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Pratt
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Graduate
Bulletin
2012–2013

Visit Pratt

All prospective students are encouraged
to visit Pratt. Here’s how:

Guided Tours of Brooklyn Campus Web Office of Admissions

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Produced by the Pratt Institute Office Unless otherwise indicated, all images of art, design, Printed by Conceptual Litho Reproductions.
of Communications. and architecture are of work created by students while
studying at Pratt. Page i : Memorial Hall
© 2012 Pratt Institute. Page ii : Left: Pratt Sculpture Park; Right: Students sketch
This publication has been edited for accuracy in the Sculpture Park
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additional photography by Josh Gerritsen, herein is subject to change. Right: Pratt’s Brooklyn campus
Armando Rafael, Diana Pau, René Perez, Page iv : The back of the Pratt Brooklyn Library
and William Brinson, or provided by
the departments and individual artists.

Contents

1 About Pratt Institute 75 s ch ool of art and de s ign 2 09 Academic Degrees Overview
7 The History of Pratt 77 Art and Design Education 2 29 Course Listings
83 Arts and Cultural Management 281 Admissions Requirements
19 s c ho o l of a rc h i t ec t u re 87 Communications/Package Design 291 Financial Aid
23 Graduate Architecture and 101 Creative Arts Therapy 307 Tuition and Fees
102 Art Therapy 313 Registration
Urban Design 102 Dance/Movement Therapy 331 Student Affairs
25 Architecture 107 Design Management 3 43 Libraries
37 Urban Design 111 Digital Arts 3 47 Board of Trustees
47 Programs for Sustainable 123 Fine Arts 3 49 Administration
137 History of Art and Design 351 Academic Calendar
Planning and Development 145 Industrial Design 3 57 How to Get to Pratt
51 City and Regional Planning 157 Interior Design 361 Index
57 Urban Environmental
171 s ch ool of inf or mation
Systems Management and library science
63 Facilities Management
69 Historic Preservation 173 Library and Information Science

187 s ch ool of libe ral arts
and sciences

189 Media Studies

193 Classes in the Liberal Arts



About Pratt Institute

Founded in 1887, Pratt’s main campus Pratt’s Manhattan campus offers
is located on a 25-acre beautifully graduate degrees in communications
landscaped enclosed campus in Brooklyn, design, package design, facilities
New York Pratt provides students with an management, arts and cultural
outstanding professional education and a management, design management,
traditional residential college experience and library and information science.
within the exciting creative environment In addition, Pratt offers an associate’s
of one of the top art schools in the U.S. degree in graphic design, illustration,
Pratt’s contemporary sculpture garden on and digital design and interactive media
campus, ranked among the top 20 in the for transfer students or students with
country, is a popular draw for visitors and four-year degrees who are not looking
provides students with the extraordinary for a graduate degree, but want intensive
opportunity to live with an ever changing training in these fields.
display of contemporary sculpture. The
main campus in Brooklyn offers graduate
degrees in fine art, art therapy, dance
therapy, architecture (first-professional
and M.S. post-professional degrees),
urban design (post professional degree),
historic preservation, art and design
education (teacher preparation), history
of art and design, industrial design,
interior design, digital arts, city and
regional planning, urban environmental
systems management, and media studies.

Left: View of Pratt’s Brooklyn campus

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Why Pratt?

Pratt Institute, ranked outstanding wide variety of
among the top design professional faculty highly-ranked programs
schools by Businessweek,
is one of the leading art, Pratt’s faculty includes award- Pratt’s undergraduate and graduate
design, and architecture
schools in the United States. winning artists, architects, designers, programs are consistently highly ranked,

and writers—primarily practicing and include the number-one ranked

professionals who ensure that what is graduate interior design program in the

taught is current and that the standards in United States by U.S. News & World Report

the classroom reflect professional practice. Best Graduate Schools. Pratt was ranked

Students are frequently connected the top design school in the country by

to internships and eventually to jobs Global Language Monitor and the top

through their professors. design school in New York City this year.

extensive career assistance program rankings

Six months from graduation, 84 percent Rankings 2012
of Pratt’s graduates are employed, and DesignIntelligence ranked Pratt’s
94 percent of those are employed in their undergraduate and graduate interior
field. An outstanding career services design programs third in the nation.
office provides students with assistance in Pratt’s industrial design undergraduate
choosing a major, finding an internship and graduate programs ranked ninth and
or job, and continues to work with seventh respectively. Pratt’s under­
alumni throughout their lives. Students graduate architecture program ranked
can receive help with developing their 10th nationally. The graduate archi­
portfolios and resumés and more. Most of tecture program was ranked among the
the services are online for easy access. The top 10 in the world by ArchiFund.org.
office works with employers nationally
and globally so that Pratt students from Rankings 2011
around the world can find assistance. Pratt was ranked among the top design
schools by Businessweek. Pratt was ranked
first nationally among all schools of art
and design by Global Language Monitor
in a survey that measures “electronic
buzz” about schools. Pratt’s Sculpture Park
was ranked among the top 10 campus art
collections by Public Art Review.

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The rankings of individual programs Pratt’s Manhattan campus is located Number 1
by either U.S. News or DesignIntelligence at 144 West 14th Street, between Sixth and Graduate Interior Design
are shown at the right. Seventh Avenues in a renovated historic (U.S. News & World Report Best
building near Chelsea. It houses the Graduate Schools, 2013)
Graphic Design and Fashion Design associate degree programs, undergraduate
were ranked among the top 10 programs construction management, and graduate Number 1
in the country by College Crunch, an programs in facilities management, Graduate Interior Design
online college resource. library and information science, historic (DesignIntelligence, 2011)
preservation, communications/package
Graduate Design Management was design, design management, and arts Number 2
ranked among the top design schools by and cultural management. Parking is Undergraduate Interior Design
Businessweek. available on the street and in garages in (DesignIntelligence, 2011)
the area.
two beautiful campuses Number 3
Undergraduate Fashion (Fashionista)
Pratt’s beautiful 25-acre main campus in
Brooklyn, New York, with its combination Number 4
of historic and contemporary buildings, Undergraduate Industrial Design
offers students a green tree-lined space (DesignIntelligence, 2011)
with a contemporary sculpture park
acclaimed as one of the top campus art Number 4
collections in the country; an athletic Graduate Industrial Design
center; fine arts facilities for printmaking, (U.S. News & World Report Best
metals, sculpture, ceramics, jewelry; and Graduate Schools, 2010)
residence halls and dining on campus.
The main campus with five residence Number 7
halls including a graduate residence hall, Graduate Industrial Design
is located in a residential neighborhood (DesignIntelligence, 2011)
just 25 minutes from the art and literary
capital of the world, Manhattan. Twenty- Number 9
five beautifully landscaped acres of Graduate Communications Design
brick roadways, seating areas, historic (U.S. News & World Report Best
buildings, and outstanding facilities Graduate Schools, 2010)
offer students plenty of “green space”
in which to work, relax, and spend time Number 9
with friends. The combination of a green Undergraduate Architecture
campus and a location minutes from (DesignIntelligence, 2011)
Manhattan makes Pratt an ideal choice.
Number 15
Graduate Fine Arts (U.S. News & World
Report Best Graduate Schools, 2010)

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ways to get to know pratt The first art teacher at Pratt was a pupil of Cézanne; the second
was a student of Matisse. More than 100 years later, the legacy
Request information at www.pratt.edu/ of masters working with students not only persists at Pratt but
request, and we’ll send you our catalog as well grows stronger.
as information about events, deadlines, and
programs based on your interests. The masters of today are people who Why do so many prestigious
take time off from their “nine-to-five” professionals choose to teach at Pratt?
Twitter @prattadmissions jobs of designing the buildings and cities For some, it’s the passion for teaching
in which we live, creating the award- itself. For others, it’s the ability to
Facebook us at winning advertisements that influence use Pratt as a laboratory to test their
Pratt Institute-Admissions us, and building the information systems latest concepts. And for others, it’s
that are an indispensable part of our lives to water the soil that helped them grow
Email us at [email protected] to pass on knowledge and expertise to the into the leaders in their fields. After
generation that will shape the essential all, many of these individuals are Pratt
Call us at 718-636-3514 art and design of tomorrow. These graduates themselves.
or 1-800-331-0834 contemporary masters are teaching at
Pratt today.
Visit us at www.pratt.edu/visit

We welcome your interest in Pratt Institute
and encourage you to visit and ask questions,
show us your work, and find out why Pratt
is the first choice for so many students. Visit us
by scheduling an appointment online at
www.pratt.edu/visit.

