2020 SOM Summer Internship

SOM is looking for the next generation of design leaders to join its Summer Internship Program. Over the course of 10 weeks, selected candidates will work as members of the SOM team, collaborating with global experts on some of the most exciting and transformative architecture, engineering, planning, and sustainability projects …


Zac Pepere’s Work Featured in Wallpaper Magazine

Congratulations to Zac Pepere, BFA Product Design alumnus, whose work has been recently featured in the Graduate Design section of Wallpaper Magazine. Named “Material Values”, his project focuses on value we attribute to different materials and challenges contemporary attributions through creative reuse of paper and food by-products from the restaurant …


Join The DWR Champagne Chair Contest

For 16 years, DWR has proudly hosted the Champagne Chair Contest. This is an incredibly unique design opportunity to create a miniature chair using only the foil, label, cage and cork from no more than two champagne bottles. Five winners will receive a DWR Gift Card. Prizes will be awarded in …


The Rotch Travelling Scholarship application is open!

The Rotch, an annual two-stage design competition, awards an emerging professional $40,000 to travel abroad for a minimum of six months, conducting architectural investigations and research of their choosing. The application process is simple, and all applications are due Friday, January 17.  Candidates must: be US citizens who have obtained …


SOM Initiative for UG and GR Women Architecture Students

Undergraduate and Graduate Students are encouraged to apply for the SOM Women’s Initiative Shadowing Opportunity. The program gives invaluable experience, mentorship and guidance to talented students who plan to pursue a career in Architecture, Engineering or related fields. During the week-long program, selected students will rotate through SOM departments to …


Matt Burgermaster presents at Design Inquiry’s Futurespective

SCE Faculty Matt Burgermaster presented recent work on practices of “remaking” at Design Inquiry’s Futurespective conference. Held at the Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA, in Portland, Maine, this interdisciplinary event explored issues in design culture related to the question: what does it mean to rethink the past in the …


Unveiling of “Ziggy” by Hou de Sousa

“Ziggy”, this year’s winning installation for the annual Flatiron Public Plaza Holiday Design Competition, is about to open to the public on Monday, November 18th. The project was created by NYC-based design and architectural studio Hou de Sousa, co-founded by Nancy Hou and Joshua de Sousa, Parsons architecture Faculty. Through its …


Alumni Spotlight: Angran Li

Angran Li graduated in 2016 from the Interior Design BFA program.   Three years after finishing at Parsons, she moved to LA and received an MFA degree in Film Production Design at the American Film Institute. Upon graduating, she received an offer from Star Trek Discovery’s production designer to become …


Parsons SCE Hosts Annual J. Max Bond Jr. Lecture

On October 16th, Parsons SCE welcomed the American Institute of Architects and the National Organization of Minority Architects for the opening of the 47th NOMA Conference. Hosted in the iconic setting of Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall where Dr. Martin Luther King gave a speech in 1964, the event opened up …