Last December, the Design Observer blog featured a series of architectural fairy tales designed by Parsons SCE faculty members Andrew Bernheimer, Jing Liu, Emily Abruzzo, and Gerald Bodziak.

Associate Professor of Architecture, Peter Wheelwright, released a work of fiction that has been selected as a Hemingway/PEN Award Honorable Mention. The novel, As It Is On Earth, tells the story of a college professor, struggling to come to terms with his family’s difficult past.

Cross-Disciplinary design practice that considers an holistic approach to complex design relationships is essential to successful projects in the constructed world that we inhabit. As part of our educational mission at SCE, we believe that forming curricula that teaches students the roots of unique disciplinary skills through a supportive, empathetic and collaborative design process that includes multiple cognate disciplines is critical to ensure that their future professional work embodies these traits.

The Allied Studio, a cross-disciplinary design studio that mixes graduate students from Architecture, Interior Design and Lighting Design, every fall term identifies an actual client and site within New York City for students to analyze and propose new design interventions. This year the class worked with the Harlem School of the Arts; a rich cultural center and significant community anchor that offers classes in dance, theater, visual arts and music for students ranging in age from toddlers to early adulthood.

Please come to the Harlem School of the Arts this coming Saturday, December 8, 2012, 12-1pm, for an exhibition of the work of the Parsons Allied Design Studio. HSA is located at 645 St Nicholas Avenue and can be reached by subway on the ABC or D lines to 145 St or the B and C lines to 135 St.

Art, Environment, Action! is a creative teaching laboratory and environmental “artshop.” Bringing together artists, designers, architects, dancers, chefs, and scientists who work at the intersections of art, pedagogy, and ecology, it invites the public to join them to transform and activate the gallery.

Splash House construction is complete! Please join us at the Highbridge Pool and Recreation Center (2301 Amsterdam Ave) and see the end result of the many months of hard work and collaboration between Parsons SCE, the community of Washington Heights, the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation, and our many wonderful volunteers.

Harlem School of the Arts and Parsons the New School for Design announce a re-envisioning of the HSA building for the school’s next 50 years. Students and instructors from the graduate programs in architecture, lighting, and interior design are working in concert in the Allied Design Studio at Parsons School …

Jordana Maise Goot, incoming Dual Degree student in the Master of Architecture and MFA Lighting Design, is Acknowledged in Issue 45 of Design Quarterly magazine as one of “Tomorrow’s Top Ten Forces & Faces in Design”.  Her work in art employs spatial design and technology in relationship to the body, …

We spent a semester designing—and redesigning—our project for the Highbridge Pool and Recreation Center, located in the Washington Heights neighborhood of upper Manhattan. Now we’re ready to build it.