My partner is part of a group of graduate students at Parsons who have been working to design and build a laundromat and community information center in DeLisle, Mississippi. The student-lead team worked from January to May to design the building and plan its construction, then moved to DeLisle for the summer where they lived and worked to build the structure.

The project was displayed in a group exhibit at the 2006 Venice Biennale, and is also featured in this month’s edition of

Architecture (one of four articles linked off this month’s homepage for the magazine). To highlight the student-run nature of the project, the magazine had the students write their own article and submit their own photos, which were taken by Laura. The project has also received recognition from:

• Dwell Magazine, which published an article in June of 2007
• Allegedly NBC planned some coverage, but I’m not sure if it was ever released
• The New York Times, who published an article in November of 2006
• AIA, who awarded the project an AIA New York State Design Award in September of 2006

For more information about the project, click through their flickr photo page or the website for the project. For more information about the Parsons Design Workshop in general have a look through the following links:

• Parsons site for the Design Workshop
• Announcement of 2006 exhibition
• Announcement of exhibit at the Biennale
• 2005 Retrospective announcement
• Writeup of the 2005 project
• Writeup of the 2004 project
• Writeup of the 2003 project

Posted by mike on Thursday, September 28th, 2006 at 5:16 pm.