MFA Industrial Design program director Rama Chorpash participates in Fast Company Innovation Festival on Work and Place

As part of the Fast Company Innovation Festival on Work and Place Parsons’ MFA Industrial Design program Director Rama Chorpash will participate in a panel discussion and roundtable titled Designing the Workplace of the Future: Imagining and Inclusive and Equitable Workplace. The event is Thursday, October 26, 2017 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM EDT at LMHQ, 150 …


Natural Light and Architecture Event – 10/26/17

Natural light sources and their associated phenomena are distinguished by their capacity to incite awe, fear, curiosity, and fascination –– emotions that contribute to the sense that we are part of a larger system we may never fully understand. Solar light, which encompasses both sunlight and daylight, offers an opportunity …


Dean Kirkbride to give two lectures on the Kirkbride Hospitals for the Insane

National Building Museum, Washington D.C. Museum exhibit: Architecture of an Asylum: St. Elizabeths 1852-2017 October 26, 2017: Event details   Columbia University GSAPP, NY, NY Preservation Lecture Series November 2, 2017: Event details   How many ghosts can haunt a building at once? When the building at question is one of …


hou de sousa + archotus’ national museum of world writing proposed as songdo cultural landmark

Nancy Hou of AAS and BFA ID and Joshua de Sousa whom teaches in AAS ID recently received much praise on their entry for The National Museum of World Writing. The duo was awarded Second Prize. The South Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism held a blind international competition for …


BFA Product and MFA Industrial Design Students Visited Roche Bobois Showroom

  Parsons BFA Product Design and MFA Industrial Design visited Roche Bobois Showroom in New York, and had an opportunity to meet with the Creative Director of Roche Bobois, Nicolas Roche. This is part of the partnered studios between Parsons SCE and Roche Bobois which give students an opportunity to design …


New Oxford Handbook of Rhetorical Studies features Dean Kirkbride’s chapter “Rhetoric and Architecture”

In an age of global media networks and viral communication, rhetoric is once again contagious and communicable. Featuring 60 commissioned chapters by eminent rhetoric scholars from 12 countries, The Oxford Handbook of Rhetorical Studies offers students and teachers an accessible but sophisticated one-volume introduction to the multidisciplinary field of rhetorical …


CMRC | Resilient Power Puerto Rico

Resilient Power Puerto Rico was launched in the hours following Hurricane Maria’s devastating strike on the island of Puerto Rico. Building on the model of the CMRC’s successes with the Power Rockaways Resilience project managed by Walter Meyer and Jennifer Bolstad of Parsons SCE, Resilient Power Puerto Rico starts with nimble, …


Archtober 2017!

Archtober is happening the month of October! Click HERE! to check out the schedule and how you can get involved!


Deadline Extended. Daltile Interior Design Scholarship

Deadline Extended. Daltile Interior Design Scholarship – read more here!


SCE faculty member Garrett Ricciardi presenting his work at 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennale.

SCE Faculty member and co-founder of Formlessfinder, Garrett Ricciardi (right), has been invited to participate in the 2017 Chicago Biennale. Below is his project for the biennale. Formlessfinder Dept. of the Interior: The Domestic Landscape of Casa das Canoas One would be hard pressed to find a more archetypal example …