Vishaan Chakrabarti is the founder and creative director of Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU), based in New York City. The firm design at a range of scales, from city plans to individual buildings. Recent projects include the Domino Sugar Refinery in Brooklyn, completed in 2023, and the ongoing redesign of New York’s Penn Station, with HOK.

Chakrabarti is the author of two books: The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy, published last year by Princeton University Press, and A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for an Urban America, published by Metropolis Books in 2013. In 2025 he was awarded the Edmund N Bacon Urban Design Award in recognition of his visionary approach to urbanism, commitment to ecological and equitable design, and leadership in shaping the built environment.