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 …

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 …

Brian McGrath and Danai Thaitakoo’s collaborative and respective works have opened up a new approach to seeing and designing a city as part of wider ecological processes mediated by water flow. The architects’ engagement with environmental sciences — landscape ecology and hydrology in particular — has contributed to the emerging …

  Against the backdrop of climate change, including an increase in guerrilla downpours and rising urban temperatures, there is a growing movement in the fields of urban design and architecture to seek forms of coexistence with ecosystems. We will invite Brian McGrath and Danai Thaitakoo to this event from New …

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 …

  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. …

Regenerative Metropolis: High Performance Carbon Sequestration:

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 …

Congratulations to 2023 Thesis Award Recipient, Lydia Simpson ’23!   Lydia Simpson is a recent graduate of the Parsons School of Design MFA Lighting Design program. She received a BFA in Design and Technology for Theater from the University of North Georgia and worked as a Lighting Designer in Atlanta …