Pratt Institute
Office of Admissions
Myrtle Hall, 2nd floor
200 Willoughby Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11205

contact us

Phone: 718-636-3514 or 800-331-0834
Fax: 718-399-4242
Email: [email protected]

Right: The Bruce M. Newman ’53 Clock, designed
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The History of Pratt

Behind Pratt’s success is a philosophy of giving them a broad overview of the
education developed more than 120 years various artistic disciplines before they
ago by its founder, Charles Pratt, who specialize. The first graduate program
revolutionized education by challenging in librarianship was added in 1940.
the traditional concept of education as a Pratt was also one of the first schools to
purely intellectual exercise. He created incorporate the new computer graphics
a school where applied knowledge was technology into a degree program,
emphasized and specific skills were the computer graphics and interactive
taught to meet the needs of a growing media major. Pratt was one of the first
industrial economy. schools to recognize design as a serious
discipline and the importance of urban
Pratt has been a pioneer in education planning and historic preservation.
since its inception. In 1888, the Institute Using its immediate environment as a
began its women’s department, which vital source of education through Pratt’s
offered programs in home management, Center for Community Development,
dressmaking, and millinery. Considered formerly PICCED, Pratt has been in the
revolutionary at the time, these courses forefront of strengthening education
were among the first to prepare women while strengthening communities. Today,
to be professionals in our society. In Pratt offers students a choice of over 20
1938, Pratt expanded its curriculum graduate programs from which to choose
and granted its first four-year bachelor’s in its three schools of architecture,
degree. It was the first art and design art and design, and information and
school in the United States to require library science.
a foundation year for all art students,

Left: Charles Pratt, founder and first president of Pratt
Institute, created a revolutionary approach to education
that remains relevant today. Photo: Courtesy of the
Pratt Institute Archives



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Pratt Today

Pratt’s mission is to educate artists and Attracted by its elegant 19th-century

creative professionals to be responsible homes, its close proximity to Manhattan,

contributors to society. Pratt seeks to its ethnically diverse population, and

instill in all graduates aesthetic judgment, its reasonable cost, they have joined a

professional knowledge, collaborative cadre of other young urbanites who have

skills, and technical expertise. With a purchased and renovated the Victorian

firm grounding in the liberal arts and homes that mark the area. Clinton Hill is

sciences, a Pratt education blends theory now one of New York’s premier renovated

with creative application in preparing Victorian neighborhoods, with historic

graduates to become leaders in their landmark status and a place on the

professions. Pratt enrolls a diverse group National Register of Historic Places.

of highly talented and dedicated In part because of Pratt, the

students, challenging them to achieve neighborhood boasts an extraordinary

their full potential. number of creative artists, architects,

More than 100 years after the designers, illustrators, and sculptors

founding of Pratt Institute, Charles among its inhabitants. Says one, “In

Pratt’s mission is still reflected in the the diversity of the people and the

quality of the students the Institute architecture there is an electricity and

attracts, the work and achievements creativity that is hard to describe,

of its alumni, and the exceptionally but which, for me, since my days at Pratt,

high caliber of its faculty. This has represented the urban experience

level of excellence has earned Pratt at its best.”

an international reputation as a

first-rate school.

The student body is composed of

4,722 undergraduate and graduate

students—28 percent men and 72 percent

women. Eighty-two percent are full-time.

Twenty-five percent are international.

Not surprisingly, hundreds of Pratt

alumni who first became acquainted

with the neighborhood in their student

days have stayed to settle in Clinton Hill.

Left: Students leaving Myrtle Hall, Pratt’s newest building,
which opened in 2010.

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A Renowned Faculty State-of-the-Art

Computer Facilities

Much of Pratt’s strength derives from its

faculty. Most have chosen to practice their Pratt has established computer labs with
profession while they teach. The faculty the most current equipment available.
The first art teacher at Pratt is drawn from the ranks of the world’s
was a pupil of Cézanne; Computer labs include computer
the second was a student art, design, architectural, educational,
of Matisse. More than workstations, color scanners, color and
100 years later, the legacy and business communities. Architecture black-and-white printers and plotters,
of masters working with professors design buildings; art and design digital and analog output centers;
students not only persists at professors paint, sculpt, and design ads, digital photography; video and sound
Pratt but grows stronger. interiors, cars, furniture, and lighting.
bays; multimedia video projection with
The masters of today are people who take time You see their work all around you.
off from their “nine-to-five” jobs of designing the DVD; CD-ROM burners; and multiple
buildings and cities in which we live, creating the These faculty members bring to the servers. All workstations feature the latest
award-winning advertisements that influence classroom the same high standards upheld software, including Quark, Photoshop,
us, and building the information systems that in their professional work. With different Illustrator, AutoCAD, ProEngineer,
are an indispensable part of our lives to pass views, methods, and perspectives, they and Premiere.The computer labs are
on knowledge and expertise to the generation all share a common desire to develop
that will shape the essential art and design of networked and most feature full Inter-net
tomorrow. These contemporary masters are each student’s potential and creativity to connectivity. Pratt continually upgrades
teaching at Pratt today. the fullest—to turn out competent and lab equipment as industry standards
creative professionals who will shape the change and processing speeds increase.
Why do so many prestigious professionals world to come.
choose to teach at Pratt? For some, it’s the
passion for teaching itself. For others, it’s the The result is an exhilarating
ability to use Pratt as a laboratory to test their
latest concepts. And for others, it’s to water the learning experience for our students. Exhibitions
soil that helped them grow into the leaders in Pratt’s faculty members have received
their fields. After all, many of these individuals are
Pratt graduates themselves. more than 18 Tiffany, Fulbright, and

Guggenheim awards as well as other Gallery space, both on campus and at

prestigious professional awards. This Pratt Manhattan, is extensive, showing

allows Pratt’s young talents to observe the work of students, alumni, faculty,

and learn from its world-renowned staff, and other well-known artists,

faculty on an individual and personal architects, and designers throughout

basis. The faculty offer students special the academic year. The Institute’s main
assistance in coursework, studio work, and galleries are the Pratt Manhattan Gallery
special projects, and provide important at Pratt’s Manhattan campus and the
connections when students are ready for Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery
employment or internships.
in the Chemistry Building on Pratt’s

Brooklyn campus. In addition, solo and

group shows are held on the main campus

in the President’s Office Gallery.

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The Library An Illustrious Alumni Body

The Pratt Institute Library is a historical Pratt has approximately 26,000 Malcolm Holzman, architect for the
landmark built in 1896 with interiors active alumni, whose achievements Virginia Museum of Art and Rizzoli
by the Tiffany Glass and Decorating are a testament to the soundness Bookstore in New York
Company. An outstanding architectural of the Institute’s educational philosophy.
feature of the Brooklyn campus, the Pratt alumni have designed well-known, Steve Horn, photographer, graphic
Library also maintains a small branch award-winning furniture, clothing, designer, and creative director for
at Pratt Manhattan. Patrons can access buildings, commercials, household TV commercials
the Internet, bibliographic indexes, items, and automobiles. Their work has
full-text databases, and multimedia been exhibited in major museums Betsey Johnson, fashion designer
CD-ROM titles from workstations at both and galleries.
facilities. These workstations have the Ellsworth Kelly, contemporary painter
latest software and plug-in applications, William Boyer, designer of the classic
which allow the use of VRML files Thunderbird automobile Ed Koren, cartoonist for The New Yorker
and streaming audio and video. Internet magazine
documents may be displayed in many Tomie dePaola, writer and illustrator
languages and character sets, including of classic children’s books, including Naomi Leff, international interior
Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Cyrillic, Strega Nona designer; designed Ralph Lauren
and Greek. flagship headquarters
Jules Feiffer, cartoonist and playwright
The Library has approximately George Lois, designer, advertising leader,
200,000 volumes and a super-ior art, Harvey Fierstein, actor and playwright, and chairman of Lois USA New York
design, and architecture collection. Torch Song Trilogy
Library holdings include excellent slide Robert Mapplethorpe, photographer
and circulating picture collections, and Steve Frankfurt, advertising innovator;
a Multimedia Center housing nearly chairman of Frankfurt Balkind; Peter Max, artist; widely known for
3,000 film and video titles. Students can named to the Art Directors Hall his pop art and psychedelic images
use their ID cards to gain easy access to of Fame of the sixties
numerous public and college libraries
near the Pratt campuses. Bob Giraldi, director of the Michael Leon Moed, principal, Moed de Armas
Jackson Pepsi-Cola commercial Architects, New York; formerly,
project partner, Skidmore, Owings
Michael Gross, executive producer of and Merrill
Ghostbusters
Norman Norell, fashion designer
Bruce Hannah, furniture designer
for Knoll; named Designer of the Charles Pollock, a leading force in chair
Decade in 1990 design for more than 40 years

Eva Hesse, minimalist sculptor Paul Rand, designer, author; set
and painter worldwide graphic standards;
designed IBM, ABC, Westinghouse,
and NeXT corporate identities

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Robert Redford, actor and director Partnerships with in the New York metropolitan area. The
Major New York City museum is a pioneer in the installation of
Michael Santoro, designer of 1995 Cultural Institutions period rooms, which range from a 17th-
Chrysler Cirrus and Dodge Stratus century Brooklyn Dutch church house
To encourage Pratt students to take to a 20th-century art deco library. There
David Sarnoff, CEO and president of advantage of the cultural resources of are cutting-edge exhibitions and “First
RCA Corporation Brooklyn and Manhattan, the Institute Saturday” events every month.
has created a number of partnerships
Tony Schwartz, creator of the award- with cultural institutions in the area. By The Brooklyn Academy of Music,
winning Alka-Seltzer commercial presenting a valid Pratt ID, students can popularly known as BAM, is in the van-
visit some of these institutions free of guard of theater offerings. In the opera
Robert Siegel, partner, Gwathmey Siegel, charge or at significantly reduced fees. house you can see productions ranging
architects for the Guggenheim from performance art, modern dance, and
addition; elected to College of Fellows In immediate proximity to the campus 21st-century operas and symphonies to
is the scenic Brooklyn Botanic Garden. stylized productions of Shakespeare and
Harry Simmons, principal, Simmons It contains the Japanese Hill-and-Pond other classical plays. BAM’s movie theater
Architects, Brooklyn; formerly Garden, one of the most impressive Japa- features foreign films, documentaries, and
associate architect on the AT&T nese gardens outside Japan. It captures boutique films. Pratt students can attend
building in New York City with nature in miniature: trees and shrubs, special productions and discussions with
Philip Johnson carefully dwarfed and shaped by cloud artists at discounted rates. They also have
pruning, are surrounded by hills, a pond, the opportunity to work on collabora-
Pat Steir, contemporary painter and forest-size trees. The Steinhart Con- tive projects with some of the companies
and printmaker servatory, which is surrounded by the Lily appearing at BAM.
Pool Terrace, features some 5,000 bushes
Tucker Viemeister, designer of of 1,200 varieties of Cranford Roses in A short subway ride to Manhattan
aviator sunglasses season. Each month, magnificent expres- delivers you to the Museum of Modern
sions of nature may be found Art, which houses a world-class collection
Max Weber, modernist painter on the grounds. of modern art. You can see works by Pablo
Picasso, Thomas Hart Benton, Jack-
Robert Wilson, painter, sculptor, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, another son Pollock, Helen Frankenthaler, and
author, designer, and director of nearby cultural institution, has an impres- Georgia O’Keeffe, and the photographs of
nearly 100 theater, opera, dance, sive permanent collection of Egyptian, Ansel Adams and Alfred Stieglitz.
film, and video compositions classical, and ancient Middle Eastern art.
The Egyptian art collection is one of the In Manhattan, you’ll want to also visit
world’s finest. The painting and sculp- the Museum of Arts and Design, another
ture collection includes European and of Pratt’s partners. It contains an impres-
American works from the 14th century sive collection of contemporary, national,
to the present. The museum’s Asian art and international craftsmanship.
collection, though modest in size, is one
of the more diverse and comprehensive Right: The Juliana Curran Terian Design Center, named
winner of the 2010 Brooklyn Building Award by the Brooklyn
Chamber of Commerce, and home of Pratt’s programs
in interior, fashion, industrial, and communications design.



