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Rosannah Harding and Matt Ostrow Win Forge Prize
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 …
HML Desigm Contest
Contest Brief: Impacts of design decisions are far-reaching, inescapable, and indisputable. As designers, the questions we continually ask ourselves are: how does what I make impact the world at large? What materials am I using? Who am I designing for and are my designs inclusive? How can materials be used …
Mark Gardner in Conversation with Interior Design
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 …
Matt Burgermaster publishes essay on architectural leftovers in Urban Omnibus
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. …
Open for Applications: FAO Schwarz Fellow at Mural Arts
The FAO Schwarz Fellow will work with youth, communities, and public schools connected to the Restored Spaces Initiative, which uses socially engaged public art practice as a platform for neighborhood change grounded in environmental justice. In addition to achieving outcomes in the communities it engages, Restored Spaces has a significant influence …
Collaborating and Building Futures at VANTAN DESIGN INSTITUTE, Tokyo
On January 11, faculty from Parsons AAS design programs each presented workshops related to their field of work with members of the Vantan Design Institute in Tokyo, Japan, as part of a renewed and ongoing partnership between the two institutions. Nadia Elrokhsy, Associate Professor of Ecological Design and current director …
Gaining STEAM/D, SCE Interior Design Faculty Join the Conversation with Other Educators
Interior design faculty, Nadia Elrokhsy, and Yu Nong Khew join the IDEC (Interior Design Education Council) discussion on “The Role of Interior Design in STEM/STEAM/STEAMD Initiatives” in the Fall 2019 issue of IDEC Exchange. The Exchange publication is a forum to reflect on critical issues facing the field of interior design …
Habitat Workshop selected as Interior Design’s Best of Design 2019 in the residential category
Habitat Workshop’s recently completed renovation of West Village Apartment was selected as Interior Design’s Best of Design 2019 in the residential category. Read the article here.
Gloria Cortina, AAS Interior Design Alum, at Cooper Hewitt Museum
Gloria Cortina, Parsons AAS Interior Design Alum 1999, with an interior design practice in Mexico City has three pieces in the current Cooper Hewitt Museum exhibition, titled ‘Nature by Design’. The exhibition is open through September 2020. Her console titled ‘Black Hawk’ was acquired by the Museum last year for their permanent …
Matt Burgermaster wins AIA award for Mass Timber structure
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 …