

Photography Favorite: Horizons by Sze Tsung
Horizons is an ongoing series of photographs, begun in 2001, that depict expansive but detailed views of a broad spectrum of environments throughout the world. The locations of the images may be distant in geography (including Mexico City, Cairo, Banaras, Lisbon, Isle of Skye, Tokyo, and Inner Mongolia, for example), and diverse in subject matter (ranging from pastoral landscapes, to monuments, to everyday spaces, to rivers, to industrial zones, to cityscapes), yet the photog


Congrats to our DE Partner Bottomless Closet – 15 Years of Empowering Women
Congratulations to Bottomless Closet on 15 years of incredible work! For many New York City women, transitioning into the workforce is wrought with challenges that they are often minimally prepared to face. These include learning to dress for a professional setting, anticipating questions in job interviews and balancing the demands of home and work. Bottomless Closet works to reduce the barriers many women face in the search for employment as well as provide on-going workshop
Design Exchange Featured in Architectural Record
Newsmaker: Sean Carlson Perry Using a unique business model, a New York-based designer aims to provide design services for the formerly homeless. Sean Carlson Perry, founder of an eponymous Brooklyn, New York-based full-service design firm, has worked on high-end residential and commercial interiors, luxury retail projects, graphics, and furniture design. Perry, 31, is also the founder of Design Exchange, a new project to create comfortable living environments for those in ne


Design Exchange Featured in Architect Magazine
Design that Gives Back For every project commissioned by Sean Carlson Perry, a portion of the design fee funds a free project for those in need. By Caroline Massie New York designer Sean Carlson Perry recently launched a new business model, a start-up organization called Design Exchange that partners with his own architecture and interior design firm to provide pro-bono design projects. Design Exchange’s mission is to supply home environments that foster rehabilitation for pe


Design/Architecture as an Agent For Well-Being
Well-being is a dynamic state in humans, constituted by ‘a sense of individual vitality’, a need ‘to undertake activities which are meaningful,engaging, and which make them feel competent and autonomous’, and an ability ‘to cope when things go wrong and be resilient to changes beyond their immediate control’; it depends in part on ‘the degree to which they have supportive relationships and a sense of connection to others’ (National Accounts of Well-being, n.d.). Environments