Special Projects
SCE Presents Street Seats 2018
In the third iteration of the BFA Architectural Design elective, a multidisciplinary team of New School students, including BFA Architectural Design, Product Design, Interior Design, and BA Food Studies students, together with graduate research assistants from Design and Technology and Lighting Design. Students created a multilevel planter and seating area …
Street Seats 2017 Received a Core77 Notable Mention!
Class group photo. Top (left to right): Carlos, Gabrijela, Michael, Charlotte, Maha, Alyson, Shaya, Huy, Javier. Bottom: Finn, Jeana, Pranati, Phil, Naiky, Reem, Seung, Katelin, Russell. Congratulations to Design Build: Street Seats 2017 for receiving a Notable Mention in the Core77 Design Awards: Design Education Initiatives. The 2017 iteration …
Parsons x Lighting Magazine 40under40 North America
Parsons is pleased to be an education partner for Lighting magazine40under40 North America program. 40 young lighting designers will be selected as North American representatives of the new generation of lighting design talent. Armed with the unparalleled breadth of technology and able to instantly draw on unlimited inspiration, these millennials …
Senior Architecture & Urban Design Studio in Chiangmai, Thailand
From January 6 to 14th, twelve Parsons Architectural Design and Urban Design students and ten students from the International Design and Architecture program at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok participated in an international workshop in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The theme of the workshop, #watchingthericegrow grew out of SCE Professor Brian McGrath’s …
Parsons SCE Street Seats featured in the NYTimes
The Spring 2017 Design Build course, taught by instructors Huy Bui and Carlos Gomez de Llarena, converted the parking space at the corner of 13th Street and Fifth Avenue into a parklet stocked with tables and chairs. The seating area is separated from the street by solar-powered bamboo lattice fence. …
A New Pavilion at the East Harlem Community Garden
Parsons School of Constructed Environments teamed up with Union Settlement Association and New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services to build a new pavilion for a community garden on East 104th Street. Under the guidance of Parsons faculty members Nicholas Brinen and Victoria Marshall, 15 graduate students collaboratively designed and …
2017_REVISION THE CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF THE ARTS
Design Workshop takes on the challenge of redesigning and rethinking museum space. Nine graduate students from Parsons School of Constructed Environments has been working diligently over the summer to create a more easy flowing and exciting lobby and lounge area for The Children’s Museum of the Arts in Tribeca, Lower Manhattan. …
Spring 2017 Street Seats featured in Design Boom
The Spring 2017 Street Seats created by Parsons students in partnership with the New York City Department of Transportation, is a multi-level planter creating an organic separation between the road and the sidewalk while providing six benches off the main frame. The structural framework is made from 360 pieces of vietnamese bamboo. …
Parsons Festival 2017: Street Seats
In collaboration with the NYC Department of Transportation (DOT), the Design Build course of the School of Constructed Environments, taught by professors Huy Bui and Carlos Gomez de Llarena, has developed this year’s Street Seats project for the corner of 13th Street and Fifth Avenue. The DOT Street Seats program reclaims …
Street Seats Design-Build Studio, an elective within the School of Constructed Environments
The Street Seats Design-Build Studio, an elective within the School of Constructed Environments, is off and running with the first design prototypes for the 2017 installation. These early schemes are in the process of being synthesized and refined into a final proposal. Stay tuned for the next iterations and prototypes. …