The Fashion Institute of Technology is an old name in interior design education–its highly reputed undergraduate program has been setting standards for the profession for more than 50 years. Now FIT’s School of Graduate Studies is offering a new master’s program in Sustainable Interior Environments that promises to respond to the changing demands on interior design.

The program addresses the challenge of designing interior environments for the “triple bottom line,” supporting practices that are environmentally, socially, and economically sound. It will accept students with a related undergraduate degree and at least three years’ professional experience. Graduates will become sustainability experts and consultants, researchers, and leading sustainable-design professionals. But interested parties had better think fast: the deadline for fall 2010 applications is June 24. For more information contact Grazyna Pilatowicz, assistant professor of interior design, at grazyna_pilatowicz@fitnyc.edu.

Previously: Graduate Programs in Sustainability Catching On
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Last week, Parsons the New School for Design announced that it will begin offering an MFA in “Transdisciplinary Design” this fall. If you have no idea what that means, you’re not alone—the program’s chair, Jamer Hunt, recently made a short video to find out how some random New Yorkers would define the nascent discipline. (Watch until the end for a cameo appearance by MoMA’s Paola Antonelli.) Read more…

The City College of New York (CCNY) announced this afternoon that it will offer a new interdisciplinary master’s program called “Sustainability in the Urban Environment.” The 31-course program, which begins next spring, will incorporate architecture, engineering, and science into the curriculum, and will lead to a Master’s of Science in Sustainability. (Read more about it here.)

Having noticed similar initiatives from other universities in recent months, I got to wondering:  How many graduate programs in sustainability are there, anyway? Read more…

A teaser for the upcoming film Archiculture. The official trailer, which debuted in New York last night, will be available at a later date. (Teaser from arbuckle industries on Vimeo.)

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Last night, in the double-height space of the Center for Architecture’s basement, six panelists gathered to discuss the present and future of the profession in a conversation titled “Architecture Education vs. Professional Practice.” The roundtable discussion was inspired by the film Archiculture—a feature-length documentary by Ian Harris, who also moderated the discussion, and David Krantz—and it concluded with its trailer. (A catered party, with a DJ and live band followed.) Read more…

Preston Scott Cohen

Late last week, Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design announced that, in July, Toshiko Mori will be stepping down as the chair of the Department of Architecture, after a six-year term. Taking her place will be Preston Scott Cohen, a professor who teaches the department’s foundation course and runs the first-year design studios. Read more…