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Van Day Truex was a Parsons Alum, and later became the Professor of Interior Design. He was on the administration at Parsons for over thirty years. You can read more about him here. If you’d like to write a more in-depth profile of Van Day Truex, email us at [email protected]. We welcome contributions.
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" Even if you were Van Day Truex, the year was 1952 and you had just resigned as president of the Parsons School of Design to take a shot at a private life, you will still be stunned by the enormity of such carte blanche. Imagine its happening twice in a lifetime. "
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Stanley Barrows was a longtime, influential interior design professor at Parsons for many years. If you’d like to write a more in-depth profile of Stanley Barrows, email us at [email protected]. We welcome contributions.
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Jean McClintock Gardner is a longtime Parsons urban environment faculty member. You can read more about her here. If you’d like to write a more in-depth profile of Jean McClintock Gardner, email us at [email protected]. We welcome contributions.
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" A bare table- or wall-makes Stanley Barrows very nervous. In nearly 79 years of living, he has collected 4,000 books, 45 framed paintings and engravings, 60 pieces of porcelain, and in various sinuous positions of sniffing and leaping, a dozen small bronze whippets and greyhounds. "
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Editor’s note: the publication date of this article reflects the date this article was added to the new version of The New School Histories website, not the original publication date. Please contact [email protected] with any questions. “We dream faster than we can build and we build faster than we accept. We therefore invent the notion of the […]
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Editor’s note: the publication date of this article reflects the date this article was added to the new version of The New School Histories website, not the original publication date. Please contact [email protected] with any questions. There’s nothing less utopian and avant-garde than the New York City loft. A symbol of gentrification in Manhattan and Brooklyn, teeming […]
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Editor’s note: the publication date of this article reflects the date this article was added to the new version of The New School Histories website, not the original publication date. Please contact [email protected] with any questions. The Temple bell stops But the sound keeps coming out of the flowers – Basho Admittedly, this post is overdue, […]
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Editor’s note: the publication date of this article reflects the date this article was added to the new version of The New School Histories website, not the original publication date. Please contact [email protected] with any questions. “I had always seen architecture as landscaping.” – Michael Kalil, “Seed Vision” interview, 1990 Kalil’s archive offers up several interesting pieces […]
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Editor’s note: the publication date of this article reflects the date this article was added to the new version of The New School Histories website, not the original publication date. Please contact [email protected] with any questions. In archival terms, this assemblage of objects is known as “realia”- ie. three-dimensional objects (man-made or naturally occurring) such as coins, […]