SCI-Arc Alumni Magazine 009 - Fall 2014

FALL ISSUE 007

2014

1 WHO’S THE DIRECTOR Eric Owen Moss 5 PUBLIC PROGRAMS

7 FACULTY PROFILE: HERNAN DIAZ ALONZO Benjamin Bratton

11 MAIN EVENT 11 17 CLASS NOTES

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PUBLIC PROGRAMS

ABOUT PUBLIC PROGRAMS All events begin at 7pm unless otherwise noted. Lectures take place in the W.M. Keck Lecture Hall.

UPCOMING

SCI-Arc Library Gallery Exhibition

TOD WILLIAMS + BILLIE TSIEN

ARCHITECTURE AND R(E)VOLUTION IN CUBA

Lecture Series

Lecture Series

The SCI-Arc Gallery is open daily from 10am–6pm. The Library Gallery is open Monday–Friday from 10am– 7pm and Saturday–Sunday from 12pm–6pm.

Gamescapes January 21

Not Fare Well but Fare Forward March 18

SCI-Arc Gallery Exhibition

Lecture Series

SCI-Arc exhibitions and public programs are made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs.

DYNAMIC RAUMPLAN January 23–March 8 January 23, 7pm: Opening Reception + Discussion with Wolf D. Prix and Eric Owen Moss

Tropes March 25

The Lecture Series is broadcast live at sciarc.edu/live. Lectures are also archived for future viewing, and can be found online in the SCI-Arc Media Archive at sma.sciarc.edu.

SCI-Arc is located at 960 East 3rd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013. The building entrance and parking lot are located at 350 Merrick Street, between 4th Street and Traction Avenue.

SCI-Arc Public Programs are subject to change beyond our control. For the most current information, please visit sciarc.edu or call 213.613.2200.

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Lecture Series Being Specific January 14

JOSE SANCHEZ

COOP HIMMELB(L)AU

Lecture Series

CRAIG DYKERS Snøhetta Works January 28

March 13–May 17 March 13, 8pm: Opening Reception

ERIC OWEN MOSS

MARCELYN GOW Lecture Series

HENRY N. COBB The Voice of Architecture April 1

SCI-Arc Library Gallery Exhibition

WHAT’S A GUGGENHEIM?

January 30–March 1 January 30, 7pm: Opening Reception + Discussion with Jackilin Bloom, Hernan Diaz Alonso, John Enright, Dora Epstein Jones, Hsinming Fung, Margaret Griffin, Craig Hodgetts, Wes Jones, Eric Owen Moss, Dwayne Oyler, Florencia Pita, Russell Thomsen, Tom Wiscombe, Jenny Wu Lecture Series

CJ LIM Food City February 4

Lecture Series

GREGG PASQUARELLI

Never Ever Don’t: Why SHoP Breaks the Rules February 11 Lecture Series

HENK OVINK Design and Politics February 18 Lecture Series

RAIMUND ABRAHAM LECTURE: ERIC OWEN MOSS + FRANK GEHRY “You can’t rehearse something you haven’t invented yet” – Frank Gehry March 4 Symposium

HAVANA/L.A./HAVANA

Holly Block, Ramiro Diaz-Granados, Belmont Freeman, Marcelyn Gow, Universo Garcia Lorenzo, Dwayne Oyler, Florencia Pita, Eduardo Luis Rodriguez, Claudio Vekstein March 13

Bryan Cantley Dirty Geometries + Mechanical Imperfections

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SCI-Arc Gallery Exhibition

Lecture Series

Hypostyle April 2–May 17 April 2, 7pm: Opening Reception + Discussion with Henry N. Cobb and Eric Owen Moss

Informality October 29

HENRY N. COBB

SCI-Arc Gallery Exhibition

HEATHER ROBERGE

En Pointe June 19–August 2 June 19, 7pm: Opening Reception + Discussion with Heather Roberge and Eric Owen Moss

RECENT

SCI-Arc Gallery Exhibition

HITOSHE ABE SCI-Arc Library Gallery Exhibition

ERIC KAHN + RUSSELL THOMSEN, IDEA Thinking the Future of Auschwitz November 3–November 30 Lecture Series

FLORENCIA PITA + JACKILIN BLOOM #colorforming November 5

SELECTED THESIS September 15–25 Lecture Series

ALFREDO BRILLEMBOURG + HUBERT KLUMPNER Rio Bravo September 17

Lecture Series

VICENTE GUALLART The Self-Sufficient City September 24 Lecture Series

ERIC BUNGE CTRL_A October 1

Lecture Series

STEFANO PASSERI

Design of Theory Fellowship Lecture, Inaugural Year (Part 1) October 3

Lecture Series

Lecture Series

Concept & Notation November 10

Agency October 8

Lecture Series

JOSHUA PRINCE-RAMUS SCI-Arc Gallery Exhibition

BRYAN CANTLEY

Dirty Geometries + Mechanical Imperfections October 10–November 30 Lecture Series

MICHAEL SORKIN How Green is My City October 13 Lecture Series

BENJAMIN FARNSWORTH

Design of Theory Fellowship Lecture, Inaugural Year (Part 2) October 17

BERNARD TSCHUMI

HERWIG BAUMGARTNER + SCOTT URIU Familiar and the Uncanny November 19 Lecture Series

SOU FUJIMOTO

Between Nature and Architecture December 1

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ON SPECULATIVE BUTCHERY: ETHICAL COHERENCIES AND CONTAMINATIONS IN THE ARCHITECTURE OF HERNAN DIAZ ALONSO Benjamin H. Bratton

HERNAN DIAZ ALONSO is principal of the Los Angeles-based architecture office Xefirotarch. In 2005, Diaz Alonso was the winner of MoMA PS1’s Young Architects Program (YAP) competition, and in 2012 he received the “Educator of the Year” Award from the American Institute of Architects (AIA). Most recently, he won the 2013 AR+D Award for Emerging Architecture and a 2013 Progressive Architecture Award for his design of the Thyssen Bornamiza Pavilion/Museum in Patagonia, Argentina. Diaz Alonso’s architectural designs have been featured in both architecture and art exhibitions worlwide. The work has also been widely published in magazines, periodicals and books.

1.

Proposal for The New National Gallery & Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, 2014 2.

Pitch Black, Solo Show, MAK Museum Vienna, 2007/ 2008 3.

Limoge Chandelier, 2011 4.

Alessi, 2010 5.

SUR, MoMA/PS1 Young Architects Program winning entry, 2005 6.

Proposal for Helsinki Central Library, 2012

On the occasion of Hernan Diaz Alonso being named the next Director of SCI-Arc, I’ve been invited to offer a profile of him. I approach this in the only way that makes sense to me, and that is to write about him as my friend, and also to write as his friend.

Friends can say things that critics can’t. I also chose not to use the occasion to infer or ventriloquize his vision for the school, as its new Director, but instead to dialogue with his ideas and rationale, as an architect. Summaries of a friend’s work take certain standard forms—a letter of recommendation, an obituary, or a grand jury deposition—and I will try to avoid these formats. I will try my best not to be objective, and so first some disclosure: Hernan and I arrived at SCI-Arc at the same time, more or less, and though our backgrounds in and out of architecture were different, many of our “non-architectural” interests overlapped. This suggested to us that we might share an agenda to make use of architecture to intervene in other areas (including CGI cinema, biotechnology, zombiesm, megachurch and sporting spectacles, airport culture, etc.) We un-hid that agenda with 8-10 years of XLab studios and seminars which themselves amounted to a discontiguous conversation between he and I and several dozen SCIArc students.

Now as then, Hernan’s way of working stages (or is staged by) specific tension: on the one hand, to demarcate architecture as an autonomous disciplinary, discursive and technical entity, and on the other, to turn architecture inside-out by contaminating, corrupting, and parasitizing it with outside information. There is a romantic rationale in his gaucho gothic, one that comes from an unsentimental mixing of the perfect and the imperfect, the high and the low, as part of a search of new forms that are themselves not hybrids but platonic ideals from a different cave. “Philosophy” is one source of external ideas but it is not privileged over Space Opera or chase scenes. As I’ll hope to show, this contamination is sometimes transgressive and sometimes atheistic, and as the resulting forms take on a life of their own beyond the dictates of a given project and program, the contamination flows both ways, in and out. At the scale of a practice the trick is to manage this osmotic back-and-forth so that things continue to interrupt and disrupt one another, and never settle into an entropic homeostasis.

My short remarks start with the contaminant (the outside), move to the contamination (the design) and then to the contaminated (the architecture itself).

Contaminant Of late, Hernan has taken a strong interest in traditional Argentinian butchery. This interest includes how steaks are cooked, but also butchery as a practical and culturally local theory of the body, of parts to whole, of taxonomies of cuts, of traditions of eating and also of eating traditions. It is not for the queazy empath, but this technique for the violent reorganization of the animal body into component protein modules overlaps cleaner techniques of bending and stacking bodies, Euclidean primitives, calculative geometries, folds and foldings, pleats, tessellations, delaminations, fenestrations, apertures, inversions, segmentation and delineation, and other “elements of architecture.” This vision of culinary predation connects with ways that architecture knows to make and find form and also with the ways it knows of representing these in section, axonometric, animation, model, multiperspectival drawing, robotically assembled 5D nanomatterbots,

etc. “They’re made out of meat,” it is a way of knowing: Asado, Matambre, Colita de cuadril, Bife de costilla, Mollejas are not just different words for the same cuts, they subdivide a different animal. Butchers and surgeons (and barbers) share professional genealogies and sometimes tricks of the trade. A surgeon becomes a butcher by his incompetence, but is the inverse true as well?

(Butchery as surgery in bad faith, and surgery as extraordinarily empathetic butchery?) At the end of the day, the difference is whether the one with the knife ends up ingesting the one without the knife, and so making two into one, or whether they stay separated, both alive, and go on their ways. In between the two, organ harvesting may draw on both for its very very slow food version of cannibalism. Truth or consequences?

Contamination Architecture negotiates a necessarily unresolved relation between the real and the “not-real,” which depending on the practice can be variously, the fictional, the figurative, the metaphysical, the cinematic, the geopolitical, the narrative, the conjectural, the symbolic imaginary, the symmetrical sublime, the model, the elevation, and/or the plan. For Hernan’s practice, this unresolved correlation is particularly loud. He makes a decisive distinction between the experimental research practice that delves into or expands out from a particular set of academic problematics or visionary pursuits, and for which success is measured in unique private metrics, versus a speculative practice that seeks to intervene directly into the fabric of the physical landscape and introduce a real, sidereal, hyperreal or simply surreal irruption. Just as for genuinely creepy horror movies, for that to work the design must engage the gravities of sites, optics, bodies, environments, languages, and materials as they really are, so that their distortion actually does disturb reality. Just as for painting, composing a certain ratio of the real to the surreal, the fiction to the nonfiction, is a matter of blurring, elongating, tuning, calibrating, illuminating and dampening—building up the density of the image’s surface by slicing it away just so.

The individual project is where the ritual that binds romanticism and rationalism takes shape, and the ritual itself is also beholden to gravity. As Hernan is quick to point out, his process and practice are, both conceptually and logistically, more likely to have come from Los Angeles than anywhere else. First, because cinema and television have transformed the city into a habitat of transubstantiation, perched between story and situation: this is where the shootout scene in Chinatown was shot; this is the Lloyd Wright house where Deckard interviewed the Sean Young character in Blade Runner and figured out that she doesn’t know she’s a replicant; that’s the tunnel used in every single car commercial plus also THX-1138; and so on. Like visiting your childhood home, every place is living proof of its previous and primary existence in a dream world. Second, Hollywood is comfortable with interdisciplinary hypernarratives and ad-hoc intertextuality, and usually eager to pursue new kinds of technical affect for its own sake. Third, the Modern cleaving of Art and Commerce, bequeathing intellectual authenticity only to the former, is itself compromised by the day-to-day business of our culture industry (in ways that agitated Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer the first time around, and helped instigate their fundamentalist reaction, and continues to vex the Pier Vittorio Aureli’s of the world).

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This promiscuity is not the same thing as an unethical practice, but it is one that executes its ethics at arm’s length from morality and moralism (much like life itself.) One word that Hernan repeats to describe his interests, his method and his projects is “contamination.” In the context of “rituals” (of romanticism and rationalism), contamination suggests an economy of transgression, perhaps some persistent and idiosyncratic variation on what Georges Bataille tried to describe as an erotics of excess and a general economy of energy and value. That would not be incorrect, but it would be incomplete. Contamination is not always transgressive. Which is the real priority? The act or the infraction?

It may come down to whether you take Hernan at his word that his architecture is not meant to introduce a new hegemonic urban form (one better suited to a culture of planetary-scale computation than the spreadsheet-driven layouts of consultant urbanism or their more-decorative shadow, mainstream Parametricism) but is rather, in his words, “salt.” You don’t want to have a diet without salt, nor do you want a diet of only salt. In this, he maintains that the parasitic posture of his projects is not an interim strategy to gain a foothold on the host’s body before taking it over and replacing it with its own replicant genome. Instead the supplemental, parasitic and thereby ‘transgressive’ relationship between his form and that of the given site is required in order to hold the two in their delicate tension.

Contaminated The real may have the last say on this. Contemporary Biological Sciences are much more invested in contamination and symbiotic parasitism as foundations of life than many imagine. Far from seeing these as exceptions to the rule, increasingly they are the rule. There are theories of the origins of complex life as based on a durable contagion, of the complexity of life on land being due to nested parasitism (animal living inside an animal living inside an animal, and on), and research on the microbial gut biome as a key factor in the health of the host body, including yours. As far as biological life is concerned, the corruption of bodies by other bodies is the norm.

Another word you will hear Hernan use to describe his projects is “coherencies.” By this he means moments where disparate elements and motifs congeal, perhaps by surprise, into a temporarily stable order or patten, which itself may participate in another plural order or pattern at a different scale within the whole, or even in relationship with the external body onto which the whole has attached itself. These constitute local constraints within the global system or vice versa. They are repeatable. They may have a grammar, suggesting a proper and improper usage and a more exact timbre of their communicative voice. In some ways the invention of these coherencies is the general innovation that practices such as his offer to design in general. They are sampled, sequenced, misused, automated, and show up in supermarket facades in Guangzhou and soap commercials in Glendale. This is the counter-contamination that makes the whole cycle work. I wonder then how we will ultimately compare these coherencies to what Rem Koolhaas identified as the “elements” of architecture at this year’s Venice Biennale of Architecture? Koolhaas formalized elements into a single table indexing the variance in their deployment throughout the world, a forensics of Modernism as a global/ local system dynamic of another sort. In other words, will we 1

want to add these “coherencies” to the existing architectural table, as exotic and fragile transuranic elements that can only exist for a few seconds under extreme laboratory conditions? Or, will we come to see them as the basic terminology of another architectural century? The former would suggest that Hernan is right, and that his forms are spices like Livermorium (Lv), Plutonium (Pu) or Californium (Cf). The latter would suggest the Biologists are right and that successful symbiosis, parasitism, contamination and epigenesis are how new life emerges in the long run. Over time the transgressive significance and peculiarity of the coherencies being hatched will slowly dissolve. The surgeon becomes the butcher.

The butcher becomes the designer. The designer makes new meat.

HERNAN DIAZ ALONSO APPOINTED NEXT DIRECTOR OF SCI-ARC The SCI-Arc Board of Trustees appointed Hernan Diaz Alonso, architect and educator, as the school’s new Director beginning September 2015.

Diaz Alonso will succeed Eric Owen Moss, SCI-Arc director since 2002, whose term concludes next year.

The appointment was announced

by Chairman Jerold B. Neuman, following the Board’s quarterly meeting in September. “It is my honor to announce that the Board of Trustees has finalized its search for the next Director of SCI-Arc, and after over a decade of extraordinary service by Eric Owen Moss, we are placing SCI-Arc’s future in the amazing mind, heart and hands of Hernan Diaz Alonso,” said Neuman.

“We are committed to maintaining the trajectory of the school and, in the coming year, will be reaching out to alumni and supporters around the world, celebrating the great work that has been done by the current administration and providing the best possible platform from which Hernan can continue to move SCI-Arc forward and, in fact, accelerate its momentum.”

“SCI-Arc’s task, in perpetuity, is to go where we haven’t been, and report on what we find,” said SCI-Arc Director Eric Owen Moss. “Hernan Diaz Alonso is the perfect architect to continue this expedition.”

A faculty member at SCI-Arc since 2001, Diaz Alonso has served in several leadership roles including Coordinator of the Graduate Thesis program from 2007-2010, and Graduate Programs Chair from 2010 until the present. He has been widely credited with spearheading the transition of SCI-Arc to digital technologies, playing a key role in shaping the school’s graduate curriculum in recent years.

“SCI-Arc is a unique institution and I feel fortunate for being able to call it home for the past 13 years,” said Diaz Alonso in an address to faculty, students and alumni. “Our school is an ambitious institute, and I share this ambition to showcase to the world the many different ways in which architecture and design can change it.”

While serving as Graduate Programs Chair, Hernan Diaz Alonso worked alongside SCI-Arc Director Eric Owen Moss, Academic Affairs Director Hsinming Fung and Undergraduate Programs Chair John Enright to successfully oversee a school recognized worldwide for its research and exploratory tradition. Together, they guided SCI-Arc in establishing a global standard for architecture education in the 21st century, ensuring a clear vision for the school and a solid reputation among peer institutions.

