Dr. Sharon Sutton, FAIA, joins Parsons’ 2017 Design Workshop Team + AIANY Medal of Honor + Upcoming Book signings

Parsons SCE is delighted to announce that Dr. Sharon Sutton, FAIA, renowned architectural educator and emeritus Professor of the University of Washington, has joined our 2017 Design Workshop Studio team to facilitate ethnographic field research with our clients, the Children’s Museum of the Arts, in TriBeCa. As a special consultant, Dr. Sutton will conduct workshops in tandem with studio instructors Mark Gardner and Nick Brinen.

We are also pleased to announce that Dr. Sutton will soon receive the Medal of Honor from AIANY, and there will be two upcoming booksignings by Dr. Sutton for her book, When Ivory Towers Were Black: A Story about Race in America’s Cities and Universities.

On 13 February, at the New York Center for Architecture at 536 LaGuardia Place, Dr. Sutton will present a talk moderated by Carol Loewenson, FAIA. She will speak to the boldness of Columbia’s affirmative action effort, the contribution this effort made to the city-making professions, and the lessons it offers about today’s struggles to achieve more inclusive professions.

Further event details HERE!

On 23 February, at Avery Hall in Ware Library on Columbia’s Morningside Campus, a panel discussion featuring Professors Reinhold Martin and Mabel O. Wilson, and State Senator Bill Perkins will grapple with the disengagement of American universities from today’s social traumas and offer their perspective on the re-engagement of students and faculty in the activism that is occurring nationwide.

Further event details HERE!

If you are unable to make either event, but would like to obtain a copy of the book, it is available from:

Fordham University Press (the publisher) HERE!