Faculty News
LEVENBETTS wins NY AIA Award for Brooklyn Heights Interim Library
David Leven’s office LEVENBETTS wins AIA Award in the Interiors Category for the design of the Interim Library for the Brooklyn Public Library Brooklyn Heights branch. The design of the Library space conflates translucency with text graphics to celebrate the open light filled space of the reading room and pervades …
Montreal Architectural Review publishes That Dark Cabinet: Building the Morbid Anatomy Museum
Montreal Architectural Review publishes That Dark Cabinet: Building the Morbid Anatomy Museum The Montreal Architectural Review recently published Dean Robert Kirkbride’s article, That Dark Cabinet: Building the Morbid Anatomy Museum, which details the museum’s origins and creation. Designed by Dr. Kirkbride and his collaborator, Anthony Cohn, AIA, the Morbid …
Professors Andy Bernheimer and David Leven given special thanks as Design Excellence Collaborators in NYCHA’s New Design Guidelines
The work of Andy Bernheimer and David Leven along with Parsons M.Arch program students Hayley Reiter, Marc Delaney, Sam Powers Eric Romeo, William Eatough and Nick Tafel for the New York City Housing Authority in the Design Excellence Program was honored in the newly published “Design Guidelines: Rehabilitation of NYCH …
Jeremy Barbour of Tacklebox Architecture, infuses the Aesop atmosphere with local flavours of whiskey and tobacco!
WASHINGTON, D.C. AND SAN FRANCISCO – ‘All our projects begin with a careful consideration of the history and local context of a given site,’ says Jeremy Barbour of Tacklebox Architecture. SCE faculty member, Jeremy Barbour of Tacklebox Architecture was recently featured in publication, Frame Magazine. The feature showcases the recent completion of one of …
Students in the Light-Space Art fall 2016 elective build art installation as part of Questioning Light public program
The Light-Space Art class at Parsons created a temporary installation that was part of a public program titled Questioning Light. The site specific installation, titled Resonance, examined notions of time and body movement in conjunction with division, as the art work was installed in the middle of the presentation …
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 …
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 …
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. …