Associate Professor Alfred Zollinger

Short CV

Alfred Zollinger is an Associate Professor of Architecture and Interior Design at Parsons The New School for Design. He is the director of the Design Workshop, Parsons signature design and build program that works collaboratively with non-profit and governmental partners on a range of urban development projects. He is also co-principal of Matter Practice, an architecture and exhibition-design firm founded with Sandra Wheeler. Zollinger’s work is informed by his early training as a precision machinist and interest in making as a mode of critical inquiry. He studied architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design and completed his post-professional studies at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has taught at the ETH, in Zurich, RISD, and, since 2006, at Parsons.