Vishaan Chakrabarti
Director, Real Estate Development Program + The Marc Holliday Professor of Real Estate Development, GSAPP

With responses by
Charles Bagli, The New York Times
Julie Iovine, Architect's Newspaper
Eliot Brown, The New York Observer

Vishaan Chakrabarti is the Marc Holliday Professor of Real Estate Development and the Director of the Real Estate Development program in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University. For 2009-2010, the University of Virginia has also named Chakrabarti as the Jaquelin T. Robertson Visiting Professorship in Architecture. Chakrabarti is the founding principal of VCDC, an urban design firm based in Manhattan. Formerly an Executive Vice President of Related Companies, Chakrabarti ran the design operations for the firm's development portfolio including Moynihan Station. From 2002 to 2005, he served as the Director of the Manhattan Office for the New York Department of City Planning. Prior to this, Chakrabarti was an Associate Partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. He holds a Masters in Architecture from Berkeley, a Masters degree in City Planning from MIT, and dual Bachelors degrees in Art History and Engineering from Cornell.

Organized by The Real Estate Development Program, GSAPP