Mission of SCE
Encompassing a unique confluence of design disciplines, the School of Constructed Environments nurtures and guides tomorrow’s leaders in socially and environmentally sustainable, technologically innovative buildings, interiors, lighting, and products. In a time of unprecedented change, we foster the skills, values, and vision vital to creative thinking and the realization of a more integrated, equitable and delightful world.
Student and Alumni News
Lighting Design Student Nayoun Ryu Receives Jules Horton International Student Achievement Award from the Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education
This annual award is given to an international student who is studying lighting design in the United States and has achieved outstanding performance. The award, named after Jules Horton, a pioneering lighting designer who immigrated to the United States from Poland, is intended to support international students in their pursuit …
Lighting Design Student, Nayoun Ryu, Featured in Headhi Lamp Show
Head Hi, a hybrid space dedicated to books, art, design, conversation and coffee near the Brooklyn Navy Yard, is thrilled to announce the artist list and details for the 4th Annual Head Hi Lamp Show. This year’s edition, which will feature over 50 and designers, will be the first in HeadHi’s new 1,400 …
Faculty News
Faculty Eva Perez de Vega is a recipient of the Architectural League 2023 Architecture + Design Independent Projects Grant
With her practice e+i studio, Eva will prototype a sculptural, stackable, modular vertical structure that will create spaces for animals, insects, and plants. This multispecies totem integrates habitats and aims to acknowledge and recover space for animal habitats that have been vulnerable to disturbance from previous human intervention. Carbon-positive and …
Parsons M.Arch Faculty Eva Perez de Vega presents at the UIA World Congress of Architects in Copenhagen: SUSTAINABLE FUTURES
Eva was part of the Science Track panel focused on the Non-Human, which interrogated how “architects contribute to create an awareness to the needs of non-human actors not only on the level of the discipline´s critical role in urban ecology, but also by including non-human´s subjectivities in the built environment.” …
School News
Special Projects
Publications
LTL Architects selected for International DAM Architectural Book Award by Frankfurt Book Fair
SCE Faculty member, David J. Lewis is awarded along with his firm, LTL Architects and Princeton Architectural Press one of ten prestigious awards for the best architecture book of the year 2016 for their book, Manual of Section (PAPress, 2016). This international award was given by the Deutsches Architekture Museum (DAM) and was selected …
Kirkbride Hospitals for the Insane: Part 2
Kirkbride Hospitals for the Insane: Part 2 A Book Launch, Panel Discussion and Video Screenings with SCE Dean Robert Kirkbride, Rusty Tagliareni, Christina Mathews + guests Date: Monday, September 19th Time: 7pm Location: Morbid Anatomy Museum, 424 Third Avenue, 11215 Brooklyn Event link: http://morbidanatomymuseum.org/event/kirkbride-hospitals-for-the-insane-part-2-a-book-launch-panel-discussion-and-video-screenings-with-robert-kirkbride-rusty-tagliareni-and-christina-mathews/ In this follow-up to a …