Faculty News



Faculty Member Andrew Bernheimer Makes History in Brooklyn

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 …


Bernheimer Architecture is proud to have been selected by The Architect’s Newspaper as Best of Practice 2024, medium-sized firm/Northeast.

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 …


Victoria Benatar Appointed to NY AIA Board of Directors

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


EXD Architecture Featured on WORLD’S GREATEST at Bloomberg TV

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’ …


Hana Kassem Elevated to the 2024 AIA College of Fellows

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 …


SCE Faculty Andrew Bernheimer featured in the New York Times

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 …


David Leven, faculty of the M.Arch and BFA Architectural Design programs at SCE, and principal of LEVENBETTS, Brooklyn, NY, has been awarded the AIANY 2024 Design Award of Merit for their redesign of the Brooklyn Public Library East Flatbush Branch.

  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 …


Faculty Eva Perez de Vega and her M.Arch Design Studio 1 students participate in the Gingerbread City exhibition at Southstreet Seaport Museum, Invited by the Museum of Architecture

Come see the structures and landscapes built out of gingerbread and other edible (compostable!) treats, for the “Urban Flooding” theme of the exhibition. at The Seaport from 18 November 2023 until 7 January 2024 About the Exhibit: The Gingerbread City® is a city of the future, designed and constructed entirely from …


SCE faculty Jeremy Barbour’s firm Tacklebox Architecture is recognized with multiple design awards for their recently completed project – % Arabica Coffee

SCE faculty Jeremy Barbour’s firm Tacklebox Architecture was selected as WINNER in the Hospitality Interior category and was awarded the top prize BEST OF BEST in the Commercial Interior category in the 2023 Architecture Masterprize Awards. The % Arabica Coffee project also received recognition for design excellence as an Honoree …


Nishan Kazazian Presents Forthcoming Book at Material Eco-systems: Digital, Physical, and Cultural Assemblies Symposium in Venice, November ’23

SCE would like to recognize and celebrate the achievements of one of our own faculty members, Nishan Kazazian, who was invited to present his forthcoming book, OSMOTIC BONDING: Art & Architecture, in Venice at an esteemed symposium on material eco-systems. Read about the experience written in his own words below: …