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Study Abroad Programs graduate architecture florence summer program
in turkey with the saci school of art

Pratt’s Study Abroad programs combine Students visit and study urban conditions, Now in its ninth year, Florence 2012 will
the Institute’s academic excellence with historical monuments, and archaeological inspire and enlighten students with its
firsthand exposure to some of the most sites in Istanbul and surrounding regions. six-credit program (two 3-credit courses) 
vibrant European centers in art, design, This course provides firsthand experience in partnership with SACI: 1) Florentine
and architecture.Studying abroad offers analyzing architecture, cultural forces, Art and Culture: Museum and Library
a unique opportunity to sharpen your and site conditions through architectural Resources and Documentation;
skills, increase your knowledge, and earn investigations. The course focuses on 2) Cultural Heritage Conservation.
academic credits. A blend of intensive international experience within the lens
site-specific study, studio work, lectures, of two significant factors of the 21st- london e-publishing summer
and field trips provides a complete theory- century metropolis: (rapid) change and school and bloomsbury
and-practice experience in the discipline heterogeneity in Istanbul. Students consult conference with ucl-dis
of your choice. existing ecological, urban, and historic
data in order to evaluate and represent Students have the opportunity to work
Whether you choose to explore the information from the unique architectural at the UK’s most prestigious and highly-
classic monuments of ancient Rome; perspective.This class will track systemic rated school for information science—
study with cutting-edge Scandinavian change and heterogeneity from past to University College London, Department
design professionals at the Danish present in order to understand the shifting of Information Studies (UCL-DIS)—and
Institute for Study Abroad in Copen­ heterogeneity that defines Istanbul and to study under UCL’s world-renowned
hagen; immerse yourself in high the surrounding region. Path methodology faculty, culminating with attendance at
Renaissance art in Lucca; journey across techniques will be utilized to study topics the exciting Bloomsbury Conference.
time periods in Venice; take six credits including water quality, aquatic life, water
in Florentine art and culture at SACI in edge/coastline configuration, waterfront architecture in rome
Florence; go on a study tour of design programming/land-use, waterfront
from Barcelona to Paris; or visit London, architecture, waterfront “practices of The School of Architecture offers two
Milan, and Paris for their haute couture everyday life,” land-cover, and urban advanced programs for students to study
expertise, your creative abilities and form. Individual patches will contain architecture in Rome: a spring semester-
inspiration will be significantly enhanced. information stretching across these long program for fourth-year students
To receive credit for study abroad courses, topics and will expose relational qualities combining architecture and Italian
Pratt students obtain prior approval from between them and allow for potential culture studies and a summer month-long
their department heads. Degree students projections for the future. (June) program for graduate students.
from other institutions obtain approval The encounter with the city, a place
from their home institution in order to foreign and yet familiar, profound and
transfer credit. For more information on contradictory, is intended to stimulate a
individual programs, contact the Center reconsideration of design priorities. The
for Continuing and Professional Studies at investigation of the remains of antiquity
718-636-3453, email at prostudy@pratt. and Rome’s specific artifacts and urban
edu, or visit our website at www.pratt.edu.

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structures can offer a unique lesson: the glass, and interior design from the Royal pratt in tuscany
interaction of physical cause and cultural Academy, University of Copenhagen,
effect on the built environment, and and Danish Design School. Seven-week For six weeks in June and July, Pratt
its cumulative presence through time. programs, all of which run concurrently Institute offers painting, drawing, art
Special field trips to the northern and from early July to mid-August, include education, and photography courses
southern regions expand on the depth and wonderful study tours to Sweden, in the great Tuscan cities of Lucca and
range of the historical sites and subjects Finland, and Western Denmark. Florence. This program is designed to
during the semester. allow students to broaden their education
fashion design in europe: through firsthand exposure to traditional
The faculty is composed of a select london, paris, and milan and contemporary Italian culture. Studio
group of historians, archaeologists, courses in painting and drawing are held
artists, architects, and educators presently The Fashion in Europe program takes in the beautiful private studios within
residing in Rome. They, together with a students to Europe’s fashion centers— the walled city of Lucca. Students are
visiting New York critic or critics, oversee London, Paris, and Milan. Students get a able to develop work independently as
the design studios. The spring program thorough overview of the fashion industry well as participate in class critiques. Art
offers 18 credits, of which 10 are required in these key European cities. Through education is in collaboration with Lucca
in studio design, urban studies, and on-site visits to famous couture designers’ students. Photography is taught in state-
freehand drawing. Five additional credits ateliers, ready-to-wear houses, couture of-the-art facilities in nearby Florence.
are in Renaissance, Baroque, and modern fabric mills, accessory houses, couture Field trips during the program include
art and architectural history, and three beading houses, and fashion institutions, the medieval city of Bologna, the Pietra
credits are in Italian language, culture, and students become familiar with how Santa marble yards and bronze casting
film. The summer program, which takes fashion is created in these countries. City foundries, and the Gori Foundation of
place in June, offers three graduate credits. tours provide students with a greater Contemporary Sculpture.
cultural understanding. Prospective
architecture and design fashion visits include the following: in pratt in venice
in copenhagen London, Vivienne Westwood, Alexander
McQueen, Julien McDonald, Hussein In the evocative city of Venice, students
A beautiful, vibrant, hospitable city, Chalayan, Matthew Williamson, and may take courses in Printmaking/
Copenhagen is Europe’s best-kept Antonio Berardi; in Paris, Jean Charles Drawing, Painting, the Art History of
secret. Enjoy contact with cutting- Castelbajac, Lanvin, Christian Dior, Venice, and the Materials and Techniques
edge Scandinavian design, and Thierry Mugler, Jeremy Scott, Givenchy, of Venetian art. Pratt’s program is
study within curricula that combine Hermès, and Lesage; in Milan, Dolce and conducted in collaboration with the
challenging interdisciplinary studio Gabbana, Missoni, Bybios Gianfranco Università Internazionale dell’Arte at
work with investigation and analysis Ferre, and Ratti Fabrics. the Villa Heriott, Venice, and the Scuola
of contemporary society, politics, and Internazionale di Grafica. With its rich
environment. The seven-week programs artistic history and visual appeal, Venice
offer nine graduate or undergraduate provides inspiration for this multifaceted
credits and are taught in English by program. Drawing, printmaking, and
masters in the fields of architecture, painting courses involve studio and on-site
furniture design, textiles, ceramics,

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work, lectures, critiques, instruction, and Sustainability and conserving energy. This program
field trips.\The art history classes are held helps move our campus closer to our goal
at various sites and alternate with lectures Pratt Institute is taking a leadership to be carbon neutral.
that provide a historical context for the role in sustainability for schools of art,
visits. Graduate students may register for design, and architecture nationwide. Each year our campus is working to
Materials and Techniques of Venetian At this critical moment, when our reduce our carbon footprint, “greening”
Art, in which students visit restoration environment and ways of life are at our dorms, facilities, and classrooms and
laboratories and learn about master risk, we have a responsibility to ensure creating on ongoing, living laboratory
techniques from conservation experts. that each of our graduates has a deep from which our students can observe,
awareness of ecology, environmental participate, and experiment. Pratt’s
“Pratt was teaching issues, and social justice. Regardless of approach harnesses our extensive
sustainability before the discipline, our graduates must be able resources to a diverse and vibrant pool of
word was invented.” to integrate best sustainable practices talent in a world city that has taken the
into their professional lives. Within each lead in sustainability. At Pratt, we educate
—S e ba st i a n Lou A m b rog i o, program, Pratt students are offered an design students about the ecological
B. Arch. ’76, Vice President, opportunity to learn to think in new ways impacts of their profession. The Pratt
Global Engineering, Pfizer Inc. about the relationship of designer to experience cultivates and refines clarity
product, architect to built environment, of purpose in each of our students and
and artist to creative expression. Students asks them to use their creative talent to
throughout the Institute are encouraged design a sustainable future.
to move outside of their majors, across
disciplines, to work together in intensive Pratt has been recognized by The
studios that focus on environmental Princeton Review and the USGBC as one
issues. These studios are structured, of the 311 “Green Colleges” and has made
collaborative experiences that focus the following institutional commitments:
on one of the most critical issue of our
time—the protection of our planet from ▶▶ PlaNYC: mayoral challenge to
the effects of global warming. reduce our greenhouse gases by 30
percent by 2017.
At the same time that Pratt’s students
are challenged to develop the skills and ▶▶ ACUPCC: American College and
sensibilities to creatively and successfully University President’s Climate
meet the challenges they will face as Commitment
they enter their professional lives, we ask
them to consider “greening” their own ▶▶ I n 2010 Pratt founded PALS,
lifestyle. Peer-to-peer student groups help Partnership for Academic
students choose healthier, more earth Leadership on Sustainability, which
friendly products, maximizing the use of has 33 member schools.
materials and recycling to reduce waste See http://pratt.edu/pals.

