The Michael Rait student work consists of assignments that Rait completed as a student in the Parsons School of Design Environmental Design Department between 1975 and 1979. Projects in the portfolio include floor plans, elevations, perspectives, and renderings of office buildings, furniture, and restaurant, office, and residential interiors.

Collection consists of theses written by students in the Parsons School of Design MFA Lighting Design program.

The record group contains compendiums with descriptions of graduate thesis projects by students of the Parsons School of Design School of Constructed Environments programs. Programs include graduate degrees in architecture (MArch), industrial design, interior design, and lighting design. Also included is interdisciplinary student work from the MFA in Interior Design & Lighting Design and MArch/MFA in Architecture & Lighting Design.