Vishaan Chakrabarti
@vishaan.bsky.social
Architect|Author|Urbanist
Founder, Practice for Architecture and Urbanism | PAU
Author:
The Architecture of Urbanity (Princeton University Press, 2024);
A Country of Cities (DAP, 2013)
Excited to be on Fareed Zakaria GPS today (CNN, 10am EST) to talk about Penn Station and Abundance more generally. Full discussion attached below from @aspenideas
www.youtube.com/live/HxKVXcD...
www.youtube.com/live/HxKVXcD...
Roadblock: Have Progressive Politics Killed Progress?
YouTube video by The Aspen Institute
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July 6, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Excited to be on Fareed Zakaria GPS today (CNN, 10am EST) to talk about Penn Station and Abundance more generally. Full discussion attached below from @aspenideas
www.youtube.com/live/HxKVXcD...
www.youtube.com/live/HxKVXcD...
Great to speak about #PennStation and #Abundance with @marcdunkelman and @fareedzakaria here @aspenideas 2025.
June 30, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Great to speak about #PennStation and #Abundance with @marcdunkelman and @fareedzakaria here @aspenideas 2025.
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Join @vishaan.bsky.social at the Aspen Ideas Festival for the following talks:
• 6/26 @ 7:45 pm MDT - Climate Parables: Imagination for a Warming World
• 6/29 @ 2:10 pm MDT - A Tale of Two Train Stations (roundtable)
• 6/30 @ 2:10 pm MDT - Roadblock: Have Progressive Politics Killed Progress?
• 6/26 @ 7:45 pm MDT - Climate Parables: Imagination for a Warming World
• 6/29 @ 2:10 pm MDT - A Tale of Two Train Stations (roundtable)
• 6/30 @ 2:10 pm MDT - Roadblock: Have Progressive Politics Killed Progress?
Architect; Founder and Creative Director, PAU (Practice for Architecture and Urbanism) | Aspen Ideas
Engage with ideas that matter with Vishaan Chakrabarti and the Aspen Ideas Festival.
www.aspenideas.org
June 25, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Join @vishaan.bsky.social at the Aspen Ideas Festival for the following talks:
• 6/26 @ 7:45 pm MDT - Climate Parables: Imagination for a Warming World
• 6/29 @ 2:10 pm MDT - A Tale of Two Train Stations (roundtable)
• 6/30 @ 2:10 pm MDT - Roadblock: Have Progressive Politics Killed Progress?
• 6/26 @ 7:45 pm MDT - Climate Parables: Imagination for a Warming World
• 6/29 @ 2:10 pm MDT - A Tale of Two Train Stations (roundtable)
• 6/30 @ 2:10 pm MDT - Roadblock: Have Progressive Politics Killed Progress?
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Please join the ICA in welcoming @vishaan.bsky.social for a discussion of his book, The Architecture of Urbanity, on 17 April at 7 pm BST. He will be in conversation with RIBA award winning architect Gurmeet Sian.
Book your tickets today:
Book your tickets today:
ICA | BOOK LAUNCH The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy
The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is London’s leading space for contemporary culture. We commission, produce and present new work in film, music, performance and the visual arts by today’s…
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April 9, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Please join the ICA in welcoming @vishaan.bsky.social for a discussion of his book, The Architecture of Urbanity, on 17 April at 7 pm BST. He will be in conversation with RIBA award winning architect Gurmeet Sian.
Book your tickets today:
Book your tickets today:
Reposted by Vishaan Chakrabarti
Please join the ICA in welcoming @vishaan.bsky.social for a discussion of his book, The Architecture of Urbanity, on 17 April at 7 pm BST. He will be in conversation with RIBA award winning architect Gurmeet Sian.
Book your tickets today:
Book your tickets today:
ICA | BOOK LAUNCH The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy
The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is London’s leading space for contemporary culture. We commission, produce and present new work in film, music, performance and the visual arts by today’s…
www.ica.art
April 13, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Please join the ICA in welcoming @vishaan.bsky.social for a discussion of his book, The Architecture of Urbanity, on 17 April at 7 pm BST. He will be in conversation with RIBA award winning architect Gurmeet Sian.
Book your tickets today:
Book your tickets today:
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Don't miss The Architecture of Urbanity author @vishaan.bsky.social at @sxsw.com tomorrow (March 8) at 10 am CST for his talk, "Designing Architecture for Nature, Culture, and Joy."
For more details, visit: schedule.sxsw.com/2025/events/...
#SXSW
For more details, visit: schedule.sxsw.com/2025/events/...
#SXSW
March 7, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Don't miss The Architecture of Urbanity author @vishaan.bsky.social at @sxsw.com tomorrow (March 8) at 10 am CST for his talk, "Designing Architecture for Nature, Culture, and Joy."
For more details, visit: schedule.sxsw.com/2025/events/...
#SXSW
For more details, visit: schedule.sxsw.com/2025/events/...
#SXSW
Thrilled to named by @designphile.bsky.social as this year’s Edmund N. Bacon Urban Design honoree!
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2025 Edmund N. Bacon Urban Design Awards | Vishaan Chakrabarti + the Student Design Competition Winners
Join us in honoring Vishaan Chakrabarti and the student winners of DesignPhiladelphia's 2025 Edmund N. Bacon Urban Design Awards. Vishaan Chakrabarti is an architect, author, and public thought leader...
