Their interdisciplinary training prepares them for careers in many areas of design including architecture, interior architecture, exhibition design, lighting design, and information design. In the course of their careers they will have the ability to move from one discipline to another. The curriculum is organized around the design studio. In their junior year, students declare a concentration in one of two areas, Architecture or Digital Architecture.
Architecture is for students interested in the broad study of the built environment.
This concentration prepares students for entry into a first professional Masters degree program and may provide graduates with advanced standing in Parson's own Master of Architecture . Students interested in such fields as exhibition design, set design, and landscape design may select courses from the Architecture department or the larger Parsons community to support their individual pursuits. Interested graduates may apply for Parsons' Master of Arts in Lighting Design , with a possibility of advanced standing. Digital Architecture teaches students to use their architectural design training as a basis for the design of the virtual world. Students choose electives from a series of digital courses ranging from the design of information, to three-dimensional virtual reality modeling.