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2017 Street Seats Won Core 77 Community Choice Grand Prize!

The community has spoken! 2017 Street Seats is the grand prize winner of this year’s Community Choice. Congratulations to all the students and faculty involved in the project. Design Build Students: Reem Abi Samra, Katelin Collier, Javier Contreras, Russell Conway, Shaya Gansburg, Finn Harries, Charlotte Hoefer, Seung Chae Kang, Pranati …


M.Arch Students’ Proposal Received an Award of Merit by the Mayor of Venice

  Parsons was the only North American School invited to participate in the “Marghera City of Making: International Design Competition.” The design competition aims to explore visions and urban schemes envisaging the re-articulation of manufacturing areas in between Mestre and Marghera industrial area in Italy, the two mainland cities connected …


MFA Industrial Design Students Are Core77 Runners-up!

  Congratulations new MFA graduates Sarah Templin, Gregory Beson, Danielle Connelly, and Wenny Chen for receiving the Runner-up in Core77 Design Awards: Design for Social Impact. Their project, BinBin, proposes a produce system that puts a strong focus on the circular economy. It combines the lightweight convenience of cardboard produce …


4 DAY WORKSHOP W/ LEADING HOUSEWARES COMPANY

FREE 4 DAY WORKSHOP WITH LEADING HOUSEWARES COMPANY @ PARSONS WHAT:  Looking for design students or 2018 recent graduates with strong visualization skills interested in participating in an intensive 4-day workshop to design new products & patterns for a global leader in housewares. Students will work in groups of two to propose concepts which both refresh …


BFA Product and MFA Industrial Design faculty Tucker Viemeister featured in NYTimes

Photo Courtesy: Smart Design   BFA Product and MFA Industrial Design faculty Tucker Viemeister was featured in NYTimes article around gadgets and cooking. “To an industrial designer, the universe of possible kitchen tools is infinite. Very few objects would not benefit from a good rethinking, said Tucker Viemeister, a founder of …


Product Alumni, Pilsoo Jang & Guewan Kim, received an honor from Dieline Awards 2018.

Pilsoo and Guewan (BFA Product Design ’17)  received a second place award from Dieline Awards, Concept Design category, for their shampoo packaging that they designed for their capstone project at Parsons SCE. Congratulations Pilsoo and Guewan! For more information, please visit here.    


New Practices New York Exhibition

MABU, Unbuilding Long Branch, New Jersey. Image: MABU   New Practices New York Exhibition SCE faculty Matt Burgermaster has recent work featured in the upcoming exhibition New Practices New York 2018 at the AIA’s Center for Architecture.  This exhibition presents the projects, ideas, and influences of the winners of the 2018 New Practices New …


BABFA student, Reem Abi Samra, receives Eugene Lang Opportunity Award

Reem, a dual degree student majoring in Architecture and Urban Studies, has been awarded $5000 for her project from the Eugene Lang Opportunity Award This award will allow Reem to participate in the School for Field Studies‘ summer program in Arusha, Tanzania: Wildlife Management and Conservation. Below is an excerpt …


On (Black) Architecture

SCE M.Arch Director, Mark Gardner, was interviewed by Dwell Magazine along with Zena Howard, Phil Freelon, and Melvin Mitchell on the topic of (black) architecture. Excerpt: “Architecture is one of the whitest jobs in America. Set against this background, black architecture—from the most epistemological understanding, architecture that is conceived and put …


Congrats Emmet Elliott on Your Fulbright Award!

Upon completing his dual degree in Architecture and Philosophy this year, Emmet will be embarking on a nine-month drawing project of the city of Dresden, Germany. Emmet will collaborate with Prof. Niels-Christian Fritsche and the Department of Architectural Delineation at Technische Universität Dresden. In his words, Emmet explained his reason for …