BENJAMIN H. BRATTON is a theorist whose work spans Philosophy, Art and Design. He is Associate Professor of Visual Arts and Director of The Center for Design and Geopolitics at the University of California, San Diego. He is also a Professor at The European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. His next book, The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty, is forthcoming from MIT Press (2015).

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ON SPECULATIVE BUTCHERY: ETHICAL COHERENCIES AND CONTAMINATIONS IN THE ARCHITECTURE OF HERNAN DIAZ ALONSO Benjamin H. Bratton

HERNAN DIAZ ALONSO is principal of the Los Angeles-based architecture office Xefirotarch. In 2005, Diaz Alonso was the winner of MoMA PS1’s Young Architects Program (YAP) competition, and in 2012 he received the “Educator of the Year” Award from the American Institute of Architects (AIA). Most recently, he won the 2013 AR+D Award for Emerging Architecture and a 2013 Progressive Architecture Award for his design of the Thyssen Bornamiza Pavilion/Museum in Patagonia, Argentina. Diaz Alonso’s architectural designs have been featured in both architecture and art exhibitions worlwide. The work has also been widely published in magazines, periodicals and books.

1.

Proposal for The New National Gallery & Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, 2014 2.

Pitch Black, Solo Show, MAK Museum Vienna, 2007/ 2008 3.

Limoge Chandelier, 2011 4.

Alessi, 2010 5.

SUR, MoMA/PS1 Young Architects Program winning entry, 2005 6.

Proposal for Helsinki Central Library, 2012

On the occasion of Hernan Diaz Alonso being named the next Director of SCI-Arc, I’ve been invited to offer a profile of him. I approach this in the only way that makes sense to me, and that is to write about him as my friend, and also to write as his friend.

Friends can say things that critics can’t. I also chose not to use the occasion to infer or ventriloquize his vision for the school, as its new Director, but instead to dialogue with his ideas and rationale, as an architect. Summaries of a friend’s work take certain standard forms—a letter of recommendation, an obituary, or a grand jury deposition—and I will try to avoid these formats. I will try my best not to be objective, and so first some disclosure: Hernan and I arrived at SCI-Arc at the same time, more or less, and though our backgrounds in and out of architecture were different, many of our “non-architectural” interests overlapped. This suggested to us that we might share an agenda to make use of architecture to intervene in other areas (including CGI cinema, biotechnology, zombiesm, megachurch and sporting spectacles, airport culture, etc.) We un-hid that agenda with 8-10 years of XLab studios and seminars which themselves amounted to a discontiguous conversation between he and I and several dozen SCIArc students.

Now as then, Hernan’s way of working stages (or is staged by) specific tension: on the one hand, to demarcate architecture as an autonomous disciplinary, discursive and technical entity, and on the other, to turn architecture inside-out by contaminating, corrupting, and parasitizing it with outside information. There is a romantic rationale in his gaucho gothic, one that comes from an unsentimental mixing of the perfect and the imperfect, the high and the low, as part of a search of new forms that are themselves not hybrids but platonic ideals from a different cave. “Philosophy” is one source of external ideas but it is not privileged over Space Opera or chase scenes. As I’ll hope to show, this contamination is sometimes transgressive and sometimes atheistic, and as the resulting forms take on a life of their own beyond the dictates of a given project and program, the contamination flows both ways, in and out. At the scale of a practice the trick is to manage this osmotic back-and-forth so that things continue to interrupt and disrupt one another, and never settle into an entropic homeostasis.

My short remarks start with the contaminant (the outside), move to the contamination (the design) and then to the contaminated (the architecture itself).

Contaminant Of late, Hernan has taken a strong interest in traditional Argentinian butchery. This interest includes how steaks are cooked, but also butchery as a practical and culturally local theory of the body, of parts to whole, of taxonomies of cuts, of traditions of eating and also of eating traditions. It is not for the queazy empath, but this technique for the violent reorganization of the animal body into component protein modules overlaps cleaner techniques of bending and stacking bodies, Euclidean primitives, calculative geometries, folds and foldings, pleats, tessellations, delaminations, fenestrations, apertures, inversions, segmentation and delineation, and other “elements of architecture.” This vision of culinary predation connects with ways that architecture knows to make and find form and also with the ways it knows of representing these in section, axonometric, animation, model, multiperspectival drawing, robotically assembled 5D nanomatterbots, 6

etc. “They’re made out of meat,” it is a way of knowing: Asado, Matambre, Colita de cuadril, Bife de costilla, Mollejas are not just different words for the same cuts, they subdivide a different animal. Butchers and surgeons (and barbers) share professional genealogies and sometimes tricks of the trade. A surgeon becomes a butcher by his incompetence, but is the inverse true as well?

(Butchery as surgery in bad faith, and surgery as extraordinarily empathetic butchery?) At the end of the day, the difference is whether the one with the knife ends up ingesting the one without the knife, and so making two into one, or whether they stay separated, both alive, and go on their ways. In between the two, organ harvesting may draw on both for its very very slow food version of cannibalism. Truth or consequences?

Contamination Architecture negotiates a necessarily unresolved relation between the real and the “not-real,” which depending on the practice can be variously, the fictional, the figurative, the metaphysical, the cinematic, the geopolitical, the narrative, the conjectural, the symbolic imaginary, the symmetrical sublime, the model, the elevation, and/or the plan. For Hernan’s practice, this unresolved correlation is particularly loud. He makes a decisive distinction between the experimental research practice that delves into or expands out from a particular set of academic problematics or visionary pursuits, and for which success is measured in unique private metrics, versus a speculative practice that seeks to intervene directly into the fabric of the physical landscape and introduce a real, sidereal, hyperreal or simply surreal irruption. Just as for genuinely creepy horror movies, for that to work the design must engage the gravities of sites, optics, bodies, environments, languages, and materials as they really are, so that their distortion actually does disturb reality. Just as for painting, composing a certain ratio of the real to the surreal, the fiction to the nonfiction, is a matter of blurring, elongating, tuning, calibrating, illuminating and dampening—building up the density of the image’s surface by slicing it away just so.

The individual project is where the ritual that binds romanticism and rationalism takes shape, and the ritual itself is also beholden to gravity. As Hernan is quick to point out, his process and practice are, both conceptually and logistically, more likely to have come from Los Angeles than anywhere else. First, because cinema and television have transformed the city into a habitat of transubstantiation, perched between story and situation: this is where the shootout scene in Chinatown was shot; this is the Lloyd Wright house where Deckard interviewed the Sean Young character in Blade Runner and figured out that she doesn’t know she’s a replicant; that’s the tunnel used in every single car commercial plus also THX-1138; and so on. Like visiting your childhood home, every place is living proof of its previous and primary existence in a dream world. Second, Hollywood is comfortable with interdisciplinary hypernarratives and ad-hoc intertextuality, and usually eager to pursue new kinds of technical affect for its own sake. Third, the Modern cleaving of Art and Commerce, bequeathing intellectual authenticity only to the former, is itself compromised by the day-to-day business of our culture industry (in ways that agitated Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer the first time around, and helped instigate their fundamentalist reaction, and continues to vex the Pier Vittorio Aureli’s of the world).

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This promiscuity is not the same thing as an unethical practice, but it is one that executes its ethics at arm’s length from morality and moralism (much like life itself.) One word that Hernan repeats to describe his interests, his method and his projects is “contamination.” In the context of “rituals” (of romanticism and rationalism), contamination suggests an economy of transgression, perhaps some persistent and idiosyncratic variation on what Georges Bataille tried to describe as an erotics of excess and a general economy of energy and value. That would not be incorrect, but it would be incomplete. Contamination is not always transgressive. Which is the real priority? The act or the infraction?

It may come down to whether you take Hernan at his word that his architecture is not meant to introduce a new hegemonic urban form (one better suited to a culture of planetary-scale computation than the spreadsheet-driven layouts of consultant urbanism or their more-decorative shadow, mainstream Parametricism) but is rather, in his words, “salt.” You don’t want to have a diet without salt, nor do you want a diet of only salt. In this, he maintains that the parasitic posture of his projects is not an interim strategy to gain a foothold on the host’s body before taking it over and replacing it with its own replicant genome. Instead the supplemental, parasitic and thereby ‘transgressive’ relationship between his form and that of the given site is required in order to hold the two in their delicate tension.

Contaminated The real may have the last say on this. Contemporary Biological Sciences are much more invested in contamination and symbiotic parasitism as foundations of life than many imagine. Far from seeing these as exceptions to the rule, increasingly they are the rule. There are theories of the origins of complex life as based on a durable contagion, of the complexity of life on land being due to nested parasitism (animal living inside an animal living inside an animal, and on), and research on the microbial gut biome as a key factor in the health of the host body, including yours. As far as biological life is concerned, the corruption of bodies by other bodies is the norm.

Another word you will hear Hernan use to describe his projects is “coherencies.” By this he means moments where disparate elements and motifs congeal, perhaps by surprise, into a temporarily stable order or patten, which itself may participate in another plural order or pattern at a different scale within the whole, or even in relationship with the external body onto which the whole has attached itself. These constitute local constraints within the global system or vice versa. They are repeatable. They may have a grammar, suggesting a proper and improper usage and a more exact timbre of their communicative voice. In some ways the invention of these coherencies is the general innovation that practices such as his offer to design in general. They are sampled, sequenced, misused, automated, and show up in supermarket facades in Guangzhou and soap commercials in Glendale. This is the counter-contamination that makes the whole cycle work. I wonder then how we will ultimately compare these coherencies to what Rem Koolhaas identified as the “elements” of architecture at this year’s Venice Biennale of Architecture? Koolhaas formalized elements into a single table indexing the variance in their deployment throughout the world, a forensics of Modernism as a global/ local system dynamic of another sort. In other words, will we

want to add these “coherencies” to the existing architectural table, as exotic and fragile transuranic elements that can only exist for a few seconds under extreme laboratory conditions? Or, will we come to see them as the basic terminology of another architectural century? The former would suggest that Hernan is right, and that his forms are spices like Livermorium (Lv), Plutonium (Pu) or Californium (Cf). The latter would suggest the Biologists are right and that successful symbiosis, parasitism, contamination and epigenesis are how new life emerges in the long run. Over time the transgressive significance and peculiarity of the coherencies being hatched will slowly dissolve. The surgeon becomes the butcher.

The butcher becomes the designer. The designer makes new meat.

HERNAN DIAZ ALONSO APPOINTED NEXT DIRECTOR OF SCI-ARC The SCI-Arc Board of Trustees appointed Hernan Diaz Alonso, architect and educator, as the school’s new Director beginning September 2015.

Diaz Alonso will succeed Eric Owen Moss, SCI-Arc director since 2002, whose term concludes next year.

The appointment was announced

by Chairman Jerold B. Neuman, following the Board’s quarterly meeting in September. “It is my honor to announce that the Board of Trustees has finalized its search for the next Director of SCI-Arc, and after over a decade of extraordinary service by Eric Owen Moss, we are placing SCI-Arc’s future in the amazing mind, heart and hands of Hernan Diaz Alonso,” said Neuman.

“We are committed to maintaining the trajectory of the school and, in the coming year, will be reaching out to alumni and supporters around the world, celebrating the great work that has been done by the current administration and providing the best possible platform from which Hernan can continue to move SCI-Arc forward and, in fact, accelerate its momentum.”

“SCI-Arc’s task, in perpetuity, is to go where we haven’t been, and report on what we find,” said SCI-Arc Director Eric Owen Moss. “Hernan Diaz Alonso is the perfect architect to continue this expedition.”

A faculty member at SCI-Arc since 2001, Diaz Alonso has served in several leadership roles including Coordinator of the Graduate Thesis program from 2007-2010, and Graduate Programs Chair from 2010 until the present. He has been widely credited with spearheading the transition of SCI-Arc to digital technologies, playing a key role in shaping the school’s graduate curriculum in recent years.

“SCI-Arc is a unique institution and I feel fortunate for being able to call it home for the past 13 years,” said Diaz Alonso in an address to faculty, students and alumni. “Our school is an ambitious institute, and I share this ambition to showcase to the world the many different ways in which architecture and design can change it.”

While serving as Graduate Programs Chair, Hernan Diaz Alonso worked alongside SCI-Arc Director Eric Owen Moss, Academic Affairs Director Hsinming Fung and Undergraduate Programs Chair John Enright to successfully oversee a school recognized worldwide for its research and exploratory tradition. Together, they guided SCI-Arc in establishing a global standard for architecture education in the 21st century, ensuring a clear vision for the school and a solid reputation among peer institutions.

BENJAMIN H. BRATTON is a theorist whose work spans Philosophy, Art and Design. He is Associate Professor of Visual Arts and Director of The Center for Design and Geopolitics at the University of California, San Diego. He is also a Professor at The European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. His next book, The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty, is forthcoming from MIT Press (2015).

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ON SPECULATIVE BUTCHERY: ETHICAL COHERENCIES AND CONTAMINATIONS IN THE ARCHITECTURE OF HERNAN DIAZ ALONSO Benjamin H. Bratton

HERNAN DIAZ ALONSO is principal of the Los Angeles-based architecture office Xefirotarch. In 2005, Diaz Alonso was the winner of MoMA PS1’s Young Architects Program (YAP) competition, and in 2012 he received the “Educator of the Year” Award from the American Institute of Architects (AIA). Most recently, he won the 2013 AR+D Award for Emerging Architecture and a 2013 Progressive Architecture Award for his design of the Thyssen Bornamiza Pavilion/Museum in Patagonia, Argentina. Diaz Alonso’s architectural designs have been featured in both architecture and art exhibitions worlwide. The work has also been widely published in magazines, periodicals and books.

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Proposal for The New National Gallery & Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, 2014 2.

Pitch Black, Solo Show, MAK Museum Vienna, 2007/ 2008 3.

Limoge Chandelier, 2011 4.

Alessi, 2010 5.

SUR, MoMA/PS1 Young Architects Program winning entry, 2005 6.

Proposal for Helsinki Central Library, 2012

On the occasion of Hernan Diaz Alonso being named the next Director of SCI-Arc, I’ve been invited to offer a profile of him. I approach this in the only way that makes sense to me, and that is to write about him as my friend, and also to write as his friend.

Friends can say things that critics can’t. I also chose not to use the occasion to infer or ventriloquize his vision for the school, as its new Director, but instead to dialogue with his ideas and rationale, as an architect. Summaries of a friend’s work take certain standard forms—a letter of recommendation, an obituary, or a grand jury deposition—and I will try to avoid these formats. I will try my best not to be objective, and so first some disclosure: Hernan and I arrived at SCI-Arc at the same time, more or less, and though our backgrounds in and out of architecture were different, many of our “non-architectural” interests overlapped. This suggested to us that we might share an agenda to make use of architecture to intervene in other areas (including CGI cinema, biotechnology, zombiesm, megachurch and sporting spectacles, airport culture, etc.) We un-hid that agenda with 8-10 years of XLab studios and seminars which themselves amounted to a discontiguous conversation between he and I and several dozen SCIArc students.

Now as then, Hernan’s way of working stages (or is staged by) specific tension: on the one hand, to demarcate architecture as an autonomous disciplinary, discursive and technical entity, and on the other, to turn architecture inside-out by contaminating, corrupting, and parasitizing it with outside information. There is a romantic rationale in his gaucho gothic, one that comes from an unsentimental mixing of the perfect and the imperfect, the high and the low, as part of a search of new forms that are themselves not hybrids but platonic ideals from a different cave. “Philosophy” is one source of external ideas but it is not privileged over Space Opera or chase scenes. As I’ll hope to show, this contamination is sometimes transgressive and sometimes atheistic, and as the resulting forms take on a life of their own beyond the dictates of a given project and program, the contamination flows both ways, in and out. At the scale of a practice the trick is to manage this osmotic back-and-forth so that things continue to interrupt and disrupt one another, and never settle into an entropic homeostasis.

My short remarks start with the contaminant (the outside), move to the contamination (the design) and then to the contaminated (the architecture itself).

Contaminant Of late, Hernan has taken a strong interest in traditional Argentinian butchery. This interest includes how steaks are cooked, but also butchery as a practical and culturally local theory of the body, of parts to whole, of taxonomies of cuts, of traditions of eating and also of eating traditions. It is not for the queazy empath, but this technique for the violent reorganization of the animal body into component protein modules overlaps cleaner techniques of bending and stacking bodies, Euclidean primitives, calculative geometries, folds and foldings, pleats, tessellations, delaminations, fenestrations, apertures, inversions, segmentation and delineation, and other “elements of architecture.” This vision of culinary predation connects with ways that architecture knows to make and find form and also with the ways it knows of representing these in section, axonometric, animation, model, multiperspectival drawing, robotically assembled 5D nanomatterbots, 4

etc. “They’re made out of meat,” it is a way of knowing: Asado, Matambre, Colita de cuadril, Bife de costilla, Mollejas are not just different words for the same cuts, they subdivide a different animal. Butchers and surgeons (and barbers) share professional genealogies and sometimes tricks of the trade. A surgeon becomes a butcher by his incompetence, but is the inverse true as well?

(Butchery as surgery in bad faith, and surgery as extraordinarily empathetic butchery?) At the end of the day, the difference is whether the one with the knife ends up ingesting the one without the knife, and so making two into one, or whether they stay separated, both alive, and go on their ways. In between the two, organ harvesting may draw on both for its very very slow food version of cannibalism. Truth or consequences?

