During his freshman year at Pratt Institute, Mike Pyatok and his classmates boycotted their classes and shut down the School of Architecture. "We wanted to learn something more relevant," says Pyatok, who grew up in nearby industrial Brooklyn with a single mother who was on welfare until he was six. "Watching the factory [in my neighborhood close] while learning about the Medicis, the Pope-there was such dissonance there." After getting his M.Arch. from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Pyatok completed a Fulbright Fellowship in Helsinki, where he embraced the importance of social housing.
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