Faculty News
Rama Chorpash and Daniel Michalik exhibit at First Annual Core77 OPEN: All City Stars
Rama Chorpash (Director, BFA Product Design) was chosen to represent Staten Island, and Daniel Michalik (Faculty, BFA Product Design) is representing Queens.
Design Milk profiles SCE, “The Tools That Make It Happen: Parsons School of Constructed Environments”
Recently Design Milk visited the School of Constructed Environments to review the way in which our students collaborate and integrate designs across disciplines as well as explore tools for making. Take a look at the article for more detailed insight into the values of SCE offered through an interview with …
SCE faculty Aaron White’s essay, The Grid and its Guises, published in Urban Omnibus
Isn’t the most fascinating thing about the grid really our fascination with it? The grid can be described in a paragraph and understood at a glance, but that has not kept us from spending the 200 years since 1811 accounting and re-accounting for it. A merely objective investigation would have exhausted this subject long ago, suggesting that when we talk about the grid we’re really talking about almost anything but…
Piazza Ceramica, Ceramics of Italy Pavilion, unveiled at Coverings 2012, Orlando FL. Designed by BFA Interior Design faculty Eva Perez de Vega
The winning proposal for the Ceramics of Italy Competition is a recognizable, functional and versatile space, achieved by using the design elements organically and making them part of a clear, cohesive architectural thought. The project marries archetypal spatial preoccupations with modern technologies and computational design. The 3,000 square feet rectangular …
X is for An Expert on Bathrooms: Alexander Kira & Peter Greenaway’s 26 Bathrooms. INSIDE (hi)STORIES film screening and talk 27 April, 6:15pm
FILM SCREENING AND TALK Historian Hayden White once noted, “Every discipline [is] constituted by what it forbids its practitioners to do.” In this talk, I adapt White’s statement to argue that disciplines are equally constituted by what they allow practitioners to speak about or how they are allowed to speak. …
Francois Jegou: From the Design of Public Services to the Design of Public Policies, Tuesday April 24
SCE Dean William Morrish will moderate this lecture
Product Design faculty Robert Kirkbride to participate in The Arts of Memory conference, 26-27 April
At the 2012 Interdisciplinary Memory Conference (April 26 and 27), over 60 international scholars will discuss the arts and artifices of memory practices, which from antiquity have informed human actions and artifacts. Lina Bolzoni is the keynote speaker on Friday evening, discussing the magical-hermetic Memory Theatre of Giulio Camillo and …
SCE Dean William Morrish to particpate in Innovative Strategies to Transform Low Income Neighborhoods in Latin America: The Experience of Barrio 31, Buenos Aires
Design and Empowerment Innovative Strategies to Transform Low Income Neighborhoods in Latin America: The Experience of Barrio 31, Buenos Aires by Prof. Arch. Javier Fernández Castro Director “Proyecto Barrio 31” Instituto de la Espacialidad Humana, Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo, Universidad de Buenos Aires Prof. Arch. Ariel Claudio Misuraca …
M.Arch faculty Andrew Bernheimer, David Leven and Stella Betts win AIANY Design Award
They received the Un-Built Work Honor Award for their project, House on Chicken Feet, which looks at fairy tales through the lens of architecture.
Faculty Member PJ Carlino to speak at “Brooklyn Aesthetics” conference at St. Francis College, Brooklyn, April 21st.
Product Design Assistant Professor PJ Carlino will speak April 21st at the “Brooklyn Aesthetics” conference at St. Francis College, Brooklyn. PJ will present a talk on the complex social, economic, and technological developments that encouraged small-scale manufacturing of strikingly modern objects in Brooklyn in the early 20th century. St. Francis …