Contamination Architecture negotiates a necessarily unresolved relation between the real and the “not-real,” which depending on the practice can be variously, the fictional, the figurative, the metaphysical, the cinematic, the geopolitical, the narrative, the conjectural, the symbolic imaginary, the symmetrical sublime, the model, the elevation, and/or the plan. For Hernan’s practice, this unresolved correlation is particularly loud. He makes a decisive distinction between the experimental research practice that delves into or expands out from a particular set of academic problematics or visionary pursuits, and for which success is measured in unique private metrics, versus a speculative practice that seeks to intervene directly into the fabric of the physical landscape and introduce a real, sidereal, hyperreal or simply surreal irruption. Just as for genuinely creepy horror movies, for that to work the design must engage the gravities of sites, optics, bodies, environments, languages, and materials as they really are, so that their distortion actually does disturb reality. Just as for painting, composing a certain ratio of the real to the surreal, the fiction to the nonfiction, is a matter of blurring, elongating, tuning, calibrating, illuminating and dampening—building up the density of the image’s surface by slicing it away just so.

The individual project is where the ritual that binds romanticism and rationalism takes shape, and the ritual itself is also beholden to gravity. As Hernan is quick to point out, his process and practice are, both conceptually and logistically, more likely to have come from Los Angeles than anywhere else. First, because cinema and television have transformed the city into a habitat of transubstantiation, perched between story and situation: this is where the shootout scene in Chinatown was shot; this is the Lloyd Wright house where Deckard interviewed the Sean Young character in Blade Runner and figured out that she doesn’t know she’s a replicant; that’s the tunnel used in every single car commercial plus also THX-1138; and so on. Like visiting your childhood home, every place is living proof of its previous and primary existence in a dream world. Second, Hollywood is comfortable with interdisciplinary hypernarratives and ad-hoc intertextuality, and usually eager to pursue new kinds of technical affect for its own sake. Third, the Modern cleaving of Art and Commerce, bequeathing intellectual authenticity only to the former, is itself compromised by the day-to-day business of our culture industry (in ways that agitated Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer the first time around, and helped instigate their fundamentalist reaction, and continues to vex the Pier Vittorio Aureli’s of the world).

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This promiscuity is not the same thing as an unethical practice, but it is one that executes its ethics at arm’s length from morality and moralism (much like life itself.) One word that Hernan repeats to describe his interests, his method and his projects is “contamination.” In the context of “rituals” (of romanticism and rationalism), contamination suggests an economy of transgression, perhaps some persistent and idiosyncratic variation on what Georges Bataille tried to describe as an erotics of excess and a general economy of energy and value. That would not be incorrect, but it would be incomplete. Contamination is not always transgressive. Which is the real priority? The act or the infraction?

It may come down to whether you take Hernan at his word that his architecture is not meant to introduce a new hegemonic urban form (one better suited to a culture of planetary-scale computation than the spreadsheet-driven layouts of consultant urbanism or their more-decorative shadow, mainstream Parametricism) but is rather, in his words, “salt.” You don’t want to have a diet without salt, nor do you want a diet of only salt. In this, he maintains that the parasitic posture of his projects is not an interim strategy to gain a foothold on the host’s body before taking it over and replacing it with its own replicant genome. Instead the supplemental, parasitic and thereby ‘transgressive’ relationship between his form and that of the given site is required in order to hold the two in their delicate tension.

Contaminated The real may have the last say on this. Contemporary Biological Sciences are much more invested in contamination and symbiotic parasitism as foundations of life than many imagine. Far from seeing these as exceptions to the rule, increasingly they are the rule. There are theories of the origins of complex life as based on a durable contagion, of the complexity of life on land being due to nested parasitism (animal living inside an animal living inside an animal, and on), and research on the microbial gut biome as a key factor in the health of the host body, including yours. As far as biological life is concerned, the corruption of bodies by other bodies is the norm.

Another word you will hear Hernan use to describe his projects is “coherencies.” By this he means moments where disparate elements and motifs congeal, perhaps by surprise, into a temporarily stable order or patten, which itself may participate in another plural order or pattern at a different scale within the whole, or even in relationship with the external body onto which the whole has attached itself. These constitute local constraints within the global system or vice versa. They are repeatable. They may have a grammar, suggesting a proper and improper usage and a more exact timbre of their communicative voice. In some ways the invention of these coherencies is the general innovation that practices such as his offer to design in general. They are sampled, sequenced, misused, automated, and show up in supermarket facades in Guangzhou and soap commercials in Glendale. This is the counter-contamination that makes the whole cycle work. I wonder then how we will ultimately compare these coherencies to what Rem Koolhaas identified as the “elements” of architecture at this year’s Venice Biennale of Architecture? Koolhaas formalized elements into a single table indexing the variance in their deployment throughout the world, a forensics of Modernism as a global/ local system dynamic of another sort. In other words, will we

want to add these “coherencies” to the existing architectural table, as exotic and fragile transuranic elements that can only exist for a few seconds under extreme laboratory conditions? Or, will we come to see them as the basic terminology of another architectural century? The former would suggest that Hernan is right, and that his forms are spices like Livermorium (Lv), Plutonium (Pu) or Californium (Cf). The latter would suggest the Biologists are right and that successful symbiosis, parasitism, contamination and epigenesis are how new life emerges in the long run. Over time the transgressive significance and peculiarity of the coherencies being hatched will slowly dissolve. The surgeon becomes the butcher.

The butcher becomes the designer. The designer makes new meat.

HERNAN DIAZ ALONSO APPOINTED NEXT DIRECTOR OF SCI-ARC The SCI-Arc Board of Trustees appointed Hernan Diaz Alonso, architect and educator, as the school’s new Director beginning September 2015.

Diaz Alonso will succeed Eric Owen Moss, SCI-Arc director since 2002, whose term concludes next year.

The appointment was announced

by Chairman Jerold B. Neuman, following the Board’s quarterly meeting in September. “It is my honor to announce that the Board of Trustees has finalized its search for the next Director of SCI-Arc, and after over a decade of extraordinary service by Eric Owen Moss, we are placing SCI-Arc’s future in the amazing mind, heart and hands of Hernan Diaz Alonso,” said Neuman.

“We are committed to maintaining the trajectory of the school and, in the coming year, will be reaching out to alumni and supporters around the world, celebrating the great work that has been done by the current administration and providing the best possible platform from which Hernan can continue to move SCI-Arc forward and, in fact, accelerate its momentum.”

“SCI-Arc’s task, in perpetuity, is to go where we haven’t been, and report on what we find,” said SCI-Arc Director Eric Owen Moss. “Hernan Diaz Alonso is the perfect architect to continue this expedition.”

A faculty member at SCI-Arc since 2001, Diaz Alonso has served in several leadership roles including Coordinator of the Graduate Thesis program from 2007-2010, and Graduate Programs Chair from 2010 until the present. He has been widely credited with spearheading the transition of SCI-Arc to digital technologies, playing a key role in shaping the school’s graduate curriculum in recent years.

“SCI-Arc is a unique institution and I feel fortunate for being able to call it home for the past 13 years,” said Diaz Alonso in an address to faculty, students and alumni. “Our school is an ambitious institute, and I share this ambition to showcase to the world the many different ways in which architecture and design can change it.”

While serving as Graduate Programs Chair, Hernan Diaz Alonso worked alongside SCI-Arc Director Eric Owen Moss, Academic Affairs Director Hsinming Fung and Undergraduate Programs Chair John Enright to successfully oversee a school recognized worldwide for its research and exploratory tradition. Together, they guided SCI-Arc in establishing a global standard for architecture education in the 21st century, ensuring a clear vision for the school and a solid reputation among peer institutions.

BENJAMIN H. BRATTON is a theorist whose work spans Philosophy, Art and Design. He is Associate Professor of Visual Arts and Director of The Center for Design and Geopolitics at the University of California, San Diego. He is also a Professor at The European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. His next book, The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty, is forthcoming from MIT Press (2015).

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WISCOMBE, GILMORE TEAM UP TO DESIGN AND DEVELOP NEW LOS ANGELES MUSEUM

B+U AWARDED GRAHAM FOUNDATION GRANT FOR APERTURES INSTALLATION

SCI-Arc design faculty Tom Wiscombe and longtime trustee, developer Tom Gilmore have joined forces to develop a new museum for downtown Los Angeles. Dubbed the Old Bank District Museum, the contemporary art museum will be located in the sub-basements, basements, ground floors, mezzanines and rooftops of three interconnected buildings along Main and Fourth streets in downtown Los Angeles’ historic core. Programmatically, the museum will showcase works by prominent downtown LA artists of the last 40 years.

Wiscombe’s preliminary conceptual designs show visitors entering the museum through the Fourth Street frontage of the Hellman Building, then making their way through a series of exhibition spaces inside the Hellman, the Farmers and Merchants Bank, and the Bank House Garage building. The designs showcase a space visually and physically interconnected through large openings cut through walls and across floors. Wiscombe also plans to preserve a series of old “treasures” found in the inter-connected basements, including old bank vaults, exposed old pneumatic tubes, submarine doors and old mechanical equipment.

The museum will also feature a rooftop sculpture garden perched atop the Bank House Garage, a space currently occupied

by Earthwave, an installation designed by late architect Lebbeus Woods and built by SCI-Arc students in 2013.

SCI-Arc design faculty Herwig Baumgartner and Scott Uriu were awarded one of the prestigious individual artist grants from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts in support of their Apertures show, on view in the SCI-Arc Gallery this past spring.

B+U’s Apertures reflected a current architectural discourse of digital ecologies, emphasizing the relationship between the natural world and advances in digital technology, which leads to a new type of interactive, organic buildings. The installation focused on a symbiotic relationship between nature, building morphologies, and material expression. The pavilion and its apertures were designed to physically engage the visitor with architectural work through sensors and sound feedback loops, creating an immersive spatial environment in which the visitor could experience their own biorhythms.

In their gallery talk with SCI-Arc Director Eric Owen Moss, Baumgartner and Uriu discussed the evolution of their design stressing the thin sheets of thermoplastic polymer resin laminated to CNC-milled polyurethane foam used to make the shell. The two also argued their project was less about maximizing structural efficiency and more about minimizing poché.

Baumgartner and Uriu are both SCI-Arc faculty, teaching design studio and applied studies seminars.

MARCELO SPINA’S JUJUY REDUX WINS AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE AWARD

DORA EPSTEIN JONES, BRYONY ROBERTS, CO-EDITORS OF LOG

Editor-in-Chief Hsinming Fung Contributing Writers Benjamin H. Bratton Allison Holton Georgiana Masgras Eric Owen Moss Justine Smith Sarah Sullivan Photography David Crotty, Patrick McMullan Co. Carolina Murcia Yuan Mu Joshua White SCI-Arc Publications Project Manager Justine Smith Online Media and Public Relations Georgiana Masgras Graphic Designer Kate Merritt © 2014 SCI-Arc Publications

OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT AND ALUMNI AFFAIRS Chief Advancement Officer Sarah Sullivan Associate Director of Annual Giving and Alumni Affairs Irene Mason Associate Director of Corporate, Foundation and Government Relations Allison Holton Development Associate Morgan Quirk SCI-ARC LEADERSHIP Director Eric Owen Moss Director of Academic Affairs Hsinming Fung Graduate Programs Chair Hernan Diaz Alonso Undergraduate Program Chair John Enright Chief Operating Officer Jamie Bennett

SCI-Arc design faculty Marcelo Spina and partner Georgina Huljich of Los Angeles-based P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S, along with collaborators at MSA, have been selected to receive a 2014 American Architecture Award for their Jujuy Redux, a multi-family housing project in Rosario, Argentina. The prestigious American Architecture Award is a distinguished building award program that honors new and cutting-edge design by US-based architects.

P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S’ Jujuy Redux designs were showcased in a special exhibition featuring the 65 award-winning buildings at the annual symposium “The City and the World” hosted at the Istanbul Design Biennale in Turkey, November 10-25. Consisting of thirteen small, shared-floor units and a duplex organized in a crossventilated layout, the mid-rise apartment building proposes a subtle delineated mass, operating both at the scale of the entire volume and the scale of each apartment. The exhibition was organized by the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, with a goal to help promote American architecture and design nationally and globally.

SCI-Arc cultural studies faculty Dora Epstein Jones and Bryony Roberts were guest editors of the Spring/Summer issue of LOG, an architectural journal produced by New York-based Any Corporation. Drawing a parallel with the 17th-century quarrel between the Ancients and Moderns at the Academie française, the two guest editors present the work of practitioners who explore the contemporary possibilities of history. Among them are SCI-Arc faculty Anna Neimark and Jonah Rowen, and alumni Jason Payne (M.Arch ’94), Marc Ericson (M.Arch ’06) and Sarah Blankenbacker (M.Arch ’09).

The issue particularly emphasizes drawing that synthesizes technology and precedent, including a Piranesi-inspired digital reimagining of Istanbul and an animated analytic drawing of Borromini’s San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, linked via a QR code in the magazine.

LOG 31 launch events took place in both New York and Los Angeles. At Columbia University’s GSAPP, coeditors Dora Epstein Jones and Bryony Roberts were joined in conversation by LOG managing editor Cynthia Davidson, along with other issue contributors. At the SCI-Arc Gallery in Los Angeles, the two were joined by contributors Anna Neimark, Jonah Rowen, Andrew Atwood, Jason Payne (M.Arch ’94) and Mark Ericson (M.Arch ’06) in a discussion moderated by SCI-Arc Cultural Studies Coordinator, Todd Gannon.

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES Chairman Jerold B. Neuman Vice-Chair Joe Day (M. Arch ’94) SCI-Arc Director Eric Owen Moss Secretary Tom Gilmore Treasurer Daniel Swartz Faculty Representative Andrew Zago Together with Habitat for Humanity, SCI-Arc students will design and build innovative, sustainable, and affordable homes in LA County.

SCI-ARC AND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY JOIN FORCES TO LAUNCH LA HOUSING PROJECT A new collaboration between SCI-Arc and Habitat for Humanity, Greater Los Angeles tackles innovative ways to redevelop neglected properties in LA and positively impact the communities they exist within. The collaboration includes a series of SCI-Arc classes, which started this fall, in which students creatively design affordable and sustainable housing to be built on land transferred to Habitat LA by the Office of LA County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas. The project champions the idea that beyond the crucial role of providing shelter, a well-designed home can help improve the lives and well-being of its residents, as well as the community beyond its walls.

“The cost-effective single family house is a new area of interest for SCI-Arc as it plans to work alongside Habitat LA to design inexpensive and simultaneously inventive single family homes, to be built in LA County,” says SCI-Arc Director Eric Owen Moss. “There have been a number of such efforts over the years, typically skewed in the low cost rather than the imaginative design direction.

It’s time SCI-Arc turned its attention to the solution for both.”

In September, SCI-Arc began a series of design-build studios whose structure is set up to complete one SCI-Arc/Habitat home. The fall semester was devoted to the student design of a home, followed by construction documentation of the project to follow in the spring. Next summer, students will join Habitat LA’s volunteers in order to acquire firsthand building experience during the construction phase of the project.

“The partnership between SCI-Arc and Habitat LA represents an incredibly exciting opportunity for everyone involved,” says design studio faculty Darin Johnstone, who coordinates the program at SCI-Arc. “It is rare that two entities with such contrasting and yet complimentary expertise get together to achieve a common goal.”

The SCI-Arc/Habitat LA Housing project aims to make a meaningful impact on the urban scale, with multiple homes planned for underserved communities in LA. The communities where SCI-Arc and Habitat LA will be involved will play a crucial role in design development. Not only will these houses become a place to call home, but they will also transform each resident into a meaningful contributor to the civic process, helping to shape the communities they exist within.

Alumni Representative Dan Weinreber (M.Arch ’02) Student Representative Bridgette Marso (B.Arch ’15) Board Members at Large Richard Baptie Rick Carter Tim Disney William H. Fain, Jr. Anthony Ferguson Frank O. Gehry Russell L. Goings III Scott Hughes (M. Arch ’97) Thom Mayne Merry Norris Greg Otto Kevin Ratner Abigail Scheuer (M. Arch ’93) Nick Seierup (B. Arch ’79) Abby Sher Ted Tanner Honorary Members Elyse Grinstein Ray Kappe Ian Robertson Michael Rotondi (B. Arch ’75)

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Eric, Miller, Addison and Emily Moss 2.

Bill Simonian and Michael Folonis (B.Arch ’78) 3.

Dana Swinksy (M.Arch ’89) and Neal Borsuk (M.Arch ’89) 4.

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Shelly Kappe, Former Board Chair Ian Robertson, Former Director Ray Kappe, and Graduate Programs Chair Hernan Diaz Alonso 6.

Jane Suthigoseeya (M.Arch ’12), Jinsa Yoon (M.Arch ’12), Matt Pool (B.Arch ’13), Kathleen Mejia (B.Arch ’16), Ryann Wynn (B.Arch ’13) and Paul Andrzejczak (B.Arch ’13) 7.

Beth Gibb (M.Arch ’89), Debbie Mackler Fisher (M.Arch ’94) and Jayne Larson 8.

Tom Farrage (B.Arch ’87), Rick Gooding (B.Arch ’84) and Trustee Thom Mayne 9.

David Cameron, Brandon Welling, Maryam Arguello Belli and Monique Birault (M.Arch ’92) 10.

Trustee Merry Norris and Cesar Giraldo 11.

Hitoshi Abe (M.Arch ’89) and Alumni Trustee Dan Weinreber (M.Arch ’02) 12.

