Pratt School of Architecture

Pratt Institute Architecture Alumni Reception at the 2026 AIA Conference Join the Pratt School of Architecture and Alumni Engagement for a reception with alumni, faculty, and administrators and a celebration of SoA alum and 2026 AIA National President Illya Azaroff. Reconnect with old classmates, establish new connections, and meet SoA Dean Quilian Riano over appetizers and refreshments. RSVP required. WHEN: THURS. JUN. 11, 2026, 6:30-8:30 PM PT WHERE: Hilton San Diego Bayfront 1 Park Blvd, San Diego, CA 92101 For questions about the event, please email [email protected]. @prattinstitute @prattalumni @azaroffillya @aianational @quilianriano

Pratt School of Architecture Spring 2026 Lecture Series publics How are publics shaped? The shaping of the public sphere is inherently open, created through discourse in time and space. In a time when discourse is challenged, how can we open dialogue and investigate the ephemeral but lasting impact of publics? The lecture series over the 2025-2026 academic year will be open to multiple voices and creation of publics both within and outside our community. Join us for a dynamic series of events across our departments and programs! Link in the bio to see the full list of this semester’s exhibitions and events. More: https://www.pratt.edu/architecture/news/school-of-architecture-spring-2026-lecture-series/ @pratt_ua @prattgcpe @pratt_galaud @pratt_cm

POV: You’re scouting the next generation of creative icons at Pratt. 👀 Opening night was a dream. Go catch the full exhibition at the ARC building now through May 19!

Chloe Crawford (@chloec_arch ) | UA | Year 2 | Intermediate Design 1: ARCH 201 | Fall 2024 | Prof. Chi-Fan Wong (@chifan_wong ) Building on the first year’s production in formal systems, Pratt's second year thematically explores organizational systems, as implicated by typology. The fall exposes buildings arranged in the horizontal disposition that privilege the use of the floor plan as a mechanism to conceive of and organize space. The course's focus is given to the architectural elements of the roof, the ground, and the wall as devices which contribute to the organization of the plan of the building. Students follow a two project sequence that independently ask them to establish architectural design principles of roof tectonics ( light roof framing ), and ground stereotomics ( heavy cutting and insertions ) before hybridizing these principles into a final project. The chosen projects examine public institutions in the field pavilion and mat-building format, on sites that exhibit mild to moderate topography. Given the public nature of the projects, students are exposed to the concepts community stakeholders, infrastructure as well as access, procession, accessibility, and privacy.

SPRING ‘26 SUPER REVIEW This Spring, students will present their studio projects in relation to canonical essays in Architecture and Landscape Architecture. Presentations will foreground the discursive dimensions of the work, not as a recapitulation of the public review, but as a way of responding to major ideas in the contemporary field. Discussion will ensue, with the goal of articulating how our studios advance or respond to the writing under examination. Design 2 Moderator: Gökhan Kodalak. Rem Koolhaas. “Typical Plan,” in S,M,L,XL: Small, Medium, Large, Extra-Large. Monacelli Press, 1995. Pp 335 - 353. Gökhan Kodalak. “Notes on Three Formative Dimensions of Architecture: Interiority, Anteriority, and Exteriority.” 2026. Design 4 Moderator: Clelia Pozzi Essay: Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Steven Isenour. “Ugly and Ordinary Architecture, or the Decorated Shed,” in Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form. MIT Press, 1977. Pp. 87-93. MLA Moderator: Mariel Collard Arias Essay: Elizabeth K. Meyer “Sustaining Beauty: The Performance of Appearance.” Journal of Landscape Architecture, 3/1 2008. Pp 6 - 23. Design 6 Moderator: Andrew Holder Essay: Sylvia Lavin. “What Color Is It Now?” Perspecta vol. 35, 2004. Pp. 98-111. @andrewjamesholder @marielilla #PrattGALAUD #PrattSOA #SuperReview #PrattMArch #PrattMLA

