Faculty News



David Leven’s LEVENBETTS realize the zoid pavilion for Art Omi.

LEVENBETTS: Art OMI Zoid Opening what: opening of zoid when: Saturday September 8, 2018. 1:00-4:00pm where: Art Omi, Architecture Field 01. Ghent New York   zoid is a shelter in the Art Omi Architecture Fields.   zoid exists somewhere between a house and a campsite   zoid posits a way of living with basic elements needed to exist …


M.Arch Director, Mark Gardner, Participates in “Designing the Political Landscape” Panel

Designing The Political Landscape: Activism + Design in the Trump Era Increasingly, the Trump Administration is exercising its power through spatial means, sowing chaos and despair across a broad spectrum of the American landscape. In January, the Administration’s decision to open many of our National Parks to oil and gas …


Third Biannual Conference for Timber In The City 10/4- 10/5

Parsons School of Design invites you to New York City this fall for the third biannual timber conference sponsored by the Binational Softwood Lumber Council.   Timber has the potential to play a vital role in the design and creation of healthy and vibrant urban space on a large scale. …


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 …


SCE Presents Street Seats 2018

In the third iteration of the BFA Architectural Design elective, a multidisciplinary team of New School students, including BFA Architectural Design, Product Design, Interior Design, and BA Food Studies students, together with graduate research assistants from Design and Technology and Lighting Design. Students created a multilevel planter and seating area …


AAS ID Faculty Christopher Kitterman Selected by Interior Design / ICFF as an honoree in the NYCxDESIGN

Part-time Lecturer Christopher Kitterman’s firm STADT Architecture has been selected by Interior Design / ICFF as an honoree in the NYCxDESIGN Kitchen/Bathroom category for their Chelsea Pied-à-Terre apartment renovation!  The program celebrates outstanding talent across major areas of design such as architecture, interiors, furnishings, lighting, and technology, and unifies the more than 500 …


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 …


Street Seats 2017 Received a Core77 Notable Mention!

Class group photo. Top (left to right): Carlos, Gabrijela, Michael, Charlotte, Maha, Alyson, Shaya, Huy, Javier. Bottom: Finn, Jeana, Pranati, Phil, Naiky, Reem, Seung, Katelin, Russell.   Congratulations to Design Build: Street Seats 2017 for receiving a Notable Mention in the Core77 Design Awards: Design Education Initiatives.   The 2017 iteration …


Upcoming lectures by Dean Kirkbride for Kirkbride Hospital Communities in US Midwest

In the second half of June 2018, Dean Robert Kirkbride will travel to two Midwest cities, Fergus Falls, Minnesota (June 16) and Athens, Ohio (June 23), where he will present on the historical significance of Kirkbride Hospitals for the Insane and offer recent examples of their successful adaptive reuse.   …


Victoria Milne’s firm 6¢ Design produced the inaugural Times Square Design Lab in May

Part of the Times Square Design Lab team sitting on Island Collection, by Brad Ascalon Times Square Design Lab ‘18. Left to right: Jerome Barth, Brittney Hazelwood, Victoria Milne, Brad Ascalon, Louis Lim, William Sarnecky, Alexandra Gonzalez, Rebecca Rodal.   Part time faculty Victoria Milne‘s firm, 6¢ Design, worked with client Times …