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Craig Bernecker received Illuminating Engineering Society’s Distinguished Service Award

Craig Bernecker, Ph.D., FIES, Associate Professor of Lighting Design, was presented the Illuminating Engineering Society’s Distinguished Service Award at the IES Annual Conference on August 12, 2017.  The IES Distinguished Service Award is presented in recognition of continuous dedicated service to the Society, “having significantly furthered the purpose for which …


8 Parsons Lighting Design faculty and alumni present their work at 2017 Professional Lighting Design Convention in Paris!

This biannual Convention was created for the global lighting design market. Lighting designers, architects, researchers, universities, industry and clients use PLDC as a platform to meet, learn about the latest developments in lighting design, and discuss the future of the lighting design profession. “Incidents of Lightness” – Glenn Shrum, Director MFA …


Parsons Lighting Design alumni excel Professional Lighting Design Conference international lighting student competition

Parsons lighting design program had the greatest participation of any University and Zhuofei Ren (MFALD ’15) was named the winner to the PLDC 2017 Challenge Competition.” The Challenge consists of four Rounds through which the best students will be selected. Five experienced designers from different parts of the world coached the …


Christine Facella receives the 2017 ASLA Student Award for FORESTS ON THE EDGE

Congratulations to Christine Facella on receiving the 2017 ASLA Student Award! Facella earned her Masters from City College in 2017 receiving a degree in Landscape Architecture (MLA) and is an alumna of Parsons BFA Product Design program. Please find below Facella’s project statement in which she received her award for. To read …


2018 Hart Howerton Travel Fellowship Program

Fellowship provides students with an opportunity to enrich their education with both travel and office experience. The Fellowship is available to undergraduate and graduate students in planning, architecture, landscape architecture or urban design who will be entering their final year of study in September 2018. Travel Study Focus:   The firm currently …


RADICAL RELEVANCES CONFERENCE 2018_Call for Submissions

RADICAL RELEVANCES CONFERENCE 2018 Radical Relevances is a conference and peer reviewed multidisciplinary journal addressing complex global phenomena of our time, such as climate change, biodiversity, income inequality, and mass migration. We invite researchers and artists straddling multiple (or within one) disciplines to submit papers and artworks that go beyond the …


MFA Industrial Design program director Rama Chorpash participates in Fast Company Innovation Festival on Work and Place

As part of the Fast Company Innovation Festival on Work and Place Parsons’ MFA Industrial Design program Director Rama Chorpash will participate in a panel discussion and roundtable titled Designing the Workplace of the Future: Imagining and Inclusive and Equitable Workplace. The event is Thursday, October 26, 2017 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM EDT at LMHQ, 150 …


Dean Kirkbride to give two lectures on the Kirkbride Hospitals for the Insane

National Building Museum, Washington D.C. Museum exhibit: Architecture of an Asylum: St. Elizabeths 1852-2017 October 26, 2017: Event details   Columbia University GSAPP, NY, NY Preservation Lecture Series November 2, 2017: Event details   How many ghosts can haunt a building at once? When the building at question is one of …


hou de sousa + archotus’ national museum of world writing proposed as songdo cultural landmark

Nancy Hou of AAS and BFA ID and Joshua de Sousa whom teaches in AAS ID recently received much praise on their entry for The National Museum of World Writing. The duo was awarded Second Prize. The South Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism held a blind international competition for …


BFA Product and MFA Industrial Design Students Visited Roche Bobois Showroom

  Parsons BFA Product Design and MFA Industrial Design visited Roche Bobois Showroom in New York, and had an opportunity to meet with the Creative Director of Roche Bobois, Nicolas Roche. This is part of the partnered studios between Parsons SCE and Roche Bobois which give students an opportunity to design …