New Site Announcement
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
The new Pratt website has gone live!
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The mission of Pratt Institute is to educate artists and creative professionals to be responsible contributors to society.
Pratt seeks to instill in all graduates aesthetic judgment, professional knowledge, collaborative skills, and technical expertise.
With a firm grounding in the liberal arts and sciences, a Pratt education blends theory with creative application in preparing graduates to become leaders in their professions.
Pratt enrolls a diverse group of highly talented and dedicated students, challenging them to achieve their full potential.
Pratt Center for Continuing and Professional Studies (CCPS) Gallery will present “Courthouse Confessions – In Their Own Words,” a photography exhibition of work by CCPS instructor and longtime photojournalist Steven Hirsch. The exhibition, which is free and open to the public, runs from August 31 – September 29, 2009.
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Pratt Institute’s Media Arts Department has been renamed the Film/Video and Photography Department, effective July 1, 2009. The department, which is one of 15 degree programs within the Institute’s School of Art and Design, is located on Pratt’s Brooklyn campus.
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Pratt Center for Continuing and Professional Studies (CCPS) Gallery will present “Eye on the Strand,” a group exhibition that features the work of the three winners and 20 finalists of Pratt, the Aperture Foundation, and Strand Book Store’s first-ever photography contest. The exhibition, which is free and open to the public, will run from July 15 – August 26, 2009 and will include creative photo representations of the Strand Book Store.
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Pratt Institute President Thomas F. Schutte and The Board of Trustees of Pratt Institute will hold a dinner to celebrate the establishment of The Marc Rosen Distinguished Visiting Chair in Design on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at The Gramercy Park Hotel Roof at Two Lexington Avenue in Manhattan. The event will include a cocktail reception at 7 p.m. followed by dinner, and will celebrate the first endowed professorship in the history of Pratt Institute.
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Pratt Institute department of fine arts graduate students Charlotte Meyer
and Kris Scheifele won 2009 Joan Mitchell Fellowship Awards for their accomplishments in sculpture and painting, respectively. Through this award program, Meyer and Scheifele will each receive a $15,000 grant and will also participate in a group exhibition at the Cue Art Foundation in Chelsea, New York in
spring of 2010.
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The Master of Science in Urban Design (M.S.) is a three-semester (fall, spring, fall), 33 credit post-professional program in urban design for students holding a five-year, or equivalent, professional degree in architecture, urban planning, or related fields. There is a culmination project in the third semester.
The field of urban design is undergoing significant change. The expansion and contraction of, and increasingly intricate economic and cultural exchanges between cities suggest that new forms of analysis and design are needed. Urban design has historically been more closely aligned with architecture than with urban planning, but neither alone can reach the heart of urbanism.
As with the M. Arch. II program at Pratt, the purpose of the Urban Design Program is to help students articulate, in visual and discursive ways, their long-term work in the discipline and practice. This approach helps determine where the student’s individual work kits in the larger arena of the discipline. The program exposes students to the best, most thoughtful, and inventive work in the field: new computer mapping and visualization technologies, theoretical debates, interdisciplinary views and practice, and methodological developments.
Meta Brunzema, coordinator
The Graduate Architecture and Urban Design Program is a unique, three semester post-professional program for students holding a five-year, or equivalent, professional degree in architecture, landscape architecture or related fields.
Urban Design students take advantage of specially designed digitally based courses that introduce them to sophisticated modeling software and up to date GIS (Geographic Information System) data-based software. Bridging disciplines of architecture and planning, Urban Design students complete their education with an extraordinary range of abilities and knowledge bases that will enable them to enter the fields of urban design, architecture, planning and environmental design at the most sophisticated level.
The program is a series of team-based advanced design/research studios and seminars that attempt to contend, in new ways, with the complex issues of contemporary urban environments.
