We are excited to share an opinion piece published by Dr. Sharon Sutton, renowned scholar, activist, educator and Parsons Visiting Professor, that has recently appeared in the AIA Journal. Dr. Sutton reflects on the current situation when business as usual has come to an unprecedented halt, and opportunities this pause …

Daniel Michalik, BFA/MFA Product and Industrial Design full-time faculty member, has recently shared how the current crisis has shaped and informed his teaching methods and helped bring his own professional practices closer to students. Approaching both teaching and making from a state of scarcity and lack of access to materials …

Congratulations to Parsons SCE Professor Brian McGrath on his contribution to the digital publication of “Designing Brussels Ecosystem,” a collective research project led by Metrolab (a transdisciplinary inter-university laboratory) and a team of international urban scholars and experts. The book explores the state of urban ecosystem in Brussels and provides …

Congratulations to Rosannah Harding and Matt Ostrow, Parsons SCE PTF, on becoming the winners of the prestigious Forge Prize awarded annually to innovative projects that embrace steel as the primary construction material to increase project speed. Rosannah and Matt’s project focuses on creating an enhanced pedestrian experience by introducing a …

In 2015, the Annual report prepared and released by the National Architectural Accrediting Board spilled the beans on numbers, revealing that only five percent of architecture students identified as black or African American. We are now in 2020, and the statistics are still gruesome and alarming, and more so in …

SCE faculty Matt Burgermaster published a new essay in Urban Omnibus, the Architectural League of NY’s online publication. Matt’s essay “Pass the Leftovers!” focuses on architecture’s relation to building demolition and waste, and advocates for alternative practices of making, remaking, and unmaking as significant design processes in a building’s life. …

SCE faculty Matt Burgermaster is an award winner in the AIA New Jersey’s 2019 Design Competition. His project, REFORESTED, is a wilderness lodge located in a former logging zone near the Appalachian Trail in the remote backcountry woods of Maine. The structure is an open elemental pavilion constructed of locally-harvested …

David Lewis and David Leven, Parsons SCE faculty, won 2020 AIANY Design Awards in the Interiors and Projects categories. The award is announced each year to honor the architects, clients, and consultants for their collaborative efforts to achieve design excellence. Poster House, a design project by LTL Architects (David Lewis, Paul …

Congratulations to Jennifer Bolstad and Walter Meyer, Parsons Architecture faculty and co-founders of Local Office, on winning one of the Climathron Global Awards in the Cities Track category. Their project for the city of Miami, Wynwood Living Street, pioneers a greener and pedestrian-friendly public space that embodies science to address …