Faculty News
Fall 2017 Public Programs
SCE is excited to announce that there will be eight 2017 Public Programs. More information on the events along with dates, times & locations can be found HERE at the Parsons Events Calendar. We look forward to having you in attendance!
A New Pavilion at the East Harlem Community Garden
Parsons School of Constructed Environments teamed up with Union Settlement Association and New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services to build a new pavilion for a community garden on East 104th Street. Under the guidance of Parsons faculty members Nicholas Brinen and Victoria Marshall, 15 graduate students collaboratively designed and …
2017_REVISION THE CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF THE ARTS
Design Workshop takes on the challenge of redesigning and rethinking museum space. Nine graduate students from Parsons School of Constructed Environments has been working diligently over the summer to create a more easy flowing and exciting lobby and lounge area for The Children’s Museum of the Arts in Tribeca, Lower Manhattan. …
Affordable Housing in the Age of Trump
Affordable Housing in the Age of Trump – New York architect, Andrew Bernheimer, once a luxury condo designer, has embraced the challenge of building affordable housing. The current administration is about to make his job even harder. But over the past decade or two, good, thoughtful architects have become passionate about …
IESNYC Announces the 2017 Service Award Recipients
Congratulations to Derek Porter to being one of the IESNYC 2017 Service Award Recipients. Porter is the Principal Designer of Derek Porter Studio and Associate Professor, MFA Lighting Design at Parsons School of Design. Porter received the 2017 Special Recognition Award which was presented by the New York City Section of …
Prepare to Face-down The Elephant In The Room
Interior Design faculty, Cotter Christian, and Nadia Elrokhsy reflect on the IDEC (Interior Design Education Council) 2017 Annual Conference through the Spring 2017 IDEC Exchange, post-conference journal. The Annual Conference couldn’t have had a more appropriately noteworthy keynote speaker than Richard Buchanan. A professor of design and innovation, Buchanan is well …
Spring 2017 Street Seats featured in Design Boom
The Spring 2017 Street Seats created by Parsons students in partnership with the New York City Department of Transportation, is a multi-level planter creating an organic separation between the road and the sidewalk while providing six benches off the main frame. The structural framework is made from 360 pieces of vietnamese bamboo. …
Dean Kirkbride presents at the International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians
On June 8, 2017, Dr. Robert Kirkbride, Dean of Parsons School of Constructed Environments and Spokesperson for PreservationWorks, will present at the International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, in Glasgow, Scotland. His paper, The Phantoms of the Kirkbride Hospitals for the Insane, considers the complex histories and phantoms of …
MFA Industrial Design Matthew Callahan was selected for the NYC x Design Awards.
MFA Industrial Design Matthew Callahan’s BOBO bamboo toy was selected for the NYC x Design Awards at MoMA. The Awards, created by Interior Design magazine and the ICFF, highlight New York-based projects completed throughout the year. Matthew’s BOBO bamboo toy was a project developed in the Global Production studio, taught …
Parsons Festival 2017: Street Seats
In collaboration with the NYC Department of Transportation (DOT), the Design Build course of the School of Constructed Environments, taught by professors Huy Bui and Carlos Gomez de Llarena, has developed this year’s Street Seats project for the corner of 13th Street and Fifth Avenue. The DOT Street Seats program reclaims …