Some of these issues are: specific architectural and infrastructural issues associated with urban scale development where “form” is understood as a dynamic, rather than a static, principle; problems of sustainability and the potential for non-linear and highly sensitive systems of feedback; the need to address a multiplicities of scales and a diversity of populations; the formulation of connections between diverse institutions and agencies; the analysis of informal systems of urban development and global/local economies and finance; the need for forms of representation and repositories of information (mapping, databases) that can provide genuine resources for decision-making.
The program prepares students to take on high-level, and broader, roles in public and private sector urban development projects.
The program draws on the strengths of excellent existing graduate programs in Architecture, Urban and Regional Planning, Historic Preservation, and the Pratt Institute Center for Community and Environmental Development (PICCED), as well as the extensive resources of New York City.
Meta Brunzema, coordinator
InProcess: Jounal of Student Work
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InProcess is the Annual journal of the School of Architecture publishing work from all nine undergraduate and graduate programs. This 200 plus page journal is one of the most recognized journals of student work in the United States.
TARP
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Tarp is a magazine that seeks to investigate the project of architecture, to allow architecture to grow and develop into realms that are not supported by the presentation of a final product. To this end, Tarp seeks content which is exploratory, experimental, and inspiring. This content does not need to conform to any predominant style or trend, but should directly and truthfully address the continued project of architecture as a catalyst for social change. Tarp is a student edited publication, is published bi-annually, and is always accepting submissions. Tarp is made possible through the support of the Pratt School of Architecture and the Graham Foundation.
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tel: (718) 399-4304
fax: (718) 399-4315
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5 U.D. Studio II UD-602
2 Culmination Project Research UD-614A
3 Urban Design & Implementation: Case Studies UD-671
4 Elective credits
14 CREDITS
5 U.D. Studio IUD-601
2 Methods & Computer Applications UD-608
3 Urban Design Theory UD-628
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William MacDonald
Chairperson of Graduate Architecture
Higgins Hall North 1
(718) 399-4357
wmacdona@pratt.edu
Personal Biography
William Mac Donald, a full professor and Chair of the Graduate Architecture and Urban Design Programs. Director of KOL/MAC LLC, Architecture + Design co-founded with Sulan Kolatan. Holds a MSc in Architecture and Urban Design from Columbia University and a BArch from Syracuse University. Attended the Architectural Association in London, England. Taught at the GSAPP at Columbia University from 1985-2005 holding various director and coordinator positions, first and post-professional graduate degree programs. In 1984, appointed acting chair of the undergraduate architecture program at the University of Virginia.
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Erin Murphy
Assistant to the Chairperson
Higgins Hall North 1
(718) 399-4314
emurphy5@pratt.edu
Meta Brunzema
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Higgins Hall North 1
(718) 399-4314
mbrunzem@pratt.edu
Personal Biography
Meta Brunzema is the principal of Meta Brunzema Architect P.C., an award-winning architecture and urban design practice that addresses contemporary spatial, environmental and socio-political challenges in innovative ways. The firm specializes in net-carbon-zero design.
Ms. Brunzema holds a Master of Architecture degree from Columbia University. She is an Adjunct Assistant Professor and the coordinator of the Graduate Architecture and Urban Design Program at Pratt.
Meta Brunzema is a fellow of the Institute for Urban Design and a LEED® accredited professional.
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Elliott Maltby
Adjunct Associate Professor
Higgins Hall North 1
(718) 399-4314
emaltby@pratt.edu
Personal Biography
Elliott is interested in how art and design contribute to the success of the urban experiment: her current research focuses on temporal and situational spatiality. She is a partner in thread collective, a multi-disciplinary firm that explores the seams between building, art and landscape. A broadly defined notion of sustainability, existing site characteristics, and sensory experience further inform their design process. For 5 years she worked with Mary Miss, one of the most influential artists in the public realm.
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Victoria Marshall
Adjunct Associate Professor
Higgins Hall North 1
(718) 399-4314
vmarshal@pratt.edu
Brian McGrath
Adjunct Associate Professor
Higgins Hall North 1
(718) 399-4314
bmcgrath@pratt.edu
Anne Save de Beaurecueil
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Higgins Hall North 1
(718) 399-4314
asavedeb@pratt.edu
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