SCE Double Major recognition – Maria Alexandra Llerena

Maria Alexandra Llerena was named one of the top 50 interior design students graduating this year in North America as part of the inaugural Metropolis Future 100 program. Alexandra Llerena was nominated by William Watson, Visiting Assistant Professor at Parsons back in November 2020. The Metropolis Future 100 is an award …


Guest Speakers for 2021 SCE Graduate and Undergraduate Recognition Ceremonies

SCE leadership is delighted to announce the Guest Speakers for our 2021 SCE Graduate and Undergraduate Recognition Ceremonies. We look forward to the festivities! SCE Graduate Recognition Ceremony May 12, 2021 Pascale Sablan Pascale Sablan, FAIA, NOMA, LEED AP, is the 2021 AIA Whitney M. Young. Jr Award recipient for her …


Zach Violette has won the Spiro Kostof Book Award

The Society of Architectural Historians has just announced that Zach Violette’s book has won the Spiro Kostof Book Award. This award honors “interdisciplinary studies of urban history that make the greatest contribution to our understanding of the growth and development of cities.” Engaging with the topic of American urban housing, …


Pivots During the Pause”: Reconfiguring the “Ethnographic Toolkit”

This Friday, 4/23 from 12-1:30, Dean Kirkbride will moderate the Roundtable, “Pivots During the Pause”: Reconfiguring the “Ethnographic Toolkit” for a Pandemic, as part of The Memory Studies Group’s online conference, Suspended Present. Featuring presentations by three students from NSSR’s Department of Anthropology, the Roundtable is part of the annual conference on April 21 – 23, 2021, hosted by The …


New Book by Professor Mark Hage

Congratulations to Mark Hage, Parsons SCE faculty, on the publication of Capital, a photographic essay and exploration of New York’s shuttered stores, and a mediation on impermanence. “At first, and perhaps out of discomfort, I walked by thinking of them as surface, without seeking depth or further understanding. But with time, …