Faculty News & Recent Projects
News: Nov 6 The fifth issue of Scapes, the annual journal of the Department of Architecture, Interior Design and Lighting, has been launched. Edited by Joanna Merwood and student interns, the journal focuses on global, metropolitan, and departmental perspectives on architecture. The theme of this issue is architectural drawing and the representation of natural systems.
In Issue 5 (Fall 2006) Download pdf Jonathan Massey, “Drawing from Nature” Glenn Forley, “Mapping Stone: Gutzon Borglum and the Construction of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial” Suzanne Strum, “Pencil of Nature/Mirror of Culture: Photography in the Topographic Tradition” Richard Garber and Nicole Robertson, “Along Operative Lines” Interview with William Cronon, Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Dilip Da Cunha, “Nature in Environment: A Practice of the Wild” Michael Morris, “Drawing on Earth” Student work from the BFAAD, BFAID, MARCH and MFA Lighting Design programs.
News: Sep 21 - Jan 7
Morris Sato Studio: Light Showers with video images by Paul Ryan
For more Info: Click here or link to the exhibition info
News: Jeremy Edmiston and Douglas Gauthier SYSTEMarchitects wins 2006 Wilkinson Award for the PARISHhouse
The
RAIA has selected the PARISHhouse to receive its highest honor
for residential architecture. A prototype kit home, PARISHhouse is
constructed from 1100 pieces of marine grade plywood, each laser cut
into a unique shape and size and clipped together with
purpose-designed connectors. A crew of architectural students
assembled the basic form in a three week barn raising. The dwelling,
which is a five minute walk from the beach, was conceived as a surf
shack that's cooled in summer by natural ventilation and warmed in
winter by the sun's rays and aims to combine a comfortable
domesticity with a responsive geometric form. Click
Here for Details
News: Kent Kleinman has accepted the position Chair of Architecture, Interior Design, and Lighting. He brings extensive academic experience and a great passion for architecture and history, and is exceptionally well qualified to lead Parsons' AIDL programs to new levels of excellence and influence.
Kent comes to us from the State University of New York at Buffalo, where
he has been a Professor in the Department of Architecture since 2000.
He has held professorships at other architecture schools in the United
States and Europe, including the University of Michigan, Cornell University,
the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, the Hochschule der Kunst in Berlin,
and the Danish Royal Academy in Copenhagen.
Kent holds B.A. and M.Arch degrees from the University of California at
Berkeley. His scholarly focus is 20th Century European Modernism, and
his publications include The Villa Müller: A Work of Adolf Loos;
Rudolf Arnheim: Revealing Vision; and Mies van der Rohe: The Krefeld Villas,
which was named a "Top Ten Book of the Year" by the Architect's
Journal. His articles and reviews have appeared in national and international
publications including Bauwelt, Progressive Architecture, Bauart, Archis
and the Architect's Journal.
He has received two Graham Foundation Grants, the Arnold W. Brunner Award,
a Progressive Architecture Design Award, and was first alternate for the
Burnham Prize. His design work has been exhibited at the Genius Loci Gallery
(Prague), the Charlottenburg Museum (Denmark), the Museum Haus Lange (Germany),
Yale University, and the University of Michigan.
Joining Kent in the AIDL department is Lois Weinthal, who has accepted the position of Director of the Interior Design program. Lois comes to us from the University of Texas at Austin, where she has been an Assistant Professor and co-developer of the school's Architectural Interior Design Program since 1999. She was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure at UT Austin this year. Among her chief efforts was to advance the development of the Architectural Interior Design program and to strengthen its connections to the Architecture program. She also led the effort toward FIDER accreditation and increased the program's visibility externally.
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News:
Eileen Gray Thesis Prize * Awarded annually to the
student for outstanding
design thesis in the Department of Architecture, Interior Design, and
Lighting, Master of Architecture Parsons School of Design. Click
here for pics
Honorable Mention
Serlene
Chan
Gudmunda Geirmunsdottir
Aaron Tweedie
Award
Erica
Quinones
Allison McElheny
News: Joanna Merwood reviews 'Transformed By Light: The New York Night', an exhibition at the
Museum of the City of New York. Click here
News: Faculty member Eric Bunge and his partner Mimi Hoang of nARCHITECTS have been selected as
one of this year's Emerging Voices 2006 by the Architectural League of NY. Emerging Voices lecture on
Thursday,
March 2, 6:30 pm at the Scholastic Auditorium, 557 Broadway (bet. Prince/Spring).
