Architect and SCE Faculty Victoria Benatar featured in New York Social Diary

Image: Victoria Benatar shining in her sunny sunny Upper East Side living room.
Photography by Jeff Hirsch


INSIDE (hi) STORIES: Allan Wexler on the Art of Building in Ten Books

Image: “Two Too Large Tables”, in collaboration with Ellen Wexler, Hudson River Park, NYC, 2006   INSIDE (hi) STORIES Allan Wexler: On the Art of Building in Ten Books September 12, 2013, 6:00 – 7:00 pm The Glass Corner, Rm 206, 25 East 13th Street   Wexler’s work explores the relationship …


Fall 2013 SCE Public Programs Schedule

  SCE CONVOCATION Introduction to Fall 2013 Thursday, August 29, 2013 6:00 – 7:00 pm Wollman Hall, 65 W 11th, 5th Floor Catered Reception to Follow INSIDE (hi) STORIES Allan Wexler: On the Art of Building in Ten Books Thursday, September 12, 2013 6:00 – 7:00 pm The Glass Corner, …


Product Design Graduate Wins Childrens Footwear Award

  Product Design Graduate, Siramol Muan On-Sri’s childrens footwear design was recently selected by the Pensole Footwear Design Academy as the winner of the kids shoe category. On-Sri was first invited to attend a master class at Pensole with 24 other young product designers where she attended the “Future of …


SCE Convocation 2013

  Thursday, August 29, 2013 6:00 pm – 6:50 pm Wollman Hall 65 W. 11th St, 5th Floor To mark the start of the academic year, all students, faculty and staff of SCE are invited to attend the SCE Convocation. The Dean and Directors will provide an overview of the coming …


Timber in the City Competition Winners

The Timber In The City Competition, which was co-sponsored by by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and the School of Constructed Environments at Parsons the New School for Design, asked participants to to design a mid-rise, mixed-use complex with affordable housing units, a job training/educational facility, a center …


2nd edition of “Architecture and Memory: the Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro” Now Available

A new digital edition of SCE Faculty Member Robert Kirkbride’s multimedia book, Architecture and Memory: the Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro, which received the Gutenberg-e Prize and was nominated for the Herbert Baxter Adams Book Award, was recently re-formatted and launched on a second site, the ACLS (American Council …


Empowerhouse Recently Featured in ClimateProgress Online Magazine

Two years ago, students from Parsons The New School for Design and Stevens Institute of Technology worked together to design “Empowerhouse” as an entry for the US Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon.  And now, Lakiya Culley and her three sons are living in the duplex home built by Habitat for …


Recent M.Arch Graduate Thesis Featured in Fast Company Blog

Masters of Architecture Graduate, Rahul Shah, was recently featured in Fast Company’s Co.Exist Blog. The article highlights Shah’s thesis project, called Exorcise Pool, in which he develops a solution to the polluted Newtown Creek that divides East Williamsburg and Queens in New York. Shah’s plan involves rerouting the contaminated water …


Two MFA Interior Design Students Win IIDA Competition

Last spring, Two MFA Interior Design students, Samantha Obell and Paloma Sherman, won the 2013 International Interior Design Association New York Design This! Competition. Students were given one hour to design the floor of a public space using new DesignFLEX Visualizer software. Obell and Sherman were given a space with …