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School Overview Faculty Student Work Apply Request Information Visit SCE — S chool of C onstructed E nvironments Programs Architecture BFA Architectural Design M.Arch Architecture Product + Industrial Design BFA Product Design MFA Industrial Design Interior Design AAS Interior Design BFA Interior Design MFA Interior Design Lighting Design MFA Lighting Design Joint Degree Programs M.Arch / MFA Dual Degree Architecture + Lighting Design MFA Double Major Interior Design + Lighting Design Leadership News Student and Alumni News Faculty News School News Special Projects Design Workshop Street Seats External Partnerships Timber in The City Michael Kalil Endowment Disaster Preparedness and Creative Design Empowerhouse Publications Events Public Programs Aftertaste Lighting Public Programs Feminism and Architecture Global Exchange Connect SCE Programs BFA Architectural Design M.Arch Architecture MFA Industrial Design Interior Design MFA Lighting Design BFA Product Design Parsons School of Design The New School 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.Product and Industrial Design Fall Public Program Product and Industrial Design Spring Alumni Public Program Lighting Design Fall Public Program Interior Design Fall Public Program 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 SCE faculty Jeremy Barbour’s firm Tacklebox Architecture is recognized with multiple design awards for their recently completed project - % Arabica Coffee Nishan Kazazian Presents Forthcoming Book at Material Eco-systems: Digital, Physical, and Cultural Assemblies Symposium in Venice, November ’23 Craig Bernecker Chosen to be President of the U.S. National Committee of the International Commission on Illumination (CIE) for 2023-2027; represented U.S. at Quadrennial Conference of the CIE Dr. Sharon Egretta Sutton wins Women in Architecture award from Architectural Record New York passive House Healthy Materials Lab The New School Parsons: Regenerative Metropolis: High Performance Carbon Sequestration Parsons Interior Design Faculty Represented at the IDEC 2023 East Regional Conference MFA Lighting Design Graduate, Lydia Simpson ’23, Wins IESNYC Thesis Award Things to Live With. Parsons MFA of Industrial Design class of 2023 at Wanted Design. Nicholas Byrne, MFA Lighting Design ’23, Co-Founder of recycleReality Awarded Two OBIE Awards as 2022 "Breakthrough Artist" IESNYC Announces Yun-Hsuan Tsai, MFA Lighting Design, as 2023 Merit Scholarship Recipient Pamela Elizarrarás Acitores, Parsons SCE Alumni – Winner of The World Around Young Climate Prize 2023 Product and Industrial Design Fall Public Program Product and Industrial Design Spring Alumni Public Program Lighting Design Fall Public Program Interior Design Fall Public Program 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 SCE faculty Jeremy Barbour’s firm Tacklebox Architecture is recognized with multiple design awards for their recently completed project - % Arabica Coffee Nishan Kazazian Presents Forthcoming Book at Material Eco-systems: Digital, Physical, and Cultural Assemblies Symposium in Venice, November ’23 Craig Bernecker Chosen to be President of the U.S. National Committee of the International Commission on Illumination (CIE) for 2023-2027; represented U.S. at Quadrennial Conference of the CIE Dr. Sharon Egretta Sutton wins Women in Architecture award from Architectural Record New York passive House Healthy Materials Lab The New School Parsons: Regenerative Metropolis: High Performance Carbon Sequestration Parsons Interior Design Faculty Represented at the IDEC 2023 East Regional Conference MFA Lighting Design Graduate, Lydia Simpson ’23, Wins IESNYC Thesis Award Things to Live With. Parsons MFA of Industrial Design class of 2023 at Wanted Design. Nicholas Byrne, MFA Lighting Design ’23, Co-Founder of recycleReality Awarded Two OBIE Awards as 2022 "Breakthrough Artist" IESNYC Announces Yun-Hsuan Tsai, MFA Lighting Design, as 2023 Merit Scholarship Recipient Pamela Elizarrarás Acitores, Parsons SCE Alumni – Winner of The World Around Young Climate Prize 2023 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 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 … MFA Lighting Design Graduate, Lydia Simpson ’23, Wins IESNYC Thesis Award 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 … See more student and alumni news Faculty News 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’ … See more faculty news School News 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: … Brian McGrath: Conversation between Design and Environmental Sciences: Waterscape Urbanism and the City as an Ecosystem 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 … See more school news Special Projects Street Seats In spring 2016, undergraduate students from The New School’s Parsons School of Design, Eugene Lang College, and Schools of Public Engagement collaborated with the NYC DOT on the City’s Street Seats initiative as part of the Design Build” course. Design Workshop The Design Workshop is an innovative studio that provides pro bono...