ARCHITEXX: Now What?! Advocacy, Activism & Alliances in American Architecture Since 1968

Now What?! Advocacy, Activism & Alliances in American Architecture Since 1968 April 13–26, 2018 Arnold & Sheila Aronson Galleries Sheila C. Johnson Design Center Parsons School of Design The New School 66 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10003   The Civil Rights, Women’s, and LGBTQ Movements impacted every facet of …


Sweets College Scholarship

Sweets, the building products database by Dodge Data & Analytics, is offering a scholarship opportunity available for students in architecture, design and engineering. This $2,500 scholarship is intended to help undergraduates and graduates offset the increasing cost of tuition, helping pursue their dream of a career in one of these areas. …


Performance in NYC: A Conversation about Designing for a New Generation

A rendering of the renovated Helen Hayes Theater. Rockwell Group.   How does the design of performance space impact the creation of new work? How can that space transform the experience of the viewer? This program will look at how recent developments in theater design are incubating new forms of …


Parsons Named the Best Art and Design School in the Country in 2018

  QS World University Rankings named Parsons number 1 on its list of best art and design schools in the U.S., and number 2 on its list of best art and design schools in the world. The rankings highlight the world’s top universities in 46 individual subjects, based on academic …


Leven and Bernheimer Elevated to AIA College of Fellows

    The 2018 Jury of Fellows from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) elevated Professors David Leven and Andrew Bernheimer to its prestigious College of Fellows, an honor awarded to members who have made significant contributions to the architecture profession. Congratulations, David and Andy! For more information, please visit …


Parsons is a proud Partner University of the Professional Lighting Design Convention

The Parsons School of Design is proud to support the Professional Lighting Design Convention, PLDC, as a Partner University. The Convention, organized by VIA-Verlag, was created for the global lighting design market. Designers, lighting architects, researchers, universities, industry and clients use PLDC as a platform to meet, learn about the …


SCE Faculty Eva Perez de Vega presents at 2018 ACSA Conference

Sketches of the evolution of artwork display spaces.   Black box evolution sketches.   Part-time faculty Eva Perez de Vega will be presenting at the 2018 Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture in Denver. Her full paper titled, “The Body of Architecture and Its Image,” can be accessed here.   …


Publicness and Design Activism in China

  Parsons School of Constructed Environments Architecture Program co-hosted an Academic Salon with China’s Urbanism and Architecture magazine. The event was structured by three conversations, the first between Professor TANG Keyang, Southern University of Science and Technology and CHEN Yulin, Associate Professor Tsinghua University, the second conversation included 6 PhD …


Lunch Talk with Allan Ceen 3.1.18

Dr. Allan Ceen will present a talk titled, “Roman Cartography as Imago Urbis” Ceen has done extensive research on the maps of Rome with particular reference to the 1748 Giambattista Nolli map of the city. He teaches the history of the city by displaying the important information recorded in its …


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 …