![]() With over thirty years of experience investigating, designing, and implementing 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. Below are brief descriptions of the individuals who form our unique collective, a group of thinkers who build, utopian pragmatists whose dreams of impactful design have been forged in the white heat of hard-fought experience. We are fluent in multiple languages: we speak architecture, we speak culture, we speak ecology, we speak economics, we speak academia, we speak urbanity, we speak government, and, perhaps most importantly, we speak the language of democratic public process, because the complexities of the projects we design demand no less. To achieve this, from the precise scale of an architectural detail to the large scale of a master plan, ours is a group of “swiss-army knives,” professionals who employ an unprecedented range of skills and mindsets. Together we thrive on constraints such as program, constructability, public process, regulation, budget, and schedule as the fuel for innovation and beauty. Our team of thirty, our network of experienced collaborators, and our clients all come to PAU inspired by our desire to palpably and positively impact the world. Given the breadth and depth of our team’s talents, but also in an effort to raise labor standards in our field, we treat our personnel with the utmost respect in terms of compensation, staff development, benefits, and work-life balance. Our designers use both sides of their brains to be as creative as they are analytical. We break down disciplinary boundaries by expanding the definition of architecture and rejecting the silos that have ossified it. We embrace architecture and city planning as allied fields operating along a range of scales. The practice is led by Vishaan Chakrabarti, the firm’s Founder and Creative Director, and Ruchika Modi, the firm’s Principal. ![]() PAU is a New York based studio dedicated to the advancement of sustainable, equitable, and joyous cities.
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