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2017 Street Seats Won Core 77 Community Choice Grand Prize!

The community has spoken! 2017 Street Seats is the grand prize winner of this year’s Community Choice. Congratulations to all the students and faculty involved in the project. Design Build Students: Reem Abi Samra, Katelin Collier, Javier Contreras, Russell Conway, Shaya Gansburg, Finn Harries, Charlotte Hoefer, Seung Chae Kang, Pranati …


M.Arch Students’ Proposal Received an Award of Merit by the Mayor of Venice

  Parsons was the only North American School invited to participate in the “Marghera City of Making: International Design Competition.” The design competition aims to explore visions and urban schemes envisaging the re-articulation of manufacturing areas in between Mestre and Marghera industrial area in Italy, the two mainland cities connected …


SCE Presents Street Seats 2018

In the third iteration of the BFA Architectural Design elective, a multidisciplinary team of New School students, including BFA Architectural Design, Product Design, Interior Design, and BA Food Studies students, together with graduate research assistants from Design and Technology and Lighting Design. Students created a multilevel planter and seating area …


AAS ID Faculty Christopher Kitterman Selected by Interior Design / ICFF as an honoree in the NYCxDESIGN

Part-time Lecturer Christopher Kitterman’s firm STADT Architecture has been selected by Interior Design / ICFF as an honoree in the NYCxDESIGN Kitchen/Bathroom category for their Chelsea Pied-à-Terre apartment renovation!  The program celebrates outstanding talent across major areas of design such as architecture, interiors, furnishings, lighting, and technology, and unifies the more than 500 …


MFA Industrial Design Students Are Core77 Runners-up!

  Congratulations new MFA graduates Sarah Templin, Gregory Beson, Danielle Connelly, and Wenny Chen for receiving the Runner-up in Core77 Design Awards: Design for Social Impact. Their project, BinBin, proposes a produce system that puts a strong focus on the circular economy. It combines the lightweight convenience of cardboard produce …


Street Seats 2017 Received a Core77 Notable Mention!

Class group photo. Top (left to right): Carlos, Gabrijela, Michael, Charlotte, Maha, Alyson, Shaya, Huy, Javier. Bottom: Finn, Jeana, Pranati, Phil, Naiky, Reem, Seung, Katelin, Russell.   Congratulations to Design Build: Street Seats 2017 for receiving a Notable Mention in the Core77 Design Awards: Design Education Initiatives.   The 2017 iteration …


Upcoming lectures by Dean Kirkbride for Kirkbride Hospital Communities in US Midwest

In the second half of June 2018, Dean Robert Kirkbride will travel to two Midwest cities, Fergus Falls, Minnesota (June 16) and Athens, Ohio (June 23), where he will present on the historical significance of Kirkbride Hospitals for the Insane and offer recent examples of their successful adaptive reuse.   …


Victoria Milne’s firm 6¢ Design produced the inaugural Times Square Design Lab in May

Part of the Times Square Design Lab team sitting on Island Collection, by Brad Ascalon Times Square Design Lab ‘18. Left to right: Jerome Barth, Brittney Hazelwood, Victoria Milne, Brad Ascalon, Louis Lim, William Sarnecky, Alexandra Gonzalez, Rebecca Rodal.   Part time faculty Victoria Milne‘s firm, 6¢ Design, worked with client Times …


BFA PD Senior Susannah Weaver Won the RADO Star Prize

  Our very own BFA PD senior Susannah Weaver WON the juries selection for the RADO star prize! It was for her “felted concrete” stool, which is an evolution of a project she did in studio with Daniel Michalik and Christian Swafford in Fall 2017. Weaver also works in the Healthy …


“Thing-Like Being” Group Design Show

Group exhibit by 5 BFA PD alums from 2016 and 2017. Their exhibit is part of the TriBeCa Design District and NYCXDesign. Opening Party: May 17th 7-10pm One Art Space 23 Warren Street, NY 10007 RSVP