The Allied Studio, a cross-disciplinary design studio that mixes graduate students from Architecture, Interior Design and Lighting Design, every fall term identifies an actual client and site within New York City for students to analyze and propose new design interventions. This year the class worked with the Harlem School of the Arts; a rich cultural center and significant community anchor that offers classes in dance, theater, visual arts and music for students ranging in age from toddlers to early adulthood.

Please come to the Harlem School of the Arts this coming Saturday, December 8, 2012, 12-1pm, for an exhibition of the work of the Parsons Allied Design Studio. HSA is located at 645 St Nicholas Avenue and can be reached by subway on the ABC or D lines to 145 St or the B and C lines to 135 St.

The Center for Architecture’s eighth annual architecture schools exhibition showcases exemplary student work from 14 New York area schools.

Check out the latest coverage on the Parsons Design Workshop Project, in conjunction w/ the NYC Parks Dept., Splash House.

People perceive space with many senses. Charlie Morrow gave a workshop within MFA Interior Design Studio 1 to investigate sound and audio experience as a primary consideration in the design of interiors. A video was made to capture the essence of the workshop: sound is an integral element in the design of interiors.

Art, Environment, Action! is a creative teaching laboratory and environmental “artshop.” Bringing together artists, designers, architects, dancers, chefs, and scientists who work at the intersections of art, pedagogy, and ecology, it invites the public to join them to transform and activate the gallery.

Splash House construction is complete! Please join us at the Highbridge Pool and Recreation Center (2301 Amsterdam Ave) and see the end result of the many months of hard work and collaboration between Parsons SCE, the community of Washington Heights, the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation, and our many wonderful volunteers.

Harlem School of the Arts and Parsons the New School for Design announce a re-envisioning of the HSA building for the school’s next 50 years. Students and instructors from the graduate programs in architecture, lighting, and interior design are working in concert in the Allied Design Studio at Parsons School …

Jordana Maise Goot, incoming Dual Degree student in the Master of Architecture and MFA Lighting Design, is Acknowledged in Issue 45 of Design Quarterly magazine as one of “Tomorrow’s Top Ten Forces & Faces in Design”.  Her work in art employs spatial design and technology in relationship to the body, …

We spent a semester designing—and redesigning—our project for the Highbridge Pool and Recreation Center, located in the Washington Heights neighborhood of upper Manhattan. Now we’re ready to build it.