Chelsea Barile (BFA ID 2020), Katherine Anderson (BFA ID 2020) and Ashley Le (BFA ID 2021) are on Taylor Spellman’s design dream team. Unsold homes become red hot properties when New York-based interior designer and home stager, Taylor Spellman and Kate Dickens, her right-hand woman and friend for more than thirty years, create …

2020 might have cancelled our plans and overthrown routines, protocols of action and everything else tagged and tucked away as “familiar,” but the Design Build Workshop stood resilient and inventive despite the many local and global challenges. Amidst turmoil, new partnerships have been formed, places imagined, and ideas shared.  Last …

Mark Gardner, Director of the Master of Architecture program, will give a talk at the National Arts Club on December 9th. He will be joined by his colleagues from other architectural practices for a conversation about important historical influences on their careers and projects, and visions for a more equitable …

The Architectural League’s new initiative, “Reimagine”, is a workshop welcoming design graduates from the Class of 2020 to re-evaluate their role as designers and architects in understating and shaping space amidst converging and ongoing crises of COVID-19, climate change, racism and economic inequality. Selected graduates from architecture, landscape architecture, and …

Congratulations to Zac Pepere, BFA Product Design alumnus, whose work has been recently featured in the Graduate Design section of Wallpaper Magazine. Named “Material Values”, his project focuses on value we attribute to different materials and challenges contemporary attributions through creative reuse of paper and food by-products from the restaurant …

Angran Li graduated in 2016 from the Interior Design BFA program.   Three years after finishing at Parsons, she moved to LA and received an MFA degree in Film Production Design at the American Film Institute. Upon graduating, she received an offer from Star Trek Discovery’s production designer to become …

Can luxury be sustainable? Sustainability is not a luxury — it is a necessity. While some companies around the world have been shifting gears and making sustainability their language(s), Parsons design community is on a path to crack it open… Starting from the hair care products on our shelves. This …

The New School’s Centennial Festival and the Tishman Environment and Design Center will be hosting a screening of Surviving Progress, a documentary film written and directed by Mathieu Roy and Harold Crooks.   From the filmmakers:   ‘Technological advancement, economic development, population increase – are they signs of a thriving …

The School of Constructed Environments at Parsons is pleased to announce the ribbon cutting for two Parsons Design Workshop projects created in collaboration with the Trust for Governor’s Island: Pagganuck and the Lab at Urban Farm.   The opening will celebrate the culmination of a two-year partnership with TGI, and …

We are very sorry to share with you the news that Aaron Lown, Product Design ‘91, has passed away. On behalf of Parsons, we extend our sympathies to Aaron’s family, friends, and colleagues during this difficult time. Aaron was a dedicated maker, who started his journey in Parsons’ first graduating …