Faculty News



Professor David J. Lewis’s Firm Awarded Progressive Architecture Award 2018

  LTL’s Helen R. Walton Children’s Enrichment Center / Early Childhood Initiatives Center, a collaboration with SCAPE Landscape Architecture, is a recipient of the 65th Annual Progressive Architecture Awards Citation. This important project for the community is currently under construction, and part of the Northwest Arkansas Design Excellence Program. To …


Parsons x Roche Bobois Joint Studio: Final Projects and Winners

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU5qo-ntVuA   During Fall 2017 semester, students in MFA Industrial Design and BFA Product Design worked with the prestigious French furniture store, Roche Bobois, to prototype full-scale seating devices aimed at reinvigorating “the cultural and historical rituals of resting, gathering, and nourishing the body.” The winners are: First Prize: The …


LEVENBETTS wins two 2018 NYAIA Awards

Square House: Honor Award in Architecture The Square House is a 43’ x 43’ house designed around a very simple concept: that architecture can completely engage landscape not just through its apertures but from its organizational basis and its approach to what it means to be inside and outside. There …


LEVENBETTS, LTL and Rice Lipka win AIANY 2018 Desgin Awards

Current M.Arch Faculty David Leven, David Lewis and Astrid Lipka of LEVENBETTS, LTL, and Rice+Lipka respectively were honored in the 2018 New York City AIA Chapter taking honor and merit awards in the architecture, interior and projects categories for the projects: Square House + Cornell Rhodes Hall; Manual of Section …


Congrats Matt Burgermaster, winner of the 2018 New Practices New York Competition!

Left: MABU, Unbuilding Long Branch, New Jersey. Image: MABU Right: MABU, Machine out to Pasture, New Jersey.  Image: MABU   SCE faculty Matt Burgermaster is a winner of the 2018 New Practices New York Competition.  Sponsored by the AIA New York Chapter, this biennial award serves as the preeminent platform …


“I tell color stories,” Pam Klein

In Fall 2017 at a Parsons SCE Full Time Faculty meeting, Pam Klein, Associate Professor of Interior Design, shared new paintings produced during her Fall 2016 academic leave. For years, Professor Klein has offered AAS Interior Design students her deep and direct knowledge of color, in practice and theory, through …


Carlo Enzo and His Design Studio 5 Final Projects

CARLO ENZO UOA, ARCHITECT, FOUNDING PRINCIPAL URBAN OFFICE ARCHITECTURE Registered Architect in NY, NJ, MI, Member of the National Council of Architecture Registration Board, Member of the Institute for Urban Design, Adjunct Professor at Parsons School of Design, has received a Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design at Columbia …


Senior Architecture & Urban Design Studio in Chiangmai, Thailand

From January 6 to 14th, twelve Parsons Architectural Design and Urban Design students and ten students from the International Design and Architecture program at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok participated in an international workshop in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The theme of the workshop, #watchingthericegrow grew out of SCE Professor Brian McGrath’s …


How many ghosts can haunt a building at once?

Over the past several months, Dean Robert Kirkbride has been considering this question through a series of lectures, interviews and award-winning writing. When the building at question is one of the 34 remaining Kirkbride Hospitals for the Insane, which share the tragic legacy of a very real, very troubled past, …


Dr. Sharon Egretta Sutton – Full time faculty

Dr. Sharon Egretta Sutton, FAIA is an activist educator and public scholar who promotes inclusivity in the cultural makeup of the city-making professions and in the populations they serve, and also advocates for participatory planning and design processes in disenfranchised communities. Over a 42-year period, Dr. Sutton has served on …