Don’t Miss Your Chance to Attend the #FCFestival for Free! This October, the Fast Company Innovation Festival will once again take over! For the first-time ever, the sixth annual event will be held virtually. But as always we will be bring extraordinary personalities together for surprising talks, hands-on workshops, unexpected …

Parsons M.Arch graduate of the 2020 class Tommy Yang has recently talked to Archinect about his thesis work, the  role of narratives in constructing our built environments and collective being, and his experience in transitioning to remote learning during the pandemic. Tommy’s thesis project is the recipient of the Alpha Ro …

Full-time faculty Jonsara Ruth was published in Metropolis Magazine and Dwell. Jonsara co-authored a piece for Metropolis Magazine which was published a couple of days ago called “Designing for Equity and Well-Being in the COVID-19 Era“.  Hana Kassem, co-author and Principal at KPF Architects, has also been a Part-Time faculty member at …

Trinetra Manickavasagam, MFA Lighting Design 2020, was selected for a Richard Kelly Grant. Trinetra Manickavasagam recently received her MFA in Lighting Design from Parson School of Design. She received a Grant for her work that examines the perception of source color changes in LEDs while dimming. Manickavasagam applied an evidence-based design …

In fall 2016, the Toronto-based interior design firm Yabu Pushelberg provided a generous gift to endow a permanent, named scholarship for a student in the Interior Design Program at Parsons. This scholarship honors the firm’s ongoing commitment to excellence in design education and its dedication to the promotion of creativity …

Over the summer, Simon David, Founding Principal of OSD design firm and Parsons BFA Architecture professor, has been working on an open street plan for the Flatiron Business District together with a couple of students from his New Green Deal spring 2020 studio. Studying pedestrian patterns during the pandemic has …

BFA ID director Yu Nong Khew was quoted last week about trends in home office and remote work on Medium’s tech blog called Onezero. See the article here.

The Architectural League’s new initiative, “Reimagine”, is a workshop welcoming design graduates from the Class of 2020 to re-evaluate their role as designers and architects in understating and shaping space amidst converging and ongoing crises of COVID-19, climate change, racism and economic inequality. Selected graduates from architecture, landscape architecture, and …

The NYC  Department of Buildings has launched two separate innovation challenges, challenges that seek your ideas for increasing energy efficiency, and improving & modernizing the building code, worker safety and building design, construction, and regulation. For info on how to send submissions, please click the respective links below. Entries are …

Madame Architect has recently launched a summer series of conversations with recent alumni from a wide range of architecture programs taught it NYC. And while #NextGen may seem to gravitate towards commons questions, those basic quires are gaining additional value in the light of current crisis, uncertainties and challenges that young professionals …