With over 30 years of proven experience authoring and implementing visionary urban architecture, Vishaan Chakrabarti is the founder and creative director of Practice for Architecture and Urbanism | PAU. He leads the firm’s growing global portfolio of cultural, institutional, and public projects including the redesign of New York’s Penn Station, the design of the FAA’s new sustainable air traffic control tower prototype, the expansion of Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Indianapolis’ new multi-modal Wave Bridge, Brooklyn’s Domino Sugar Refinery, Philadelphia’s Schuylkill Yards, and Princeton's Hobson College.

Vishaan is the author of two books: A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for an Urban America (Metropolis Books, 2013), and most recently, The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy (Princeton University Press, September 2024). 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.