More details, click
here
News:
Faulty member Katherine Chia of Desai/Chia
Architecture, www.desaichia.com
:
Desai/Chia Architecture's Cooper Square project won a
2005 Architecture Award and a 2004
AIA/NY Design Award
The firm is currently working on a landscape installation in Taiwan, a
house
in upstate New York, and loft renovations in Manhattan.
News:
SYSTEMarchitects,
Douglas Gauthier and Jeremy Edmiston are featured
in the INNOVATORS section of this week's TIME Magazine for a house
just completed in Australia. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1134788,00.html
News: "The architecture students of The
Design Workshop have recently completed their eighth summer designing
and
building for the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s “Swing
Space” program. INTERCHANGE: NASSAU expresses
LMCC’s presence in reshaping the exchange among artists, businesses,
and residents of Lower Manhattan. The project
is organized into three components: conduit, docking walls, and event
units which were fabricated on-site using
aluminum, bent plastic, and stained wood. The conduit forms an armature
overhead the central space providing lighting
from a series of removable and reconfigurable fluorescent fixtures, and
electricity built into the modular sections of the
conduit. The docking walls, located at the end of the conduit system,
define a visual boundary that both announces and
veils the activities inside the Event Space. In their unused state, the
event units are nested at regular intervals between
the docking walls. During public events, these units, characterized as
entry, media, seating/conference, and bar, can be
rolled into different positions throughout the space, allowing for maximum
flexibility in their arrangement in order to meet
the various requirements of art openings, screenings, performances, and
lectures."
Article in Metropolis Magazine click here.
News: Architecture
Agency has been working on the Perch Café in Park Slope, which
will open in November 2005, in
addition to several residential renovations and custom furniture projects.
As part of Magnetic Laboratorium, Beth Weinstein
will participate in a live performance at DTW in late January 2006. Their
project SX Street will be screened at the Miami
Basel Art Fair in December 2002.
www.architectureagency.com
News: International Projects Office Conference, London Metropolitan University
-Lecture: The Design Workshop, Peter Wheelwright
News: Deans of New York, "21th Century Schools/21th Century Cities" Panelists include Peter Wheelwright, Chair
News: Derek Porter becomes Director of Parsons Lighting Program, Click to read article.
News:
Faculty-MICHAEL GABELLINI & KIMBERLY SHEPPARD
Recent Works
Firm: Gabellini Associates www.gabelliniassociates.com
Project includes:
1.
NATIONAL DESIGN AWARD (Interior Design Category)
COOPER-HEWITT, NATIONAL DESIGN MUSEUM
2. "TOP OF THE ROCK" (Rockefeller Center Observation Deck Complex)
3. SAKS FIFTH AVENUE - Boston / San Francisco / Atlanta
4.
THE NEW BOUTIQUE: FASHION AND DESIGN
by Dr. Neil Bingham, published by Merrell Books (2005)
News:
Ackert Architecture will be featured on the
cover of a new book by Pilar
V iladas, Design Editor at the New York Times, magazine. the book is
available in major book stores and on-line. it features projects published
over the past few years in the style section of the Sunday NY Times
Magazine.
Domesticities:
At Home with The NewYork Times Magazine
by Pilar Viladas
News: Recent projects from Garrison Architects LLP.
News: Award winning lighting designer, Randy Sabedra, has been elected president of the Illuminating Engineering
Society New York Section (IESNY) for a two-year term, effective August 2005. He has held various positions at the
IESNY since 2002, most recently serving as the organization's vice president and remains co-chair of the IESNY Education
Committee and advisor on the Student Lighting Design Competition. Website: www.rsltg.com
News:
The
Decorator's Club awarded Soo Min Hwang (BFA, Interior Design, 2005) their
top prize for
a Graduating Student Portfolio in their 11th Annual Spring Education Awards.
The award is given annually to
one graduating Senior from the six New York City schools which offer a
BFA degree in Interior Design.
Soo Min's portfolio--consisting of one hospital and one hospitality project--was
blind-juried by a committee of practicing
Interior Designers, including Laura Bohn, Doreen Stempin, Katie Ridder,
Lynn Stair Allen, and Maureen Footer.
Work was judged based on five points: research/analysis and programming,
design concept/space
planning/problem-solving, color/materials and finishes, furniture/fixtures
and lighting, and finally, presentation/communication.