Patricia Joseph (M.Arch ’15) and Tanveer Sami (B.Arch ’12) 13.

Faculty David Freedland, Heather Flood (M.Arch ’04) and Ramiro DiazGranados (B.Arch ’00)

BUILDING COMMUNITY AT MAIN EVENT

SCI-Arc alumni, trustees, faculty, students and friends gathered for Main Event 11 on Saturday, November 1, at the Pterodactyl in the Hayden Tract of Culver City. This year’s event honored SCI-Arc Director Eric Owen Moss, who is in the final year of his tenure as director and whose leadership since 2002 has had a transformational impact at SCI-Arc. Main Event 11 marked a return–of sorts–to the event’s roots as the Hayden Tract served as the venue for the first Main Event in 2000. Since then, SCI-Arc’s annual fundraiser has been held in diverse settings around Los Angeles, most recently at the Prism Gallery in 2011 and the headquarters of Creative Artists Agency in 2010, and has honored luminaries from the SCI-Arc community.

Its return to Culver City was in honor of Moss, who is the architect of the Conjunctive Point development in the Hayden Tract. The newest building in this development, the Pterodactyl, served as a dramatic backdrop for the event, and guests were invited to tour the building throughout the evening. The outdoor parking structure in front of the Pterodactyl was transformed into a welcoming event space with lounges, tables, food service and bars serving the Eric Owen Mosscow Mule.

Trustee Tom Gilmore, who has served on the SCI-Arc Board throughout Moss’ tenure, emceed the evening’s program which paid tribute to Moss’ contributions to the SCI-Arc community as a leader, educator and architect. Each of the speakers affirmed Moss’ singular vision and notable accomplishments. “The testament to leadership is whether an organization is better off at the end of a tenure than its beginning. For Eric and SCI-Arc the answer is resoundingly ... YES,” said Board Chair Jerry Neuman. “Under Eric’s leadership SCI-Arc has grown up to be not only a world class architecture school but a world class institution as well. Now consistently ranked at the top of its field, Eric has also lead the school to buy its building and adjacent properties, build endowment, significantly increase scholarships, engage alumni and establish a faculty and student body that is the envy of all others. Simply put, Eric Owen Moss has had an incredible impact on SCI-Arc and SCI-Arc is profoundly better for it.”

Other tributes were more personal, acknowledging Moss’ contribution to the field as a designer and educator. “As an architect, Eric Owen Moss is a model for any student,” noted trustee Thom Mayne. “His architecture practice is a model of his own view of the world—to understand his work is to live in his brain. He is a model of the importance of being your own person, for being completely comfortable of your place in the world. e.e. cummings might well have been speaking of Eric when he said, ‘Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else. Toms can be Dicks and Dicks can be Harrys, but none of them can ever be you.’” And as long time Moss collaborators and Conjunctive Point developers Frederick and Laurie Samitaur Smith noted, “In his novel The Idiot, Dostoyevsky created an Anti-Christ who was willing to sacrifice himself to either a rapist or saint. Eric being skeptical of lovers and poets knows better and therefore has produced an authentic legacy that bows before no iconic standard.

His architecture expresses grace and humor. That is it. He is not an Idiot. He is a teacher.”

All tributes pointed to Moss’ insistently individual perspective on the world. “The evidence is clear that his architecture owes nothing to nobody,” said Director of Academic Affairs Hsinming Fung. “And much the same can be said of his approach to teaching, with its emphasis on the polemical and the exploratory. In the glimpses of his work you might get from his lectures and discussions, you are constantly reminded that his sources, from myth to tragic-comedy come from a never-sated, highly personal, intellectual hunger. That hunger extends to the ideas and ambitions of others. He regularly promotes the work of young faculty, seeks out ways to give them an opportunity to test their ideas, and to protect their own, hard-fought individuality with a generosity that often surprises those who see Eric only as the ‘tough-guy.’ Students and faculty bear the brunt. They are required to return salvo for salvo, inflict intellectual damage, and emerge, stronger than ever, with an unrelenting urge towards excellence.”

Main Event 11 was attended by nearly 450 guests, whose support generated over $200,000 for student scholarships. Guests included many from the SCI-Arc community–trustees, former directors, founding faculty, current faculty, founding students, current students, and alumni of all generations–as well as friends from the architectural, building and cultural sectors.

The event’s sponsors included Presenting Sponsor Gilmore Associates; Venue Sponsor Samitaur Constructs; Platinum Sponsors Forest City, Frank and Berta Gehry, Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Company, Johnson Fain, Morphosis, and US Bank; Gold Sponsors Jamie and Carolyn Bennett, Blu Homes, Gensler, Jerry Neuman, STUN (SCI-Arc Student Union), Abigail Scheuer, Sean O’Connor Lighting, and Siemens Industry Inc.; Silver Sponsors 950 E. Third Street, AGA Architects, Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP, Bremco Construction Inc., Anthony and Ronda Ferguson, Linear City Development, Merry Norris Contemporary Art, One Santa Fe, Perkins + Will, Richard Meier & Partners Architects, RoTo Architects, Ted and Joan Tanner, and Wurstküche; and Bronze Sponsors Arup, Barcelona Regional Urban Development Agency, C.W. Howe Partners Inc., Community Films, Hughesumbanhowar Architects, Kaplan Gehring McCarroll Architectural Lighting, Ken and Julie Klausner, Menn, Van Kuik & Walker Inc., Michael Maltzan Architecture, Park Advisory Board of the Pacific Palisades Recreation Center, Roscoe & Swanson CPAs, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Steinberg, and Walter P. Moore.

We thank all of the sponsors and supporters who made Main Event 11 a success and look forward to seeing alumni and friends again at next year’s Main Event 12. Look for details in 2015.

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SCI-Arc thanks the many individuals who supported and attended Main Event, including:

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Hitoshi Abe (M.Arch ’89) Eric Ackermann Saul Acosta Allison Agsten Nick Aho Frances Anderton Paul Andrzejczak (B.Arch ’13) Chantal Aquin (M.Arch ’99) Emmanuel Argueta (B.Arch ’12) Deborah Arnold Jorge Arreola Matheos Asfaw (B.Arch ’14) Atlas Capital Group Matthew Au (M.Arch ’11) Alon Averbuch Christopher Aykanian (M.Arch ’89) Katie Baad Tobe Baad Austin Baker (M.Arch ’10) Benjamin Ball (B.Arch ’03) Larry Ball Guillermo Banchini (M.DesR ’02) Barbara Baptie Richard Baptie Nicholas Barger (M.Arch ’13) Yasaman Barmaki (M.Arch ’07) Yuval Bar-Zemer Curime Batliner (M.Arch ’11) Herwig Baumgartner Christopher Becerra Hamid Behdad Tima Bell (M.Arch ’99) John Bencher (M.Arch ’93) Casey Benito (M.Arch ’12) Carolyn Bennett Jamie Bennett David Bergman Barbara Bestor (M.Arch ’92) Monique Birault (M.Arch ’92) Laura Birch Steve Birch Brent Blackman Debbie Blackman Tanner Blackman Jackilin Bloom Heather Bohn John Bohn Jeffrey Bolen (B.Arch ’88) Tom Bonner Neal Borsuk (M.Arch ’89) Gayle Burns Briski Sean Briski Marco Broccardo John Brumfield Mario Buda Lucas Cappelli Aviva Carmy (M.Arch ’80) I Fei Chang Susan Chang Ali Chen Siying Cheng Simon Chiu Annie Chu (B.Arch ’83) Sharon Coke Christian Contreras (M.Arch ’12) Ernest Convento (M.Arch ’05) Todd Conversano (M.Arch ’88) Jennifer Cornelius George Cosmas John Cowles Veronica Cowles Charles Cowley III Ronald Culver (B.Arch ’04) Mehrdad Dabbagh (M.Arch ’91) Dolan Daggett Kristi Daggett Kevin Daly Bruce Danzinger Greg Darling Kelly Darling Sarah David Vanessa De La Hoz Debra Deibler Hernan Diaz Alonso Ramiro Diaz-Granados (B.Arch ’00) Hung The Diep (B.Arch ’14) Tomas Dìez Ramona Dimon Linda Dishman Neda Disney Tim Disney Heidi Duckler Eat.Drink.Americano Steven Ehrlich David Eisenstadt George Elian (B.Arch ’78)

Arne Emerson David Engel John Enright Todd Erlandson (M.Arch ’94) Juan Carlos Esquivel Jeffrey Eyster (M.Arch ’98) Kristen Eyster William Fain Jennifer Fain Meg Fain Jacob Falk Mehrdad Farivar Chris Farr Tom Farrage (B.Arch ’87) Anthony Ferguson Ronda Ferguson Debbie Mackler (M.Arch ’94) Jay Fisher Steven Fiske Anna Marie Flaherty (M.Arch ’12) Heather Flood (M.Arch ’04) Mark Fluent Michael Folonis (B.Arch ’78) Bernadette Fox (B.Arch ’87) Brian Fraumeni (B.Arch ’10) David Freeland Hsinming Fung Raul Garcia Zelena Garcia Francesca Garcia-Marques Augis Gedgaudas (M.Arch ’92) Rasa Gedgaudas Mark Gee (M.Arch ’99) Erin Gehle Shawn Gehle John Gentile Leslie Gentile Kristen George (M.Arch ’10) Pavel Getov (M.Arch ’93) Elizabeth Gibb (M.Arch ’89) Julieta Gil Serge Gil Tom Gilmore Cesar Giraldo Russell Goings Richard Gooding (B.Arch ’84) Marcelyn Gow Margaret Griffin Peter Grueneisen (M.Arch ’90) Geoff Hackett Bob Hale Debra Hall Haines Hall Hank Hall Shannon Han (M.Arch ’06) Nina Handelman (M.Arch ’11) Carlos Hano Patti Harburg-Petrich Raven Hardison Celestin Hariton Adam Harrold David Hart Fatemeh Hashemi Aida Hassan (B.Arch ’14) Erika Heet Michael Hendron (B.Arch ’04) C. Hanning Henry Yoon Her David Herd Jose Herrasti Luis Herrera (B.Arch ’01) David Hertz (B.Arch ’83) A. Douglas Hicks Cort Hightower Craig Hodgetts Sherry Hoffman Beth Holden (B.Arch ’98) Miggi Hood (M.Arch ’93) Guy Horton (M.Arch ’06) Coy Howard Con Howe Kathryn Howe Georgina Huljich Vanessa Jauregui (M.Arch ’06) Evan Jenkins Jonathan Jerald Seung Hyun Jo (B.Arch ’06) Patricia Joseph Coomy Bilimoria Kadribegovic (M.DesR ’01) Nerin Kadribegovic (M.Arch ’03) Jacqueline Kahn-Trauberman (M.Arch ’80) Ray Kappe Shelly Kappe Tim Keating Val Keating Irene Kelly Angie Eunji Kim (B.Arch ’14) Craig Kim

Kristen Koshgarian Robert Koshgarian (B.Arch ’12) Emily Kovner David Lafaille Kim Lagercrantz (M.Arch ’11) Jayne Larson Sophie Lauriault (M.Arch ’13) Cara Lee (M.Arch ’96) Elizabeth Lee Michael Lee (M.Arch ’89) Liz Leshin Richael Levin Bill Lewis Suzette Lewis Janica Ley (B.Arch ’10) Junmou Li Mary Little John Lodge (M.Arch ’94) Michael Lombardi Nels Long (M.DesR ’14) Michelle Lozano (B.Arch ’14) John Maddux Carlos Madrid III (M.Arch ’95) Jesse Madrid (B.Arch ’08) Stuart Magruder (M.Arch ’97) Zachery Main (B.Arch ’13) Hassan Majd (B.Arch ’90) Michael Maltzan Robert Mangurian Abhi Mankar Anita Mankar Areti Markopoulou Jennifer Marmon (M.Arch ’01) Bridgette Marso John Martin Kathy Martin (M.Arch ’96) Ryan Tyler Martinez (M.Arch ’13) Jake Matatyaou Blythe Mayne Thom Mayne Ilaria Mazzoleni Pat McCloskey Bill McGregor Tanis McGregor Will McGregor Pete McLaughlin Beth McLure Scott McLure Eric McNevin (M.Arch ’01) Markus Meister Martin Roy Mervel (M.Arch ’81) Masis Mesropian (B.Arch ’93) Cody Miner Doug Moreland Addison Moss Eric Owen Moss Miller Moss Christopher Mount Willy Müller Hernan Munayco (B.Arch ’99) Stephan Mundwiler (M.Arch ’95) Eugenia Nam Richard Nam (B.Arch ’14) Paras Nanavati (B.Arch ’04) Mary Nasry Jerry Neuman Judith Newmark Merry Norris Dean Nota (B.Arch ’76) Amie Nulman Eric Nulman Kathleen O’Connor Sean O’Connor (B.Arch ’98) Ryan Odom Greg Otto Dwayne Oyler Shleigh Pasim Nick Patsaouras Jerri Perrone Patrick Perry Melissa Peter Christina Pierson Michael Pinto (M.Arch ’98) Florencia Pita Matt Pool (B.Arch ’13) Maritza Przekop (B.Arch ’80) Joe Rainsford Alisa Ratner Kevin Ratner Stephanie Reich (M.Arch ’93) Jean-Michel Reynolds Aimee Richer Ian Robertson Alexis Rochas Kimberly Roscoe Charlie Rose Dan Rosenfeld David Ross (B.Arch ’81) Michael Rotondi (B.Arch ’75) Jennifer Russell

Linda Jo Russell Lisa Russo Pegah Sadr David Sagrista Laylee Salek Tanveer Sami (B.Arch ’12) Owen Sarmiento Abigail Scheuer (M.Arch ’93) Karolin Schmidbaur Elissa Scrafano (M.Arch ’90) Nick Seierup (B.Arch ’79) Susanna Seierup Jacob Semler Viviana Serrano Aakash Shah Pam Shamshiri Carol Shatz Abby Sher Joey Shimoda Karen Shueh (M.Arch ’13) Bill Simonian Frederick Samitaur Smith Laurie Samitaur Smith Pierre Smith Paul Solomon Olivier Sommerhalder (M.Arch ’99) John Southern (M.Arch ’02) Marcelo Spina Randy Spiwak (B.Arch ’79) James Stafford Shane Stafford Thomas Stallman (M.Arch ’91) Wilfred Stallman Paul Stoelting (M.Arch ’12) Frank Stork Anne Strauss Phillip Strauss Scott Sullivan (M.Arch ’99) Manori Sumanasinghe (B.Arch ’14) Corinne Swanson Daniel Swartz Brian Sweeney Eva Sweeney (M.Arch ’98) Dana Swinsky (M.Arch ’89) Juniper Tedhams Peter Testa Annie Thiel Russell Thompson Patrick Tighe Hsaio-Ling Ting Lorna Turner John Umbanhowar (M.Arch ’98) Scott Uriu David Valdes (M.Arch ’99) Vlado Valkof (M.DesR ’04) Gregory Van Grunsven (M.Arch ’07) Carlos Vargas (M.Arch ’14) Hugo Ventura Jill Vesci Teena Videriksen Alison Walker Lee Walker Greg Walsh Daniel Weinreber (M.Arch ’02) Allie Weinstein Jeremy Weinstein Devyn Weiser John Welborne Martha Welborne Brandon Welling Emily White (M.Arch ’06) Michael White Mark Wiesmayr Anne Williams Allyne Winderman Erika Winters Tom Wiscombe Andrew Wright Hardy Wronske Jenny Wu Judith Wyle (M.Arch ’88) Ryann Wynn (B.Arch ’13) Becky Yam Mehrdad Yazdani Eui-Sung Yi Jinso Yoon (M.Arch ’12) Andrew Zago Rudy Zamora Atila Zekioglu Nancy Zekioglu Peter Zellner Jed Zimmerman (B.Arch ’87) Walt Zipperman Susanna Zottl (M.Arch ’93)

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Graduate Programs Chair Hernan Diaz Alonso, Director of Academic Affairs Hsinming Fung, Director Eric Owen Moss and Undergraduate Program Chair John Enright 15.

Michelle Lozano (B.Arch ’14), Associate Director of Annual Giving and Alumni Affairs Irene Mason and Matheos Asfaw (B.Arch ’14) 16.

Toast by Board Chair Jerry Neuman, Trustee Tom Gilmore, Trustee Thom Mayne, Director Eric Owen Moss and Former Board Chair Ian Robertson 17.

Faculty member Coy Howard, Jennifer Gilman (M.Arch ’07), Alex Getov, Pavel Getov (M.Arch ’93) 18.

Dana Swinsky (M.Arch ’89), Neal Borsuk (M.Arch ’89), Michael Lee (M.Arch ’89), Elizabeth Lee, Linda Jo Russell and Dean Nota (B.Arch ’76) 19.

Frederick and Laurie Samitaur Smith pay tribute to Eric Owen Moss 20.

Barbara Bestor (M.Arch ’92) and Emily Kovner Moss 21.

Orhan Ayyuce (B.Arch ’81) and former Director Michael Rotondi (B.Arch ’75) 22.

John Umbanhowar (M.Arch ’98), Channing Henry, Steven Fiske, Raven Hardison and Carlos Madrid III (M.Arch ’95) 23.

Current students Aakash Shah, Christopher Becerra, Flora Hashami and Ryan Odom 24.

Guests listen to the evening’s program

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Eric, Miller, Addison and Emily Moss 2.

Bill Simonian and Michael Folonis (B.Arch ’78) 3.

