Special Monday night lecture

SUSAN S. SZENASY, EDITOR IN CHIEF, METROPOLIS

How tech-savvy, environmentally-conscious, community-oriented designers--the Next Generation--are changing the ways and means of our built environment at every scale.
 

Susan S. Szenasy is Editor in Chief of METROPOLIS, the award-winning New York City-based magazine of architecture and design. Since 1986 she has lead the magazine through decades of landmark design journalism, achieving domestic and international recognition. She is internationally recognized as
an authority on sustainability and design.
 
Susan sits on the boards of the Council for Interior Design Accreditation, Fashion Institute of Technology's Interior Design department, the Center for Architecture Advisory Board, and the Landscape Architecture Foundation. She has been honored with two IIDA Presidential Commendations, is an honorary member of the ASLA, and the 2008 recipient of the ASID Patron's Prize and Presidential Commendation as well as the SARA/NY medallion of honor. She has received a citation and an honorary membership from NYC AIA. Along with METROPOLIS Publisher Horace Havemeyer III, Susan was a 2007 recipient of the Civitas August Heckscher Award for Community Service and Excellence. Susan holds an MA in Modern European History from Rutgers University, and honorary doctorates from Kendall College of Art and Design, the Art Center College of Design, and the Pacific Northwest College of Art. She lives in New York's East Village in a small loft designed by Harry Allen, where she moved after 9/11 to reduce her ecological footprint. 
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SPONSORED BY THE OFFICE OF THE GEORGE H COOK CAMPUS DEAN