Founder & Creative Director, Practice for Architecture and Urbanism | PAU
With over thirty years of proven experience authoring and implementing visionary urban architecture, Vishaan Chakrabarti is the Founder and Creative Director of Practice for Architecture and Urbanism | PAU, where he leads the firm’s growing global portfolio of cultural, institutional, and public projects including Indianapolis’ new multi-modal Wave Bridge, the redesign of New York’s Penn Station, the design of the FAA’s new sustainable air traffic control tower prototype, which will be adapted to replace over 100 aging towers in regional and municipal airports across the nation, the expansion of Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Brooklyn’s Domino Sugar Refinery, Philadelphia’s Schuylkill Yards, Ford Motor Company’s Michigan Central Station project in Detroit’s Corktown, Princeton’s Hobson College, and a unique urban village in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia as well as serving as the Collaborating Architect on the recently announced JP Morgan Chase World Headquarters.
Vishaan is also the author of the book, A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for an Urban America and the upcoming The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy.
He was the William W. Wurster Dean of the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley, a professor at Columbia University for a decade, and served as the Director of City Planning in post-9/11 New York.