Dana Swinksy (M.Arch ’89) and Neal Borsuk (M.Arch ’89) 4.

Guests at the event 5.

Shelly Kappe, Former Board Chair Ian Robertson, Former Director Ray Kappe, and Graduate Programs Chair Hernan Diaz Alonso 6.

Jane Suthigoseeya (M.Arch ’12), Jinsa Yoon (M.Arch ’12), Matt Pool (B.Arch ’13), Kathleen Mejia (B.Arch ’16), Ryann Wynn (B.Arch ’13) and Paul Andrzejczak (B.Arch ’13) 7.

Beth Gibb (M.Arch ’89), Debbie Mackler Fisher (M.Arch ’94) and Jayne Larson 8.

Tom Farrage (B.Arch ’87), Rick Gooding (B.Arch ’84) and Trustee Thom Mayne 9.

David Cameron, Brandon Welling, Maryam Arguello Belli and Monique Birault (M.Arch ’92) 10.

Trustee Merry Norris and Cesar Giraldo 11.

Hitoshi Abe (M.Arch ’89) and Alumni Trustee Dan Weinreber (M.Arch ’02) 12.

Patricia Joseph (M.Arch ’15) and Tanveer Sami (B.Arch ’12) 13.

Faculty David Freedland, Heather Flood (M.Arch ’04) and Ramiro DiazGranados (B.Arch ’00)

BUILDING COMMUNITY AT MAIN EVENT

SCI-Arc alumni, trustees, faculty, students and friends gathered for Main Event 11 on Saturday, November 1, at the Pterodactyl in the Hayden Tract of Culver City. This year’s event honored SCI-Arc Director Eric Owen Moss, who is in the final year of his tenure as director and whose leadership since 2002 has had a transformational impact at SCI-Arc. Main Event 11 marked a return–of sorts–to the event’s roots as the Hayden Tract served as the venue for the first Main Event in 2000. Since then, SCI-Arc’s annual fundraiser has been held in diverse settings around Los Angeles, most recently at the Prism Gallery in 2011 and the headquarters of Creative Artists Agency in 2010, and has honored luminaries from the SCI-Arc community.

Its return to Culver City was in honor of Moss, who is the architect of the Conjunctive Point development in the Hayden Tract. The newest building in this development, the Pterodactyl, served as a dramatic backdrop for the event, and guests were invited to tour the building throughout the evening. The outdoor parking structure in front of the Pterodactyl was transformed into a welcoming event space with lounges, tables, food service and bars serving the Eric Owen Mosscow Mule.

Trustee Tom Gilmore, who has served on the SCI-Arc Board throughout Moss’ tenure, emceed the evening’s program which paid tribute to Moss’ contributions to the SCI-Arc community as a leader, educator and architect. Each of the speakers affirmed Moss’ singular vision and notable accomplishments. “The testament to leadership is whether an organization is better off at the end of a tenure than its beginning. For Eric and SCI-Arc the answer is resoundingly ... YES,” said Board Chair Jerry Neuman. “Under Eric’s leadership SCI-Arc has grown up to be not only a world class architecture school but a world class institution as well. Now consistently ranked at the top of its field, Eric has also lead the school to buy its building and adjacent properties, build endowment, significantly increase scholarships, engage alumni and establish a faculty and student body that is the envy of all others. Simply put, Eric Owen Moss has had an incredible impact on SCI-Arc and SCI-Arc is profoundly better for it.”

Other tributes were more personal, acknowledging Moss’ contribution to the field as a designer and educator. “As an architect, Eric Owen Moss is a model for any student,” noted trustee Thom Mayne. “His architecture practice is a model of his own view of the world—to understand his work is to live in his brain. He is a model of the importance of being your own person, for being completely comfortable of your place in the world. e.e. cummings might well have been speaking of Eric when he said, ‘Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else. Toms can be Dicks and Dicks can be Harrys, but none of them can ever be you.’” And as long time Moss collaborators and Conjunctive Point developers Frederick and Laurie Samitaur Smith noted, “In his novel The Idiot, Dostoyevsky created an Anti-Christ who was willing to sacrifice himself to either a rapist or saint. Eric being skeptical of lovers and poets knows better and therefore has produced an authentic legacy that bows before no iconic standard.

His architecture expresses grace and humor. That is it. He is not an Idiot. He is a teacher.”

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All tributes pointed to Moss’ insistently individual perspective on the world. “The evidence is clear that his architecture owes nothing to nobody,” said Director of Academic Affairs Hsinming Fung. “And much the same can be said of his approach to teaching, with its emphasis on the polemical and the exploratory. In the glimpses of his work you might get from his lectures and discussions, you are constantly reminded that his sources, from myth to tragic-comedy come from a never-sated, highly personal, intellectual hunger. That hunger extends to the ideas and ambitions of others. He regularly promotes the work of young faculty, seeks out ways to give them an opportunity to test their ideas, and to protect their own, hard-fought individuality with a generosity that often surprises those who see Eric only as the ‘tough-guy.’ Students and faculty bear the brunt. They are required to return salvo for salvo, inflict intellectual damage, and emerge, stronger than ever, with an unrelenting urge towards excellence.”

Main Event 11 was attended by nearly 450 guests, whose support generated over $200,000 for student scholarships. Guests included many from the SCI-Arc community–trustees, former directors, founding faculty, current faculty, founding students, current students, and alumni of all generations–as well as friends from the architectural, building and cultural sectors.

The event’s sponsors included Presenting Sponsor Gilmore Associates; Venue Sponsor Samitaur Constructs; Platinum Sponsors Forest City, Frank and Berta Gehry, Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Company, Johnson Fain, Morphosis, and US Bank; Gold Sponsors Jamie and Carolyn Bennett, Blu Homes, Gensler, Jerry Neuman, STUN (SCI-Arc Student Union), Abigail Scheuer, Sean O’Connor Lighting, and Siemens Industry Inc.; Silver Sponsors 950 E. Third Street, AGA Architects, Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP, Bremco Construction Inc., Anthony and Ronda Ferguson, Linear City Development, Merry Norris Contemporary Art, One Santa Fe, Perkins + Will, Richard Meier & Partners Architects, RoTo Architects, Ted and Joan Tanner, and Wurstküche; and Bronze Sponsors Arup, Barcelona Regional Urban Development Agency, C.W. Howe Partners Inc., Community Films, Hughesumbanhowar Architects, Kaplan Gehring McCarroll Architectural Lighting, Ken and Julie Klausner, Menn, Van Kuik & Walker Inc., Michael Maltzan Architecture, Park Advisory Board of the Pacific Palisades Recreation Center, Roscoe & Swanson CPAs, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Steinberg, and Walter P. Moore.

We thank all of the sponsors and supporters who made Main Event 11 a success and look forward to seeing alumni and friends again at next year’s Main Event 12. Look for details in 2015.

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SCI-Arc thanks the many individuals who supported and attended Main Event, including: Hitoshi Abe (M.Arch ’89) Eric Ackermann Saul Acosta Allison Agsten Nick Aho Frances Anderton Paul Andrzejczak (B.Arch ’13) Chantal Aquin (M.Arch ’99) Emmanuel Argueta (B.Arch ’12) Deborah Arnold Jorge Arreola Matheos Asfaw (B.Arch ’14) Atlas Capital Group Matthew Au (M.Arch ’11) Alon Averbuch Christopher Aykanian (M.Arch ’89) Katie Baad Tobe Baad Austin Baker (M.Arch ’10) Benjamin Ball (B.Arch ’03) Larry Ball Guillermo Banchini (M.DesR ’02) Barbara Baptie Richard Baptie Nicholas Barger (M.Arch ’13) Yasaman Barmaki (M.Arch ’07) Yuval Bar-Zemer Curime Batliner (M.Arch ’11) Herwig Baumgartner Christopher Becerra Hamid Behdad Tima Bell (M.Arch ’99) John Bencher (M.Arch ’93) Casey Benito (M.Arch ’12) Carolyn Bennett Jamie Bennett David Bergman Barbara Bestor (M.Arch ’92) Monique Birault (M.Arch ’92) Laura Birch Steve Birch Brent Blackman Debbie Blackman Tanner Blackman Jackilin Bloom Heather Bohn John Bohn Jeffrey Bolen (B.Arch ’88) Tom Bonner Neal Borsuk (M.Arch ’89) Gayle Burns Briski Sean Briski Marco Broccardo John Brumfield Mario Buda Lucas Cappelli Aviva Carmy (M.Arch ’80) I Fei Chang Susan Chang Ali Chen Siying Cheng Simon Chiu Annie Chu (B.Arch ’83) Sharon Coke Christian Contreras (M.Arch ’12) Ernest Convento (M.Arch ’05) Todd Conversano (M.Arch ’88) Jennifer Cornelius George Cosmas John Cowles Veronica Cowles Charles Cowley III Ronald Culver (B.Arch ’04) Mehrdad Dabbagh (M.Arch ’91) Dolan Daggett Kristi Daggett Kevin Daly Bruce Danzinger Greg Darling Kelly Darling Sarah David Vanessa De La Hoz Debra Deibler Hernan Diaz Alonso Ramiro Diaz-Granados (B.Arch ’00) Hung The Diep (B.Arch ’14) Tomas Dìez Ramona Dimon Linda Dishman Neda Disney Tim Disney Heidi Duckler Eat.Drink.Americano Steven Ehrlich David Eisenstadt George Elian (B.Arch ’78)

Arne Emerson David Engel John Enright Todd Erlandson (M.Arch ’94) Juan Carlos Esquivel Jeffrey Eyster (M.Arch ’98) Kristen Eyster William Fain Jennifer Fain Meg Fain Jacob Falk Mehrdad Farivar Chris Farr Tom Farrage (B.Arch ’87) Anthony Ferguson Ronda Ferguson Debbie Mackler (M.Arch ’94) Jay Fisher Steven Fiske Anna Marie Flaherty (M.Arch ’12) Heather Flood (M.Arch ’04) Mark Fluent Michael Folonis (B.Arch ’78) Bernadette Fox (B.Arch ’87) Brian Fraumeni (B.Arch ’10) David Freeland Hsinming Fung Raul Garcia Zelena Garcia Francesca Garcia-Marques Augis Gedgaudas (M.Arch ’92) Rasa Gedgaudas Mark Gee (M.Arch ’99) Erin Gehle Shawn Gehle John Gentile Leslie Gentile Kristen George (M.Arch ’10) Pavel Getov (M.Arch ’93) Elizabeth Gibb (M.Arch ’89) Julieta Gil Serge Gil Tom Gilmore Cesar Giraldo Russell Goings Richard Gooding (B.Arch ’84) Marcelyn Gow Margaret Griffin Peter Grueneisen (M.Arch ’90) Geoff Hackett Bob Hale Debra Hall Haines Hall Hank Hall Shannon Han (M.Arch ’06) Nina Handelman (M.Arch ’11) Carlos Hano Patti Harburg-Petrich Raven Hardison Celestin Hariton Adam Harrold David Hart Fatemeh Hashemi Aida Hassan (B.Arch ’14) Erika Heet Michael Hendron (B.Arch ’04) C. Hanning Henry Yoon Her David Herd Jose Herrasti Luis Herrera (B.Arch ’01) David Hertz (B.Arch ’83) A. Douglas Hicks Cort Hightower Craig Hodgetts Sherry Hoffman Beth Holden (B.Arch ’98) Miggi Hood (M.Arch ’93) Guy Horton (M.Arch ’06) Coy Howard Con Howe Kathryn Howe Georgina Huljich Vanessa Jauregui (M.Arch ’06) Evan Jenkins Jonathan Jerald Seung Hyun Jo (B.Arch ’06) Patricia Joseph Coomy Bilimoria Kadribegovic (M.DesR ’01) Nerin Kadribegovic (M.Arch ’03) Jacqueline Kahn-Trauberman (M.Arch ’80) Ray Kappe Shelly Kappe Tim Keating Val Keating Irene Kelly Angie Eunji Kim (B.Arch ’14) Craig Kim

Kristen Koshgarian Robert Koshgarian (B.Arch ’12) Emily Kovner David Lafaille Kim Lagercrantz (M.Arch ’11) Jayne Larson Sophie Lauriault (M.Arch ’13) Cara Lee (M.Arch ’96) Elizabeth Lee Michael Lee (M.Arch ’89) Liz Leshin Richael Levin Bill Lewis Suzette Lewis Janica Ley (B.Arch ’10) Junmou Li Mary Little John Lodge (M.Arch ’94) Michael Lombardi Nels Long (M.DesR ’14) Michelle Lozano (B.Arch ’14) John Maddux Carlos Madrid III (M.Arch ’95) Jesse Madrid (B.Arch ’08) Stuart Magruder (M.Arch ’97) Zachery Main (B.Arch ’13) Hassan Majd (B.Arch ’90) Michael Maltzan Robert Mangurian Abhi Mankar Anita Mankar Areti Markopoulou Jennifer Marmon (M.Arch ’01) Bridgette Marso John Martin Kathy Martin (M.Arch ’96) Ryan Tyler Martinez (M.Arch ’13) Jake Matatyaou Blythe Mayne Thom Mayne Ilaria Mazzoleni Pat McCloskey Bill McGregor Tanis McGregor Will McGregor Pete McLaughlin Beth McLure Scott McLure Eric McNevin (M.Arch ’01) Markus Meister Martin Roy Mervel (M.Arch ’81) Masis Mesropian (B.Arch ’93) Cody Miner Doug Moreland Addison Moss Eric Owen Moss Miller Moss Christopher Mount Willy Müller Hernan Munayco (B.Arch ’99) Stephan Mundwiler (M.Arch ’95) Eugenia Nam Richard Nam (B.Arch ’14) Paras Nanavati (B.Arch ’04) Mary Nasry Jerry Neuman Judith Newmark Merry Norris Dean Nota (B.Arch ’76) Amie Nulman Eric Nulman Kathleen O’Connor Sean O’Connor (B.Arch ’98) Ryan Odom Greg Otto Dwayne Oyler Shleigh Pasim Nick Patsaouras Jerri Perrone Patrick Perry Melissa Peter Christina Pierson Michael Pinto (M.Arch ’98) Florencia Pita Matt Pool (B.Arch ’13) Maritza Przekop (B.Arch ’80) Joe Rainsford Alisa Ratner Kevin Ratner Stephanie Reich (M.Arch ’93) Jean-Michel Reynolds Aimee Richer Ian Robertson Alexis Rochas Kimberly Roscoe Charlie Rose Dan Rosenfeld David Ross (B.Arch ’81) Michael Rotondi (B.Arch ’75) Jennifer Russell

Linda Jo Russell Lisa Russo Pegah Sadr David Sagrista Laylee Salek Tanveer Sami (B.Arch ’12) Owen Sarmiento Abigail Scheuer (M.Arch ’93) Karolin Schmidbaur Elissa Scrafano (M.Arch ’90) Nick Seierup (B.Arch ’79) Susanna Seierup Jacob Semler Viviana Serrano Aakash Shah Pam Shamshiri Carol Shatz Abby Sher Joey Shimoda Karen Shueh (M.Arch ’13) Bill Simonian Frederick Samitaur Smith Laurie Samitaur Smith Pierre Smith Paul Solomon Olivier Sommerhalder (M.Arch ’99) John Southern (M.Arch ’02) Marcelo Spina Randy Spiwak (B.Arch ’79) James Stafford Shane Stafford Thomas Stallman (M.Arch ’91) Wilfred Stallman Paul Stoelting (M.Arch ’12) Frank Stork Anne Strauss Phillip Strauss Scott Sullivan (M.Arch ’99) Manori Sumanasinghe (B.Arch ’14) Corinne Swanson Daniel Swartz Brian Sweeney Eva Sweeney (M.Arch ’98) Dana Swinsky (M.Arch ’89) Juniper Tedhams Peter Testa Annie Thiel Russell Thompson Patrick Tighe Hsaio-Ling Ting Lorna Turner John Umbanhowar (M.Arch ’98) Scott Uriu David Valdes (M.Arch ’99) Vlado Valkof (M.DesR ’04) Gregory Van Grunsven (M.Arch ’07) Carlos Vargas (M.Arch ’14) Hugo Ventura Jill Vesci Teena Videriksen Alison Walker Lee Walker Greg Walsh Daniel Weinreber (M.Arch ’02) Allie Weinstein Jeremy Weinstein Devyn Weiser John Welborne Martha Welborne Brandon Welling Emily White (M.Arch ’06) Michael White Mark Wiesmayr Anne Williams Allyne Winderman Erika Winters Tom Wiscombe Andrew Wright Hardy Wronske Jenny Wu Judith Wyle (M.Arch ’88) Ryann Wynn (B.Arch ’13) Becky Yam Mehrdad Yazdani Eui-Sung Yi Jinso Yoon (M.Arch ’12) Andrew Zago Rudy Zamora Atila Zekioglu Nancy Zekioglu Peter Zellner Jed Zimmerman (B.Arch ’87) Walt Zipperman Susanna Zottl (M.Arch ’93)

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Graduate Programs Chair Hernan Diaz Alonso, Director of Academic Affairs Hsinming Fung, Director Eric Owen Moss and Undergraduate Program Chair John Enright 15.

Michelle Lozano (B.Arch ’14), Associate Director of Annual Giving and Alumni Affairs Irene Mason and Matheos Asfaw (B.Arch ’14) 16.

Toast by Board Chair Jerry Neuman, Trustee Tom Gilmore, Trustee Thom Mayne, Director Eric Owen Moss and Former Board Chair Ian Robertson 17.