FACULTY HIGHLIGHT | WONNE ICKX / PRODUCTURA We are delighted to announce that @productora_df , co-led by Visiting Professor Wonne Ickx,  has been selected as a finalist in the open international competition for the new Museum of Contemporary Art in Panama City (MAC-Panama). Out of 363 entrees from 56 countries, the proposal was selected as one of the five projects to continue to stage two.  2-3. New HQ of Houston Endowment, Houston, 2023 4. Laguna, Mexico City, 2019/Ongoing 5-6. Pilares, Mexico City, 2022 7. Masaryk Offices, Mexico City, 2024 8-9. Teotitlan del Valle Community and Cultural Center, Oaxaca, 2017 10. Loft Sullivan, Soho, New York, 2023 11-12. Ca22 Housing, Mexico City, 2023 @wonnex  @mac_panama #PrattGALAUD #PrattFaculty #Productura #MACPanama #WonneIckx

The MS in Architecture and MS in Urban Design are three-semester, STEM-designated programs designed for emerging professionals with a focus on advanced design, research, and urban challenges. Rolling admissions remain open on a space-available basis. Link to applications in bio.   
Students are immersed in the practice, design, and urban cultures of New York.  3-4. Students travel to the Rivian Factory in Normal, Illinois for Professor Alexandra Barker’s Normal studio @alexandrabarker @rivian 5. Model by Yousef Alsharif for Professor Peter Trummer’s studio, Cityology @the.sharif 6-7. Stools by Basile de Streel and Evan Johnson, presented at the Wasted x Van Alen event for Professor Poyao Shih’s Fabrication course @poyaoshih @johnson_evan_design @basiledestreel @van_alen 8. Model by Noah Spivak for Professor Alex Tahinos’ Urban Sampling Studio @tahinos @n__spivak 9. Zoë Schlanger presenting her work during a lecture at Higgins Hall. 10. Models by Bhavya Prajapati, Falguni Sakpal, Mithila Sunil Patil for Peter Trummer’s studio, the Rise of New Urban Blocks @bhavya_prajapati__ @falgunisakpal @mithilapatil_ 
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FACULTY HIGHLIGHT | ANDREW HOLDER / THE LADG Visage Brut | Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, 2026 Andrew Holder, chair of Graduate Architecture, Landscape, and Urban Design at Pratt Institute, recently completed an installation at @coachella . A soaring steel totem animated by a stack of subtly anthropomorphic “characters,” “Visage Brut” reimagines the logic and mythology of a totem pole through the language of contemporary construction. Designed by @the_ladg (The Los Angeles Design Group), the tower is composed of modular boxes — each one folded, rolled, cut, or warped just short of losing its structural integrity. The result is a vertical procession of hybrid geometries that both perform the physical labor of holding up the weight above and project an uncanny, almost figurative presence. Born from an experimental collaboration with software-assisted steel fabricator @studio.construction , the installation transforms an industrial material used in retail construction into an expressive form. Its mesh and selectively skinned surfaces shift from sculptural mass to filigreed lattice as light changes, and nighttime illumination animates its dual nature. Encountered as both landmark and invitation, “Visage Brut” offers shaded niches, intricate surfaces, and a layered legibility that encourages festivalgoers to slow down and look closely. Project Team Design: @andrewjamesholder & @freyinbe The Los Angeles Design Group Fabrication Computation: Scott Mitchell Stud-IO Computational Construction Engineering: Anthony Trgovcich John A. Martin & Associates Fabrication: Craig Couch KHS&S #PrattGALAUD #PrattFaculty #TheLADG #Coachella #AndrewHolder

