Mission of SCE
Encompassing a unique confluence of design disciplines, the School of Constructed Environments nurtures and guides tomorrow’s leaders in socially and environmentally sustainable, technologically innovative buildings, interiors, lighting, and products. In a time of unprecedented change, we foster the skills, values, and vision vital to creative thinking and the realization of a more integrated, equitable and delightful world.
Student and Alumni News
MFA Industrial Design student, Jessica Thies at the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center
On April 20th, MFA Industrial Designstudent, Jessica Thies, spoke about her thesis work at the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center. As a part of The Bio-Inspired Green (BIG) Science & Technology Symposium, she was on the Sustainable & Smart Fashion panel along with another student and faculty from FIT.
Healthy Materials Lab: We’re hiring Student Assistants!
Are you looking to join a team of passionate and creative people working to make the world a healthier place for all people? Healthy Materials Lab and Donghia healthier Materials Library (DhML) is looking for Student Research Assistants and Student Library Assistants. Please read the description of the opportunities below …
Faculty News
Matt Burgermaster wins two AIA design awards for projects featuring reuse and circularity
SCE faculty Matt Burgermaster received two Honor Awards in AIA New Jersey’s 2023 Design Competition for recent projects by his office MABU in the built and unbuilt categories – DOUBLE TAKE and FOODLAB. To see the full list of winners, please visit the AIA’s official website. DOUBLE TAKE is an …
Faculty Eva Perez de Vega is a recipient of the Architectural League 2023 Architecture + Design Independent Projects Grant
With her practice e+i studio, Eva will prototype a sculptural, stackable, modular vertical structure that will create spaces for animals, insects, and plants. This multispecies totem integrates habitats and aims to acknowledge and recover space for animal habitats that have been vulnerable to disturbance from previous human intervention. Carbon-positive and …
School News
Special Projects
Aftertaste
AFTERTASTE is a series of lectures and roundtable conversations dedicated to the critical review of interior design. The symposium is intended as an expansive meditation on the concept of the interior environment and its constituent elements.
Publications
MFA ID Faculty Spotlight: Maria Linares Trelles and Lluís Alexandre Casanovas Blanco: Expansions – Biennale di Venezia 2021
Expansions, edited by Hashim Sarkis and Ala Tannir, gathers over 80 responses to the question posed by the Biennale Architettura 2021’s theme – How will we live together? These contributions act as an extension to the different thematics presented by participants in the galleries in Venice. Assembling the voices and …
New Oxford Handbook of Rhetorical Studies features Dean Kirkbride’s chapter “Rhetoric and Architecture”
In an age of global media networks and viral communication, rhetoric is once again contagious and communicable. Featuring 60 commissioned chapters by eminent rhetoric scholars from 12 countries, The Oxford Handbook of Rhetorical Studies offers students and teachers an accessible but sophisticated one-volume introduction to the multidisciplinary field of rhetorical …