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Study Abroad Programs
Pratt’s Study Abroad programs combine
the Institute’s academic excellence with
firsthand exposure to some of the most
vibrant European centers in art, design,
and architecture.Studying abroad offers
a unique opportunity to sharpen your
skills, increase your knowledge, and earn
academic credits. A blend of intensive
site-specific study, studio work, lectures,
and field trips provides a complete theory-
and-practice experience in the discipline
of your choice.
Whether you choose to explore the
classic monuments of ancient Rome;
study with cutting-edge Scandinavian
design professionals at the Danish
Institute for Study Abroad in Copen-
hagen; immerse yourself in high
Renaissance art in Lucca; journey across
time periods in Venice; take six credits
in Florentine art and culture at SACI in
Florence; go on a study tour of design
from Barcelona to Paris; or visit London,
Milan, and Paris for their haute couture
expertise, your creative abilities and
inspiration will be significantly enhanced.
To receive credit for study abroad courses,
Pratt students obtain prior approval from
their department heads. Degree students
from other institutions obtain approval
from their home institution in order to
transfer credit. For more information on
individual programs, contact the Center
for Continuing and Professional Studies at
718-636-3453, email at prostudy@pratt.
edu, or visit our website at http://www.pratt.edu.
graduate architecture
in turkey
Students visit and study urban conditions,
historical monuments, and archaeological
sites in Istanbul and surrounding regions.
This course provides firsthand experience
analyzing architecture, cultural forces,
and site conditions through architectural
investigations. The course focuses on
international experience within the lens
of two significant factors of the 21st-
century metropolis: (rapid) change and
heterogeneity in Istanbul. Students consult
existing ecological, urban, and historic
data in order to evaluate and represent
information from the unique architectural
perspective.This class will track systemic
change and heterogeneity from past to
present in order to understand the shifting
heterogeneity that defines Istanbul and
the surrounding region. Path methodology
techniques will be utilized to study topics
including water quality, aquatic life, water
edge/coastline configuration, waterfront
programming/land-use, waterfront
architecture, waterfront “practices of
everyday life,” land-cover, and urban
form. Individual patches will contain
information stretching across these
topics and will expose relational qualities
between them and allow for potential
projections for the future.
florence summer program
with the saci school of art
Now in its ninth year, Florence 2012 will
inspire and enlighten students with its
six-credit program (two 3-credit courses)
in partnership with SACI: 1) Florentine
Art and Culture: Museum and Library
Resources and Documentation;
- Cultural Heritage Conservation.
london e-publishing summer
school and bloomsbury
conference with ucl-dis
Students have the opportunity to work
at the UK’s most prestigious and highly-
rated school for information science—
University College London, Department
of Information Studies (UCL-DIS)—and
to study under UCL’s world-renowned
faculty, culminating with attendance at
the exciting Bloomsbury Conference.
architecture in rome
The School of Architecture offers two
advanced programs for students to study
architecture in Rome: a spring semester-
long program for fourth-year students
combining architecture and Italian
culture studies and a summer month-long
(June) program for graduate students.
The encounter with the city, a place
foreign and yet familiar, profound and
contradictory, is intended to stimulate a
reconsideration of design priorities. The
investigation of the remains of antiquity
and Rome’s specific artifacts and urban