▶▶ 2010 Imperative: to ensure that
ecological literacy becomes a central
tenet of design education

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center for sustainable The Incubator provides ambitious ac creditation statement
design studies and students and Pratt alumni with a
research (csds): education, stimulating place to launch businesses. Pratt Institute is a coeducational undergraduate and
exploration, enterprise It provides office space, planning graduate institution chartered and empowered to
support, and access to shop facilities. confer academic degrees by the State of New York. The
CSDS is an active and collaborative Its open office plan stimulates communi­ certificates and degrees conferred are registered by
resource for sustainable design at Pratt’s cation, support, and collabor­ ation. The the New York State Department of Education. Pratt is
Brooklyn campus. It provides educational Incubator works with for-profit and accredited by the Commission on Higher Education
resources for our faculty and students who non-profit entities to integrate sustainable of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools,
are interested in integrating ecological strategies into real world projects. See 3624 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, 215-662-5606.
design best practices into their works. http://incubator.pratt.edu. The Commission on Higher Education is an institutional
CSDS offers access to a sustainable accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Secretary
materials library, research methods, and of Education and the Commission on Recognition of
case studies of sustainable design projects Postsecondary Accreditation.
and products.Our “Interns for Change”
learn to research, write, and document by Programs in art and design are accredited by the National
producing videos, information graphics, Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD).
and lectures on sustainable design
concepts that are published on the CSDS The School of Architecture’s Bachelor of Architecture
website giving our students access to the program is accredited by the National Architectural
critical edge of environmental design. Accrediting Board. (For more information on NAAB
The CSDS website offers a comprehensive accreditation, refer to the School of Architecture section.
virtual tour of sustainability initiatives at Pratt is a charter member of and accredited by the
Pratt. See http://csds.pratt.edu. National Association of Schools of Art and Design.
The B.F.A. in Interior Design is accredited by the Council
pratt design incubator for for Interior Design Accreditation (formerly FIDER).
sustainable innovation
The Master in Library and Information Science program
The Pratt Design Incubator for is accredited by the Committee on Accreditation of the
Sustainable Innovation is a vibrant and American Library Association.
energetic group of creative professionals
working to link sustainability to The Master in Art Therapy is approved by the Education
enterprise. It provides a place for Approval Board of the American Art Therapy Association,
designers, artists, and architects to Inc., and as such meets the education standards of the
actively participate in world-changing art therapy profession. The Graduate Dance/Movement
projects and become a part of a growing Therapy program has been approved by the American
network of people who share a common Dance Therapy Association.
belief—that economic sustainability
must also account for our world’s Programs offered by Art and Design Education and the M.S.
environmental and social well-being. for Library Media Specialists (LMS) offered by the School
of Information and Library Science are accredited by RATE.

The BFA offered by the Interior Design department is
accredited by the Council for Interior Design Accreditation
(formerly FIDER).



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Studies in the School of Architecture gather from the arts, dean
sciences, and liberal arts to produce works of value that are
sensitive to the realities of life in the cultures of the world. Thomas Hanrahan
Graduates are imbued with strong ethics and an understanding
of architects’ ability to improve the quality of life. assistants to the dean

As a result, they know how to build, what The post-professional Master of Kurt Everhart
to build for whom, and how to enhance Science in Architecture (M.S. Arch.) is Pamela Gill
the surrounding environment, in the city a 36-credit, three-semester (summer,
or country, in a public works project or a fall, spring) program for those who hold director of production labs
private home. an accredited five-year Bachelor’s of
Architecture or the equivalent. A thesis is Mark Parsons
The Graduate Architecture and completed in the final semester.
Urban Design programs offer three office
graduate degrees—one professional and The post-professional Master of
two post-professional. Architecture and Urban Design is a Higgins Hall North, 1st Floor
33-credit, three-semester (summer, Tel: 718-399-4304  |  Fax: 718-399-4315
The first-professional Master of fall, spring) program for those who [email protected]
Architecture (M. Arch.) degree is an hold an accredited five-year Bachelor’s www.pratt.edu/arch
84-credit, three-year professional degree of Architecture or the equivalent. A
program for students holding a four- culmination project is completed in the architecture
year undergraduate degree in any field. final semester.
This program prepares students to take urban design
the architectural licensing exam and to Students in the M.S. Arch. and the
become practicing architects. Students Urban Design programs are encouraged programs for sustainable
may also receive advanced standing for to develop specialized areas of research. planning and development
pursuing further graduate studies.
city and regional planning

urban environmental
systems management

facilities management

historic preservation

Left: Erik Thorson

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The School of Architecture is the United States.The opportunity to Students are further exposed to the
dedicated to maintaining the connection learn from peers is also an exciting part of professional world through optional
between design theory and practice and the educational experience at Pratt. Post- internship programs that place them
to extending the range of knowledge professional degree students come from a in outstanding New York architectural
necessary to fully understand the built wide range of architectural practice, and firms, public agencies, and nonprofit
environment. The diversity of programs first-professional degree students come design institutions, giving them firsthand
within the school, and the accessibility from diverse fields of undergraduate work experience as well as credit toward
of other programs within the Institute, study. The student body includes many their professional degrees.
enables students to pursue a wide range international students, each of whom
of interests within the field. Architecture brings a different perspective to the study The School of Architecture’s mission
students may take electives in fine arts, of architecture. The school encourages is to educate the future leaders of the
illustration, computer graphics, industrial transfer students to apply and will design disciplines in the professional
design, furniture design, interior design, evaluate credits from other colleges, fields of architecture, urban design, city
and photography, as well as electives in universities, or community colleges. and regional planning, construction
advanced architectural theory, design, and facilities management, and historic
technology, and management. The School of Architecture preservation. This effort builds upon a
demonstrates daily that learning does not strong context of professional education
The school’s location in New York City occur solely within the classroom. This within an art and design institute
allows students immediate and frequent is reflected in the annual undergraduate that stresses the relationship between
access to the city’s resources. The graduate and graduate lecture series, which brings intellectual development and creative
programs also have excellent internal some of the most influential architects activity. The school provides a broad
resources: a strong faculty, good facilities, in the world to campus; the Center cultural and intellectual base in the
and a developing research network that for Experimental Structures; exhibits liberal arts and sciences while providing
connects the department and its students by students and faculty that fill three the specialized knowledge unique to
to serious national and international galleries on a regular basis; and the study individual disciplines. The importance of
work in the field. This network brings abroad programs in Italy and France. The lifelong learning is emphasized through
distinguished visitors to speak to school publication, InProcess, documents studio-based curricula and research-
graduate students in a research forum; student work throughout the year. oriented thesis programs.
invites visiting faculty to teach studios,
workshops, and seminars; and forges Pratt’s Center for Community
extensive and thoughtful connections Development, formerly PICCED, one
with international cities and throughout of the oldest community advocacy and
technical assistance organizations in the
United States, gives students additional
opportunities to work on real-life projects.

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highest professional standards The NAAB grants candidacy status admission requirements
to new programs that have developed Please refer to the Admissions section.
In the United States, most state viable plans for achieving initial
registration boards require a degree accreditation. Candidacy status indicates student work
from an accredited professional degree that a program should be accredited The School of Architecture reserves
program as a prerequisite for licensure. within six years of achieving candidacy, the right to temporarily retain during
The National Architectural Accrediting if its plan is properly implemented. the academic year, for exhibition and
Board (NAAB), which is the sole agency classroom purposes, representative work
authorized to accredit U.S. professional The School of Architecture offers of any student enrolled in its programs.
degree programs in architecture, graduate degrees in accredited and
recognizes two types of degrees: the nonaccredited programs. The M. Arch. “In 1980, Pratt was wonderful
Bachelor of Architecture and the Master first professional degree program is a in many of the same ways
of Architecture. A program may be three-year professional program. The it is wonderful now. The
granted a five-year, three-year, or two- program is accredited by NAAB in 2010. professors I had talked about
year term of accreditation, depending The M.S. Arch. and Urban Design the values in architecture:
on its degree of conformance with programs are post-professional and offer the importance of space,
established educational standards. a three-semester Master’s degree in proportion, and light. And
Architecture and Urban Design.Post- those are values that I hold
Master’s degree programs may consist professional programs in the United dearly to this day.”
of a pre-professional undergraduate States are not accredited by the NAAB.
degree and a post-professional graduate Pratt’s Graduate Planning Program is
degree, which, when earned sequentially, accredited by the Planning Accreditation
constitute an accredited professional Board and offers a two-year Master of
education. The pre-professional degree is Science degree in City and Regional
not, by itself, recognized as an accredited Planning. The Facilities Management
degree, however. program is non-accredited and offers a
two-year Master of Science degree in
Facilities Management.

—A nnabe lle S elldo rf,
B. A rch . ’85,
Founding principal,
Selldorf Architects



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Graduate Architecture
and Urban Design

The mission of the Graduate Architecture and Urban Design seminars. Faculty and students in both
programs come from national and inter-
(GAUD) programs is twofold. For the first-professional degree national backgrounds.

program, students develop expertise to engage and lead A developing research area within

complex architectural projects in the professional practice GAUD is the Network for Emerging
of architecture through the exploration and development of Architectural Research (NEAR), which
connects the department to national
substantive methods of design and inquiry across the discipline. and international work. Commensurate
with the complexities of the 21st cen-
For the post-professional programs both in architecture and in tury, NEAR expands beyond traditional
urban design, the mission is to expand a student’s established limitations of academic research, and

professional education into new forms of thinking, types of establishes a space for experimentation
practices, and areas of expertise. In all cases, each program and development in academia, industries,
promotes a student’s lifelong relationship with his or her field. and public institutions.

