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2018 AZ Awards: Open for submissions

AZURE, the influential contemporary design and architecture magazine, announces the opening of submissions to the 2018 AZ Awards. Now in its 8th year, the AZ Awards competition celebrates the best in architecture and design from around the world. * Entries are juried by a panel of architects & designers at the forefront of their …


Peru, Spring & Summer Break | Water Resource Management

** With limited availability, all GREEN Programs are filled on a first-come, first-serve rolling basis. Upon submission of your GREEN Program application, you can expect to hear back within 48 hours ** To apply, please visit HERE.


Carlo Enzo and His Design Studio 5 Final Projects

CARLO ENZO UOA, ARCHITECT, FOUNDING PRINCIPAL URBAN OFFICE ARCHITECTURE Registered Architect in NY, NJ, MI, Member of the National Council of Architecture Registration Board, Member of the Institute for Urban Design, Adjunct Professor at Parsons School of Design, has received a Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design at Columbia …


Senior Architecture & Urban Design Studio in Chiangmai, Thailand

From January 6 to 14th, twelve Parsons Architectural Design and Urban Design students and ten students from the International Design and Architecture program at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok participated in an international workshop in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The theme of the workshop, #watchingthericegrow grew out of SCE Professor Brian McGrath’s …


2018 Summer Internship at SOM

The application process for 2018 Summer Internship Program is now open. Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill LLP (SOM) is seeking the best emerging talent to join them this summer in their Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington DC, and London offices. Selected candidates will get hands-on project experience in architecture, …


Renata Souza (BFA Product Design ’17) is a finalist for the North American James Dyson Award and presents at Dutch Design Week

Renata Souza (BFA Product Design ’17) was invited to present her Product Design Capstone Project, Thomy, as part of the Design Indaba  presentations at Dutch Design Week 2017. Thomy provides a fun and self-sufficient methods for insulin injection in children with Type 1 diabetes. Following her presentation, Souza was awarded the …


Congrats Dwayne Riley on receiving the annual BASF scholarship!

Dwayne Riley, a BFA senior student, won the 2017 Brooklyn Architects Scholarship Foundation (BASF) . The Brooklyn Architects Scholarship Foundation incorporated in 1951 has given over $250,000 in scholarships to qualified students of architecture in accredited New York Schools. This year, the BASF will be awarding five scholarships on Dec. …


Product Design Seniors takes 3rd place in 2017 Collab Competition

BFA Product Design Senior Doyoon Kim was awarded the 3rd place prize at the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Collab Student Design Competition. Kim’s Design for the “Ouvrir” clothing rack was awarded the prize based on it’s simplicity of concept, sensitivity of material choice, and efficiency of manufacture. To read more, …


Parsons’ MFA Lighting Design program – well represented at the IES Conference

For the second year in a row, Parsons’ MFA Lighting Design program was well represented at the Illuminating Engineering Society’s Annual Conference in August 2017.  Dr. Craig Bernecker, presented a paper, The Influence of Chromaticity on Subjective Impressions in Lighted Environments, based upon research conducted within the Lighting Thesis Studio …


Next Generation Lighting Systems Project

Parsons MFA Lighting Design Program has partnered with the U.S. Department of Energy through Pacific Northwest National Laboratories to undertake an evaluation of connected lighting systems through the Next Generation Lighting Systems program.  Seven different connected lighting systems were installed in seven classrooms on the New School campus in Manhattan, …