Faculty member Coy Howard, Jennifer Gilman (M.Arch ’07), Alex Getov, Pavel Getov (M.Arch ’93) 18.

Dana Swinsky (M.Arch ’89), Neal Borsuk (M.Arch ’89), Michael Lee (M.Arch ’89), Elizabeth Lee, Linda Jo Russell and Dean Nota (B.Arch ’76) 19.

Frederick and Laurie Samitaur Smith pay tribute to Eric Owen Moss 20.

Barbara Bestor (M.Arch ’92) and Emily Kovner Moss 21.

Orhan Ayyuce (B.Arch ’81) and former Director Michael Rotondi (B.Arch ’75) 22.

John Umbanhowar (M.Arch ’98), Channing Henry, Steven Fiske, Raven Hardison and Carlos Madrid III (M.Arch ’95) 23.

Current students Aakash Shah, Christopher Becerra, Flora Hashami and Ryan Odom 24.

Guests listen to the evening’s program

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1.

Eric, Miller, Addison and Emily Moss 2.

Bill Simonian and Michael Folonis (B.Arch ’78) 3.

Dana Swinksy (M.Arch ’89) and Neal Borsuk (M.Arch ’89) 4.

Guests at the event 5.

Shelly Kappe, Former Board Chair Ian Robertson, Former Director Ray Kappe, and Graduate Programs Chair Hernan Diaz Alonso 6.

Jane Suthigoseeya (M.Arch ’12), Jinsa Yoon (M.Arch ’12), Matt Pool (B.Arch ’13), Kathleen Mejia (B.Arch ’16), Ryann Wynn (B.Arch ’13) and Paul Andrzejczak (B.Arch ’13) 7.

Beth Gibb (M.Arch ’89), Debbie Mackler Fisher (M.Arch ’94) and Jayne Larson 8.

Tom Farrage (B.Arch ’87), Rick Gooding (B.Arch ’84) and Trustee Thom Mayne 9.

David Cameron, Brandon Welling, Maryam Arguello Belli and Monique Birault (M.Arch ’92) 10.

Trustee Merry Norris and Cesar Giraldo 11.

Hitoshi Abe (M.Arch ’89) and Alumni Trustee Dan Weinreber (M.Arch ’02) 12.

Patricia Joseph (M.Arch ’15) and Tanveer Sami (B.Arch ’12) 13.

Faculty David Freedland, Heather Flood (M.Arch ’04) and Ramiro DiazGranados (B.Arch ’00)

BUILDING COMMUNITY AT MAIN EVENT

SCI-Arc alumni, trustees, faculty, students and friends gathered for Main Event 11 on Saturday, November 1, at the Pterodactyl in the Hayden Tract of Culver City. This year’s event honored SCI-Arc Director Eric Owen Moss, who is in the final year of his tenure as director and whose leadership since 2002 has had a transformational impact at SCI-Arc. Main Event 11 marked a return–of sorts–to the event’s roots as the Hayden Tract served as the venue for the first Main Event in 2000. Since then, SCI-Arc’s annual fundraiser has been held in diverse settings around Los Angeles, most recently at the Prism Gallery in 2011 and the headquarters of Creative Artists Agency in 2010, and has honored luminaries from the SCI-Arc community.

Its return to Culver City was in honor of Moss, who is the architect of the Conjunctive Point development in the Hayden Tract. The newest building in this development, the Pterodactyl, served as a dramatic backdrop for the event, and guests were invited to tour the building throughout the evening. The outdoor parking structure in front of the Pterodactyl was transformed into a welcoming event space with lounges, tables, food service and bars serving the Eric Owen Mosscow Mule.

Trustee Tom Gilmore, who has served on the SCI-Arc Board throughout Moss’ tenure, emceed the evening’s program which paid tribute to Moss’ contributions to the SCI-Arc community as a leader, educator and architect. Each of the speakers affirmed Moss’ singular vision and notable accomplishments. “The testament to leadership is whether an organization is better off at the end of a tenure than its beginning. For Eric and SCI-Arc the answer is resoundingly ... YES,” said Board Chair Jerry Neuman. “Under Eric’s leadership SCI-Arc has grown up to be not only a world class architecture school but a world class institution as well. Now consistently ranked at the top of its field, Eric has also lead the school to buy its building and adjacent properties, build endowment, significantly increase scholarships, engage alumni and establish a faculty and student body that is the envy of all others. Simply put, Eric Owen Moss has had an incredible impact on SCI-Arc and SCI-Arc is profoundly better for it.”

Other tributes were more personal, acknowledging Moss’ contribution to the field as a designer and educator. “As an architect, Eric Owen Moss is a model for any student,” noted trustee Thom Mayne. “His architecture practice is a model of his own view of the world—to understand his work is to live in his brain. He is a model of the importance of being your own person, for being completely comfortable of your place in the world. e.e. cummings might well have been speaking of Eric when he said, ‘Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else. Toms can be Dicks and Dicks can be Harrys, but none of them can ever be you.’” And as long time Moss collaborators and Conjunctive Point developers Frederick and Laurie Samitaur Smith noted, “In his novel The Idiot, Dostoyevsky created an Anti-Christ who was willing to sacrifice himself to either a rapist or saint. Eric being skeptical of lovers and poets knows better and therefore has produced an authentic legacy that bows before no iconic standard.

His architecture expresses grace and humor. That is it. He is not an Idiot. He is a teacher.”

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All tributes pointed to Moss’ insistently individual perspective on the world. “The evidence is clear that his architecture owes nothing to nobody,” said Director of Academic Affairs Hsinming Fung. “And much the same can be said of his approach to teaching, with its emphasis on the polemical and the exploratory. In the glimpses of his work you might get from his lectures and discussions, you are constantly reminded that his sources, from myth to tragic-comedy come from a never-sated, highly personal, intellectual hunger. That hunger extends to the ideas and ambitions of others. He regularly promotes the work of young faculty, seeks out ways to give them an opportunity to test their ideas, and to protect their own, hard-fought individuality with a generosity that often surprises those who see Eric only as the ‘tough-guy.’ Students and faculty bear the brunt. They are required to return salvo for salvo, inflict intellectual damage, and emerge, stronger than ever, with an unrelenting urge towards excellence.”

Main Event 11 was attended by nearly 450 guests, whose support generated over $200,000 for student scholarships. Guests included many from the SCI-Arc community–trustees, former directors, founding faculty, current faculty, founding students, current students, and alumni of all generations–as well as friends from the architectural, building and cultural sectors.

The event’s sponsors included Presenting Sponsor Gilmore Associates; Venue Sponsor Samitaur Constructs; Platinum Sponsors Forest City, Frank and Berta Gehry, Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Company, Johnson Fain, Morphosis, and US Bank; Gold Sponsors Jamie and Carolyn Bennett, Blu Homes, Gensler, Jerry Neuman, STUN (SCI-Arc Student Union), Abigail Scheuer, Sean O’Connor Lighting, and Siemens Industry Inc.; Silver Sponsors 950 E. Third Street, AGA Architects, Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP, Bremco Construction Inc., Anthony and Ronda Ferguson, Linear City Development, Merry Norris Contemporary Art, One Santa Fe, Perkins + Will, Richard Meier & Partners Architects, RoTo Architects, Ted and Joan Tanner, and Wurstküche; and Bronze Sponsors Arup, Barcelona Regional Urban Development Agency, C.W. Howe Partners Inc., Community Films, Hughesumbanhowar Architects, Kaplan Gehring McCarroll Architectural Lighting, Ken and Julie Klausner, Menn, Van Kuik & Walker Inc., Michael Maltzan Architecture, Park Advisory Board of the Pacific Palisades Recreation Center, Roscoe & Swanson CPAs, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Steinberg, and Walter P. Moore.

We thank all of the sponsors and supporters who made Main Event 11 a success and look forward to seeing alumni and friends again at next year’s Main Event 12. Look for details in 2015.

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Hitoshi Abe (M.Arch ’89) Eric Ackermann Saul Acosta Allison Agsten Nick Aho Frances Anderton Paul Andrzejczak (B.Arch ’13) Chantal Aquin (M.Arch ’99) Emmanuel Argueta (B.Arch ’12) Deborah Arnold Jorge Arreola Matheos Asfaw (B.Arch ’14) Atlas Capital Group Matthew Au (M.Arch ’11) Alon Averbuch Christopher Aykanian (M.Arch ’89) Katie Baad Tobe Baad Austin Baker (M.Arch ’10) Benjamin Ball (B.Arch ’03) Larry Ball Guillermo Banchini (M.DesR ’02) Barbara Baptie Richard Baptie Nicholas Barger (M.Arch ’13) Yasaman Barmaki (M.Arch ’07) Yuval Bar-Zemer Curime Batliner (M.Arch ’11) Herwig Baumgartner Christopher Becerra Hamid Behdad Tima Bell (M.Arch ’99) John Bencher (M.Arch ’93) Casey Benito (M.Arch ’12) Carolyn Bennett Jamie Bennett David Bergman Barbara Bestor (M.Arch ’92) Monique Birault (M.Arch ’92) Laura Birch Steve Birch Brent Blackman Debbie Blackman Tanner Blackman Jackilin Bloom Heather Bohn John Bohn Jeffrey Bolen (B.Arch ’88) Tom Bonner Neal Borsuk (M.Arch ’89) Gayle Burns Briski Sean Briski Marco Broccardo John Brumfield Mario Buda Lucas Cappelli Aviva Carmy (M.Arch ’80) I Fei Chang Susan Chang Ali Chen Siying Cheng Simon Chiu Annie Chu (B.Arch ’83) Sharon Coke Christian Contreras (M.Arch ’12) Ernest Convento (M.Arch ’05) Todd Conversano (M.Arch ’88) Jennifer Cornelius George Cosmas John Cowles Veronica Cowles Charles Cowley III Ronald Culver (B.Arch ’04) Mehrdad Dabbagh (M.Arch ’91) Dolan Daggett Kristi Daggett Kevin Daly Bruce Danzinger Greg Darling Kelly Darling Sarah David Vanessa De La Hoz Debra Deibler Hernan Diaz Alonso Ramiro Diaz-Granados (B.Arch ’00) Hung The Diep (B.Arch ’14) Tomas Dìez Ramona Dimon Linda Dishman Neda Disney Tim Disney Heidi Duckler Eat.Drink.Americano Steven Ehrlich David Eisenstadt George Elian (B.Arch ’78)

Arne Emerson David Engel John Enright Todd Erlandson (M.Arch ’94) Juan Carlos Esquivel Jeffrey Eyster (M.Arch ’98) Kristen Eyster William Fain Jennifer Fain Meg Fain Jacob Falk Mehrdad Farivar Chris Farr Tom Farrage (B.Arch ’87) Anthony Ferguson Ronda Ferguson Debbie Mackler (M.Arch ’94) Jay Fisher Steven Fiske Anna Marie Flaherty (M.Arch ’12) Heather Flood (M.Arch ’04) Mark Fluent Michael Folonis (B.Arch ’78) Bernadette Fox (B.Arch ’87) Brian Fraumeni (B.Arch ’10) David Freeland Hsinming Fung Raul Garcia Zelena Garcia Francesca Garcia-Marques Augis Gedgaudas (M.Arch ’92) Rasa Gedgaudas Mark Gee (M.Arch ’99) Erin Gehle Shawn Gehle John Gentile Leslie Gentile Kristen George (M.Arch ’10) Pavel Getov (M.Arch ’93) Elizabeth Gibb (M.Arch ’89) Julieta Gil Serge Gil Tom Gilmore Cesar Giraldo Russell Goings Richard Gooding (B.Arch ’84) Marcelyn Gow Margaret Griffin Peter Grueneisen (M.Arch ’90) Geoff Hackett Bob Hale Debra Hall Haines Hall Hank Hall Shannon Han (M.Arch ’06) Nina Handelman (M.Arch ’11) Carlos Hano Patti Harburg-Petrich Raven Hardison Celestin Hariton Adam Harrold David Hart Fatemeh Hashemi Aida Hassan (B.Arch ’14) Erika Heet Michael Hendron (B.Arch ’04) C. Hanning Henry Yoon Her David Herd Jose Herrasti Luis Herrera (B.Arch ’01) David Hertz (B.Arch ’83) A. Douglas Hicks Cort Hightower Craig Hodgetts Sherry Hoffman Beth Holden (B.Arch ’98) Miggi Hood (M.Arch ’93) Guy Horton (M.Arch ’06) Coy Howard Con Howe Kathryn Howe Georgina Huljich Vanessa Jauregui (M.Arch ’06) Evan Jenkins Jonathan Jerald Seung Hyun Jo (B.Arch ’06) Patricia Joseph Coomy Bilimoria Kadribegovic (M.DesR ’01) Nerin Kadribegovic (M.Arch ’03) Jacqueline Kahn-Trauberman (M.Arch ’80) Ray Kappe Shelly Kappe Tim Keating Val Keating Irene Kelly Angie Eunji Kim (B.Arch ’14) Craig Kim

Kristen Koshgarian Robert Koshgarian (B.Arch ’12) Emily Kovner David Lafaille Kim Lagercrantz (M.Arch ’11) Jayne Larson Sophie Lauriault (M.Arch ’13) Cara Lee (M.Arch ’96) Elizabeth Lee Michael Lee (M.Arch ’89) Liz Leshin Richael Levin Bill Lewis Suzette Lewis Janica Ley (B.Arch ’10) Junmou Li Mary Little John Lodge (M.Arch ’94) Michael Lombardi Nels Long (M.DesR ’14) Michelle Lozano (B.Arch ’14) John Maddux Carlos Madrid III (M.Arch ’95) Jesse Madrid (B.Arch ’08) Stuart Magruder (M.Arch ’97) Zachery Main (B.Arch ’13) Hassan Majd (B.Arch ’90) Michael Maltzan Robert Mangurian Abhi Mankar Anita Mankar Areti Markopoulou Jennifer Marmon (M.Arch ’01) Bridgette Marso John Martin Kathy Martin (M.Arch ’96) Ryan Tyler Martinez (M.Arch ’13) Jake Matatyaou Blythe Mayne Thom Mayne Ilaria Mazzoleni Pat McCloskey Bill McGregor Tanis McGregor Will McGregor Pete McLaughlin Beth McLure Scott McLure Eric McNevin (M.Arch ’01) Markus Meister Martin Roy Mervel (M.Arch ’81) Masis Mesropian (B.Arch ’93) Cody Miner Doug Moreland Addison Moss Eric Owen Moss Miller Moss Christopher Mount Willy Müller Hernan Munayco (B.Arch ’99) Stephan Mundwiler (M.Arch ’95) Eugenia Nam Richard Nam (B.Arch ’14) Paras Nanavati (B.Arch ’04) Mary Nasry Jerry Neuman Judith Newmark Merry Norris Dean Nota (B.Arch ’76) Amie Nulman Eric Nulman Kathleen O’Connor Sean O’Connor (B.Arch ’98) Ryan Odom Greg Otto Dwayne Oyler Shleigh Pasim Nick Patsaouras Jerri Perrone Patrick Perry Melissa Peter Christina Pierson Michael Pinto (M.Arch ’98) Florencia Pita Matt Pool (B.Arch ’13) Maritza Przekop (B.Arch ’80) Joe Rainsford Alisa Ratner Kevin Ratner Stephanie Reich (M.Arch ’93) Jean-Michel Reynolds Aimee Richer Ian Robertson Alexis Rochas Kimberly Roscoe Charlie Rose Dan Rosenfeld David Ross (B.Arch ’81) Michael Rotondi (B.Arch ’75) Jennifer Russell

Linda Jo Russell Lisa Russo Pegah Sadr David Sagrista Laylee Salek Tanveer Sami (B.Arch ’12) Owen Sarmiento Abigail Scheuer (M.Arch ’93) Karolin Schmidbaur Elissa Scrafano (M.Arch ’90) Nick Seierup (B.Arch ’79) Susanna Seierup Jacob Semler Viviana Serrano Aakash Shah Pam Shamshiri Carol Shatz Abby Sher Joey Shimoda Karen Shueh (M.Arch ’13) Bill Simonian Frederick Samitaur Smith Laurie Samitaur Smith Pierre Smith Paul Solomon Olivier Sommerhalder (M.Arch ’99) John Southern (M.Arch ’02) Marcelo Spina Randy Spiwak (B.Arch ’79) James Stafford Shane Stafford Thomas Stallman (M.Arch ’91) Wilfred Stallman Paul Stoelting (M.Arch ’12) Frank Stork Anne Strauss Phillip Strauss Scott Sullivan (M.Arch ’99) Manori Sumanasinghe (B.Arch ’14) Corinne Swanson Daniel Swartz Brian Sweeney Eva Sweeney (M.Arch ’98) Dana Swinsky (M.Arch ’89) Juniper Tedhams Peter Testa Annie Thiel Russell Thompson Patrick Tighe Hsaio-Ling Ting Lorna Turner John Umbanhowar (M.Arch ’98) Scott Uriu David Valdes (M.Arch ’99) Vlado Valkof (M.DesR ’04) Gregory Van Grunsven (M.Arch ’07) Carlos Vargas (M.Arch ’14) Hugo Ventura Jill Vesci Teena Videriksen Alison Walker Lee Walker Greg Walsh Daniel Weinreber (M.Arch ’02) Allie Weinstein Jeremy Weinstein Devyn Weiser John Welborne Martha Welborne Brandon Welling Emily White (M.Arch ’06) Michael White Mark Wiesmayr Anne Williams Allyne Winderman Erika Winters Tom Wiscombe Andrew Wright Hardy Wronske Jenny Wu Judith Wyle (M.Arch ’88) Ryann Wynn (B.Arch ’13) Becky Yam Mehrdad Yazdani Eui-Sung Yi Jinso Yoon (M.Arch ’12) Andrew Zago Rudy Zamora Atila Zekioglu Nancy Zekioglu Peter Zellner Jed Zimmerman (B.Arch ’87) Walt Zipperman Susanna Zottl (M.Arch ’93)

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Graduate Programs Chair Hernan Diaz Alonso, Director of Academic Affairs Hsinming Fung, Director Eric Owen Moss and Undergraduate Program Chair John Enright 15.