The Graduate Architecture programs

at Pratt Institute’s School of Architec-

Students in GAUD are immersed in an are engaged in the design of contempo- ture contribute to the progressive design

exploratory design-studio culture. The rary experimental architectural projects environment for advanced architectural

three distinct degrees within the two and the integration of academically rigor- research located in New York City. The

programs—Architecture and Urban ous seminar courses in history and theory, school’s New York City location provides

Design—share coursework, students, computer media, and technology. immediate and frequent access to the

faculty, and events, thus allowing each The Graduate Architecture programs city’s extensive range of creative oppor-

program to draw upon the other’s perspec- have a diverse faculty of distinguished tunities. The international study abroad

tives and expertise. This mix supports the educators and practicing architects, programs extend the investigation of the

ability to integrate diverse theoretical and excellent facilities, and trans-disciplinary city to Rome and Istanbul with concen-

technical knowledge in speculative design connections with the well-known art and trated seminars looking at both cities and

work while emphasizing critical think- design departments of Pratt Institute. their unique contributions to architecture

ing/critical making. Students and faculty Distinguished visitors present their work and urbanity.

Left: Hannibal Newson, Mina Rafiee, Wei Xin, Michelle to graduate students on a regular basis
Fowler, Paulina Hospod in research forums, guest studios, and



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Architecture

Architecture is a cultural act. Both the first-professional chair
and post-professional programs seek to formulate a
contemporary approach to architecture that is “ecological” William MacDonald
in the sense that it provides collective exchanges that
are both trans-disciplinary and trans-categorical. This assistant chair
ecological approach encourages feedback, theoretical studies,
and exposure to myriad other categories and disciplines Philip Parker
that are newly emerging in contemporary culture. It
also helps students develop relationships with industry, program coordinators
manufacturing, and political agencies. This approach seeks
to intensify hetero­geneous interests and agencies. In Alexandra Barker,
addition, the programs see architectural innovations in both Master of Architecture
theory and practice of architecture and the interconnected Jason Vigneri-Beane,
phenomena out of which the discipline emerges. Master of Science, Architecture
Maria Sieira,
Left: Left: Andri Klausen, Jeffrey Johnson; Right Top: Andri Architecture History/Theory
Klausen, Jeffrey Johnson; Right Middle Top: Jonathan Radhi Majmudhar, Technology
Alexander, Nick Tran; Right Middle Bottom: Jonathan Christopher Whitelaw, Media
Alexander, Nick Tran; Right Bottom: Jonathan Alexander,
Nick Tran assistants to the chair

Erin Murphy
Erika Schroeder

office

Tel: 718-399-4314  |  Fax: 718-399-4379
[email protected]
www.pratt.edu/academics/architecture

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The Graduate Architecture program master of science, architecture
offers two degrees: Master of Architecture ( p o s t- p ro f e s s i o n a l )
(M. Arch.) (first-professional), and
Master of Science (M.S.) in architecture The 36-credit, three-semester (summer,
(post-professional). fall, spring) post-professional program
aims to expand a student’s previously
master of architecture established professional education into
( f i r s t- p ro f e s s i o n a l ) new forms of thinking and practice.
Open to students holding a five-year (B.
The Master of Architecture, a first- Arch.) or equivalent (M. Arch.) degree
professional degree, is a NAAB accredited in architecture, the program helps
84-credit, three-year program that students develop a lifelong relationship
maintains a mission to train students as to their specific interests in architecture.
leaders in the professional practice of All students are exposed to relevant
architecture with substantive methods issues through rigorous history and
of design and inquiry. The program is theory electives, lectures by prominent
intended for students holding a four-year scholars, computer-technology courses
undergraduate, non-professional degree in emphasizing critical thinking, and studios
any field. This program aims to establish a requiring integration of theoretical and
student’s professional education with new technical knowledge. The program begins
forms of thinking and practice and to help with an intensive summer semester
students develop a lifelong relationship to concentrating in design, digital media,
their respective fields. and theory. The second semester’s
advanced option studios are integrated
Core design studios and seminars with those taken by the master of
in history and theory, computer media, architecture (first-professional) students.
and building technologies in the first The culmination of the program is a
three semesters prepare students for the thesis project on a student-developed
comprehensive architecture project in the specialized area of research.
fourth semester. This combined design
and integrated building-systems course
integrates all related disciplines into the
single project. The final two semesters
are dedicated to advanced-option studios
and seminars where students can explore
a range of options within all four areas of
the curriculum.

Right: Nima Farzaneh

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Sutton; Right: Sean Madigan; Bottom Row: Left, Middle: Philip Jenkin;
Right: Victoria Maceira

Top Row: Left: Antonis Charalambous; Top Row: Middle: Ryan Griffin;
Top Row: Right: Sidika Merchant; Middle Row: Left, Middle, Right:
Michele Zanella; Bottom Row: Left: Reynolds Diaz Jr., Chris Dorey;
Bottom Row: Middle: Nima Farzaneh

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Architecture Faculty

Vito Acconci Alisa Andrasek Carlos Arnaiz

Adjunct Associate Professor Visiting Assistant Professor Adjunct Associate Professor
B.A., College of the Holy Cross; M.F.A.,Writers’ Workshop, M.S., Advanced Architectural Design, Columbia B.A., Philosophy, Williams College; M. Arch., Harvard
University of Iowa; his design and architecture come University; University of Zagreb; director of BIOTHING University; an associate partner at Stan Allen Architect;
from another direction: a background first in writing and an experimental practitioner of architecture and previously worked for Office dA in Cambridge, Field
and then in art. By the late ’80s his work had crossed computation; BIOTHING’s work is in the permanent Operations and Bumpzoid Architects in New York, and
over, and he formed Acconci Studio, whose operations collection of the Centre Pompidou in Paris and as a founding principal for RUF studio in New York. His
come from computer thinking and mathematical and FRAC Collection in Orleans; awards: Metropolis Next experience at these offices has ranged from high-level
biological models. Acconci Studio treats architecture Generation Award, 2005, and FEIDAD Award, 2004; strategic planning for cities around the world to project
as an occasion for activity and making spaces fluid, recent exhibitions include “Transitory Objects TB-A21” design and construction documentation on commercial
changeable, and portable. The Studio is currently in Vienna, “Elles” at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and residential projects. At Field Operations, he
working on a three-story building in Milan, a bridge- a maze at FRAC Orleans, “Synathroisis” in Athens; served as project manager and lead designer on the
system and park near Delft, and an amphitheater “Scripted by Purpose” in Philadelphia, Seroussi pavilion transformation of a 650-acre plot of land in the middle
in Stavanger, and has other projects in Toronto and in Paris, “Ars Mathematica” in Paris, the 2003 Prague of San Juan, Puerto Rico, into the island’s largest
Indianapolis. Biennale, the 2004 Sydney Biennial, Architectural and most important Botanical Garden. He led the
Biennial Beijing 2004, 2006, and 2008, and the New development of all aspects of the project including the
Nick Agneta, AIA Museum, N.Y., among others. creation of an expanded river corridor along one of
San Juan’s principal waterways. His academic research
Visiting Assistant Professor Philip Anzalone has focused on the ongoing relationship between
B. Arch., Cooper Union; R.A., New York State; member, ornament and structure in design. While at Harvard,
Queens Chapter American Institute of Architects; Visiting Assistant Professor he collaborated with Peter Rowe on a number of
architect and construction manager in the NYC M. Arch., Columbia University; B.P.S. Architecture, SUNY research projects investigating innovative solutions in
metropolitan area; awards and honors: Suffolk County Buffalo; director of the Building Technologies Sequence the planning and management of contemporary urban
9/11 Memorial Competition, First Place; Alabama and director of the Avery Digital Fabrication Laboratory, regions. He has served on juries at various institutions
School of Fine Arts Competition, Second Place; Graduate School of Architecture, Columbia University; in the U.S.A. including Harvard, Princeton, and the
achieved licensure with New York State in 1986; has registered architect with experience as a curtain wall University of Pennsylvania, where he taught advanced
taught at New York University and New York Institute consultant for R. A. Heintges & Associates and an studios in the Landscape Architecture Program from
of Technology and is the technical director for Nelligan architectural designer with Greg Lynn Form; currently 2002 to 2004.
White Architects in New York, N.Y.; currently teaches a partner of aa64; published in ArchitectureWeek,
professional practice and is IDP coordinator at Pratt. ACADIA, ACSA, and the International Journal of Kutan Ayata
Architectural Computing..
Adjunct Assistant Professor
M. Arch., Princeton; B.F.A., Architecture, Massachusetts
College of Art, Boston; partner/co-director of
Young & Ayata, a practice dedicated to both building

