Pratt - Historic Preservation Program

Pratt - Historic Preservation Program Pratt's Historic Preservation Program prepares students for leadership in a rapidly-changing preservation field.

The Master of Science in Historic Preservation (HP), offered at Pratt’s School of Architecture on the Brooklyn campus, is designed to meet today’s increasing demand for preservation professionals. Students learn the interdisciplinary skills needed to assess contemporary preservation issues and contribute greatly to an ever-expanding field. The Historic Preservation program aims to train preservati

onists that are highly knowledgeable in the field as well as critical enough to push the boundaries of the discipline. Rather than focusing on the preservation of the past the program focuses on diverse strategies to manage change in the present. Even though preservation focuses predominantly in the past it is a truly forward-looking profession fueled by the possibility and the need to find creative solutions that protects cultural resources by ensuring their use and continuity through time.

Ashley Adams-Stauble is an interior designer working in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, and graduated from the Pratt...
05/11/2026

Ashley Adams-Stauble is an interior designer working in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, and graduated from the Pratt HP Master’s program in 2024. Ashley is passionate about the harmony between modern design and heritage preservation. After graduating, Ashley started the Gingerbread Project, which focuses on the preservation of vernacular homes in Trinidad and Tobago, advocacy, and education surrounding local historic architecture. Her involvement in restoring a gingerbread house on Ana St in Woodbrook, Port of Spain led to a lot of public interest, and Ashley was invited on the local news twice and interviewed in the national newspapers once!

Chris Cirillo is a 2016 Pratt HP alum and Executive Director/President of Ascendant Neighborhood Development for over 13...
05/04/2026

Chris Cirillo is a 2016 Pratt HP alum and Executive Director/President of Ascendant Neighborhood Development for over 13 years! A few recent projects that Chris has worked on at Ascendant include Metro North Plaza, part of a NYCHA PACT project that aims to rehabilitate public housing using state and federal Historic Tax Credits, and The Beacon, a project on city-owned land that will rehabilitate a former city school building as a community facility space while adding new affordable rentals. Chris is also a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Pratt HP program, where he teaches Current Issues in Historic Preservation.

Chris Cirillo is a 2016 Pratt HP alum and Executive Director/President of Ascendant Neighborhood Development for over 13...
05/04/2026

Chris Cirillo is a 2016 Pratt HP alum and Executive Director/President of Ascendant Neighborhood Development for over 13 years! A few recent projects that Chris has worked on at Ascendant include Metro North Plaza, part of a NYCHA PACT project that aims to rehabilitate public housing using state and federal Historic Tax Credits, and The Beacon, a project on city-owned land that will rehabilitate a former city school building as a community facility space while adding new affordable rentals. Chris is also a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Pratt HP program, where he teaches Current Issues in Historic Preservation.

Rebecca Krucoff, a 2016 Pratt Historic Preservation graduate, has been working at the intersection of the heritage, educ...
05/04/2026

Rebecca Krucoff, a 2016 Pratt Historic Preservation graduate, has been working at the intersection of the heritage, education and community engagement fields for over 20 years. She has engaged in field-research units and programming with high school students and teachers in NYC public schools through her organization The Urban Memory Project since 2005.

She has been applying those same teaching strategies in her work with undergraduate and graduate Pratt students in both the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment and the Art and Design Education Department, where students apply the strategies of oral history research, field research, and archival research to uncover educational and neighborhood-based histories for a variety of public-facing projects such as exhibitions, presentations, and reports.

02/25/2026

Future preservationists in the making 🏛️✨

First-year Historic Preservation students Suzanne Jackson, Eileen Michaud, and Caroline Hibbert share why they chose the Historic Preservation program at the Pratt Institute within Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment. From hands-on experience to learning in the heart of Brooklyn, they’re building the skills to protect the stories embedded in our built environment.

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