Craig Bernecker Chosen to be President of the U.S. National Committee of the International Commission on Illumination (CIE) for 2023-2027; represented U.S. at Quadrennial Conference of the CIE

Director of the MFA Lighting Design Program, Craig Bernecker, was chosen to be President of the U.S. National Committee of the International Commission on Illumination (CIE) for 2023-2027. In addition to his elected seat as President of the U.S. CIE, Bernecker went on to represent the U.S. at Quadrennial Conference …

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Dr. Sharon Egretta Sutton wins Women in Architecture award from Architectural Record

  Dr. Sharon Egretta Sutton, FAIA is a 2023 recipient Women in Architecture Award and was honored Friday, October 27, 2023.  Dr. Sutton is a distinguished visiting professor at Parsons School of Design.  Architectural Record’s 10th Annual Women in Architecture Forum and Awards program to recognize and promote women’s design leadership. …


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 …


Parsons M.Arch Faculty Eva Perez de Vega presents at the UIA World Congress of Architects in Copenhagen: SUSTAINABLE FUTURES

Eva was part of the Science Track panel focused on the Non-Human, which interrogated how “architects contribute to create an awareness to the needs of non-human actors not only on the level of the discipline´s critical role in urban ecology, but also by including non-human´s subjectivities in the built environment.” …


Parsons Interior Design Faculty Represented at the IDEC 2023 East Regional Conference

The School of Constructed Environments would like to highlight two of our esteemed Interior Design faculty members here at Parsons, Adeboyega Adefope, AAS ID Director & Assistant Professor of Interiors, Objects, and Technology and Nadia Elrokhsy, Associate Professor of Ecological Design, who both presented at the IDEC 2023 East Regional …