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Parsons Lighting Students Win IESNYC Student Competition

Parsons first year lighting students Anirudh Anand, Priyanka Shah and Aarohi Mittal win Grand Prize for their project “Beyond the Veil” and Wan-Chien (Shelly) Lin won Honorable Mention for “Bio-Shimmer”. “Beyond the Veil” celebrates and laments the fleeting moments of interaction that we all share with millions of other city …


Announcing the Class of 2023 Metropolis Future100 Honorees

Each year, Metropolis sets out to designate the top graduating architecture and interior design students in the United States and Canada. The program, sponsored by Armstrong, Daltile, Formica, Interface, Kawneer, Keilhauer, Sherwin-Williams, and Yabu Pushelberg, invited the most talented students from the class of 2023 to apply. “Supporting the next …


Andrew Bernheimer, “Where is the Architecture? Finding Design and Community Amidst Constraints”

In the 22nd Annual John T. Dunlop Lecture, Andrew Bernheimer, FAIA, will discuss what several affordable housing projects in New York City have taught him about architecture’s role in addressing housing-related challenges. His firm, Bernheimer Architecture (BA), is committed to “designing sustainable and resilient architecture by crafting productive environments for …


MFA Industrial Design student Jessica Thies has been named the Winner for the 2022 / Special Awards / FOOTWEAR INNOVATION with her project: Shrooes.

Shrooes are a footwear design which collaborates with living mycelium to bond with a knitted textile upper. Mycelium, the root-like structure of fungi, are sentient organisms which can bond with textile materials. As footwear today uses synthetic foams, are constructed with toxic adhesives, and unable to biodegrade, I am exploring …


MFA ID Faculty to Present at 7th Annual Symposium of Latin American Art – Friday, March 31st

MFA ID Faculty member Maria Linares Trelles will present her research on cartographies at the 7th Annual Symposium of Latin American Art this Friday (March 31st). The Seventh Annual Symposium is presented by the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA), …


LEED Training – NYC – Spring Webinars

Boost your career prospects with the prestigious LEED Green Associate designation! LEED is the benchmark for green building certification, and having this accreditation demonstrates to employers and clients that you have a certified expertise in the field. With the LEED Green Associate exam having a less-than-stellar pass rate, the value …


Dr. Sharon Egretta Sutton, FAIA OPENING KEYNOTE: 2023 TOPAZ MEDALLION Annual Meeting ACSA

The Topaz Medallion, presented jointly by AIA and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, honors those who educate others to ensure architecture’s enduring excellence. An educator, author, and citizen architect with worldwide reach, Dr. Sharon Egretta Sutton, FAIA, has shifted the profession of architecture toward a more equitable, diverse, …


Eva Perez de Vega: The architecture of (hu)man exceptionalism redrawing our relationships to other species.

Professor Eva Perez de Vega will be presenting at the ACSA Annual Meeting. Her research and presentation is titled “The architecture of (hu)man exceptionalism. Redrawing our relationships to other species.” Read below for more information on the ACSA Annual Meeting. For more information and a registration link please click here.  The …


2023 Waterfront Scholars Application

Apply for the opportunity to attend the 2023 Waterfront Conference as a Waterfront Scholar. Join hundreds of attendees at the Waterfront Alliance’s premier gathering of stakeholders, planners, environmental advocates, and industry experts. The conference will be held on May 8, 2023 at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York …


Symposium: Architectural Pedagogies of the Global South: Perpetrating Pedagogies for Spatial Production

This Symposium will be featuring Brian McGrath and Michele Gorman of Parsons SCE. The GSA cordially invites you to an upcoming symposium and book launch by Dr Harriet Harriss titled “Architectural Pedagogies of the Global South: Perpetrating Pedagogies for Spatial Production”. Dr Harriet Harriss is an esteemed scholar, practitioner, and educator …