![]() Who would you consider a role model dean and why?Īrchitecture’s habit of focusing upon an individual’s contribution over that of a collective does not reflect the reality of architectural practice or education. The vision I have is the one I intend to co-design with the talented and dedicated educators, students, and administrators at Pratt Institute School of Architecture… What’s needed is a dean who is willing to facilitate, enable, and empower, who is committed to ensuring talented students’ and educators’ work gets the recognition and exposure it deserves, and one who will work toward ensuring the work is realized across an expanded field of professional practices and public contexts. The tradition of parachuting in architectural visionaries ready to superimpose their agenda and aesthetics upon an unsuspecting faculty-with little regard for the established expertise within a school of architecture- is no longer viable. What is your vision for the school moving forward? Pratt Institute School of Architecture Harriet Harriss (Morley Von Sternberg)īefore assuming her role at Pratt, Harriet Harriss was the head of the postgraduate program in architecture and interior design at the Royal College of Art in London, where she explored new models of design education addressing gender imbalances that exist at many institutions. More broadly, Berkeley is part of the Pacific Rim and therefore exists at a healthy distance from the Eurocentric framework that still dominates many design schools. How is your new school different from your previous institution, Columbia University?īecause is public, it serves disproportionately large numbers of first-generation college students, Pell Grant recipients, and other diverse groups relative to most private institutions. I am keenly interested in exploring with students, staff, and faculty the questions of how to reconcile the demands of professional practice-which takes decades to do well-with the understandable impatience of many students to radically and immediately change our world in light of the environmental, intersectional, economic, and political crises in which they have come of age. Given the spatial nature of our three existential challenges-climate change, social inequity, and technological dislocation-I believe that schools of architecture are as relevant today as law schools were during the civil and equal rights era. The Architect’s Newspaper: What is your vision for the school moving forward? University of California, Berkeley College of Environmental Design Vishaan Chakrabarti (Aaron Richter)Ī former principal at SHoP Architects, Vishaan Chakrabarti is a professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation and the founder of the New York-based Practice for Architecture and Urbanism. Respondents’ answers have been edited and condensed in some case s. ![]() But in an era of collaborative learning and community engagement, what does deanship look like? AN asked eight of the country’s new deans about their plans for the future of their schools and their discipline. ![]() The deans will have the opportunity to shape design pedagogy and practice in significant ways, potentially guiding how academic institutions teach and address issues related to the built environment for years to come. From Charlotte to Berkeley, new deans will assume the helms of some of the country’s most challenging-and exciting-programs. For many architecture and design schools across the United States, 2019 marks a shift in institutional leadership. ![]()
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