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 …

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 …