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School of Architecture New Chair of GCPE Named
Students Study in Historic Rome This spring, 41 fourth-year architecture students participated in the School of Architecture’s Rome Program, which offers students an opportunity to study architecture and Italian culture in the historic city. Architecture professor Frederick Biehle coordinates Pratt’s Rome Program. He, along with Erika Hinrichs and Anthony Caradonna, also on Pratt’s architecture faculty, taught the design studio City of Composite Presence. Outside of class, students attended lectures, enjoyed field trips to southern Italy (Paestum and Puglia), Florence, and northern Italy (Urbino, Spoleto, Venice, Vicenza, Verona, and Mantova) and participated in walking tours, cooking, and wine- and cheese tasting. At the culmination of the semester, participants presented their architectural projects.
Frederick Biehle
Cathy Herman, a highly regarded planning practitioner, has been appointed chair of Pratt’s Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment. Herman has served as director of Planning and Development at Los Sures Community Development Company (Southside United Housing Development Fund Corporation), where she led in the creation and preservation of hundreds of low- and moderate-income apartments in Williamsburg and Greenpoint for more than a decade. Herman, who recently completed a year as a Revson Fellow at Columbia University, received her master’s in city and regional planning from Pratt Institute in 1979. Throughout her years at Pratt and after graduation she was employed by PICCED, now Pratt Center for Community Development.
School of Art and Design
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Donald Ariev
Charles Goslin
School Remembers Beloved Professors Ariev and Goslin Donald Ariev, who had taught in the graduate and undergraduate communications design departments at Pratt for 39 years died in July after a long illness. He had served as chair of the graduate communications/packaging design department for the past 16 years. Ariev also served as a member of Pratt’s Academic Senate, which speaks as the primary voice of Pratt’s faculty, for 13 years, three of those years as its chair. After receiving a bachelor’s in Industrial Design from Pratt Institute in 1960, Ariev became a successful package designer for the Olin Corporation, receiving a number of major awards, including recognition by the American Institute of Graphic Arts. Though he is best known for his work at Schechter & Luth, where he designed the H.J. Heinz logo and developed the company’s corporate identity program, Ariev also created trademarks and directed graphics programs for major corporations such as Macy’s and Exxon and designed several award-winning annual reports for CARE International. He and his wife, Laurel Ariev, had been principals in Ariev & Ariev Design Consultants since 1980. Prominent designer and illustrator Charles Goslin, who began teaching at Pratt Institute in 1966, died in May. Goslin helped to shape the aesthetic in the communications design department by emphasizing concept/metaphor and imagebased design. He educated generations of designers and illustrators who have gone on to successful careers in a wide variety of disciplines and continued to mentor many of his students long after they graduated. For his efforts, Goslin was named Pratt’s Distinguished Professor in 2003. Goslin received a B.F.A. in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1954 and soon began working for noted American designer Lester Beall. He later opened his own studio in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1958, serving such clients as nonprofit organizations, local businesses, and large corporations. Pratt held memorial services this fall to honor Ariev’s and Goslin’s years of dedication to the Institute. To contribute to scholarship funds established at Pratt in their names, please contact Lenora Hallums at 718-636-3600 ext. 2463 or via email at lhallums@pratt.edu.