Vishaan Chakrabarti Named 2025 Edmund N. Bacon Honoree
PAU Founder and Creative Director Vishaan Chakrabarti chosen to receive Design Philadelphia’s award honoring visionary contributions to urban design and education.
The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy by Vishaan Chakrabarti
Princeton University Press publishes PAU Founder and Creative Director Vishaan Chakrabarti’s latest book that argues that “connective design”—a conscious attempt by a designer to forge deeper bonds across society at every scale—can help heal some of our larger social issues.
A Road Trip Across Our Divided Country Reveals Why We Must Design Our Way Toward Unity
Read Vishaan Chakrabarti’s latest Op-Ed in The Architect’s Newspaper on why the architecture of our communities matters to our political discourse.
Vishaan Chakrabarti on Community, Architecture, and What Makes a Good Playground
Chakrabarti sits down with NPR 1A’s Jenn White to discuss priorities of design, communal joy, and his new book The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy.
To Build Community, Design for Density
PAU Founder and Creative Director Vishaan Chakrabarti discusses his new book and makes a case for building bigger to create more social cohesion and happier communities with Bloomberg’s Mimi Kirk.
MONOCLE: The Urbanist Interview with Vishaan Chakrabarti
Hear how author Vishaan Chakrabarti thinks architecture and design can help us tackle the big challenges that our cities will face in the years to come.
Make Design Relevant Again
Vital City Contributor Vishaan Chakrabarti asks what it will take for the powers that be in New York to take the architecture and planning community as seriously as they did after 9/11.
City Beautiful, City Ugly
Vital City Contributor Vishaan Chakrabarti on what New Yorkers can learn from Chicago’s history as the birthplace of the City Beautiful movement.
Cornell AAP Welcomes New Faculty and Endowed Fellows This Fall
PAU Founder and Creative Director Vishaan Chakrabarti appointed as the Thomas J. Baird Visiting Critic, Architecture for Fall 2024.
Norman Foster Foundation Oral History Progam
PAU Founder and Creative Director Vishaan Chakrabarti discusses the enduring impact of Norman Foster’s work in urbanism, architecture, global initiatives, and the Norman Foster Foundation.
Watch: The Architecture of Community
Vishaan Chakrabarti and Deborah Archer discuss how intentional design can create more equitable, sustainable, and joyous communities with moderator Jenn White of NPR at the 2024 Aspen Ideas Festival.
World Building of the Week: Domino Sugar Refinery
World Architects Magazine profiles the PAU-designed Domino Sugar Refinery.
The Refinery at Domino awarded the 2024 Sara NY Design Award
Jurors award the PAU-designed project a Special Award for Innovation in Adaptive Reuse Design.
The Refinery at Domino wins Architizer A+ Awards
The PAU-designed project places first in both the Jury and Popular Choice categories in Architizer’s annual competition.
Dying for Congestion Pricing
Vital City Contributor Vishaan Chakrabarti on making the streets of New York City safer and more welcoming for bicyclists.
RPA launches their 2024 Assembly with a Keynote interview between Dan Doctoroff and Vishaan Chakrabarti
Watch the interview here where they discuss helping New York to plan for big achievements including transforming public spaces, investing in transit, reclaiming communities, and addressing the challenges of climate change.
Fast Company names PAU one of the most innovative architecture firms of 2024
Read the list of companies that have “embraced a more encompassing responsibility for what it means to shape the built environment.”
PAU and ARUP to redesign New York City’s unsightly sidewalk scaffolding
The Architect’s Newspaper covers the Mayor’s announcement on the competition, judged by a panel of senior Department of Buildings staff, finding that the winning designs exhibit the most comprehensive plans to effectively deliver these new sidewalk shed designs for New Yorkers.
PAU selected by Mayor Adams to redesign NYC scaffolding sheds
Read the Mayor’s press release that follows an extensive selection process resulting in new designs that will phase out the current green pipe-and-plywood sidewalk sheds with more cost-efficient, better-looking structures.
NY1 Mornings on 1: NYC architect identifies hidden solutions for housing crisis
Watch PAU Founder and Creative Director Vishaan Chakrabarti discuss PAU’s recent collaboration with the New York Times showing that small-scale projects managed by community developers could be a key to overcoming the city’s persistent housing crisis.