Vishaan Chakrabarti, AIA, is the director of Columbia University’s Center for Urban Real Estate (CURE). An architect and planner, Chakrabarti has worked in both the public and private sectors: as a director at the New York City Planning Commission; an associate partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; a transportation planner for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and as an executive at the Related Companies. In March 2012, Chakrabarti became a partner at SHoP Architects.
Participating Programs
The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy
Mirror, Mirror… Who is the Slenderest of them All?
Vertical Density II: Learning from Hong Kong
Vertical Density: the Public Dimension
