Design-driven Swiss watchmaker Rado announced its continued sponsorship as the official watch brand of NYCxDESIGN, New York City’s official celebration of global design

Design-driven Swiss watchmaker Rado announced its continued sponsorship as the official watch brand of NYCxDESIGN, New York City’s official celebration of global design. As part of NYCxDESIGN, together with WantedDesign, Rado will launch, for its second year, the U.S. edition of the Rado Star Prize, which is held internationally to promote the …


Destiempo: Dynamogram, Puerto Casado, Paraguay – Exhibition opening March 3!

The exhibition “Destiempo: Dynamogram, Puerto Casado” is the result of a design and art residency with five renown Paraguayan artists and two Parsons students, Isabel Saffon and Elena Habre. Research took place in June of 2016 in the Paraguayan Chaco, an area currently under threat of deforestation. The works displayed in …


Street Seats Design-Build Studio, an elective within the School of Constructed Environments

The Street Seats Design-Build Studio, an elective within the School of Constructed Environments, is off and running with the first design prototypes for the 2017 installation. These early schemes are in the process of being synthesized and refined into a final proposal. Stay tuned for the next iterations and prototypes. …


Andy Bernheimer and Brian Young participate in “Turning Point” panel at the Center for Architecture, comprised of 5 of 6 current or former Parsons faculty members

When: Wednesday, March 1, 6-8pm Where: Center for Architecture; 536 LaGuardia Place Join the AIANY New Practices Committee for a panel disucssion about turning points in the profession. Six firms of varying sizes will talk about the moments in their careers that allowed them to progress. Each architect will expose …


Sheila Johnson Design Center – Light Focus Spring 2017

  Each Semester a group of students from the MFA Lighting Design program design and aim the lighting for a new exhibition in the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery. This hands-on experience offers an invaluable education regarding light source performance, optics and source/subject geometry.


Sheila Johnson Design Center – Light Focus Fall 2016

  Each Semester a group of students from the MFA Lighting Design program design and aim the lighting for a new exhibition in the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery. This hands-on experience offers an invaluable education regarding light source performance, optics and source/subject geometry.


Matt Burgermaster wins the ACSA Faculty Design Award

SCE faculty member Matt Burgermaster has won the 2016-17 ACSA Faculty Design Award for his project Unbuilding Long Branch, which transforms a vacant warehouse complex into a new community arts/food center. This project trades in the binary conceptual framework of “old” and “new” commonly associated with the field of adaptive …


Derek Porter and Jean Gardner Speak at Enlighten Europe

Derek Porter, Associate Professor of Lighting Design, and Jean Gardner, Associate Professor of Social-Ecological History and Design, gave a lecture at Enlighten Europe in Prague, The Czech Republic, last fall. Their presentation, (Your) Body Sensing: An Ecological Approach to Lighting Design, introduced ecological design considerations and multi-sensorial ways in which …


Dean Kirkbride participates in Deans’ Roundtable at New York’s Center for Architecture

On November 11, 2016, Dean Kirkbride joined his fellow deans and representatives from eleven schools of architecture at New York’s Center for Architecture for a remarkably candid and substantive roundtable discussion of current directions in architectural education and responses to a controversial letter from AIA National shortly following the 2016 U.S. …


Donghia healthier Materials Library and the Healthier Materials Lab at Parsons present their fifth Lunch + Learn with Libeco Linen, Belgian linen

Lunch + Learn IV – Join us February 15th in the Donghia Gallery from 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Donghia healthier Materials Library and the Healthier Materials Lab at Parsons present their fifth Lunch + Learn with Libeco Linen, Belgian linen   Libeco Linen is based in Meulebeke, Belgium – a small village – between Bruges and the French …