Course General Description

The 33 credit, three-semester, fully encapsulated, (summer, fall, spring — Brooklyn campus only) post-professional program aims to expand a student’s previously established professional education by imbuing them with the disciplinary and technical precision to engage in evolving forms of advanced design research, thinking, and practice. Its specific focus is on the multifaceted reformulation of Architectural Context; an area of research that explores the ways in which urban design activates context and 21st century cities as they become increasingly more populated and dense, as they grow inward and accumulate on top of themselves to conserve resources; cultural, economical, and ecological. The program centers on cultivating an understanding of architecture and context as that which is fundamentally premised on the design of urban qualities for a dense city. The curriculum embraces an intertwining of architectural design, landscape architecture, urban design, interior design, and architectural/urban conservation.

School General Description

Pratt Institute is a private university with its main campus in Brooklyn, New York. It has a satellite campus in Manhattan and an extension campus in Utica, New York (Pratt MWP). The school originated in 1887 with programs primarily in engineering, architecture, and fine arts. Comprising six schools, the Institute is primarily known for its highly ranked programs in architecture, interior design, and industrial design, and offers both undergraduate and master's degree programs in a variety of fields, with a strong focus on research.