Parsons School of Design

Parsons School of Design (referred to informally as Parsons) is a private workmanship and outline school situated in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It is one of the seven universities of The New School. Parsons was the principal school in the United States to offer projects in style plan, promoting, inside configuration, and realistic design. Parsons offers 13 undergrad unhitched male's projects and 17 graduate expert's projects, and it is broadly viewed as a standout amongst the most prestigious workmanship and outline schools in the world. It is at present positioned as the #1 craftsmanship and configuration school in the United States and #2 on the planet, simply behind the Royal College of Art in London.Parsons has an eminent style plan program and has taught the absolute most regarded architects in the business including Donna Karan (organizer of DKNY), Marc Jacobs, Alexander Wang, Tom Ford, Anna Sui, Jason Wu, Narciso Rodriguez, Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez (authors of Proenza Schouler), Isaac Mizrahi, Derek Lam, Prabal Gurung, and Jenna Lyons 

Notwithstanding mold, Parsons is additionally known for different territories of workmanship and plan and is the place of graduation of Jasper Johns, Paul Rand, Alexander Calder, Roy Lichtenstein, Norman Rockwell, Duane Michals, Ai Weiwei, Joel Schumacher and Jasper Conran among others. Parsons is an individual from the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD) and the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD).Like most colleges in New York City, Parsons' grounds is spread among scattered structures, however the principle building is situated at thirteenth Street and fifth Avenue. Numerous different offices are in structures shared by different universities in The New School yet the offices beneath are restrictive to Parsons.

New York City

2 West thirteenth Street

2 West thirteenth Street is most ordinarily known as the Sheila Johnson Design Center. The fundamental Parsons grounds is situated at 2 West thirteenth Street in Greenwich Village in the ward of Manhattan.[8] The redesign of the current structure's first and mezzanine levels was made conceivable to some degree by a $7 million present from New School Trustee and Parsons Board of Governors Chair Sheila Johnson. The "Urban Quad"  was planned by Lyn Rice Architects and includes an aggregate region of 32,800 square feet (3,050 m2). Notwithstanding classrooms, the building incorporates the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery and Auditorium, and the Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries.[9] The revamped ground floor additionally gives another home to the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Archives, an accumulation of drawings, photos, letters, and protests recording twentieth century outline. The building has the Adam and Sophie Gimbel Design Library, an asset accumulation supporting craftsmanship, engineering and outline degree programs offered by the Parsons School of Design. The accumulation comprises of roughly 45,000 book volumes, 350 periodical titles (200 current), 70,000 slides and 45,000 picture records. Unique accumulations property number more than 4,000, including numerous uncommon and profitable items.

The building's remodel won the 2009 National AIA Honor Award, the 2009 MASNYC Masterworks Award, the 2009 AIANY Merit Award, the 2008 AIA New York State Award of Excellence, the 2008 American Institute of Architects NY/Boston Society of Architects Biennial Honor Award for Educational Facility Design, the 2008 SARA/NY Design Award of Excellence, and the 2007 AIANY Merit Award for Projects.

Style Education Center

College Center at 63 Fifth Avenue

In 2014 the design office moved from its Garment District area, the David M Schwartz Fashion Education Center (560 seventh Avenue), to the principle grounds in Greenwich Village. Most mold studio coursework is taught at this area. There is additionally a Fashion Computing lab complete with the most recent industry standard innovation.

25 East thirteenth Street

The 25 East thirteenth Street building is home to the School of Constructed Environments, which is the home of the Interior Design, Lighting Design, and Architecture divisions of the school. The Fine Arts office is likewise situated in this building. The offices incorporated into the building are the computerized and customary creation shops, the pottery studio, the Light Lab, various Computing Labs, the Angelo Donghia Materials Center, and The Design Workshop.

16 East sixteenth Street

The sixteenth Street building highlights devoted floors to plan studies and improvement. Both the sixth and twelfth floors committed to the Design and Technology Bachelor and Master programs. The building likewise includes a library and a cafeteria.

Paris 

Fundamental article: Parsons Paris (2013)

Executive of the New York School of Fine and Applied Art, Frank Alvah Parsons, first started a system in Paris in 1921. In 1941, it was named for him.[13] In 1970, the school converged with the New School for Social Research. In this manner the name Parsons was authorized to the Paris College of Art yet this plan stopped in 2010. In November 2012, The New School President David E. Van Zandt reported that Parsons The New School for Design would open another scholastic focus, to be called Parsons Paris, in Paris in the harvest time 2013. Located in Paris' First Arrondissement, Parsons Paris will join a personnel of French and European outline teachers and also going to educators from around the globe. The school will offer an assortment of lone wolf's and graduate degrees in outline, design, and business. All classes will be taught in English.
Parsons Paris is a piece of a worldwide activity by Parsons that highlights innovative proficiency in all parts of society. Parsons is creating comparative schools in Mumbai, Shanghai, and other major urban centers.