Alumni Profile: Farrah Désir

At first, Farrah Désir (B.S. ’99) never intended to work in construction. Architecture was always her dream, so she came to study at the School of Architecture and Design. “Since high school, I wanted to major in architecture,” says Désir, who also took interior design classes at the Fashion Institute of Technology while she was in high school but decided to major in architecture and went to New York Tech, where she could study both. “At first, I thought I would do it briefly while looking for an architectural position and had no intention of staying. But I eventually fell in love with construction management.”