Susan Szenasy

SUSAN S. SZENASY, EDITOR IN CHIEF, METROPOLIS

Susan S. Szenasy is Editor in Chief of METROPOLIS, the award-winning New York City-based magazine of architecture, culture and design. Since 1986 she has lead the magazine through twenty-one years of landmark design journalism, achieving domestic and international recognition. Believing that design and architecture are humanist activities, Susan is committed to education. As a longtime professor of Design Ethics at New York’s Parsons School of Design she has worked to instill the values of responsible sustainability on the next generation.

Susan has authored several books including The Home and Light, and sits on the boards of the Council for Interior Design Accreditation (formerly FIDER), FIT Interior Design, the Center for Architecture Advisory Board, and the Landscape Architecture Foundation. She has been honored with two IIDA Presidential Commendations and is an ASID distinguished speaker on the topic of ethics in design, as well as an honorary member of the American Society for Landscape Architects. Along with METROPOLIS Publisher Horace Havemayer 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 both Kendall College and the Art Center College of Design. She lives in the East Village in a small loft designed by Harry Allen, where she moved to reduce her ecological footprint.

METROPOLIS examines contemporary life through design--architecture, interior design, product design, graphic design, crafts, planning, and preservation.