Gil Oberfield Lecture: Jaklitsch/Gardner Architects
This year’s Gil Oberfield Memorial Lecture will feature Jaklitsch/Gardner Architects. Jaklitsch/Gardner is an award-winning design practice with an international reputation for design excellence, material research, and an exacting commitment to craft. Founded in 1998, the firm believes that design possesses the ability to communicate collective values, provide relevance, and create …
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, …
Rama Chorpash in Conversation with Circular City Week
Circular City Week New York brings together local change makers and global front runners as well as a wide range of experts and advocates who would like to join the circular economy movement. The aim of the week is to inspire industry professionals across sectors, showcase international pioneers, highlight local change makers …
Tommy Yang and Cia Siab in Wisconsin explores home and healing in The Battlefields of Memory
The Battlefields of Memory explores “cia siab” (hope) to understand Hmong youth, elders, LGBTQ, and women’s lived experiences of war, historical trauma, memory, resilience, and healing through unpacking home narratives of the bedroom. Historical trauma shows up in traces; whether that is the trace of the refugee camps in an …
SCE Alumna Designed Space for the Germanottas
Oda Olafsrud, SCE M.Arch alumna, completed her project for Joe and Cynthia Germanotta where she had been asked to convert a duplex unit, previously owned by filmmaker Robert Altman, into a habitable home. Inspired by Scandinavian aesthetics, Oda approached the redesign as an exercise in choreographing space whereby art, movement …
Tactile Experience of Music by SCE Alum Md Sujon Ishaq
Expression by Md Sujon Ishaq Song: Yo-Yo Ma, Cello Suite No.1 Over the course of winter break, SCE organized a series of skill-oriented workshops for its students focusing on physical modelmaking and Rhino. The BFA AD alum Md Sujon Ishaq, currently enrolled in the M.Arch program, led a creative workshop …