Chelsea Barile (BFA ID 2020), Katherine Anderson (BFA ID 2020) and Ashley Le (BFA ID 2021) are on Taylor Spellman’s design dream team. Unsold homes become red hot properties when New York-based interior designer and home stager, Taylor Spellman and Kate Dickens, her right-hand woman and friend for more than thirty years, create …

Oda Olafsrud, SCE M.Arch alumna, completed her project for Joe and Cynthia Germanotta where she had been asked to convert a duplex unit, previously owned by filmmaker Robert Altman, into a habitable home. Inspired by Scandinavian aesthetics, Oda approached the redesign as an exercise in choreographing space whereby art, movement …

Expression by Md Sujon Ishaq Song: Yo-Yo Ma, Cello Suite No.1    Over the course of winter break, SCE organized a series of skill-oriented workshops for its students focusing on physical modelmaking and Rhino. The BFA AD alum Md Sujon Ishaq, currently enrolled in the M.Arch program, led a creative workshop …

Mooncrete rock Ana Emilia Hernandez Lara, MFA IDD Program 2020 alumna, has presented her capstone research  project, co-authored by Keith Gutierrez from MIT Media Lab, at the SciTech Forum. The paper titled “Conceptual Design: ISRU Moon Regolith Concrete and Construction Modules” addresses the recent push for lunar explorations and the …

Photographer – Cameron Blaylock Architect – Nina Cooke John Lighting Designer – Jimmie Drummond   Congratulations to Parsons MFA Lighting Design alum and founder of Drummond Projects Jimmie Drummond for his collaborative work on Point of Action, a new installation at the Flatiron Public Plaza. Jimmie joined architect Nina Cooke …

Congratulations to Bless Yee, Parsons Architecture alumna, whose drawing, “Together Alone,” won the Non-Student Grand Prize in the One Drawing Challenge. Her work visualizes 2020 within a hive-like network of subterranean chambers where each hexagonal pod represents our transformed and digitized social reality: The hexagonal framework is deforming under the …

Diana Erazo, Master of Architecture 2020 alumna, has joined the Harlem Children’s Zone as Arts Specialist with The Employment and Technology Center. The organization began as a one-block pilot in the 1990s, looking to break the cycle and prevent generational poverty. Since then, the organization has been providing better opportunities for children …

Mark Gardner, Director of the Masters of Architecture program, has talked to the AIA about the role the current generation of students has in challenging the existing institutional landscape, including the university, and domineering pedagogies. “If you want diversity, it’s an action. You actually have to create it.” Although he …

Congratulations to Mikiya Suzuki, Parsons Product Design alumnus, for winning in the Furniture category of the ARTSTHREAD competition, the first ever online global graduate show. Mikiya’s project, “Okina,” is the third iteration of the design aiming to making the bulb itself into the switch. The name and design is inspired by Taketori …

Parsons M.Arch graduate of the 2020 class Tommy Yang has recently talked to Archinect about his thesis work, the  role of narratives in constructing our built environments and collective being, and his experience in transitioning to remote learning during the pandemic. Tommy’s thesis project is the recipient of the Alpha Ro …