Michelle Lozano (B.Arch ’14), Associate Director of Annual Giving and Alumni Affairs Irene Mason and Matheos Asfaw (B.Arch ’14) 16.

Toast by Board Chair Jerry Neuman, Trustee Tom Gilmore, Trustee Thom Mayne, Director Eric Owen Moss and Former Board Chair Ian Robertson 17.

Faculty member Coy Howard, Jennifer Gilman (M.Arch ’07), Alex Getov, Pavel Getov (M.Arch ’93) 18.

Dana Swinsky (M.Arch ’89), Neal Borsuk (M.Arch ’89), Michael Lee (M.Arch ’89), Elizabeth Lee, Linda Jo Russell and Dean Nota (B.Arch ’76) 19.

Frederick and Laurie Samitaur Smith pay tribute to Eric Owen Moss 20.

Barbara Bestor (M.Arch ’92) and Emily Kovner Moss 21.

Orhan Ayyuce (B.Arch ’81) and former Director Michael Rotondi (B.Arch ’75) 22.

John Umbanhowar (M.Arch ’98), Channing Henry, Steven Fiske, Raven Hardison and Carlos Madrid III (M.Arch ’95) 23.

Current students Aakash Shah, Christopher Becerra, Flora Hashami and Ryan Odom 24.

Guests listen to the evening’s program

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Eric, Miller, Addison and Emily Moss 2.

Bill Simonian and Michael Folonis (B.Arch ’78) 3.

Dana Swinksy (M.Arch ’89) and Neal Borsuk (M.Arch ’89) 4.

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Shelly Kappe, Former Board Chair Ian Robertson, Former Director Ray Kappe, and Graduate Programs Chair Hernan Diaz Alonso 6.

Jane Suthigoseeya (M.Arch ’12), Jinsa Yoon (M.Arch ’12), Matt Pool (B.Arch ’13), Kathleen Mejia (B.Arch ’16), Ryann Wynn (B.Arch ’13) and Paul Andrzejczak (B.Arch ’13) 7.

Beth Gibb (M.Arch ’89), Debbie Mackler Fisher (M.Arch ’94) and Jayne Larson 8.

Tom Farrage (B.Arch ’87), Rick Gooding (B.Arch ’84) and Trustee Thom Mayne 9.

David Cameron, Brandon Welling, Maryam Arguello Belli and Monique Birault (M.Arch ’92) 10.

Trustee Merry Norris and Cesar Giraldo 11.

Hitoshi Abe (M.Arch ’89) and Alumni Trustee Dan Weinreber (M.Arch ’02) 12.

Patricia Joseph (M.Arch ’15) and Tanveer Sami (B.Arch ’12) 13.

Faculty David Freedland, Heather Flood (M.Arch ’04) and Ramiro DiazGranados (B.Arch ’00)

BUILDING COMMUNITY AT MAIN EVENT

SCI-Arc alumni, trustees, faculty, students and friends gathered for Main Event 11 on Saturday, November 1, at the Pterodactyl in the Hayden Tract of Culver City. This year’s event honored SCI-Arc Director Eric Owen Moss, who is in the final year of his tenure as director and whose leadership since 2002 has had a transformational impact at SCI-Arc. Main Event 11 marked a return–of sorts–to the event’s roots as the Hayden Tract served as the venue for the first Main Event in 2000. Since then, SCI-Arc’s annual fundraiser has been held in diverse settings around Los Angeles, most recently at the Prism Gallery in 2011 and the headquarters of Creative Artists Agency in 2010, and has honored luminaries from the SCI-Arc community.

Its return to Culver City was in honor of Moss, who is the architect of the Conjunctive Point development in the Hayden Tract. The newest building in this development, the Pterodactyl, served as a dramatic backdrop for the event, and guests were invited to tour the building throughout the evening. The outdoor parking structure in front of the Pterodactyl was transformed into a welcoming event space with lounges, tables, food service and bars serving the Eric Owen Mosscow Mule.

Trustee Tom Gilmore, who has served on the SCI-Arc Board throughout Moss’ tenure, emceed the evening’s program which paid tribute to Moss’ contributions to the SCI-Arc community as a leader, educator and architect. Each of the speakers affirmed Moss’ singular vision and notable accomplishments. “The testament to leadership is whether an organization is better off at the end of a tenure than its beginning. For Eric and SCI-Arc the answer is resoundingly ... YES,” said Board Chair Jerry Neuman. “Under Eric’s leadership SCI-Arc has grown up to be not only a world class architecture school but a world class institution as well. Now consistently ranked at the top of its field, Eric has also lead the school to buy its building and adjacent properties, build endowment, significantly increase scholarships, engage alumni and establish a faculty and student body that is the envy of all others. Simply put, Eric Owen Moss has had an incredible impact on SCI-Arc and SCI-Arc is profoundly better for it.”

Other tributes were more personal, acknowledging Moss’ contribution to the field as a designer and educator. “As an architect, Eric Owen Moss is a model for any student,” noted trustee Thom Mayne. “His architecture practice is a model of his own view of the world—to understand his work is to live in his brain. He is a model of the importance of being your own person, for being completely comfortable of your place in the world. e.e. cummings might well have been speaking of Eric when he said, ‘Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else. Toms can be Dicks and Dicks can be Harrys, but none of them can ever be you.’” And as long time Moss collaborators and Conjunctive Point developers Frederick and Laurie Samitaur Smith noted, “In his novel The Idiot, Dostoyevsky created an Anti-Christ who was willing to sacrifice himself to either a rapist or saint. Eric being skeptical of lovers and poets knows better and therefore has produced an authentic legacy that bows before no iconic standard.

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All tributes pointed to Moss’ insistently individual perspective on the world. “The evidence is clear that his architecture owes nothing to nobody,” said Director of Academic Affairs Hsinming Fung. “And much the same can be said of his approach to teaching, with its emphasis on the polemical and the exploratory. In the glimpses of his work you might get from his lectures and discussions, you are constantly reminded that his sources, from myth to tragic-comedy come from a never-sated, highly personal, intellectual hunger. That hunger extends to the ideas and ambitions of others. He regularly promotes the work of young faculty, seeks out ways to give them an opportunity to test their ideas, and to protect their own, hard-fought individuality with a generosity that often surprises those who see Eric only as the ‘tough-guy.’ Students and faculty bear the brunt. They are required to return salvo for salvo, inflict intellectual damage, and emerge, stronger than ever, with an unrelenting urge towards excellence.”

Main Event 11 was attended by nearly 450 guests, whose support generated over $200,000 for student scholarships. Guests included many from the SCI-Arc community–trustees, former directors, founding faculty, current faculty, founding students, current students, and alumni of all generations–as well as friends from the architectural, building and cultural sectors.

The event’s sponsors included Presenting Sponsor Gilmore Associates; Venue Sponsor Samitaur Constructs; Platinum Sponsors Forest City, Frank and Berta Gehry, Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Company, Johnson Fain, Morphosis, and US Bank; Gold Sponsors Jamie and Carolyn Bennett, Blu Homes, Gensler, Jerry Neuman, STUN (SCI-Arc Student Union), Abigail Scheuer, Sean O’Connor Lighting, and Siemens Industry Inc.; Silver Sponsors 950 E. Third Street, AGA Architects, Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP, Bremco Construction Inc., Anthony and Ronda Ferguson, Linear City Development, Merry Norris Contemporary Art, One Santa Fe, Perkins + Will, Richard Meier & Partners Architects, RoTo Architects, Ted and Joan Tanner, and Wurstküche; and Bronze Sponsors Arup, Barcelona Regional Urban Development Agency, C.W. Howe Partners Inc., Community Films, Hughesumbanhowar Architects, Kaplan Gehring McCarroll Architectural Lighting, Ken and Julie Klausner, Menn, Van Kuik & Walker Inc., Michael Maltzan Architecture, Park Advisory Board of the Pacific Palisades Recreation Center, Roscoe & Swanson CPAs, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Steinberg, and Walter P. Moore.

We thank all of the sponsors and supporters who made Main Event 11 a success and look forward to seeing alumni and friends again at next year’s Main Event 12. Look for details in 2015.

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Hitoshi Abe (M.Arch ’89) Eric Ackermann Saul Acosta Allison Agsten Nick Aho Frances Anderton Paul Andrzejczak (B.Arch ’13) Chantal Aquin (M.Arch ’99) Emmanuel Argueta (B.Arch ’12) Deborah Arnold Jorge Arreola Matheos Asfaw (B.Arch ’14) Atlas Capital Group Matthew Au (M.Arch ’11) Alon Averbuch Christopher Aykanian (M.Arch ’89) Katie Baad Tobe Baad Austin Baker (M.Arch ’10) Benjamin Ball (B.Arch ’03) Larry Ball Guillermo Banchini (M.DesR ’02) Barbara Baptie Richard Baptie Nicholas Barger (M.Arch ’13) Yasaman Barmaki (M.Arch ’07) Yuval Bar-Zemer Curime Batliner (M.Arch ’11) Herwig Baumgartner Christopher Becerra Hamid Behdad Tima Bell (M.Arch ’99) John Bencher (M.Arch ’93) Casey Benito (M.Arch ’12) Carolyn Bennett Jamie Bennett David Bergman Barbara Bestor (M.Arch ’92) Monique Birault (M.Arch ’92) Laura Birch Steve Birch Brent Blackman Debbie Blackman Tanner Blackman Jackilin Bloom Heather Bohn John Bohn Jeffrey Bolen (B.Arch ’88) Tom Bonner Neal Borsuk (M.Arch ’89) Gayle Burns Briski Sean Briski Marco Broccardo John Brumfield Mario Buda Lucas Cappelli Aviva Carmy (M.Arch ’80) I Fei Chang Susan Chang Ali Chen Siying Cheng Simon Chiu Annie Chu (B.Arch ’83) Sharon Coke Christian Contreras (M.Arch ’12) Ernest Convento (M.Arch ’05) Todd Conversano (M.Arch ’88) Jennifer Cornelius George Cosmas John Cowles Veronica Cowles Charles Cowley III Ronald Culver (B.Arch ’04) Mehrdad Dabbagh (M.Arch ’91) Dolan Daggett Kristi Daggett Kevin Daly Bruce Danzinger Greg Darling Kelly Darling Sarah David Vanessa De La Hoz Debra Deibler Hernan Diaz Alonso Ramiro Diaz-Granados (B.Arch ’00) Hung The Diep (B.Arch ’14) Tomas Dìez Ramona Dimon Linda Dishman Neda Disney Tim Disney Heidi Duckler Eat.Drink.Americano Steven Ehrlich David Eisenstadt George Elian (B.Arch ’78)

Arne Emerson David Engel John Enright Todd Erlandson (M.Arch ’94) Juan Carlos Esquivel Jeffrey Eyster (M.Arch ’98) Kristen Eyster William Fain Jennifer Fain Meg Fain Jacob Falk Mehrdad Farivar Chris Farr Tom Farrage (B.Arch ’87) Anthony Ferguson Ronda Ferguson Debbie Mackler (M.Arch ’94) Jay Fisher Steven Fiske Anna Marie Flaherty (M.Arch ’12) Heather Flood (M.Arch ’04) Mark Fluent Michael Folonis (B.Arch ’78) Bernadette Fox (B.Arch ’87) Brian Fraumeni (B.Arch ’10) David Freeland Hsinming Fung Raul Garcia Zelena Garcia Francesca Garcia-Marques Augis Gedgaudas (M.Arch ’92) Rasa Gedgaudas Mark Gee (M.Arch ’99) Erin Gehle Shawn Gehle John Gentile Leslie Gentile Kristen George (M.Arch ’10) Pavel Getov (M.Arch ’93) Elizabeth Gibb (M.Arch ’89) Julieta Gil Serge Gil Tom Gilmore Cesar Giraldo Russell Goings Richard Gooding (B.Arch ’84) Marcelyn Gow Margaret Griffin Peter Grueneisen (M.Arch ’90) Geoff Hackett Bob Hale Debra Hall Haines Hall Hank Hall Shannon Han (M.Arch ’06) Nina Handelman (M.Arch ’11) Carlos Hano Patti Harburg-Petrich Raven Hardison Celestin Hariton Adam Harrold David Hart Fatemeh Hashemi Aida Hassan (B.Arch ’14) Erika Heet Michael Hendron (B.Arch ’04) C. Hanning Henry Yoon Her David Herd Jose Herrasti Luis Herrera (B.Arch ’01) David Hertz (B.Arch ’83) A. Douglas Hicks Cort Hightower Craig Hodgetts Sherry Hoffman Beth Holden (B.Arch ’98) Miggi Hood (M.Arch ’93) Guy Horton (M.Arch ’06) Coy Howard Con Howe Kathryn Howe Georgina Huljich Vanessa Jauregui (M.Arch ’06) Evan Jenkins Jonathan Jerald Seung Hyun Jo (B.Arch ’06) Patricia Joseph Coomy Bilimoria Kadribegovic (M.DesR ’01) Nerin Kadribegovic (M.Arch ’03) Jacqueline Kahn-Trauberman (M.Arch ’80) Ray Kappe Shelly Kappe Tim Keating Val Keating Irene Kelly Angie Eunji Kim (B.Arch ’14) Craig Kim

Kristen Koshgarian Robert Koshgarian (B.Arch ’12) Emily Kovner David Lafaille Kim Lagercrantz (M.Arch ’11) Jayne Larson Sophie Lauriault (M.Arch ’13) Cara Lee (M.Arch ’96) Elizabeth Lee Michael Lee (M.Arch ’89) Liz Leshin Richael Levin Bill Lewis Suzette Lewis Janica Ley (B.Arch ’10) Junmou Li Mary Little John Lodge (M.Arch ’94) Michael Lombardi Nels Long (M.DesR ’14) Michelle Lozano (B.Arch ’14) John Maddux Carlos Madrid III (M.Arch ’95) Jesse Madrid (B.Arch ’08) Stuart Magruder (M.Arch ’97) Zachery Main (B.Arch ’13) Hassan Majd (B.Arch ’90) Michael Maltzan Robert Mangurian Abhi Mankar Anita Mankar Areti Markopoulou Jennifer Marmon (M.Arch ’01) Bridgette Marso John Martin Kathy Martin (M.Arch ’96) Ryan Tyler Martinez (M.Arch ’13) Jake Matatyaou Blythe Mayne Thom Mayne Ilaria Mazzoleni Pat McCloskey Bill McGregor Tanis McGregor Will McGregor Pete McLaughlin Beth McLure Scott McLure Eric McNevin (M.Arch ’01) Markus Meister Martin Roy Mervel (M.Arch ’81) Masis Mesropian (B.Arch ’93) Cody Miner Doug Moreland Addison Moss Eric Owen Moss Miller Moss Christopher Mount Willy Müller Hernan Munayco (B.Arch ’99) Stephan Mundwiler (M.Arch ’95) Eugenia Nam Richard Nam (B.Arch ’14) Paras Nanavati (B.Arch ’04) Mary Nasry Jerry Neuman Judith Newmark Merry Norris Dean Nota (B.Arch ’76) Amie Nulman Eric Nulman Kathleen O’Connor Sean O’Connor (B.Arch ’98) Ryan Odom Greg Otto Dwayne Oyler Shleigh Pasim Nick Patsaouras Jerri Perrone Patrick Perry Melissa Peter Christina Pierson Michael Pinto (M.Arch ’98) Florencia Pita Matt Pool (B.Arch ’13) Maritza Przekop (B.Arch ’80) Joe Rainsford Alisa Ratner Kevin Ratner Stephanie Reich (M.Arch ’93) Jean-Michel Reynolds Aimee Richer Ian Robertson Alexis Rochas Kimberly Roscoe Charlie Rose Dan Rosenfeld David Ross (B.Arch ’81) Michael Rotondi (B.Arch ’75) Jennifer Russell

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Linda Jo Russell Lisa Russo Pegah Sadr David Sagrista Laylee Salek Tanveer Sami (B.Arch ’12) Owen Sarmiento Abigail Scheuer (M.Arch ’93) Karolin Schmidbaur Elissa Scrafano (M.Arch ’90) Nick Seierup (B.Arch ’79) Susanna Seierup Jacob Semler Viviana Serrano Aakash Shah Pam Shamshiri Carol Shatz Abby Sher Joey Shimoda Karen Shueh (M.Arch ’13) Bill Simonian Frederick Samitaur Smith Laurie Samitaur Smith Pierre Smith Paul Solomon Olivier Sommerhalder (M.Arch ’99) John Southern (M.Arch ’02) Marcelo Spina Randy Spiwak (B.Arch ’79) James Stafford Shane Stafford Thomas Stallman (M.Arch ’91) Wilfred Stallman Paul Stoelting (M.Arch ’12) Frank Stork Anne Strauss Phillip Strauss Scott Sullivan (M.Arch ’99) Manori Sumanasinghe (B.Arch ’14) Corinne Swanson Daniel Swartz Brian Sweeney Eva Sweeney (M.Arch ’98) Dana Swinsky (M.Arch ’89) Juniper Tedhams Peter Testa Annie Thiel Russell Thompson Patrick Tighe Hsaio-Ling Ting Lorna Turner John Umbanhowar (M.Arch ’98) Scott Uriu David Valdes (M.Arch ’99) Vlado Valkof (M.DesR ’04) Gregory Van Grunsven (M.Arch ’07) Carlos Vargas (M.Arch ’14) Hugo Ventura Jill Vesci Teena Videriksen Alison Walker Lee Walker Greg Walsh Daniel Weinreber (M.Arch ’02) Allie Weinstein Jeremy Weinstein Devyn Weiser John Welborne Martha Welborne Brandon Welling Emily White (M.Arch ’06) Michael White Mark Wiesmayr Anne Williams Allyne Winderman Erika Winters Tom Wiscombe Andrew Wright Hardy Wronske Jenny Wu Judith Wyle (M.Arch ’88) Ryann Wynn (B.Arch ’13) Becky Yam Mehrdad Yazdani Eui-Sung Yi Jinso Yoon (M.Arch ’12) Andrew Zago Rudy Zamora Atila Zekioglu Nancy Zekioglu Peter Zellner Jed Zimmerman (B.Arch ’87) Walt Zipperman Susanna Zottl (M.Arch ’93)

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Graduate Programs Chair Hernan Diaz Alonso, Director of Academic Affairs Hsinming Fung, Director Eric Owen Moss and Undergraduate Program Chair John Enright 15.

