Mark Gardner in Conversation with Interior Design

In 2015, the Annual report prepared and released by the National Architectural Accrediting Board spilled the beans on numbers, revealing that only five percent of architecture students identified as black or African American. We are now in 2020, and the statistics are still gruesome and alarming, and more so in …


2020 Radical Innovation Award for Student Hospitality Design Now Open

Radical Innovation, a global  platform promoting innovative, industry-changing ideas within the hospitality space, is looking for new concepts that present opportunities for the hotel guest and hospitality industry growth. With an expanded interest in moving ideas from concepts to reality, we are asking participants to submit hospitality concepts that provide …


Matt Burgermaster publishes essay on architectural leftovers in Urban Omnibus

SCE faculty Matt Burgermaster published a new essay in Urban Omnibus, the Architectural League of NY’s online publication. Matt’s essay “Pass the Leftovers!” focuses on architecture’s relation to building demolition and waste, and advocates for alternative practices of making, remaking, and unmaking as significant design processes in a building’s life. …


Open for Applications: FAO Schwarz Fellow at Mural Arts

The FAO Schwarz Fellow will work with youth, communities, and public schools connected to the Restored Spaces Initiative, which uses socially engaged public art practice as a platform for neighborhood change grounded in environmental justice. In addition to achieving outcomes in the communities it engages, Restored Spaces has a significant influence …


Collaborating and Building Futures at VANTAN DESIGN INSTITUTE, Tokyo

On January 11, faculty from Parsons AAS design programs each presented workshops related to their field of work with members of the Vantan Design Institute in Tokyo, Japan, as part of a renewed and ongoing partnership between the two institutions. Nadia Elrokhsy, Associate Professor of Ecological Design and current director …


Gaining STEAM/D, SCE Interior Design Faculty Join the Conversation with Other Educators

Interior design faculty, Nadia Elrokhsy, and Yu Nong Khew join the IDEC (Interior Design Education Council) discussion on “The Role of Interior Design in STEM/STEAM/STEAMD Initiatives” in the Fall 2019 issue of IDEC Exchange. The Exchange publication is a forum to reflect on critical issues facing the field of interior design …


Habitat Workshop selected as Interior Design’s Best of Design 2019 in the residential category

Habitat Workshop’s recently completed renovation of West Village Apartment was selected as Interior Design’s Best of Design 2019 in the residential category.  Read the article here.