Congratulations to the Core77 winners! Student Winner, Strategy and Research: Nonliving Stakeholders by Sungmy Kim, MFA Transdisc Design Student Notable, Furniture and Lighting: Cada series by Lisa Marks, MFA Industrial Design Student Notable, Visual Communications: Tit for Tat by Yunjoo Lee, BFA Communication Design For more information on the Parsons graduates that participated please click HERE!

The Spring 2017 Street Seats created by Parsons students in partnership with the New York City Department of Transportation, is a multi-level planter creating an organic separation between the road and the sidewalk while providing six benches off the main frame. The structural framework is made from 360 pieces of vietnamese bamboo. …

Parsons Alumni Lani Adeoye’s, Talking Tables collection was the Jury’s favorite at WantedDesign’s Launch Pad. A competition presented by Design Milk and Design Within Reach. Her winning collection (The Talking Tables) derive their form and essence from iconic West African musical instruments like the Talking Drum. Hand-welded steel, turned wood …

On June 8, 2017, Dr. Robert Kirkbride, Dean of Parsons School of Constructed Environments and Spokesperson for PreservationWorks, will present at the International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, in Glasgow, Scotland. His paper, The Phantoms of the Kirkbride Hospitals for the Insane, considers the complex histories and phantoms of …

2015 BFA Product Design Alumni Shubham Issar, Amanat Anand, and Yogita Agrawal were recently selected for the Forbes Asia 30 Under 30 list of innovative entrepreneurs for their product SoaPen, a new system of soap-based crayons that brings easier hand-washing to underserved communities. For more information on SoaPen and their …

1:00 PM – 4:00 PM SATURDAY, APRIL 22 At Center for Architecture (536 LaGuardia Place NY, NY 10012) Please join for African Modernism(s): Past/Present/Future African Modernism(s): Past/Present/Future explores the legacy of architectural modernism featured in the exhibition Architecture of Independence – African Modernism. It is vital to consider the complexity of …

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Intern no more: AIA supports two new titles for professionals pursuing licensure. A new position statement from AIA seeks to move architecture beyond the outdated use of ‘intern.’ In December of 2016, AIA’s Board of Directors updated the Institute’s position statements to clarify the term “intern.” The newly approved statement specified that, …

  “One need only take a casual look at this audience to see that we have a long way to go in this field of integration of the architects.” This is how civil rights activist Whitney M. Young, Jr., then the executive director of the National Urban League, opened his impassioned …

“The thing that is a little bit nagging in people’s minds about mass production is that everything looks the same. But could you mass-produce uniqueness? That’s the perfect crime.” To give this thought a push Mr. Tom Dixon and Ikea held a workshop at Parsons School of Design at The New School in New York …