We are excited to share an opinion piece published by Dr. Sharon Sutton, renowned scholar, activist, educator and Parsons Visiting Professor, that has recently appeared in the AIA Journal. Dr. Sutton reflects on the current situation when business as usual has come to an unprecedented halt, and opportunities this pause …

Daniel Michalik, BFA/MFA Product and Industrial Design full-time faculty member, has recently shared how the current crisis has shaped and informed his teaching methods and helped bring his own professional practices closer to students. Approaching both teaching and making from a state of scarcity and lack of access to materials …

Congratulations to Parsons SCE Professor Brian McGrath on his contribution to the digital publication of “Designing Brussels Ecosystem,” a collective research project led by Metrolab (a transdisciplinary inter-university laboratory) and a team of international urban scholars and experts. The book explores the state of urban ecosystem in Brussels and provides …

Parsons SCE end-of-year exhibition has joined the list of most successful efforts to transition to online educational  experience compiled by the Architect’s Newspaper. Although the list itself is by no means exhaustive, it unveils creative tactics and changes that architecture programs across the US have had to undergo in the …

Congratulations to our new alumni, Luis Urribarri and Jakub Klaban (BFA AD), and Tommy Yang (MArch), and their respective studio faculty, Brian McGrath, David Leven and Peter Robinson for contributing award-wining projects to the annual NYCxDESIGN festival. While the NYCxDESIGN Award program spans a broad range of design disciplines, including …

Congratulations to Rosannah Harding and Matt Ostrow, Parsons SCE PTF, on becoming the winners of the prestigious Forge Prize awarded annually to innovative projects that embrace steel as the primary construction material to increase project speed. Rosannah and Matt’s project focuses on creating an enhanced pedestrian experience by introducing a …

Contest Brief: Impacts of design decisions are far-reaching, inescapable, and indisputable. As designers, the questions we continually ask ourselves are: how does what I make impact the world at large? What materials am I using? Who am I designing for and are my designs inclusive? How can materials be used …

As part of the SCE’s Adaptations online panels and talks series, the Interior Design program held a Zoom panel on April 16th entitled Adaptations: Interior Design Job Search In Uncertain Times. During the panel, industry professionals discussed their experiences job searching in the interior design field during times of international …

The Annual PSS Gala is a black tie event held at the end of the year to celebrate student work and build a community within Parsons. Students get a chance to showcase work, eat, drink, and network on the dance floor before the end of the semester! Students whose artwork is chosen …

In 2015, the Annual report prepared and released by the National Architectural Accrediting Board spilled the beans on numbers, revealing that only five percent of architecture students identified as black or African American. We are now in 2020, and the statistics are still gruesome and alarming, and more so in …