Affordable Housing in the Age of Trump – New York architect, Andrew Bernheimer, once a luxury condo designer, has embraced the challenge of building affordable housing. The current administration is about to make his job even harder. But over the past decade or two, good, thoughtful architects have become passionate about …

Congratulations to Derek Porter to being one of the IESNYC 2017 Service Award Recipients. Porter is the Principal Designer of Derek Porter Studio and Associate Professor, MFA Lighting Design at Parsons School of Design. Porter received the 2017 Special Recognition Award which was presented by the New York City Section of …

MFA Arch student, Nick Tafel temporarily trades in NYC for Portland. Nick has relocated to Portland, OR for the summer where he will be interning at the Nike headquarters for their Global Retail Design team. The Global Retail Design studio at Nike is responsible for designing retail concepts and environments that are …

Interior Design studio courses often revolve around a specific design challenge. Our AAS Parsons second semester design studio selected the city’s neighborhood library as our focus. In particular we asked Interior Design students to challenge the traditional models of libraries in relation to the emerging technologies of virtuality and computing. …

Interior Design faculty, Cotter Christian, and Nadia Elrokhsy reflect on the IDEC (Interior Design Education Council) 2017 Annual Conference through the Spring 2017 IDEC Exchange, post-conference journal. The Annual Conference couldn’t have had a more appropriately noteworthy keynote speaker than Richard Buchanan. A professor of design and innovation, Buchanan is well …

The exhibition Architecture for Curitiba – Expo 2017, will be showing between May and August of 2017, explores new ways of comprehending, thinking and planning a city. The intention was to contribute to the advancement of an architecture discourse and to bring the city back to the avant-garde of architecture …

Congratulations to the Core77 winners! Student Winner, Strategy and Research: Nonliving Stakeholders by Sungmy Kim, MFA Transdisc Design Student Notable, Furniture and Lighting: Cada series by Lisa Marks, MFA Industrial Design Student Notable, Visual Communications: Tit for Tat by Yunjoo Lee, BFA Communication Design For more information on the Parsons graduates that participated please click HERE!

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 Alumni Lani Adeoye’s, Talking Tables collection was the Jury’s favorite at WantedDesign’s Launch Pad. A competition presented by Design Milk and Design Within Reach. Her winning collection (The Talking Tables) derive their form and essence from iconic West African musical instruments like the Talking Drum. Hand-welded steel, turned wood …

On June 8, 2017, Dr. Robert Kirkbride, Dean of Parsons School of Constructed Environments and Spokesperson for PreservationWorks, will present at the International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, in Glasgow, Scotland. His paper, The Phantoms of the Kirkbride Hospitals for the Insane, considers the complex histories and phantoms of …