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commissions and experimental research and setting Meta Brunzema Cristobal Correa
out to explore novel formal and organizational
possibilities in architecture and urbanism. Previously, Adjunct Assistant Professor; Coordinator, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Kutan worked at Reiser + Umemoto, where he was the M.S., Architecture and Urban Design B.S.C.E., Universidad de Chile; M.S.C.E., Massachusetts
lead project architect for the O-14 Tower in Dubai and M. Arch., Columbia University; principal of Meta Institute of Technology; associate principal, Buro
performed as a senior designer in a number of projects Brunzema Architect P.C., an award-winning Happold, New York office; joined Buro Happold in 1998
and competition entries; awards: Suzanne Kolarik architecture and urban design practice that addresses and now manages teams in the structural engineering
Underwood Thesis Prize. contemporary spatial, environmental, and socio- division, dealing with, among other things, tension
political challenges in innovative ways; the firm structures, long-span structures, and façades; notable
Alexandra Barker specializes in carbon-neutral design; current projects projects include the Crystal Bridges Museum of
include “Park Avenue Market Mile” in N.Y.C. and “River American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas; the Arena das
Adjunct Assistant Professor; Coordinator, Pool” in Beacon, N.Y. Brunzema is a LEED(R) accredited Dunas in Natal, Brazil; and the Roppongi Canopies in
M. Architecture professional. Roppongi, Japan; serves as a member of the board of
B.A., Harvard University; M. Arch., Harvard University; the Structural Engineers Association of New York.
has coordinated the MARCH program since 2001; Theo Calvin
grants: (with Catherine Ingraham) NCARB grant to Theo David
create a seminar integrating practice and the academy; Visiting Instructor
(with Nico Kienzl) FIPSE/CSDS grant to integrate B.A., Art History, Rice University; B.Arch., Rice University; Professor
sustainable practices into the GAUD curriculum; is M.S. Advanced Architectural Design, Columbia B. Arch., Pratt Institute; M. Arch., Yale University;
a principal of Barker Freeman Design Office, a New University; interdisciplinary designer and teacher practicing architect in New York City and Nicosia,
York practice employing material research, fabrication focused on the use of computation as a design medium; Cyprus; studied under Paul Rudolph at Yale; tenured
technologies, and system design as generative tools in earlier in his career created work for Venturi Scott professor, former faculty president, and chair of
the development of multivalent spatial solutions. Brown and Assoc, Gensler, Wired Magazine, Verizon graduate architecture; has been awarded the 2009
Wireless, and others; currently a principal designer for Cyprus Architects Association Prize in Architecture, the
Stéphanie Bayard Frog Design in New York. 2001 Cyprus State Architecture Award, the New York
City Bard Honor Award, NYSAIA Design Award, and
Adjunct Assistant Professor Robert Cervellione was nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award; his
M.S., Advanced Architectural Design, Columbia work as an architect/educator has been exhibited and
University; Dipl. Arch Paris La Villette; teaches design Visiting Instructor published worldwide.
studio and urban design seminars; previously taught B. Arch., Architecture, Roger Williams University;
at Ohio State and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; M. Arch., Architecture, Pratt Institute; principal of Manuel DeLanda
founded aa64 with Phillip Anzalone, as an experimental CERVER Design Studio, a multidisciplinary practice
practice focusing on design, digital fabrication, and utilizing leading edge methodologies with advanced Adjunct Professor
material construction in the United States and Europe; computational systems; actively involved in research B.F.A., School of Visual Arts; has authored five
their work has been published and exhibited at the AIA that is focused on the advancement of digital philosophy books: War in the Age of Intelligent
NY Center for Architecture. fabrication and computational geometry; has worked Machines (1991), A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History
for influential architects and designers creating work (1997), Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy (2002),
Karen Brandt of the highest quality that garners international A New Philosophy of Society (2006), and Philosophy,
recognition; has also taught at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles Emergence, and Simulation (2009); also teaches at
Visiting Instructor and the University of Michigan. the University of Pennsylvania, SCI-Arc in Los Angeles,
B. Arch., University of California, Berkeley; M. Arch., and holds the Gilles Deleuze chair at the European
Harvard University; registered architect and senior Steven Chang, AIA Graduate School in Switzerland.
associate at R.A. Heintges & Associates, a firm
specializing in custom building envelope and curtain Adjunct Assistant Professor Hernan Diaz Alonso
wall design. B. Arch., University of California, Berkeley; Eisner Prize in
Architecture; a senior associate at Polshek Partnership Adjunct Assistant Professor
Architects, who has worked as a senior designer/ M.S., Advanced Architectural Design, Columbia
project architect on numerous cultural and institutional University; Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina;
projects, including the New York Botanical Garden and considered one of the most influential voices in his
the Brooklyn Museum; also has worked in construction generation, he has been a studio design and visual
as a carpenter and traveled extensively while working at arts professor at SCI-Arc, Columbia University, and at
architecture offices in Portugal, Germany, and Korea. Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien; principal and

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founder of Xefirotarch Architecture, an award-winning Matthew Herman Mitchell Joachim
design office in architecture, product, and digital motion
based in Los Angeles. Visiting Assistant Professor Associate Professor
B. Arch., Syracuse University; M. Arch., University B.P.S., SUNY, Buffalo; M. Arch., Columbia University;
Deborah Gans of Pennsylvania; has been an architect with Burro M.A.U.D., Harvard University; Ph.D., Massachusetts
Happold, among other firms. Institute of Technology; a leader in ecological design
Associate Professor and urbanism and a co-founder of Terreform ONE
B.A., Harvard University; M. Arch., Princeton University; Alicia Imperiale and Terrefuge; also an associate professor at NYU and
design work has been published and exhibited at IFA previously was the Frank Gehry Chair at University
Paris, RIBA London, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Visiting Assistant Professor of Toronto; previously served on faculty at Columbia,
Venice Biennial; currently engaged in a community- B. Arch., Pratt Institute; M. Arch., Ph.D. candidate, Syracuse, Washington, and Parsons;  formerly an
based project in New Orleans funded initially by HUD Princeton; M.F.A., CUNY Hunter College; work focuses on architect at Gehry Partners, and Pei Cobb Freed;
and in a master plan for The Graham School, Hastings- the impact of digital technologies on art, architecture, recipient of fellowships at TED2010, Moshe Safdie
on-Hudson, New York; publications include The Le representation, and fabrication; publications include Assoc., and Martin Society for Sustainability at MIT;
Corbusier Guide, now in its third edition; The Organic Flatness: Surface Tension in Digital Architecture winner of the History Channel and Infiniti Excellence
Approach; and, most recently, Extreme Sites: Greening (Birkhauser, 2000), “SKIN: Surface, Substance and Award for City of the Future, and Time Magazine Best
the Brownfield. Design,” “Smooth Bodies,” “Fluid Alliances: Architecture, Invention of 2007, Compacted Car w/ MIT Smart
Politics and Fetish Post 9/11,” and “Seminal Space: Cities; his project, Fab Tree Hab, has been exhibited at
James Garrison Getting under the Digital Skin,” in RE: SKIN, (MIT Press, MoMA and widely published; he was chosen by Wired
2006); co-curator of the exhibit “Clip, Stamp, Fold: The magazine for “The 2008 Smart List: 15 People the Next
Adjunct Associate Professor Architecture of Little Magazines, 196X-197X.” President Should Listen To”;  Rolling Stone magazine
B. Arch., Syracuse University; principal, Garrison honored him in “The 100 People Who Are Changing
Architects. Catherine Ingraham America”; in 2009 he was interviewed on the Colbert
Report; and Popular Science magazine has featured his
Erik Ghenoiu Adjunct Professor work as a visionary for “The Future of the Environment”
B.A., St. John’s College; M.A., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins in 2010.
Visiting Assistant Professor University; chair of Graduate Architecture, Pratt
B.A. Geography (cultural), Clark University, M.A. History Institute, 1999–2005; editor, Assemblage, 1991–98 Robert Kearns
of Art and Architecture, Harvard University; and (with Marco Diani) of Restructuring Architectural
M.S. Geography (urban), University of Wisconsin Theory; author, Architecture, Animal, Human; Visiting Assistant Professor
Madison; Ph.D. Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Architecture and the Burdens of Linearity; and over 50 B.A.E., Penn State University; M. A. E., Penn State
and Urban Planning, Harvard University; works on published articles on architectural theory and history; University; educational background emphasized
architecture, design, and urban planning of the 19th recipient of New York State Council on the Arts grant, integration of building engineering disciplines with
and 20th centuries, with particular focus on Germany Canadian Center for Architecture research fellowship, architectural design and sustainability; has worked
and the United States; has taught at Pratt, Parsons, Graham Foundation grants, NEA grant, SOM research in construction in Singapore and Germany; joined
and the University of Wisconsin–Madison; has served fellowship, Chicago, and four MacDowell Colony Buro Happold’s New York office in 2003 as a graduate
as a fellow of several research institutes on both sides residencies; winner, Museum of Women’s History design engineer and is currently an associate; his work with
of the Atlantic and is currently involved in founding a competition; has given invited lectures, seminars, Buro Happold has explored various areas of building
new institute in Berlin; currently a co-editor and faculty and symposia at over 60 national and international power systems, energy-efficient lighting design, and
coordinator for GAUD’s Tarp publication. universities. alternative energies; experience with international
projects and architects has familiarized him with a vast
Jose Gonzales Hina Jamelle array of innovative design and construction practices.

Visiting Assistant Professor Visiting Assistant Professor Karel Klein
M.S. Advanced Architectural Design, Columbia B.A., Denison University; M.Arch., University of Michigan;
University; cofounder and principal, SOFTlab, a co-director and a principal architect at Contemporary Adjunct Associate Professor
design studio. Architecture Practice with Ali Rahim. B.S. Civil Engineering, B.S. Architecture, University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; M.Arch., Columbia
University; co-director of Ruy Klein; investigating
craft, precision, and the evolution of design expertise
in the digital age, she continues to foreground the

