Studio Mode/modeLab is a Brooklyn-based design studio and research collective founded by Ronnie Parsons and Gil Akos. As Studio Mode committed to design as a form of applied research, Studio Mode engages in practices that have a requisite and deep connection to material and the processes by which it is formed and informed. While Studio Mode are interested in intense iterative design processes, they believe the evolution and contextualization of these procedures in a broader social and cultural domain is both our primary objective and the means for embedding interest and significance into design.
Studio Mode is Ronnie Parsons and Gil Akos.
Team: Erik Martinez, John Gulliford, Natasha Harper, Marco Teran, Elliot White
Ronnie holds both a Bachelor and a Master of Science in Architecture and has studied abroad at The Architectural Association, London, The Institute for Experimental Architecture, Innsbruck, and The University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Ronnie has taught at Stevens Institute of Technology as well as the Pratt Institute and has assisted in design studios at Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture and Princeton University School of Architecture.
Gil holds both a Master’s of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University and a Master’s of Architecture from the University of Kansas. Gil has taught at the Product Architecture Lab | Stevens Institute of Technology and Pratt Institute and assisted in design studios at Columbia University and Princeton University.
