tackle Food Insecurity and Waste

Uncertainty about where the next meal will come from is an insecurity impacting millions of people. Ģ��ý researchers are investigating how to make healthy food more attainable for all, both locally and around the world.

Sanford Kwinter, Manuel DeLanda, Meredith TenHoor, and Catherine Ingraham at the “What Does (Can) Theory Do” GAUD symposium on April 4, 2019

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How Pratt’s Architectural Theory Leaders Are Inspiring the Next Generation of Critical Thinkers

The question is often raised—such as in the recent Theory’s Curriculum program hosted by e-flux Architecture: why teach architectural theory? While theory was part of most architecture programs from the 1970s to 1990s, technology is now foregrounded…

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