Erika Hinrichs, on her sabbatical year, spent the month of March at the American Academy in Rome as a visiting artist/scholar. She continued her investigative making with weaving from a Casa Rustica studio cross referencing the work with an examination of early Christian mosaics.
Celebrating Erika Hinrichs' Tenure
On May 6th, 2021 In honor of Erika Hinrichs stepping down after 10 1⁄2 years as Chairperson of the Pratt Institute’s Undergraduate Architecture Department, a gathering of her fellow administrators, faculty and students (current and former) took place. Twenty-seven speakers offered their recollections and experience working with and under her leadership.
Pedagogy of Practice
Erika Hinrichs presented her pedagogy of practice at viaARCHITECTURE in Pratt Institute’s second School of Architecture Faculty Practice Presentations. She focused on several publicized projects and recent competition entries.
“Our work can be characterized by a material curiosity, a quality of being crafted, and a thoroughness with its spatial resolution. It is a practice that has generated an interlocking set of stories and relationships in the pursuit of three conditions:
Porosity Interiority MaterialityIt is in the craft of making that a distinction is made between inhabiting and dwelling. Through all of these investigations, we take the opportunity to reconsider the nature of utility. To make something more of it. First by finding additional paths of movement as a means of empowering those who engage the spaces— either for the body or the eye, then to the actual figuring of the space itself.”
KPF Traveling Fellowship Jury 2019
Erika Hinrichs chaired the annual Kohn Pedersen Fox Travelling Fellowship Award Jury, selecting Steven Hillyer, Director of the Archive at Cooper Union School of Architecture and Maria Hurtado de Mendoza, Associate Professor at NJIT and co-founder of Estudio.Entresitio to participate. The summary was that this was a jury that looked first as to how the student work submitted addressed the underlying critical issues of our day.
April 16th, 2019
Denver, Co
New York City
Panel discussion DESIGNING TOWARDS AN EQUITABLE, DIVERSE, AND INCLUSIVE ARCHITECTURE PROFESSION with Esteban Beita and Noor Ul Ain, moderated by Farzam Yazdanseta at the Center for Architecture, NYC.
February 10, 2018
New York City
Panel discussion WOMEN IN ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP NOW with J. Meejin Yoon, Michelle Addington, and Patrice Derrington moderated by Mabel Wilson at the Center for Architecture, NYC.
January 11, 2018
Rosario, Argentina
Erika Hinrichs, Chair of Undergraduate Architecture at Pratt Institute, accompanied the travel studio headed by Guilermo Banchini to Argentina. While there she was invited to lecture at theNational University of Rosario, School of Architecture, Planning and Design. She spoke about PEDAGOGY AND PRATT INSTITUTE.
Rosario, Argentina
