Vishaan Chakrabarti (born November, 29 1966) is an American architect and professor. He is the founder of Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU), which is an architecture firm based in New York. In 2018 he was named a fellow of the American Institute of Architects. For a period of one year, from July 2020 to September 2021, Chakrabarti served as the Dean at the College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley.[1][2]
Early life and education
editChakrabarti was born in Kolkata, India in 1966. His family moved to the United States in 1968 when he was two years old.[3][4] His undergraduate education was completed at Cornell University where he holds dual bachelor's degrees in Art History and Engineering.[5][6][7] Chakrabarti attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he received his Master of Architecture degree,[7] and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he received a Master of City Planning degree.[8]
Career
editHe began his career at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LP in New York where he worked as an Associate Partner and Director of Urban Design.[9] In 2003 Chakrabarti was named Director of the Manhattan Office of the New York Department of City Planning under Mayor Michael Bloomberg.[10][11] Shortly after this in 2005 he served as the President of Moynihan Station Venture at The Related Companies.[12][13] In 2009 he was named the Marc Holliday Professor and Director of the Master of Science in Real Estate Development program at Columbia's GSAPP. Then in 2011 he became the founding director of the Center for Urban Real Estate (CURE).[14]
From 2012 until 2015, Chakrabarti was a partner at SHoP Architects.[15]
After leaving SHop in 2015, Chakrabarti founded PAU (Practice for Architecture and Urbanism), through which he has been involved in projects such as the master plan for the site occupied by the rail yards in Sunnyside, Queens;[16] the design for the adaptive reuse of the Domino Sugar Refinery in Brooklyn;[17] and Penn Palimpsest, a proposal for reimagining New York’s Penn Station.[18]
Chakrabarti assumed the deanship of the University of California, Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design, in 2020.[19] In September 2021 he announced he was stepping down as dean after one year, citing family health issues.[20] Chakrabarti is an alumnus of CED’s graduate architecture program and previously served as a member of the College’s Dean’s Advisory Council.[21][22]
Publications
edit- 2013: A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for an Urban America
- 2013: NYC 2040: Housing the Next One Million New Yorkers
Awards and recognition
editChakrabarti was elected to the American Institute of Architects’ College of Fellows in 2018[23] and was named an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) in 2019.[24]
References
edit- ^ "UC Berkeley names new dean to College of Environmental Design". Berkeley News. 27 June 2019. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
- ^ "Faculty". ced.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
- ^ "Vishaan Chakrabarti Sees the Future in Old Cities". Yahoo. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ "The Indian-American Architect Who Sees the Future in Old Cities". Architectural Digest. 7 May 2018. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ "Vishaan Chakrabarti Named Dean of UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design". Architectural Record. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ "City urban design advocate takes California post". Crain's New York Business. 27 June 2019. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ a b "New York architect named to lead UC Berkeley's architecture college". SFChronicle.com. 27 June 2019. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ "Vishaan Chakrabarti SHoPs Around: Arch-Urbanist Joins Hotshot Architecture Firm". Observer. 6 March 2012. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ "New New Amsterdam: Should New York Do Like the Dutch and Build Some Skyscraper-Sized Sea Gates?". Observer. 31 October 2012. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ "UC Berkeley Names Vishaan Chakrabarti Dean of Environmental Design College". India West. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ "Hudson Yards Has Generated A Seismic Shift In NYC Real Estate". Bisnow.
- ^ Kang, Jay Caspian (7 May 2014). "The de Blasio Housing Debate: A Conversation with Vishaan Chakrabarti". The New Yorker. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ Satow, Julie (22 November 2011). "Visions of LoLo, a Neighborhood Rising From Landfill". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ "Chakrabarti + SHoP Architects". ArchDaily. 12 March 2012. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ "Exclusive: Architect Vishaan Chakrabarti Is Leaving SHoP, Setting Up His Own Shop". Intelligencer. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ "Second Sunnyside Yard master plan public meeting will take place this month". QNS.com. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ Barbanel, Josh. "A Building Boom Pushes New York City Outward". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ "Jay Jeffers Penthouse Unveiled, Johanna Grawunder Illuminates SFO, and More News This Week". Architectural Digest. 4 July 2019. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ "Vishaan Chakrabarti on His New Deanship at UC Berkeley". Metropolis. 13 August 2019. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ "College of Environmental Design Dean Chakrabarti to Step Down | Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost". evcp.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
- ^ "Dean's Advisory Council". Frameworks. 26 March 2015. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
- ^ "PAU's Vishaan Chakrabarti to lead UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design". Archinect. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
- ^ "152 American & 2 International Architects Elevated to AIA College of Fellows for 2018". ArchDaily. 23 February 2018. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ "RAIC names five notable architects as 2019 Honorary Fellows". Archinect. Retrieved 5 November 2019.