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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

Glenn Adamson Leads Course on Material Culture and Current Events

By adht | Published: November 10, 2016

Curator and author Glenn Adamson assumed his most recent role as Director of New York’s Museum of Arts and Design in October of 2013 and…

MA History of Design & Curatorial Studies Alumna Spotlight: BEYOND THE SURFACE with Laura Camerlengo

By adht | Published: October 18, 2016

Laura Camerlengo is a 2010 alumna of the MA program in the History of Decorative Arts and Design (now the MA program in the History of Design…

Faculty Spotlight: Tracy Ehrlich of HDCS Embarks on Smithsonian Fellowship

By adht | Published: September 15, 2016

MA in the History of Design and Curatorial Studies faculty member Tracy Ehrlich has been awarded a Smithsonian Institution Senior fellowship for the 2016-17 academic year….

Read all about it: MA HDCS Summer 2016 Newsletter

By adht | Published: September 1, 2016

The MA program in the History of Design and Curatorial Studies is proud to present its Summer 2016 Newsletter. The bi-annual publication details updates from…

MA HDCS Alumni Spotlight: PJ Carlino

By adht | Published: August 10, 2016

Since graduating from the MA History of Decorative Arts and Design program in 2012, PJ Carlino has been hard at work completing a PhD program…

Sarah Lichtman is interviewed over at Interiors and Sources

By adht | Published: December 22, 2015

Sarah A. Lichtman, ADHT’s Program Director of History of Design and Curatorial Studies, was recently interviewed by interior design magazine Interiors and Sources for the…

INSIDE (hi)STORIES – Designing Sapphic Modernity: Against Communication

By adht | Published: December 5, 2014

INSIDE (hi)STORIES – An Attitude Towards Living: The Mid-century Showrooms of Herman Miller and Knoll Associates

By adht | Published: October 7, 2014

Noël Dolla: A Spirit of Independence Within the Idiom of Abstraction

By adht | Published: August 15, 2014

ART REVIEW Supports/Surfaces, Canada Gallery, NY June 7 – July 20, 2014 Noël Dolla: Entrée libre mais non obligatoire, Villa Arson, Nice, France June…

Objects of Desire: Sarah Charlesworth at Maccarone Gallery

By adht | Published: May 13, 2014

It was the late 70’s and The Pictures Generation was concerned with how images shape our everyday lives. If a photo says a thousand words,…

INSIDE (hi)STORIES: Marie-Leen Ryckaet – Museum Interiors: Revealing an Attitude Towards Culture

By adht | Published: May 3, 2014

Marie-Leen Ryckaert was born in Bruges (Belgium) and educated in Belgium and the Netherlands. She studied Art History and Archeology at the Leiden University, where…

INSIDE (hi)STORIES – Under the Surface: Ideology and Poetics in Modern Interiors

By adht | Published: April 22, 2014

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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

Glenn Adamson Leads Course on Material Culture and Current Events

MA History of Design & Curatorial Studies Alumna Spotlight: BEYOND THE SURFACE with Laura Camerlengo

Faculty Spotlight: Tracy Ehrlich of HDCS Embarks on Smithsonian Fellowship

Read all about it: MA HDCS Summer 2016 Newsletter

MA HDCS Alumni Spotlight: PJ Carlino

Sarah Lichtman is interviewed over at Interiors and Sources

INSIDE (hi)STORIES – Designing Sapphic Modernity: Against Communication

INSIDE (hi)STORIES – An Attitude Towards Living: The Mid-century Showrooms of Herman Miller and Knoll Associates

Noël Dolla: A Spirit of Independence Within the Idiom of Abstraction

Objects of Desire: Sarah Charlesworth at Maccarone Gallery

INSIDE (hi)STORIES: Marie-Leen Ryckaet – Museum Interiors: Revealing an Attitude Towards Culture

INSIDE (hi)STORIES – Under the Surface: Ideology and Poetics in Modern Interiors

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