Tavian John (@tavian.arch ) | UA | Year 4 | Advanced Design: ARCH 400 | Fall 2024 | Prof. Dragana Zoric (@dzoric ) AGGREGATE ASSEMBLIES / RADICAL VERNACULAR Learning from the Traditional and the Indigenous Materiality and form-making, both crucial to the discipline of architecture, have historically been most closely aligned in indigenous building practices. Intimately tied to site, landscape and ecology, they directly respond to systems of natural processes and climate. Factors ranging from soil types to topographic conditions directly affect the architectural language of the structures produced. These aggregate assemblies carry cultural value, are precise registers of social customs and histories of people. At a time when contemporary built works around much of the world are indistinguishable one from another, and all cities begin to look alike, we looked to methods of addressing current design and building techniques through an intimate, place-based lens. Questions of how material and structural choices can relate to stylistic frames of reference, and to what extent they can speak to experiences and patterns of living within the specific locales, were crucial in informing the work of the studio. Having developed a body of knowledge and lexicon from research into a current design practice which taps into an indigenous or vernacular tradition, each student focused on the techniques, practices and site conditions of the locale that they themselves come from. The goal was to design a new form of dwelling, a novel domestic arrangement, a house remade, a home rethought. Students were be able to select their own “client” and to determine the scale of dwelling, focusing on architectural form, character and organizational logic. Once the student acquired an understanding of the mechanisms, role and value of the visual culture and building/material practices and techniques of their own chosen site, through site research, analysis and other inquiries, the objective was to re-think and re-invent a NEW vernacular building practice for a singular architecture, in response to our culturally unsettled, politically fraught and climate ravaged contemporary times.

SPRING 26 FINAL REVIEWS Monday, May 4th - Friday, May 8th, Higgins Hall @andrewjamesholder @hartmarlow @tahinos @mjsieira @vienolivia @marielilla @synthetic_milk @schoenenberger_su11 @coersmeier @reidarchitecture @garrisonarchitects @stephaniebayard @giselasbaurmann @mmmosarchitects @wonnex @productora_df @alexandrabarker #PrattGALAUD #PrattSOA #PrattInstitute #PrattMArch #PrattMLA

Lucy Ambrad (@loo_osey ) | UA | Year 1 | Design 2: 102 | Spring 2025 | Prof. Jason Lee (@jasonjlee ) ARCH 102 deepened first-year architecture students’ understanding of design by integrating external environmental inputs into the architectural process. Building on the internal logics explored in ARCH 101, this studio emphasized how external factors—such as climate, vegetation, water, and human activity—condition and enrich architectural forms. Coursework included projects and design exercises that blended analog and digital media, visual and verbal communication, and environmental responsiveness. This semester’s focus on Projected Form explored how architecture interacts with the world beyond its internal systems. Students investigated adaptive, collective, and malleable forms, capable of coexisting with and responding to ecological and environmental phenomena. The course introduced composite bodies—such as humans, ground, water, and vegetation—highlighting co-evolutionary relationships and the role of architecture as both infrastructure and an exploratory platform. Through Projects and Design Exercises, enriched by ecology, narrative, and visual arts, ARCH 102 challenged students to create structures that respond to and evolve with environmental phenomena. #Architecture #BuiltEnvironment #FutureArchitects #ArchitectureStudents #DesignInnovation #StudentArchitects #ArchitectureCommunity #ArchitecturalDesign #BuildingTheFuture #ArchDaily

ARCH 713A | MEDIUMS 3: FABRICATION Spring 2026 | Mid Review Models Professor Daniel Garcia This fabrication seminar examines the book as a constructed object—one that is clamped, compressed, sewn, trimmed, and bound through a series of mechanical operations. In aggregate, books shift from individual parts to a coherent whole, producing the appearance of mass through repetition. Students will work exclusively with discarded books slated for recycling and will study historical book-making tools and connections as a way of understanding fabrication, fastening, and assembly. Forms that emerge from the physical limitations and behaviors of assembled books will define the aesthetic and structural logic of a stool at full scale AND a pavilion at an architectural scale, producing a direct reading of form, proportion, and spatial order. All constructions must be fully demountable and assembled without glue or tape, making the forces and methods of attachment explicit and integral to the overall project. Work by students: 1,2. Michael Ballou, 3,4. Issy Clancy, 5,6. Saima Rafi, 7,8. Stephen Favale, 9,10. Talia Starko, 11,12. Alexia Barton, 13,14. Matt Sikorski, 15. Emir Kaya @drawings.dwgs @issyclancy @sc.favale @taliastarko @alexiabarton1 @matt1499 @emirr_kaya #PrattMArch #PrattInstitute #PrattGALAUD #PrattSOA #architecturemodel @archdaily @archinect @next_top_architects @superarchitects @designboom @dezeen @architecturefactor