Vishaan Chakrabarti at Aspen Ideas FestivalThe Architecture of Urbanity

Aspen Ideas Festival brings brilliant leaders and thinkers from around the globe to discuss the ideas that will help build understanding today and shape tomorrow. This year, Vishaan Chakrabarti, author of the 91桃色 title The Architecture of Urbanity, will be a featured speaker. Chakrabarti is an architect and founder and creative director of PAU (Practice for Architecture and Urbanism), where he leads the firm鈥檚 portfolio of cultural, institutional and public projects, which include the redesign of New York鈥檚 Penn Station and designing the FAA鈥檚 sustainable air traffic control tower prototype. Chakrabarti has over 30 years of urban architecture experience, including president of Moynihan Station Venture at The Related Companies and director of the New York Department of City Planning鈥檚 Manhattan office.