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2018 IDSA Student Merit Awards _Congratulations!

  Congratulations to 7 amazing nominated BFA PD seniors on your presentations at the 2018 IDSA Student Merit Awards. Christi Ernest Tanvi Thakur Brendan Cunningham Akinyemi Fapohunda Tarika Jain Kayla Wolfe Aishwarya Janwadkar And CONGRATS to Tarika Jain, who will be representing Parsons at the NE District Design Conference at RIT next …


Performance in NYC: A Conversation about Designing for a New Generation

A rendering of the renovated Helen Hayes Theater. Rockwell Group.   How does the design of performance space impact the creation of new work? How can that space transform the experience of the viewer? This program will look at how recent developments in theater design are incubating new forms of …


Parsons Named the Best Art and Design School in the Country in 2018

  QS World University Rankings named Parsons number 1 on its list of best art and design schools in the U.S., and number 2 on its list of best art and design schools in the world. The rankings highlight the world’s top universities in 46 individual subjects, based on academic …


Leven and Bernheimer Elevated to AIA College of Fellows

    The 2018 Jury of Fellows from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) elevated Professors David Leven and Andrew Bernheimer to its prestigious College of Fellows, an honor awarded to members who have made significant contributions to the architecture profession. Congratulations, David and Andy! For more information, please visit …


SCE Faculty Eva Perez de Vega presents at 2018 ACSA Conference

Sketches of the evolution of artwork display spaces.   Black box evolution sketches.   Part-time faculty Eva Perez de Vega will be presenting at the 2018 Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture in Denver. Her full paper titled, “The Body of Architecture and Its Image,” can be accessed here.   …


Lunch Talk with Allan Ceen 3.1.18

Dr. Allan Ceen will present a talk titled, “Roman Cartography as Imago Urbis” Ceen has done extensive research on the maps of Rome with particular reference to the 1748 Giambattista Nolli map of the city. He teaches the history of the city by displaying the important information recorded in its …


Professor David J. Lewis’s Firm Awarded Progressive Architecture Award 2018

  LTL’s Helen R. Walton Children’s Enrichment Center / Early Childhood Initiatives Center, a collaboration with SCAPE Landscape Architecture, is a recipient of the 65th Annual Progressive Architecture Awards Citation. This important project for the community is currently under construction, and part of the Northwest Arkansas Design Excellence Program. To …


Lunch Talk with Architect Masashi Sogabe

Lunch Talk with MASASHI SOGABE Award-winning architect Masashi Sogabe will discuss how he addresses social issues, such as demographic change and natural disaster, through design. Sogabe has worked on numerous projects such as Toyota Group Pavilion at the Aichi Expo 2005 that received a Good Design Award, and the “mAAch …


Parsons x Roche Bobois Joint Studio: Final Projects and Winners

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU5qo-ntVuA   During Fall 2017 semester, students in MFA Industrial Design and BFA Product Design worked with the prestigious French furniture store, Roche Bobois, to prototype full-scale seating devices aimed at reinvigorating “the cultural and historical rituals of resting, gathering, and nourishing the body.” The winners are: First Prize: The …


Sheila Johnson Design Center_Light Focus Spring 2018

Derek Porter (faculty), Seoyeon Park, Ana Sandoval, Clara Torres, Yishan Zhang, Iris Ahn, Sean Casey 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 …