Szenasy, Design Advocate

What an exciting time for Susan Szenasy, longtime Editor-in-Chief and new Publisher of Metropolis Magazine. To launch and celebrate her new book, Szenasy, Design Advocate, a new title published by Metropolis Books and distributed by ARTBOOK | D.A.P., Susan is traveling the country in a series of national conversations exploring issues of design advocacy and ethics. More

For more than 30 years, Susan’s voice has resonated as an Editor-in-Chief, writer, teacher, moderator, filmmaker and lecturer. In all of these roles, her advocacy for ethical, sustainable, human-centered design has been her guiding light. Known for decades as the Editor-in-Chief of Metropolis, one of the most influential design magazines in the world, Susan has led the charge on issues ranging from universal design to emerging trends of consumer excess, from design for disassembly to the recovery of Lower Manhattan’s communities after 9/11, from design education to the social and environmental impacts of the buildings and products we manufacture.

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1956, Entering sixth grade, Szenasy Zsuzsanna Zelma wearing the obligatory red kerchief, track and field, play write/director, water colorist; a few months before the Hungarian Revolution breaks out.

1956, Entering sixth grade, Szenasy Zsuzsanna Zelma wearing the obligatory red kerchief, track and field, play write/director, water colorist; a few months before the Hungarian Revolution breaks out.

Susan S. Szenasy is publisher/editor in chief of Metropolis, the award-winning New York City–based magazine of architecture, design and culture. Since 1986, she has led the magazine in landmark design journalism, achieving international recognition. A respected authority on sustainability and design, she served two terms on the boards of the Council for Interior Design Accreditation and the Landscape Architecture Foundation, the FIT Interior Design board, and the NYC Center for Architecture Advisory Board.

She has received two IIDA Presidential Commendations, is an honorary member of the ASLA and AIA NYC, and the 2008 recipient of the ASID Patron’s Prize and Presidential Commendation. Along with Metropolis magazine publisher Horace Havemeyer III, Szenasy received the 2007 Civitas August Heckscher Award for Community Service and Excellence. She holds an MA from Rutgers University and honorary doctorates from the Art Center College of Design, Kendall College of Art and Design, the New York School of Interior Design, and the Pacific Northwest College of Art.