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persistence of the designer in contemporary culture; Craig Konyk Teresa Llorente
publications include GA Houses, New York Times
Magazine, and Architectural Record; registered Adjunct Assistant Professor Adjunct Assistant Professor
architect in New York State. B. Arch., Catholic University; M. Arch., University of B.E., Cooper Union; M.S., Columbia University; licensed
Virginia; principal, Konyk Architecture. professional engineer in New York State.
Carisima Koenig
David Christopher Kroner Carla Leitao
Visiting Instructor
B.A., Drake University; M. Arch., Iowa State University; Visiting Assistant Professor Adjunct Assistant Professor
senior associate and LEED-accredited professional B.S., Architecture Design, University of Virginia; M. Arch., M.S. Advanced Architectural Design, Columbia
practicing architecture at EYP Architects & Engineers; Columbia; senior designer at Dean/Wolf Architects University; Architecture School of Lisbon;
specializes in the renovation of modernist icons; her in New York City; teaches courses in a digital design architect (licensed in Europe), designer, and writer;
research interests include the evolving relationships sequence, focusing on fundamental and advanced co-founder, AUM Studio (architecture and multimedia)
between architecture, urbanism, and security from techniques in modeling, simulation, visualization, and Umasideia (architecture and engineering) in
modernism to contemporary practices; her work also analysis, scripting, and fabrication; has taught at Lisbon; projects include “Visibility” (UIA Celebration of
addresses gender, diversity, and politics in architecture. Columbia University GSAPP, the City College of New Cities competition, 2003, Lisbon, Portugal); “Suture,”
York, the University of Virginia, and at the National a multimedia installation; MAK Vertical Garden
Mehmet Ferda Kolatan Building Museum in Washington, D.C. (competition by invitation, 2006); awards include the
Akademie Schloss Solitude Fellowship, 2005.
Visiting Assistant Professor Sameer Kumar
M.S. Advanced Architectural Design, Columbia John Lobell
University; Arch. Dipl. (with distinction), RWTH Adjunct Assistant Professor
Aachen; founded SU11 architecture+design with Erich B. Arch., CEPT, Ahmedabad; M. Arch., University of Professor
Schoenenberger as an experimental architecture Pennsylvania; LEED-accredited professional; currently B. Arch., M. Arch., University of Pennsylvania; interests
practice in New York City; firm has since received at KPF Associates, working on projects in Hong Kong, include architecture, cultural theory, consciousness,
national and international acclaim and has been China, and India; previously worked for Heintges Buddhism, information theory, and generative
published widely; awards include Lucille Smyser as building envelope consultant with Studio Daniel genomics; recipient of several grants, including one
Lowenfish Memorial Prize and the Honor Award for Libeskind, Santiago Calatrava, Polshek Partnership, from the Graham Foundation; author of numerous
Excellence in Design, Columbia University. and other New York practices; worked for FTL Design articles and several books, including Between Silence
Engineering Studio and specialized in long-span, and Light: Spirit in the Architecture of Louis I. Kahn
Sulan Kolatan lightweight, and deployable structures; is a visiting critic (Shambhala, 2008); consults on metal fabrication with
at Columbia and Parsons. Milgo/Bufkin; director of research, Timeship.
Adjunct Professor
Diploma, Technische Hochschule Aachen Universitat; Franklin Lee Peter Macapia
M.S., Architecture and Building Design, Columbia
University; founded KOL/MAC Studio along with Visiting Instructor Adjunct Assistant Professor
William MacDonald, in New York City in 1988. Kolatan Dipl. and R.I.B.A Part 2, Architectural Association, B.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design; M.T.S., Harvard
and MacDonald have taught architecture as visiting London; M.S. Advanced Architectural Design, Columbia; University; M.A., Columbia University; M.Phil., Columbia
professors at Barnard College, Ohio State University, principal and cofounder, SUBdV in London with Anne University; Ph.D., Columbia University; his design
the University of Pennsylvania, Parsons School of Save de Beaurecueil. focuses on problems of computation, mathematics,
Design, University of Virginia, The Institute of Advanced the geometry and topology of matter/energy relations,
Architectural Studies in Basel, Switzerland, and Venice, Thomas Leeser and problems of urban density; publications include
Italy, and Columbia University. The Kolatan/Mac Donald Log, Monitor, Spread, and The Cambridge Journal
Studio primarily works with strangely shaped structures, Adjunct Associate Professor of Architecture; recipient of grants for research in
of housing and apartment blocks. Dubbed “Vertical Dipl. Ing. Architect; founder and principal, Leeser sustainability and design from Columbia University and
Urbanism,” the apartment structures are divided into Architecture, an internationally acclaimed studio, Pratt Institute; has taught and lectured internationally
pods that structurally conform to the addition and known as a pioneer in design that specializes in New York (Columbia and Pratt), Los Angeles
removal of other pods. in the inclusion of new media and digital technologies (SCI-Arc), Paris (ESA, Malaquais), Mexico City (UNAM),
in architecture. and Tokyo (TUS).

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William Mac Donald conceptual planning and proposal stages through the Signe Nielsen
entire design, engineering, and construction cycle,
Chair of Graduate Architecture and including staffing and facilities startup. Adjunct Professor
Urban Design B.A., Smith College; B.S.L.A., City College School of
M.Sc. Architecture and Urban Design, Columbia Rosalinda Malibiran Architecture; B.S., Pratt Institute; fellow, American
University; B. Arch., Syracuse University; attended the Society of Landscape Architects; principal, Mathews
Architectural Association in London; director, KOL/ Adjunct Associate Professor Nielsen Landscape Architects PC since 1979; vice
MAC, LLC, Architecture + Design, co-founded with B. Arch. Design, University of Florida; M. Arch., Columbia president, N.Y.C. Public Design Commission; recipient
Sulan Kolatan; has taught as professor, distinguished University; a visual effects artist working for Blue Sky of more than two dozen national design awards;
visiting professor, or visiting chair at the University Studios, who has worked on feature films such as Rio, co-author of three books—High Performance
of Virginia (as acting chair); Columbia University; IceAge: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Horton Hears a Who, Infrastructure Guidelines; Cool and Green Roof; and
the University of Pennsylvania; Southern California IceAge: The MeltDown, and Robots. Sustainable Site Design—and author of Sky Gardens.
Institute for Architecture; The Ohio State University;
City University of New York; University of California, Elliott Maltby Gregory Okshteyn, Assoc. AIA
Berkley; and Pratt Institute; academic and professional
honors and awards include the “40 under 40” award, Adjunct Associate Professor Adjunct Assistant Professor
Progressive Architecture awards, AIA design awards; B.A., Philosophy, Kenyon College; Master of Landscape B. Arch., Pratt Institute; M.S. Advanced Architectural
represented the U.S. in the U.S. national pavilion and Architecture, University of California-Berkeley; Design; GSAP Columbia University; founder and
for the international segment of the International interests include how art and design contribute to the president, Studios GO, Inc., a tight-knit group of young,
Architecture Bienniale in Venice; via KOL/MAC, success of the urban experiment; current highly trained designers and architects who place
has collaborated with various leading companies, research focuses on temporal and situational spatiality; innovative fabrication techniques in the service of
including DuPont, AI Implant of Biotech Industries, partner, thread collective, a multidisciplinary design contemporary design processes with close attention to
Alias, Merck Chemicals, Autodesk, C-TEK, ARUP AGU, firm that explores the seams between building, art, and function and social interaction; awards include VM+SD
DitlevFilms, Inc.; exhibited at MoMA, SFMoMA, Cooper- landscape; a broadly defined notion of sustainability, 2007 “Renovation of the Year” and 2000 Grand Prize:
Hewitt National Design Museum, Centre Georges existing site characteristics, and sensory experience U.S.A. Institute’s International Design Competition:
Pompidou, Barbican Art Gallery, Architekturmuseum, further inform the firm’s design process; has worked for Brooklyn Heights Promenade, N.Y.
Mori Contemporary Art Museum, 1st International five years with Mary Miss, one of the most influential
Architecture Biennial in Beijing, VITRA, Yale University, artists in the public realm. Philip Parker
and the FRAC; publications include The New York Times;
The Washington Post, CNN, Phaidon Press, Rizzoli, GA Benjamin Martinson Assistant Chair of Graduate Architecture
Houses, AD Magazine, Architectural Digest, ACTAR, and Urban Design, Adjunct Associate
Domus, Lotus International, Architectural Record; co- Visiting Instructor Professor
author, Lubricuous Architectures with Kari Andersen; Bachelor of Music, University of Colorado, Boulder; M. B. Design in Architecture, University of Florida; M. Arch.,
a comprehensive monograph titled KOL/MAC WORK Arch., Pratt Institute; worked for the New York office of Yale University; principal, Phillip Parker Architects, a
BOOK is currently in preparation for publication. Buro Happold as an intern; spent two years working for practice that spans scales from furniture and building
KOL/MAC, LLC, a digital design practice based in New components to urban parks; his projects on program,
Radhi Majmuder York and Istanbul; currently is working on starting his matter, city, and texts have been exhibited, published,
own design firm with small projects in Portland, Oregon, and reside in the permanent collection of the San
Visiting Assistant Professor and Boulder, Colorado. Francisco Museum of Modern Art; he has lectured on
B.A., Economics, Columbia University; M.S., Civil architecture and media and taught design studios and
Engineering, Columbia University; M.B.A., Global Brian McGrath media theory practice at a number of schools, including
Executive, London Business School; vice president of Columbia University GSAPP, as coordinator of
an internationally recognized and innovative structural Adjunct Associate Professor core visual studies; Princeton University; The Ohio
engineering firm in charge of U.S. and Caribbean M. Arch., Princeton University; B. Arch., Syracuse State University; and RISD.
operations from its office in New York; licensed University; founding member, PathArchitecture, an
professional engineer with over 18 years of experience; interdisciplinary studio working on projects at various Chris Perry
has worked for various design consultancies that scales in built and media environments; his work has
specialize in the design of buildings, bridges, marine been exhibited widely and his book, Transparent Cities Adjunct Assistant Professor
and coastal works, and industrial and environmental (Sites/Lumen, 1994), has been reformatted into an B.A., Philosophy, Colgate University; M. Arch., Columbia
structures; has directed many projects from the interactive CD-ROM. University.

