May 1, 2025, was a significant date for many NYC building owners as it marked the first annual compliance report filing deadline for Local Law 97 (LL97). Enacted in 2019 as part of the larger NYC Climate Mobilization Act (CMA), LL97 requires covered buildings to report their greenhouse gas (GHG) …

Faculty member Eva Perez de Vega attended the international conference in Brighton UK, called: Domesticity Under Siege. She presented her work under the title “Design Tools for Multi-species Flourishing.” You can find out more at this link.

    The School of Constructed Environments is proud to share that Faculty Nishan Kazazian was featured in The Armenian Spectator, detailing his Armenian heritage, and how his upbringing in Beirut, Lebanon shaped his artistic practices in the wake of The Armenian Genocide. Nishan Kazazian is a licensed American architect …

Andrew Bernheimer, an Associate Professor of Architecture is the founding Principal of Bernheimer Architecture based in Brooklyn, NY. “History was made in Brooklyn today when the union at Bernheimer Architecture ratified the first-ever collective bargaining agreement (CBA) at a private sector architecture firm. The milestone contract has language about the …

Congratulations to faculty member Andrew Bernheimer!   Bernheimer Architecture is proud to have been selected by The Architect’s Newspaper as Best of Practice 2024, medium-sized firm/Northeast. Quoting the Editors of AN: “The Best of Practice Awards commend the overall operations and structures of companies within the AEC community. It’s an …

SCE faculty, Victoria Benatar, was recently appointed to the NY AIA Board of Directors! Read more here.

EXD ARCHITECTURE, directed by SCE faculty member Victoria Benatar, was recently featured on Bloomberg TV’s World’s Greatest. WHO IS EXD? Based in the ever-changing city of New York, Victoria Benatar and Michelle Cianfaglione founded EXD ARCHITECTURE to use design to analyze dualities in the city, which they translate into ‘layered’ …

SCE faculty member and KPF Principal, Hana Kassem, was one of the 10 architects elevated from AIA’s New York City chapter to Fellowship, and one of only two in the Design category. The 2024 Jury of Fellows for the American Institute of Architects (AIA) elevated 96 new members to its …

We are so proud to see Andrew Bernheimer leading an exemplary firm in affordable housing in New York. “There are other developers and designers of affordable housing whose work has also raised the bar around the country, among them the architects David Baker in San Francisco, Andrew Bernheimer in Brooklyn …

  The East Flatbush Public Library scope includes a full renovation of the entire exterior façade and roof as well as the 8,000-square-foot interior. The original 1988 library building had an unwelcoming facade that was closed off from visual access to the street and when inside, there was no natural …