Under a TEDC grant, BFA Architectural Design Director Emily Moss and Part-Time Faculty Carolin Mees repurposed SCE’s Spring 2019 Street Seats, originally located on East 13th Street outside the University Center. The temporary installation was repurposed for the Moore-Jackson Community Garden, a half–acre site located next to high-rise residential buildings …

Parsons Lighting design program hosts an interactive conversation to promote advocacy of marginalized groups as part of the lighting designers’ role. In addition to connecting likeminded people across the global lighting design community, this program will seed supportive structures to sustain action required to achieve greater diversity and inclusion in the lighting design industry. Watch the video recording!

Join Monica Rhodes, Professor Randall Mason, and Mark Gardner for a conversation on preserving the legacy of civic rights history, and the creation of a new center at the Weitzman School focused on the preservation of civic rights sites. The talk will be hosted on November 12th at 12:00 PM …

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 …

Congratulations to Andrew Bernheimer, Parsons SCE faculty in Architecture, on publishing a new book. “Fairy Tale Architecture”, which has already been featured in The New York Times, reimagines the relationship between the magical realm of every fairy tale inhabited by characters as well as architectural structures of all sorts, and …

For a limited time only, students can receive a one-year subscription to AZURE, an award-winning magazine dedicated to contemporary design and architecture, for just $25 — that’s a 68% discount. Take advantage of this limited-time offer and subscribe today at http://azuremagazine.com/2020student.

Don’t Miss Your Chance to Attend the #FCFestival for Free! This October, the Fast Company Innovation Festival will once again take over! For the first-time ever, the sixth annual event will be held virtually. But as always we will be bring extraordinary personalities together for surprising talks, hands-on workshops, unexpected …

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 …

Full-time faculty Jonsara Ruth was published in Metropolis Magazine and Dwell. Jonsara co-authored a piece for Metropolis Magazine which was published a couple of days ago called “Designing for Equity and Well-Being in the COVID-19 Era“.  Hana Kassem, co-author and Principal at KPF Architects, has also been a Part-Time faculty member at …