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March 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Thrilled to named by @designphile.bsky.social as this year’s Edmund N. Bacon Urban Design honoree!
designphiladelphia.org/event/2025-e...
designphiladelphia.org/event/2025-e...
Thrilled to serve on the board of this stellar organization, The World Around, so fearlessly and brilliantly led by Beatrice Galilee. Congratulations to the extraordinary winners of this years Young Climate Prize. #climate #design #optimism
theworldaround.com/ycp/
theworldaround.com/ycp/
| Young Climate Prize Home - The World Around
Carlos Ayvazian
theworldaround.com
February 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Thrilled to serve on the board of this stellar organization, The World Around, so fearlessly and brilliantly led by Beatrice Galilee. Congratulations to the extraordinary winners of this years Young Climate Prize. #climate #design #optimism
theworldaround.com/ycp/
theworldaround.com/ycp/
Great to talk to @randycohen48.bsky.social on @personplace134.bsky.social about Donna Tartt, Tokyo, and my Airstream…https://personplacething.org/517-vishaan-chakrabarti/
517: Vishaan Chakrabarti | Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen
Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen is an interview show based on this idea: people are particularly engaging when they speak not directly about themselves but about something they care about. Guests ...
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January 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Great to talk to @randycohen48.bsky.social on @personplace134.bsky.social about Donna Tartt, Tokyo, and my Airstream…https://personplacething.org/517-vishaan-chakrabarti/
Icicles are cool.
January 21, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Icicles are cool.
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Sean Ruthen calls @vishaan.bsky.social's The Architecture of Urbanity an “architectural mic drop” and “one of the most important [books] to have been written for this generation” in @spacing.bsky.social! spacing.ca/national/202...
Book Review: The Architecture of Urbanity - Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy - Spacing National
“The means for the design professions to advance an architecture of urbanity are clear – architecture practices should strive to build an infrastructure of opportunity that expands urban affordability...
spacing.ca
January 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Sean Ruthen calls @vishaan.bsky.social's The Architecture of Urbanity an “architectural mic drop” and “one of the most important [books] to have been written for this generation” in @spacing.bsky.social! spacing.ca/national/202...
“Wonderful. . . . an architectural mic drop. . . . The Architecture of Urbanity is not just the most important book you will read this year, but perhaps one of the most important to have been written for this generation.” @seanruthen @Spacing
spacing.ca/national/202...
spacing.ca/national/202...
Book Review: The Architecture of Urbanity - Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy - Spacing National
“The means for the design professions to advance an architecture of urbanity are clear – architecture practices should strive to build an infrastructure of opportunity that expands urban affordability...
spacing.ca
January 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
“Wonderful. . . . an architectural mic drop. . . . The Architecture of Urbanity is not just the most important book you will read this year, but perhaps one of the most important to have been written for this generation.” @seanruthen @Spacing
spacing.ca/national/202...
spacing.ca/national/202...
Vital City | The Fires This Time
A New Yorker mourns the conflagrations engulfing Los Angeles.
www.vitalcitynyc.org
January 14, 2025 at 10:37 PM
The Architecuture of Urbanity has made @FastCompany’s list of the year’s best design books: “A hopeful and inspiring mandate for today’s designers and architects.” www.fastcompany.com/91245522/the...
The best design books of 2024
From an atlas of never-built architecture to a monograph on Alexander Girard, 2024 had a wealth of exciting design books.
www.fastcompany.com
December 20, 2024 at 3:55 PM
The Architecuture of Urbanity has made @FastCompany’s list of the year’s best design books: “A hopeful and inspiring mandate for today’s designers and architects.” www.fastcompany.com/91245522/the...
@ARCHITZER’s project of the day is #Domino! architizer.com/projects/q/
Architizer: Architectural Projects and Design Interiors
Architizer features the best buildings and design interiors from today’s best architects. Publish your architectural projects today and get featured.
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December 13, 2024 at 2:42 PM
@ARCHITZER’s project of the day is #Domino! architizer.com/projects/q/
Looking forward to digging into this ambitious housing plan from @zellnor.bsky.social
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December 3, 2024 at 12:35 PM
Looking forward to digging into this ambitious housing plan from @zellnor.bsky.social
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Justin Davidson on The Architecture of Urbanity: “This eminently portable manifesto makes the grandest possible case for architecture, not just as the art of putting up individual buildings, but as a tool to help people from different cultures interact.“
www.curbed.com/article/arch...
www.curbed.com/article/arch...
December 2, 2024 at 3:06 PM
Justin Davidson on The Architecture of Urbanity: “This eminently portable manifesto makes the grandest possible case for architecture, not just as the art of putting up individual buildings, but as a tool to help people from different cultures interact.“
www.curbed.com/article/arch...
www.curbed.com/article/arch...
Great birthday dinner last night @vikaskhanna’s ethereal @bungalow
November 30, 2024 at 11:21 PM
Great birthday dinner last night @vikaskhanna’s ethereal @bungalow
November 28, 2024 at 5:11 PM
A must read, especially because unlike so many election postmortems, this is backed by hard to refute statistics from @WDeresiewicz
www.chronicle.com/article/acad...
www.chronicle.com/article/acad...
The Politics of the Academy Have Been Defeated
Americans are fed up, and not just people who voted for Trump.
www.chronicle.com
November 26, 2024 at 8:56 PM
A must read, especially because unlike so many election postmortems, this is backed by hard to refute statistics from @WDeresiewicz
www.chronicle.com/article/acad...
www.chronicle.com/article/acad...