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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....

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

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 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

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 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

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...

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

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...

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

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

INSIDE (hi)STORIES – Design and Disaster: Kon Wajiro’s Modernologio

By adht | Published: March 14, 2014

INSIDE (hi)STORIES – Design by IKEA: A Cultural History

By adht | Published: February 25, 2014

INSIDE (hi)STORIES – A Special Relationship: The Transatlantic Domestic Dialogue

By adht | Published: February 11, 2014

INSIDE (hi)STORIES – Doris Duke’s Shangri LA: Architecture, Landscape, and Islamic Art

By adht | Published: November 23, 2013

INSIDE (hi)STORIES – Mirror Reflections: Diplomacy and Decoration in France and Siam, 1680s/1860s

By adht | Published: September 16, 2013

Mirror Reflections: Diplomacy and Decoration in France and Siam, 1680s/1860s The Glass Corner (Room 205), 25 East 13th Street, 2nd Floor October 25, 2013 at…

INSIDE (hi)STORIES – On the Art of Building in Ten Books

By adht | Published: September 9, 2013

Image: “Two Too Large Tables”, in collaboration with Ellen Wexler, Hudson River Park, NYC, 2006 On the Art of Building in Ten Books The Glass Corner…

Inside (hi)Stories Lecture by Alice T. Friedman on American Glamour, Friday, April 19

By adht | Published: April 17, 2013

Alice T. Friedman American Glamour: Making the Mid-Century Modern Interior Friday, April 19, 2013 at 6:15 pm The Glass Corner, Parsons East Building 25 East…

INSIDE (hi)STORIES – Hers and His: Contesting the Modern Interior

By adht | Published: April 13, 2013

INSIDE (hi)STORIES – History, Empathy and the Period Body

By adht | Published: March 14, 2013

INSIDE (hi)STORIES Upcoming Guest Lecturer: Juliet Koss

By adht | Published: January 30, 2013

Inside the Gesamtkunstwerk Wednesday, February 6th, 6:30 The Glass Corner, Parsons East Building. 25 East 13th Street, room 206 INSIDE (hi) STORIES Wednesday February 6,…

INSIDE (hi)STORIES – At Home with Charles and Ray Eames: Interiors as Spaces of Contemplation, Entertainment and Performance

By adht | Published: October 1, 2012

INSIDE (hi)STORIES – X is for an Expert on Bathrooms: Alexander Kira & Peter Greenaway’s “26 Bathrooms”

By adht | Published: April 28, 2012

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