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PLDS 4075, Design for Aging Populations, visits 305 West End Avenue

Part-time faculty member Jeffrey Rosenfeld took his Design for Aging Populations class on a tour of 305 West End Avenue, a nationally recognized Senior Residence....

A New Book by ADHT's Petya Andreeva | Fantastic Fauna From China to Crimea: Image-Making in Eurasian Nomadic Societies, 700 BCE-500 CE

Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea Image-Making in Eurasian Nomadic Societies, 700 BCE-500 CE Explores the zoomorphic imagination and image-making of Eurasian nomads and their...

A New Book by ADHT's Jilly Traganou | Design, Displacement, Migration: Spatial and Material Histories

Design, Displacement, Migration: Spatial and Material Histories gathers a collection of scholarly and creative voices—spanning design, art, and architectural history; design studies; curation; poetry; activism; and...

A New Book by ADHT's Caroline Dionne | Design Theory, Language and Architectural Space in Lewis Carroll

Recently published by Routledge, Caroline Dionne’s book Design Theory, Language and Architectural Space in Lewis Carroll offers spatial theories of the emergent based on a...

Robert Smithson, Land Art, and Speculative Realities released October 22nd, 2023

Robert Smithson, Land Art, and Speculative Realities, a new book by Rory O’Dea, Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art and Design at Parsons, was released on...

Parsons Highlight Archives: History of Design and Curatorial Studies MA Highlights

New York Silver: Conversation on the Craft

By adht | Published: September 6, 2017

New York Silver: Conversation on the Craft Tuesday, September 26 at 6:30 pm at the Museum of the City of New York In celebration…

Rosemary O’Neill Featured in Recent Exhibition Catalogue, “À propos de Nice, 1947-1977”

By adht | Published: August 17, 2017

Associate Professor of Art History, Rosemary O’Neill published, her article, “À propos de Nice: décentrer l’avant-garde, 1947-1977” in the exhibition catalogue for the À propos…

Alumni Spotlight: Sakura Nomiyama

By adht | Published: July 14, 2017

ADHT alumna Sakura Nomiyama has been very busy since graduating from the MA in the History of Design and Curatorial Studies Program in 2016! Since…

HDCS Faculty Lorraine Karafel’s “Raphael’s Tapestries: The Grotesques of Leo X”

By adht | Published: June 22, 2017

Assistant Professor of Art and Design History Lorraine Karafel’s most recent publication, Raphael’s Tapestries: The Grotesques of Leo X, was released earlier this year by Yale…

ADHT Graduate Student Symposium at Parsons Festival 2017

By adht | Published: May 2, 2017

Course Spotlight – Issues in Graphic Design: Modernity, Identity and Meaning

By adht | Published: April 28, 2017

The MA program in the History of Design and Curatorial Studies was proud to welcome renowned Graphic Design scholar and curator, Jeremy Aynsley, to teach…

Course Spotlight – Integrating Materials and Techniques: Metals, Sculptures & Woods in European Decorative Arts 1600-1850

By adht | Published: April 21, 2017

In January 2017, the MA program in the History of Design and Curatorial Studies was glad to welcome scholar and Victoria and Albert curator Tessa…

2017 MA HDCS Graduate Student Symposium Now Available to Watch Online

By adht | Published: April 19, 2017

On April 7th and 8th, 2017, the Parsons/Cooper Hewitt MA program on the History of Design and Curatorial Studies held its Twenty-Sixth Annual Graduate…

Announcing Objective 3 and Digital Archive

By adht | Published: April 7, 2017

The MA program in the History of Design and Curatorial Studies is proud to present the third issue of Objective, its annually published student journal. Debuting…

Design & Displacement: 26th Annual Parsons/Cooper Hewitt Graduate Student Symposium

By adht | Published: March 20, 2017

The Twenty-Sixth Annual Parsons/Cooper Hewitt Graduate Student Symposium on the History of Design Friday, April 7, 2017 at 5:30 pm to 8 pm Saturday, April 8,…

MA HDCS/Parsons ADHT co-hosts Symposium with The Modern Interiors Research Centre

By adht | Published: December 6, 2016

On November 18th, 2016, the MA program in the History of Design and Curatorial Studies/Parsons School of Art and Design History and Theory joined forces…

INSIDE (hi)STORIES: The Interiors and Restoration of the Hôtel Beauharnais

By adht | Published: November 22, 2016

Video recordings of this lecture are available: Part 1 Part 2

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PLDS 4075, Design for Aging Populations, visits 305 West End Avenue

A New Book by ADHT's Petya Andreeva | Fantastic Fauna From China to Crimea: Image-Making in Eurasian Nomadic Societies, 700 BCE-500 CE

A New Book by ADHT's Jilly Traganou | Design, Displacement, Migration: Spatial and Material Histories

A New Book by ADHT's Caroline Dionne | Design Theory, Language and Architectural Space in Lewis Carroll

Robert Smithson, Land Art, and Speculative Realities released October 22nd, 2023

Parsons Highlight Archives: History of Design and Curatorial Studies MA Highlights

New York Silver: Conversation on the Craft

Rosemary O’Neill Featured in Recent Exhibition Catalogue, “À propos de Nice, 1947-1977”

Alumni Spotlight: Sakura Nomiyama

HDCS Faculty Lorraine Karafel’s “Raphael’s Tapestries: The Grotesques of Leo X”

ADHT Graduate Student Symposium at Parsons Festival 2017

Course Spotlight – Issues in Graphic Design: Modernity, Identity and Meaning

Course Spotlight – Integrating Materials and Techniques: Metals, Sculptures & Woods in European Decorative Arts 1600-1850

2017 MA HDCS Graduate Student Symposium Now Available to Watch Online

Announcing Objective 3 and Digital Archive

Design & Displacement: 26th Annual Parsons/Cooper Hewitt Graduate Student Symposium

MA HDCS/Parsons ADHT co-hosts Symposium with The Modern Interiors Research Centre

INSIDE (hi)STORIES: The Interiors and Restoration of the Hôtel Beauharnais

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