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Architectural Digest Names Pratt Institute Among Top Ten Colleges in US for the Architectural Significance of its Campus

August 15th, 2011

hanrahan Meyers architects' Juliana Curran Terian Design Center (Pratt Pavilion) opened on the Pratt Campus in 2007 click here to view more photos of the Design Center on www.hanrahanmeyers.com post Victoria Meyers architect

Here is an excerpt from the article on Archinect.com, click the link at the end for the full version:

"Pratt recently opened a 120,000-square-foot green academic and administrative building named Myrtle Hall at 536 Myrtle Avenue between Grand Avenue and Steuben Street that houses the college's Department of Digital Arts as well as several administrative offices." This building, along with hanrahan Meyers architects' Pratt Pavilion, which launched the Pratt Design Center in 2007, have reshaped the Pratt campus. Pratt Pavilion was the first project to initiate the redesign and refocusing of the Pratt campus, with buildings facing in toward the campus green, instead of facing out toward the neighboring streets.

second floor gallery interior: JCT Design Center (Pratt Pavilion) click here to view more photos of the Design Center on www.hanrahanmeyers.com Post Victoria Meyers architect

The Juliana Curran Terian Design Center, opened in 2007 was designed by hanrahan Meyers architects to bring together two older loft buildings with a contemporary bridging structure to create a 200,000-square-foot complex. The Center brings together Pratt's design disciplines — interior design, fashion design, industrial design, and communications design — under one roof that allows Pratt designers to better develop their creative processes. hMa principal Victoria Meyers was the lead designer for the project, completed in 2007.

rear courtyard: JCT Design Center (Pratt Pavilion) by hanrahan Meyers architects click here to view more photos of the Design Center on www.hanrahanmeyers.com

The Juliana Curran Terian Design Center has received numerous awards including Building Brooklyn Awards from the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, which recognize construction projects that enrich Brooklyn's neighborhoods and economy.

Click here to read the article in full at www.archinect.com

To view the full list of recogized colleges, please visit Architectural Digest's online slideshow at www.archdigest.com/go/campus
Glass and Steel Pavilion: time, distance, form, and architecture Minimalist Architecture; Glass and Steel Design; Public Architecture; Victoria Meyers Architect

July 2nd, 2009

Time : the diagram for Hudson River House as a hieroglyphic

Distance : Digital Water Pavilion facade incorporates a musical score

Form : Pratt Pavillion: a deformed cube floated above a glass entry

hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa) is a cutting-edge contemporary architectural office known for their mathematically pure and sophisticated building designs. The illustrations above show details from the design of a house in New York; a new facade for Battery Park City, in Lower Manhattan, where a precisely calibrated facade marks the distance a person travels along an arcing wall leading from a series of parks in Battery Park City, to the World Trade Center site; and the finished steel and glass facade of a new academic building for the Pratt Institute Campus. All three of these projects share a precise crafting of form and space based on ideas from mathematics.

In early modernist architectural thought the clearest thesis that connected the modernist idea of spatial design to geometry was Le Corbusier’s ‘Modulor’ – a small booklet published by Le Corbusier in 1948, describing his method of laying out architecture using the golden section rectangle. More recently, in 1995, Robin Evans' The Projective Cast , a collection of essays, traced mathematical thought as it informs architecture from the Renaissance through modernism.

covers of Le Corbusier's 'Modulor'

Any great architecture stands in recognition of mathematical ideas. Mathematical principles applied to space brings us in contact with:

time : the Cartesian grid; distance : space; and form : geometry.

Through the application of mathematical forms, we are put in touch with great mathematical minds:

Pythagoras, Decartes, Newton, Fibonacci, Euler, And Nash – for example.

It is in this vast reconnection through space and time that architecture can produce a profound revelation for each of us: connecting back through time for thousands of years; and, vice-versa - connecting us to the open-ended future state of human exploration and endeavor.

Projection and its analogues: The Arrested Image, Robin Evans (from The Projective Cast, MIT, 1995)

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Architectural Digest Names Pratt Institute Among Top Ten Colleges in US for the Architectural Significance of its Campus

Glass and Steel Pavilion: time, distance, form, and architecture Minimalist Architecture; Glass and Steel Design; Public Architecture; Victoria Meyers Architect