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Florencia Pita Paul Segal Maria Sieira

V i si t i n g Facu lt y Adjunct Professor Adjunct Instructor
Dipl. Arch., Universidad Nacional de Rosario-Argentina; B.A., Princeton University; M.F.A., Princeton University; B.A., Yale University; M. Arch., University of Pennsylvania;
M.S. Advanced Architectural Design, Columbia founding partner of the internationally published coordinates the GAUD Housing Studio: Live, Work, Play
University. firm, Paul Segal Associates Architects, LLP, who were and the History/Theory sequence; teaches architecture
recipients of 17 AIA Awards for Design Excellence; design studios that focus on green urban projects as
David Ruy past president of the AIA/NYC and of the Center for well as seminars on film and on installation art; founded
Architecture Foundation; author of the textbook, Xoguete Architecture in 2007; registered architect in
Associate Professor Professional Practice: A Guide to Turning Designs into New York; has worked on the Cidade da Cultura in
B.A., St. John’s College; M. Arch., Columbia University; Buildings (W.W. Norton, 2006); also an adjunct professor Santiago de Compostela, Spain, while at Eisenman
director, Ruy Klein, an award-winning design office and director of practice at Columbia’s Graduate School Architects in New York and on the Philadelphia Airport
in New York City; firm’s work has been extensively of Architecture; holds an NCARB certificate and is a while at DPK&A in Philadelphia.
published and exhibited and the firm is recognized licensed architect in seven states.
as one of the leading speculative practices in Henry Smith-Miller
architecture today; Ruy has previously held positions at Benjamin Shepherd
Columbia, Princeton, and was the director of research Adjunct Professor
of The Nonlinear Systems Organization (NSO), a Adjunct Associate Professor B.A., Princeton University; M. Arch, University of
transdisciplinary research organization, at the University B.S.C., Environmental Science, Northland College; Pennsylvania; former Fulbright scholar in architecture
of Pennsylvania; his research examines design topics at M.A., Environmental Management, Yale School of in Rome, Italy; received the Brunner Award and the
the intersection of architecture, nature, and technology; Forestry; LEED-accredited professional and planning New York Chapter Gold Medal for Excellence in
the work of his practice has recently been exhibited at practice leader at international environmental design Design with his partner, Laurie Hawkinson; significant
The Museum of Modern Art, the Rhode Island School of consultant firm Atelier Ten, with extensive experience projects include the Corning Museum of Glass and the
Design, and at Artists Space, New York City. with urban ecology, renewable energy systems, and North Carolina Museum of Art Outdoor Cinema and
green development assessments; has managed Amphitheater and Master Plan; recently completed
Richard Scherr the development of sustainability guidelines for a projects include the Land Ports of Entry at Champlain
wide range of master plans on a multitude of sectors and Massena, New York, and a mid-rise, multi-unit
D i r ecto r , Faci l i ties P lanning including commercial, university, government, and condominium complex in Manhattan; currently the
B. Arch., Cornell University; M.S. Architecture, Columbia transportation; he also teaches core courses on design architect for the new River Building for the
University; published in the Journal of Architectural environmental design and building services at Yale Hospital for Special Surgery and the Bond Hotel tower,
Education; Architectural Record; Progressive School of Architecture.. both in New York City.
Architecture; Journal of the American Planning
Association; Competitions; Places Magazine; Space; Daniel Sherer Roland Snooks
Octagon Architecture; Indian Architect and Builder; and
Asian Thought and Society; author of The Grid: Form Adjunct Assistant Professor Adjunct Assistant Professor
and Process in Architectural Design; finalist, Oklahoma B.A. Renaissance Studies, Yale University; Ph.D. History B. Arch., RMIT University; B. App.Sci.Environ.Design,
City Bombing Memorial Competition; Eidlitz Traveling of Art and Architecture, Harvard University; University of Canberra; M.S. Advanced Architecture
Fellowship; registered architect in New York and Texas. historian and critic whose research delves into Italian and Design, Columbia University; a design director of
Renaissance and Baroque architecture from 1400 to Kokkugia, he has previously directed design studios
Erich Schonenberger 1750; urban history from Antiquity to the Baroque; and seminars at UCLA, SCI-Arc, Pratt Institute, RMIT
modernist receptions of the classical tradition; and University, and the Victorian College of the Arts; his
Visiting Instructor historiography, theory, and criticism of architecture current teaching and research interests focus on
B. Environ. Design, Technical School of Novia Scotia; (with emphases on Tafuri, the School of Venice, and emergent design processes involving genetic and
M.S. Advanced Architecture and Design, Columbia Colin Rowe); has taught at the Columbia Graduate agent-based techniques; his ongoing design research
University; co-founded (with Ferda Kolatan) su11 School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation; into emergent design processes has developed
architecture+design in New York City in 1999; received the Harvard GSD, University of Toronto, and the Rice behavioral animation techniques for the generation of
the Swiss National Culture Award for Art and Design University School of Architecture, among others. architectural form; design experience includes working
and the ICFF Editors Award for Best New Designer; in the offices of Reiser + Umemoto; Kovac Architecture;
2006 finalist for the prestigious Chernikhov Price; 2007 Minifie Nixon; and Ashton Raggatt McDougall.
chosen finalist for the MoMA/PS1 YAP competition.

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Michael Szivos Maria Ludovica Tramontin Aaron White

Visiting Assistant Professor Adjunct Assistant Professor Visiting Instructor
B. Arch., Louisiana State University; M.S. Advanced B.S., Civil Engineering, University of Cagliari, (Italy); M.S. Arch., Pratt Institute; B. Arch., M. Arch., University
Architectural Design, Columbia University; M.S., Columbia University GSAPP; Ph.D., University of of Idaho; lives and works in New York City; recipient
curator of the GAUD Exihibtion; founder (in 2004) of Cagliari (Italy); registered engineer in Italy; in 2004, of the Stanley Katz Award for design excellence while
SOFTlab, a new media and digital design practice cofounded ASPX, an architectural research practice at Pratt; a co-founder of Out-fo Design (outfodesign.
specializing in the intersection of video, space, based in Italy/UK; the firm’s work has received several com), whose work centers on issues of speculative
interactivity, and branding through digital media and awards, most recently (First Prize) in a competition for fabrication, new forms of urbanism, material
emerging production; SOFTlab designed and produced a 600,000-square-foot General Hospital with a project intelligence, and information systems.
the portfolio website for the GAUD; SOFTlab has that engages the latest trends in renewable energy
participated in many group exhibitions and produced sources; while at NOX she worked on built projects: John Christopher Whitelaw
digital video and interactive media for MoMA, The Son-O-house, an interactive artwork in The Nether­
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Van Alen institute, and lands, and Maison Folie, a cultural center in Lille. Visiting Instructor
The New York Times, as well as work for various artists, B.S., Georgia Institute of Technology; M. Arch., Columbia
architects, and designers; recipient of the Honor Award Nanako Umemoto University; co-coordinator of digital media; director of
for Excellence and Award in Visual Studies at Columbia research and development at Evans & Paul, a global
University. Adjunct Professor leader in the production of custom architectural
B.A., Osaka University of Art, Japan; B. Arch., Cooper interiors; he has lectured and taught in the United States
Jeffrey Taras Union; a principal and co-founder of Reiser + Umemoto, and Europe; his work seeks to accelerate the bridging
an internationally recognized multidisciplinary design between computation and construction; while at Evans
Visiting Instructor firm, which has built projects at a wide range of scales: & Paul, he has constructed a number of high profile
B.A., M.A., University of Michigan Ann Arbor; M. Arch., from furniture design, to residential and commercial projects for a list of architects, including DS+R, Herzog 7
Columbia University; currently a partner at both structures, up to the scale of landscape, urban design, de Meuron, Richard Meier, Asymptote, and KOL/MAC.
Associated Fabrication and 4-pli Design in Brooklyn, and infrastructure; she has previously taught at various
New York; professional focus has been on bridging the schools in the U.S. and Asia, including Columbia Shundana Yusaf
gap between design and digital fabrication. University, the University of Pennsylvania, Hong Kong
University, Kyoto University, and the Cooper Union; and Adjunct Assistant Professor
Meredith TenHoor she has lectured at various educational and cultural S.M. Arch.S., MIT; B. Arch., National College of Arts
institutions throughout the United States, Europe, and Lahore.
Adjunct Assistant Professor Asia.
B.A., Brown University; M.A., Princeton University;
research focuses on the architecture and urbanism Jason Vigneri-Beane
of consumption; currently writing a history of food,
architecture, and biopolitics in postwar Paris; other Adjunct Assistant Professor; Coordinator,
recent projects include Street Value, a book about M.S., Architecture
planning and politics on Fulton Street Mall in Brooklyn; B.P.S. Arch., SUNY at Buffalo; M. Arch., Iowa State
an essay on architecture and agriculture (in Above University; coordinator, M.S. Architecture; media co-
the Pavement the Farm); and a Downtown Brooklyn- coordinator, M. Architecture; coordinator, Graduate
themed exhibition and lecture series at Brooklyn’s Architecture in Rome Program; founder and principal,
Metropolitan Exchange. Split Studio; LEED-accredited professional, who has
lectured, taught, exhibited, published in the United
States, Europe, and Asia.

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Urban Design

Urban design is a continually evolving to students holding a five-year (B. Arch.) or chair
field. The expansion and contraction of equivalent (M. Arch.) degree in architec-
cities, the increasingly intricate systems ture. The program begins in the summer William MacDonald
of economic exchange, along with intense semester with an intensive curriculum
environmental change suggest that focused on concepts, theory, and repre- assistant chair
new forms of innovative environmental sentational/generative practices of urban
analysis and information-sensitive design design, and continues with design studio Philip Parker
are necessary. New synthetic strate- and seminar courses toward a culminating
gies for urban and industrial ecologies project in the third semester.  c o o r d i nat o r
related to the capacities of rural produc-
tion are studied in detail. The program The program is run as a series of Meta Brunzema
engages students across multiple forms advanced design/research studios and sem-
of expertise with the most thoughtful inars that attempt to contend, in new ways, assistants to the chair
and innovative work in new computer with the complex issues of contemporary
mapping and visualization technologies, urban environments. These issues include: Erin Murphy
theoretical debates, historical precedents, desires to promote notions of co-generative Erika Schroeder
transdisciplinary approaches, and specula- environments that lead the potential for
tive methodologies that are brought to non-linear and highly sensitive system office
questions of contemporary cities in design feedback; the need to address multiplicity
studios and seminars. of scales and diverse populations; the for- Tel: 718-399-4314  |  Fax: 718-399-4379
mulation of connections between diverse [email protected]
master of science architecture institutions and agencies; the analysis and www.gaud.pratt.edu
and urban design invention of forms of representation and
repositories of information (mapping, Page 38: Andri Klausen
Students enrolled in the Urban Design database) that act as genuine resources for Page 39: Top, Center, Bottom: Andri Klausen
program graduate with a master of science decision-making. Urban design is envi- Page 40: Top Left: Dhara Patel; Top Right: Bhava Mody;
degree in architecture and urban design. ronmental design where environmental Bottom: Ninad Garware
The program is 33-credits and three is considered at scales that range between Page 41: Carlos David Gonzalez
semesters (summer, fall, spring). It is open micro (street curb cuts) and macro (global
flows of production and resources).