Clinton Hill-based arts school Pratt Institute was included in Architectural Digest‘s Top Ten list of campus architecture. Here’s the blurb on it:

A fire at the architecture school, Higgins Hall, occasioned Steven Holl’s translucent addition in 2005, left, linking landmark buildings on Pratt’s stately 19th-century redbrick campus. Says Holl, “It is about being able to read time in layers.” Other contemporary standouts on this small, enclosed campus include Leo J. Pantas Hall dormitory, a 1980s Skidmore, Owings & Merrill design, but it’s the dozens of structures built between 1885 and World War II that put Pratt on the National Register of Historic Places.

Not surprisingly, other picks included places like UVA, Yale and Harvard.
Ten College Campuses with the Best Architecture [Architectural Digest]
Arch Digest Names Pratt As a College With Best Architecture [Brooklyn Eagle]
Photo by Hagen Stier


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  1. The Holl addition is one of the most sophisticated modern buildings in Brooklyn. It is basically a giant internal ramp connecting the unaligned floor levels of the old buildings on either side. Blayze, study it some more, it will grow on you.
    I like the improvements made to the Pratt campus over the past ten or so years. It still has a ways to go to be UVA or Yale, but it is a very nice academic oasis in the heart of residential Brooklyn.