In 1906, Frank Alvah Parsons established the first academic interior design program in the United States. Parsons continues to lead this evolving field with programs including AAS Interior Design. Begin your career with accomplished New York interior design professionals who guide you in exploring the potential of design to improve lives at every scale. You develop an awareness of the social, environmental, and cultural dimensions of interiors through curricula and projects that investigate global concerns such as sustainability and economic inequality. In the process, you become a designer equipped with the knowledge, skills, and networks needed to succeed in a growing field.
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INTERIOR DESIGN
The Theory and Practice of Designing Interiors In the program, you take three design studios focusing on residential, retail, workplace, and hospitality interiors. You master the theory and practice of interior design through conceptual investigations of in computer drawing and rendering. In the studios, you explore the relationship between interior architecture and the decorative arts. The AAS program allows you to take electives offered throughout Parsons to develop the range of skills that will be required in the future workplace. Internships at prominent design firms like Victoria Hagan Interiors, Starwood Hotels and Resorts, AvroKO, Gensler, Ghislaine Viñas Interior
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space, research on sustainability and healthy materials, and training
Design, and Yabu Pushelberg offer you opportunities to apply your learning to real-world interiors. Resources on Campus and in the City You share campus facilities with students of architecture, lighting design, and product design and can work in the Making Center and conduct research in the Energy Lab and the Donghia Healthier Materials Library. “AfterTaste,” a biennial design symposium hosted by Parsons, and the annual SCE Public Programs series enables you to engage with international scholars and practitioners shaping the contemporary design landscape. The program’s annual publication, WORK, documents the diverse interior work of students, faculty, and alumni. The city’s museums, archives, and designed spaces present opportunities for both applied and critical study. A key resource is Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, an important collection of decorative arts and furniture and the sponsor of many industry-related events. You also have access to the New York–based showrooms, factories, dealers, auction houses,
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and experts that make the city an international center of interior design.