Faculty member, Alfred Zollinger, along with his firm, Matter Architecture Practice, recently submitted a proposal for MoMA PS1’s Rockaway Competition. Ps1 invited artists, architects, urban planners and designers to develop solutions to the many climate change problems made evident by Hurricane Sandy last fall. Matter explained their floating community solution …

Through an open call for submissions, faculty member Nina Ilieva was selected  to  present at the New Museum Idea’s city  at Storefront For Art and Architecture event. Eydmond Diegel from  Parsons was also invited to participate in the discussion. The 2013 iteration of IDEAS CITY, the biennial festival created to explore …

Cool Hunting recently featured a tour of Daniel Michalik’s Brooklyn Studio. Michalik recently collaborated with illustrator and designer Mark McGinnis to create hand-printed packaging solutions for Michalik’s Contraband boats, released this year.

Ali Tayar, MFA Interior Design Studio faculty member, recently designed an installation for an upcoming Sotheby’s auction. It will be up from April 4 to April 21, 2013.

Join us, Thursday, March 14, 2013 from 6:00 – 7:00 PM in the Glass Corner. We will be exploring the work of Andrea Ruggiero, Faculty in Product Design, and Jeremy Barbour, Faculty in Architectural and Interior Design.

Last December, the Design Observer blog featured a series of architectural fairy tales designed by Parsons SCE faculty members Andrew Bernheimer, Jing Liu, Emily Abruzzo, and Gerald Bodziak.

Associate Professor of Architecture, Peter Wheelwright, released a work of fiction that has been selected as a Hemingway/PEN Award Honorable Mention. The novel, As It Is On Earth, tells the story of a college professor, struggling to come to terms with his family’s difficult past.

SCE’s own Derek Porter was recently named “Designer to watch” in gb&d Magazine.

Susanne Schindler, adjunct faculty for architecture at SCE, is part of the multi-disciplinary design think tank Team R8. http://teamr8.com/ Team R8’s proposal “The City as Living Room” for new forms of shared living along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, is currently on view in the exhibition “Making Room: New …

Andy Bernheimer of the School of Constructed environments will be jurying the Little Free Libraries/New York Project. This competition will award ten design teams with $1000 to design and create small-scale libraries to house books. The deadline to submit is Monday, March 4, 2013.