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Posts by Vishaan Chakrabarti

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Roadblock: Have Progressive Politics Killed Progress? YouTube video by The Aspen Institute

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...

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Great to speak about #PennStation and #Abundance with @marcdunkelman and @fareedzakaria here @aspenideas 2025.

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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.

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?

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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…

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:

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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…

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:

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The Refinery at Domino wins Project of the Year at AN’s inaugural The Faces of Our City awards celebration A ceremony honoring the inaugural winners of The Faces of Our City, our New York City facades awards program, were celebrated last night and the Project of the Year winner was announced.

PAU’s Refinery at Domino wins Project of the Year!

www.archpaper.com/2025/04/the-...

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Vital City | Yes to Abundance, Yes to Nuance, Yes to Excellence How to meaningfully build on the newest buzzword in policy and politics

My latest for @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social

www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/abu...

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The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy by Vishaan Chakrabarti

The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy by Vishaan Chakrabarti

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

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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...

Thrilled to named by @designphile.bsky.social as this year’s Edmund N. Bacon Urban Design honoree!

designphiladelphia.org/event/2025-e...

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| Young Climate Prize Home - The World Around Carlos Ayvazian

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/

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Can architecture save the world? It’s worth a try Vishaan Chakrabarti, who founded the New York-based Practice for Architecture and Urbanism, argues that the design professions need to deliver mass quantities of new buildings, mostly housing

Can architecture save the world? It’s worth a try…

www.theglobeandmail.com/life/home-an...

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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 ...

Great to talk to @randycohen48.bsky.social on @personplace134.bsky.social about Donna Tartt, Tokyo, and my Airstream…https://personplacething.org/517-vishaan-chakrabarti/

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Icicles are cool.

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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...

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...

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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...

“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...

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Vital City | The Fires This Time A New Yorker mourns the conflagrations engulfing Los Angeles.

My ode to the great city of Los Angeles.

www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/a-n...

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From Berlin to Brooklyn: A Tale of Two Adaptive Reuse Transformations Tabula rasa is out and radical reuse is in.

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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.

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...

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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.

⁦‪@ARCHITZER‬⁩’s project of the day is #Domino! architizer.com/projects/q/

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Et Tu Kolkata?

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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...

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Great birthday dinner last night @vikaskhanna’s ethereal @bungalow

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Rain, schmaine, the turkey must be smoked and rotisseried outside!

#HappyThanksgiving
#Grateful

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The Politics of the Academy Have Been Defeated Americans are fed up, and not just people who voted for Trump.

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...

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Really liking that Vishaan Chakrabarti regularly points out the original meaning of "The American Dream" and (seemingly?) supports returning to it.

"It was not about cars and houses. It was actually about equal opportunity."

#AmericanDream

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Fun to have my book, The Architecuture of Urbanity, recommended in ⁦‪@WSJ‬⁩ “Holiday Gift Books 2024: Architecture”!

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Atlantic Ocean, 16:58

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#BetterThanEzra

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Bluesky Is Turning Into a Strong X Alternative Bluesky has a hint of the old Twitter magic, but the feeling of freedom it offers might be even better.

“While I still don’t think Bluesky — or any social media app — will ever fully replace the old Twitter, I get what the excitement is about,” our tech columnist @kevinroose.com writes.

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