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Sheila Johnson Design Center – Light Focus Spring 2017

  Each Semester a group of students from the MFA Lighting Design program design and aim the lighting for a new exhibition in the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery. This hands-on experience offers an invaluable education regarding light source performance, optics and source/subject geometry.


Sheila Johnson Design Center – Light Focus Fall 2016

  Each Semester a group of students from the MFA Lighting Design program design and aim the lighting for a new exhibition in the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery. This hands-on experience offers an invaluable education regarding light source performance, optics and source/subject geometry.


Matt Burgermaster wins the ACSA Faculty Design Award

SCE faculty member Matt Burgermaster has won the 2016-17 ACSA Faculty Design Award for his project Unbuilding Long Branch, which transforms a vacant warehouse complex into a new community arts/food center. This project trades in the binary conceptual framework of “old” and “new” commonly associated with the field of adaptive …


Derek Porter and Jean Gardner Speak at Enlighten Europe

Derek Porter, Associate Professor of Lighting Design, and Jean Gardner, Associate Professor of Social-Ecological History and Design, gave a lecture at Enlighten Europe in Prague, The Czech Republic, last fall. Their presentation, (Your) Body Sensing: An Ecological Approach to Lighting Design, introduced ecological design considerations and multi-sensorial ways in which …


Dean Kirkbride participates in Deans’ Roundtable at New York’s Center for Architecture

On November 11, 2016, Dean Kirkbride joined his fellow deans and representatives from eleven schools of architecture at New York’s Center for Architecture for a remarkably candid and substantive roundtable discussion of current directions in architectural education and responses to a controversial letter from AIA National shortly following the 2016 U.S. …


Quilian Riano – Part-Time Assistant Professor – designs flagship project: Spaces of Opportunity

A large urban farm and public space project in South Phoenix designed by Parsons urban design and architecture Faculty Quilian Riano for the collective of non-profits Cultivate South Phoenix has been featured in two national news outlets. The article on the Architect’s Newspaper HERE! focuses on the project’s design and community …


Dr. Sharon Sutton, FAIA, joins Parsons’ 2017 Design Workshop Team + AIANY Medal of Honor + Upcoming Book signings

Dr. Sharon Sutton, FAIA, joins Parsons’ 2017 Design Workshop Team + AIANY Medal of Honor + Upcoming Book signings Parsons SCE is delighted to announce that Dr. Sharon Sutton, FAIA, renowned architectural educator and emeritus Professor of the University of Washington, has joined our 2017 Design Workshop Studio team to …


MFA Industrial Design Students Win “Cradle to Cradle Product Design Challenge!”

MFA Industrial Design Students Win “Cradle to Cradle Product Design Challenge!” We congratulate 2nd year MFA Industrial Design students Ari Elefterin and Matt Callahan for their “Leave No Trace Leaf Knife” in the  “Cradle to Cradle Product Design Challenge!” Projects were created in the course entitled Life Cycle Analysis in which students entered the …


SCE M.Arch Professors Yolande Daniels and Mark Gardner Featured in the Exhibition Opening – SAY IT LOUD: Distinguished Black Designers of NYCOBA | NOMA

SAY IT LOUD: Distinguished Black Designers of NYCOBA|NOMA Exhibition Opening – SAY IT LOUD: Distinguished Black Designers of NYCOBA | NOMA Thursday, January 26, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM Curator: Pascale Sablan, AIA, NOMA, LEED AP Design: Manuel Miranda Practice Organized by: Center for Architecture and NYCOBA | NOMA Supporter: FXFOWLE …


Be Original Americas is launching call for student applications for its Design Fellowship

Following a great inauguration year, Be Original Americas is launching their call for student applications for its Design Fellowship. The non-profit organization advocating for authentic design is offering two- 2nd or 3rd year students the opportunity for a 7 week fellowship program to work with the below companies, learning – on site :  Design / Research / Manufacturing/Sales/Marketing/Distribution/Digital Promotion and …