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

Parsons Lighting Students Win IESNYC Student Competition

Parsons first year lighting students Anirudh Anand, Priyanka Shah and Aarohi Mittal win Grand Prize for their project “Beyond the Veil” and Wan-Chien (Shelly) Lin won Honorable Mention for “Bio-Shimmer”. “Beyond the Veil” celebrates and laments the fleeting moments of interaction that we all share with millions of other city …

Announcing the Class of 2023 Metropolis Future100 Honorees

Each year, Metropolis sets out to designate the top graduating architecture and interior design students in the United States and Canada. The program, sponsored by Armstrong, Daltile, Formica, Interface, Kawneer, Keilhauer, Sherwin-Williams, and Yabu Pushelberg, invited the most talented students from the class of 2023 to apply. “Supporting the next …



  Faculty News

Designing Change – Virtual Panel Discussion

SCE Faculty Rama Chorpash is participating in a Virtual Panel Discussion called Designing Change at the Museum of Vancouver as part of the Why I Design series. MOV is hosting this online panel inspired by the provocative messages and design elements of Tobias Wong’s art – featured artist in the All We Want …

Medal of Honor awarded to Andrew Bernheimer, FAIA AIANY 2023 Award Ceremony

Andy Bernheimer, Associate Professor of Architecture, received the AIANY Medal of Honor award at the Annual Award Lunch, April 20, 2023.  The Medal of Honor, conferred by AIANY since 1914, is the Chapter’s highest form of recognition. It acknowledges an architect or firm of architects for distinguished work and high professional …



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LTL Architects selected for International DAM Architectural Book Award by Frankfurt Book Fair

SCE Faculty member, David J. Lewis is awarded along with his firm, LTL Architects and Princeton Architectural Press one of ten prestigious awards for the best architecture book of the year 2016 for their book, Manual of Section (PAPress, 2016).  This international award was given by the Deutsches Architekture Museum (DAM) and was selected …

Kirkbride Hospitals for the Insane: Part 2

Kirkbride Hospitals for the Insane: Part 2 A Book Launch, Panel Discussion and Video Screenings with SCE Dean Robert Kirkbride, Rusty Tagliareni, Christina Mathews + guests Date: Monday, September 19th Time: 7pm Location: Morbid Anatomy Museum, 424 Third Avenue, 11215 Brooklyn Event link: http://morbidanatomymuseum.org/event/kirkbride-hospitals-for-the-insane-part-2-a-book-launch-panel-discussion-and-video-screenings-with-robert-kirkbride-rusty-tagliareni-and-christina-mathews/   In this follow-up to a …



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