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  Product Design Graduate, Siramol Muan On-Sri’s childrens footwear design was recently selected by the Pensole Footwear Design Academy as the winner of the kids shoe category. On-Sri was first invited to attend a master class at Pensole with 24 other young product designers where she attended the “Future of …

A new digital edition of SCE Faculty Member Robert Kirkbride’s multimedia book, Architecture and Memory: the Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro, which received the Gutenberg-e Prize and was nominated for the Herbert Baxter Adams Book Award, was recently re-formatted and launched on a second site, the ACLS (American Council …

Masters of Architecture Graduate, Rahul Shah, was recently featured in Fast Company’s Co.Exist Blog. The article highlights Shah’s thesis project, called Exorcise Pool, in which he develops a solution to the polluted Newtown Creek that divides East Williamsburg and Queens in New York. Shah’s plan involves rerouting the contaminated water …

Last spring, Two MFA Interior Design students, Samantha Obell and Paloma Sherman, won the 2013 International Interior Design Association New York Design This! Competition. Students were given one hour to design the floor of a public space using new DesignFLEX Visualizer software. Obell and Sherman were given a space with …

David J. Lewis, Associate Professor of Architecture in the School of Constructed Environments and a founding principal of LTL Architects was recently featured in Metropolis Magazine. LTL Architects, along with Quinn Evans Architects and Sigal Construction, entered a design/build competition to design a residence hall at Gallaudet University in Washington, …

MFA Interior Design 2012 Alum, Marilila Kyrtata, was selected to be included in GREAT 2013, an exhibition highlighting Greek Architectural Talent. It was one of 41 thesis projects selected out of over 500 submissions. The exhibition opened on May 20, 2013 and will run until June 9, 2013. Lila’s thesis project, …

Design Workshop’s Splash House will be featured in an exhibition titled FitNation, highlighting design, policy, and organizing strategies that encourage a healthier lifestyle. SCE Part-time Faculty members, Emily Abruzzo and Gerald Bodziak of Abruzzo Bodziak Architects, designed and curated the show. FitNation exhibition’s opening reception will take place on Thursday, …

Parsons product design students presented 15 projects for the collaboration with Poltrona Frau, ranging from cigar cases and drink coasters to picture frames and candle holders. Students were required to address wastelessness and how the potential production of the pieces would enable the least amount of material waste. The jury panel …

Faculty member, Alfred Zollinger, along with his firm, Matter Architecture Practice, recently submitted a proposal for MoMA PS1’s Rockaway Competition. Ps1 invited artists, architects, urban planners and designers to develop solutions to the many climate change problems made evident by Hurricane Sandy last fall. Matter explained their floating community solution …