2020 Radical Innovation Award for Student Hospitality Design Now Open

Radical Innovation, a global  platform promoting innovative, industry-changing ideas within the hospitality space, is looking for new concepts that present opportunities for the hotel guest and hospitality industry growth. With an expanded interest in moving ideas from concepts to reality, we are asking participants to submit hospitality concepts that provide …


Matt Burgermaster publishes essay on architectural leftovers in Urban Omnibus

SCE faculty Matt Burgermaster published a new essay in Urban Omnibus, the Architectural League of NY’s online publication. Matt’s essay “Pass the Leftovers!” focuses on architecture’s relation to building demolition and waste, and advocates for alternative practices of making, remaking, and unmaking as significant design processes in a building’s life. …


Open for Applications: FAO Schwarz Fellow at Mural Arts

The FAO Schwarz Fellow will work with youth, communities, and public schools connected to the Restored Spaces Initiative, which uses socially engaged public art practice as a platform for neighborhood change grounded in environmental justice. In addition to achieving outcomes in the communities it engages, Restored Spaces has a significant influence …


Collaborating and Building Futures at VANTAN DESIGN INSTITUTE, Tokyo

On January 11, faculty from Parsons AAS design programs each presented workshops related to their field of work with members of the Vantan Design Institute in Tokyo, Japan, as part of a renewed and ongoing partnership between the two institutions. Nadia Elrokhsy, Associate Professor of Ecological Design and current director …


Gaining STEAM/D, SCE Interior Design Faculty Join the Conversation with Other Educators

Interior design faculty, Nadia Elrokhsy, and Yu Nong Khew join the IDEC (Interior Design Education Council) discussion on “The Role of Interior Design in STEM/STEAM/STEAMD Initiatives” in the Fall 2019 issue of IDEC Exchange. The Exchange publication is a forum to reflect on critical issues facing the field of interior design …


Habitat Workshop selected as Interior Design’s Best of Design 2019 in the residential category

Habitat Workshop’s recently completed renovation of West Village Apartment was selected as Interior Design’s Best of Design 2019 in the residential category.  Read the article here.


Gloria Cortina, AAS Interior Design Alum, at Cooper Hewitt Museum

Gloria Cortina, Parsons AAS Interior Design Alum 1999, with an interior design practice in Mexico City has three pieces in the current Cooper Hewitt Museum exhibition, titled ‘Nature by Design’. The exhibition is open through September 2020. Her console titled ‘Black Hawk’ was acquired by the Museum last year for their permanent …


Matt Burgermaster wins AIA award for Mass Timber structure

SCE faculty Matt Burgermaster is an award winner in the AIA New Jersey’s 2019 Design Competition. His project, REFORESTED, is a wilderness lodge located in a former logging zone near the Appalachian Trail in the remote backcountry woods of Maine. The structure is an open elemental pavilion constructed of locally-harvested …


SCE Faculty Win 2020 AIANY Design Awards

David Lewis and David Leven, Parsons SCE faculty, won 2020 AIANY Design Awards in the Interiors and Projects categories. The award is announced each year to honor the architects, clients, and consultants for their collaborative efforts to achieve design excellence. Poster House, a design project by LTL Architects (David Lewis, Paul …