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TASCHEN store sale

The TASCHEN store in SoHo is to be relocated later this year and will host the last of its bi-annual sales from January 24th – 27th. Don’t miss this incredible opportunity to browse and stock up on books and limited editions at low prices. Opening hours: Monday to Saturday: 11:00 a.m. to …


Parsons BFA Product and MFA Industrial Design students swept all but one place with six awards at the prestigious Collab Competition

Students from the BFA Product and MFA Industrial Design participated in the Collab Student Competition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art on November 12th. 2018. This year the competition was inspired by Dieter Rams and the study of his ten principles for Good Design. The work presented by our students …


SCE faculty Matt Burgermaster wins award for Mass Timber structure

SCE faculty Matt Burgermaster is an award winner in the 2018 Maine Mass Timber Design Competition.  Sponsored by AIA Maine and the Maine Mass Timber Commercialization Center, this competition sought to promote innovative thinking and sustainable uses for Mass Timber construction through the design of a wilderness lodge in the …


Free 2 day Conference ANYWHERE & ELSEWHERE Featuring SCE Faculty Mark Gardner

ANYWHERE & ELSEWHERE (2018) Art at the outermost limits of location specificity 15-16 November 2018 at School of Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons School of Design, The New School, New York, NY 10011. Free registration links:  Anywhere & Elsewhere Biennial Conference | DAY 1 Anywhere & Elsewhere Biennial Conference | …


Jeremy Barbour’s Tackle Box Architecture designs storefront for Claus Porto First International Store

  Congratulations to SCE’s very own Jeremy Barbour, adjust professor of Architecture for designing Claus Porto’s first international store in Soho. “Stretching across the length of the ground-floor space, Tacklebox’s principal Jeremy Barbour has created a 42 ft long archway made entirely from Portuguese cork, which visitors can step into …


SCE faculty Matt Burgermaster Presents at New Practices New York 2018 Lecture Series 

SCE faculty Matt Burgermaster will be presenting his work in a public lecture as part of the New Practices New York 2018 lecture series on Thursday, October 4th at 6:00 PM. Matt’s presentation will focus on recent design work by his office, MABU, that re-imagines traditional notions of waste, value, and change. It will include …


Part-time Faculty Eva Perez de Vega Presents a Paper at Oxford

Part-time faculty Eva Perez de Vega was invited to present a paper at Oxford as part of the British Society of Aesthetics Conference from Sept. 21-23. You can read her entire paper, “The Body of Architecture and Its Images” here.   Image: Frederick Kiesler, Film Guild Cinema, found in http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/4699: p. …


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. …