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Professors Andy Bernheimer and David Leven given special thanks as Design Excellence Collaborators in NYCHA’s New Design Guidelines

The work of Andy Bernheimer and David Leven along with Parsons M.Arch program students Hayley Reiter, Marc Delaney, Sam Powers Eric Romeo, William Eatough and Nick Tafel for the New York City Housing Authority in the Design Excellence Program was honored in the newly published “Design Guidelines: Rehabilitation of NYCH …


Jeremy Barbour of Tacklebox Architecture, infuses the Aesop atmosphere with local flavours of whiskey and tobacco!

WASHINGTON, D.C. AND SAN FRANCISCO – ‘All our projects begin with a careful consideration of the history and local context of a given site,’ says Jeremy Barbour of Tacklebox Architecture. SCE faculty member, Jeremy Barbour of Tacklebox Architecture was recently featured in publication, Frame Magazine. The feature showcases the recent completion of one of …


Students in the Light-Space Art fall 2016 elective build art installation as part of Questioning Light public program

  The Light-Space Art class at Parsons created a temporary installation that was part of a public program titled Questioning Light. The site specific installation, titled Resonance, examined notions of time and body movement in conjunction with division, as the art work was installed in the middle of the presentation …


Design-driven Swiss watchmaker Rado announced its continued sponsorship as the official watch brand of NYCxDESIGN, New York City’s official celebration of global design

Design-driven Swiss watchmaker Rado announced its continued sponsorship as the official watch brand of NYCxDESIGN, New York City’s official celebration of global design. As part of NYCxDESIGN, together with WantedDesign, Rado will launch, for its second year, the U.S. edition of the Rado Star Prize, which is held internationally to promote the …


Destiempo: Dynamogram, Puerto Casado, Paraguay – Exhibition opening March 3!

The exhibition “Destiempo: Dynamogram, Puerto Casado” is the result of a design and art residency with five renown Paraguayan artists and two Parsons students, Isabel Saffon and Elena Habre. Research took place in June of 2016 in the Paraguayan Chaco, an area currently under threat of deforestation. The works displayed in …


Street Seats Design-Build Studio, an elective within the School of Constructed Environments

The Street Seats Design-Build Studio, an elective within the School of Constructed Environments, is off and running with the first design prototypes for the 2017 installation. These early schemes are in the process of being synthesized and refined into a final proposal. Stay tuned for the next iterations and prototypes. …


Andy Bernheimer and Brian Young participate in “Turning Point” panel at the Center for Architecture, comprised of 5 of 6 current or former Parsons faculty members

When: Wednesday, March 1, 6-8pm Where: Center for Architecture; 536 LaGuardia Place Join the AIANY New Practices Committee for a panel disucssion about turning points in the profession. Six firms of varying sizes will talk about the moments in their careers that allowed them to progress. Each architect will expose …


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.


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 …