Michelle Lozano (B.Arch ’14), Associate Director of Annual Giving and Alumni Affairs Irene Mason and Matheos Asfaw (B.Arch ’14) 16.

Toast by Board Chair Jerry Neuman, Trustee Tom Gilmore, Trustee Thom Mayne, Director Eric Owen Moss and Former Board Chair Ian Robertson 17.

Faculty member Coy Howard, Jennifer Gilman (M.Arch ’07), Alex Getov, Pavel Getov (M.Arch ’93) 18.

Dana Swinsky (M.Arch ’89), Neal Borsuk (M.Arch ’89), Michael Lee (M.Arch ’89), Elizabeth Lee, Linda Jo Russell and Dean Nota (B.Arch ’76) 19.

Frederick and Laurie Samitaur Smith pay tribute to Eric Owen Moss 20.

Barbara Bestor (M.Arch ’92) and Emily Kovner Moss 21.

Orhan Ayyuce (B.Arch ’81) and former Director Michael Rotondi (B.Arch ’75) 22.

John Umbanhowar (M.Arch ’98), Channing Henry, Steven Fiske, Raven Hardison and Carlos Madrid III (M.Arch ’95) 23.

Current students Aakash Shah, Christopher Becerra, Flora Hashami and Ryan Odom 24.

Guests listen to the evening’s program

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NEWS

LA MAYOR ERIC GARCETTI SPEAKS AT SCI-ARC GRADUATION SCI-Arc’s annual Graduate Thesis Weekend & Graduation Ceremony took place on September 5-7, 2014 on the school’s campus in downtown Los Angeles, under the shade of League of Shadows, the graduation pavilion designed and built by design faculty Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich of P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S, with the help of a transformative grant from ArtPlace. This public threeday event had students presenting their final projects to critics from all over the world, and culminated with an all-school commencement ceremony for both undergrads and grads. Guest critics this year included Aaron Betsky, Michael Bell, Benjamin Bratton, Tomas Daniell, Winka Dubbeldam, Greg Lynn, Jason Payne, Brian Price, Bob Somol, Michael Speaks, Brett Steele and Catherine Veikos.

The graduation ceremony welcomed more than 1,000 guests who came to celebrate the 160 graduates and undergraduates receiving their degrees. The 2014 SCI-Arc Gehry Prize, recognizing outstanding graduate thesis work, was awarded to three graduate students: Hannah Goodale Pavlovich (M.Arch 1) for Puzzling, coordinated by Eric Owen Moss; Jeffrey Halstead (M.Arch 2) for Glass House, coordinated by Hernan Diaz Alonso; and Mustafa Kustur (M.Arch 2) for I Am out of Focus, coordinated by Elena Manferdini.

A highlight this year was the commencement speech delivered

by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, who started his address with thanking SCI-Arc for playing a central part in revitalizing the Los Angeles Arts District and praised the school for its accomplishments and growth:

“SCI-Arc itself was the creation of those who would not and could not accept the world as what it was in architecture and design. They wanted a new freedom and a radical independence, and it helped move the profession forward before it was ready to do so. Not that ratings matter that much because they’re so subjective, but if you look at the rapid ascension of now how the profession sees SCI-Arc, you’ve seen that they have caught up to you, just as the city has come back to this location. As the world has moved toward you, and this approach, as you sit squarely now at the center of the profession, admired, praised, and needed by the builders of today, take that responsibility and move it forward.”

MAYORS CONVENE AT SCI-ARC FOR CITY DESIGN CONFERENCE Following a competitive application process, SCI-Arc was selected as the recipient of a grant to host one of three regional sessions presented this year by the Mayors’ Institute on City Design (MICD), a National Endowment for the Arts leadership initiative in partnership with the American Architectural Foundation and the United States Conference of Mayors. The conference is designed to foster an appreciation for the role of design in urban centers, and the importance of mayors as advocates for good design.

From November 12-14, SCI-Arc hosted a workshop with six mayors from the Western region to discuss design issues that each participating city is currently facing.The attending mayors included Mayor Jeff Krauss of Bozeman, Montana; Mayor Steve Widmyer of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho; Mayor Nancy Berry of College Station, Texas; Mayor Mark Johnson of Kallispell, Montana; Mayor Glenn Johnson of Pullman, Washington; and Mayor Lou Ogden of Tualatin, Oregon. Joining the mayors was a distinguished group of experts in architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, real estate development, transportation planning and urban design.

The team included Judy Frank of Asset Strategies, Mia Lehrer of Mia Lehrer Associates, Kati Rubinyi of Civic Projects, Francie Stefan from the City of Santa Monica, Andrew Zago of Zago Architecture, Hsinming Fung of Hodgetts + Fung, Margaret

Griffin of Griffin Enright Architects and Will Wright of the American Institute of Architects, Los Angeles.

Led by faculty members David Bergman and Heather Flood, the working sessions were organized around case-study problems.

Each mayor presented an urban design challenge facing his or her city, which was analyzed by the design professionals.“There was a rich exchange of ideas,” said Flood. “SCI-Arc faculty demonstrated how to translate progressive design ideas into strategies for city-making. In turn, the mayors taught SCI-Arc about the nuances of policy that challenge design in many cities.”

Prior to the session, Bergman and Flood led a student seminar studying the participating cities. Students gathered urban data and prepared design materials, maps and info graphics. An installation of the student work was on view throughout the conference and the students had the opportunity to meet one-on-one with the mayors. “The seminar was a great opportunity for SCI-Arc students to participate in the Mayors’ Institute,” said Bergman.

“The conference provided a real-world learning experience for the students, and the students’ work helped to show the mayors new possibilities for the future of their cities.”

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Dear Alumni, Two years ago I returned to Los Angeles, after living in Boston for more than two decades.

While on the East Coast, I stayed connected to SCI-Arc. I read the magazine, attended alumni events in New York and Boston, and kept in touch with a few classmates. Once I moved back to Southern California, I joined the Alumni Council and have learned even more about the school and have made many new connections with other alumni.

It has been great to experience how SCI-Arc, in its new permanent location in the Arts District of Downtown LA, has become part of the city. Walking the length of the building exposes one to the intense passion of the students and to the work they produce.

SCI-Arc’s energy and its unique voice is the common thread that links all alumni over the past forty-two years. Below are a few examples of current school initiatives that are especially exciting: • • •

Magic Box: with an unprecedented level of philanthropic support, the school is building a 4,000-square foot digital fabrication lab to house leading-edge technology and foster innovation Habitat for Humanity: a new design-build opportunity for students, providing lowincome housing that takes design into account The Great Wall: an off-shoot of the Habitat project, this research project is investigating approaches to mitigate air pollution through design and materials

This year, the Alumni Council’s goal is to engage alumni as we carry out the mission of connecting alumni to each other, the school, and students, and supporting SCI-Arc’s advancement. We are working with school leadership to strengthen ties among alumni.

We recently celebrated Main Event, where attendees honored Eric Owen Moss and raised $200,000 for student scholarships.

Our message is simple: We want you involved! Maybe you live around the world, or maybe you live across town. No matter where you are, when you graduated, or where your career has taken you, we want to hear from you. You can get involved in a number of ways: • • • • • •

Attend lectures or watch them online Visit the school during thesis weekend and see student work Volunteer to review students’ resume and portfolios Post your work on the SCI-Arc Alumni Portal Host or attend a SCI-Arc mixer or get-together where you live Donate to the school, to whatever program you feel most connected to

We have a few new members on the Council this year: Beth Holden (B.Arch ’98), Dana Swinsky (M.Arch ’89), and Zachery Main (B.Arch ’13) and hope you will reach out to us, if you are interested in joining next year. Please read through this magazine and find out more about these outstanding initiatives. As you do, I hope you’ll also be eager to get involved.

Sincerely,

Beth Gibb (M.Arch ’89) Chair, Alumni Council 2014-15

SCI-ARC ALUMNI COUNCIL 2014-15 Beth Gibb (M.Arch ’89), Alumni Council Chair Dan Weinreber (M.Arch ’02), Alumni Trustee Luis Herrera (M.Arch ’93) Beth Holden (B.Arch ’98) Nerin Kadribegovic (M.Arch ’03) Cara Lee (M.Arch ’96) Zachery Main (B.Arch ’13) Jennifer Marmon (M.Arch ’01) Paras Nanavati (B Arch ’04) Dean Nota (B.Arch ’76) Matthew Rosenberg (M.Arch ’09) Elissa Scrafano (M.Arch ’90) Scott Sullivan (M.Arch ’99) Dana Swinsky (M.Arch ’89) Joe Tarr (M.Arch ’08) Vlado Valkof (MRD ’04) Naia Waters (’98)

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NEWS

Seoul, June 20

SCI-ARC ALUMNI, FACULTY AND TRUSTEES HONORED WITH 2014 AIA|LA AWARDS

SCI-ARC RECONNECTS WITH ALUMNI LIVING AND WORKING IN ASIA

The Los Angeles chapter of the American Institute of Architects this year recognized several SCI-Arc faculty, alumni and trustees with prominent awards conferred at the institute’s annual gala in October. Hosted at the Million Dollar Theater in Downtown Los Angeles, the ceremony incorporated prominents Los Angeles architects and designers, academic and civic leaders, design and architecture writers, as well as community movers and shakers.

SCI-Arc design faculty Tom Wiscombe, along with alumni Jeff Allsbrook (M.Arch ’95) and Yianna Bouyioukou (B.Arch ’01) crossed the stage to receive the institute’s prestigious 2014 Next LA Awards for unbuilt work. Wiscombe was recognized for his design of the Kinmen Passenger Service Center in Taiwan.

Allsbrook and partner Sylvia Kuhle were recognized for their design of the garden-wrapped Salford Meadows Bridge, while Bouyioukou received an award for her Innovative Bioclimatic European School Complex.

Built work such as the Pico House designed by alumna Angela Brooks (M.Arch ’91) and partner Lawrence Scarpa of Brooks+Scarpa received a 2014 AIA|LA Design Award. Additional alumni winners of the AIA|LA Design Awards included Christof Jantzen (M.Arch ’89) of Studio Jantzen for the City of Santa Monica Parking Structure #6, Miriam Mulder (M.Arch ’83) of the City of Santa Monica for the Tongva Park + Ken Genser Square developed together with James Corner Field Operations and Frederick Fischer & Partners; and Kevin Wronske (B.Arch ’02) of Heydey Partnership for the Buzz Court apartment complex in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles. Alumna Jennifer Marmon (M.Arch ’01) of Platform for Architecture + Research received the coveted Emerging Practice Award.

AIA|LA’s 25-Year Award in 2014 went to SCI-Arc trustee Thom Mayne and longtime faculty and honorary trustee Michael Rotondi (B.Arch ’75) for the design of the restaurant Kate Mantilini. Previous 25-year award recipients from SCI-Arc included Director Eric Owen Moss and Frank Gehry.

Over the summer, SCI-Arc Director of Academic Affairs Hsinming Fung and Chief Advancement Officer Sarah Sullivan travelled to Seoul, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore to reconnect with the dynamic and growing community of SCI-Arc alumni living and working in Asia. In each city, alumni gathered to hear updates from campus, network and discuss possible ways to activate the SCI-Arc community globally. SCI-Arc’s global reach was underscored by the diversity of alumni in each of these cities.

The alumni represent SCI-Arc’s many programs, multiple decades and a geographic breadth that stretches well beyond Asia. As the school’s student body becomes increasingly international–this academic year, students have come to SCI-Arc from 48 different countries–the alumni body is equally global, and SCI-Arc’s Office of Development and Alumni Affairs is committed to convening alumni around the globe.

SCI-Arc was delighted that so many alumni turned out for these events and thanks those who helped organize or hosted a gathering. In Shanghai, the alumni cocktail party was hosted by Steven Ma (M.Arch ’08) and Bin Lu (M.Arch ’10) at their practice, GN/LUMA in the Bund District. Joon Hyuk Lee (B.Arch ’01), with organizational help from Joori Chun (B.Arch ’03), hosted the Seoul gathering at Ver-TEX, the practice he and fellow SCI-Arc alum Taek Soo Kim (’98) founded. In Hong Kong, alumni enjoyed an evening on a junk in Victoria Harbor organized by Sophia Castillo (M.Arch ’08) and in Singapore alumni gathered at the recently opened PARKROYAL Hotel. If you are interested in helping SCI-Arc organize and host an event in your city, please contact Irene Mason, Associate Director for Annual Giving and Alumni Affairs at irene_mason@sciarc.edu. And stay tuned for future events in cities around the world!

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Hsinming Fung and Sanghee Kim (M.Arch ’06) 2.

Joori Chun (B. Arch ’03) 3.

Guests at the event Shanghai, June 26 4/5.

Guests at the event held in the offices of GN/LUMA 6.

Director of Academic Affairs Hsinming Fung, Steven Ma (M.Arch ’08), Bin Lu (M.Arch ’10) and GN Director Shen Lijian 7.

Shao Chang (B.Arch ’98) and Julie Lee (M.Arch ’00) Hong Kong, June 28 8.

Guest, Sofia Castillo (M.Arch ’08), Zach Sher (M.Arch ’08), Steven Ma (M.Arch ‘08) 9.

Thomas Tsang, Director of Academic Affairs Hsinming Fung, Yuliya Ustyuzhanina and Ilya Bourim (M.Arch ’11) 10.

Zach Sher (M.Arch ’08), Ilya Bourim (M.Arch ’11), Nick Benner (M.Arch ’09), Lionel Lambourn (M.Arch ’07), Ken Bong Chan (B.Arch ’00), Gary Chow (B.Arch ’04), Sofia Castillo (M.Arch ’08), Thomas Tsang and Hin Bun Kwok (B.Arch ’02) and guests Singapore, July 2 11.

Eugene Kosgoron (M.DesR ’12), Evelina Sausina (B.Arch ’10), Manuel Oh (B.Arch ’12), Director of Academic Affairs Hsinming Fung, Stephanie Vuong (M.Arch ’10), Andrew King (M.Arch ’10), Tomo Miyauchi (B.Arch ’00), Mun Yi Chang (M.Arch ’16) and Chief Advancement Officer Sarah Sullivan

SCI-ARC WELCOMES NEW FAMILIES Every fall, the school welcomes a new cohort of students to the SCI-Arc community, and in recent years, has taken the opportunity to welcome their families as well. During fall orientation, the schedule of activities includes a welcome reception for parents and families hosted by the Office of Development and Alumni Affairs.

The reception is designed to give new parents an opportunity to meet one another and to hear from school leadership at this pivotal moment in the lives of their sons and daughters.

This year’s reception was held in the Kappe Library, where John Enright, Undergraduate Program Chair, and Hernan Diaz Alonso, Graduate Programs Chair, greeted families and described the energy at SCI-Arc, noting also the recent development of the surrounding neighborhood. The Chairs thanked parents for entrusting SCI-Arc with their children’s education and assured them that the incoming students had chosen the best and most exciting place to study architecture. The welcome reception is part of a growing program that helps parents connect with the school during their child’s time here. In recent years, the school has been a grateful recipient of support from parents who have made contributions, large and small, that help advance the programs and enhance the resources available to current and future SCI-Arc students.

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Left: Jones, Partners: Architecture. Right: Aeromobile/Office of Mobile Design

JONES, SIEGAL EXPLORE MODERN HOUSING AT TRUCK-A-TECTURE 3

SCI-Arc design faculty Wes Jones of Jones, Partners: Architecture and alumna Jennifer Siegal (M.Arch ’94) of Office of Mobile Design exhibited their pre-fab, mobile architecture designs in the Truck-A-Tecture group exhibition hosted this past summer at the KANEKO gallery space in Omaha, Nebraska. The group exhibition showcases designs and full-scale structures by four architecture firms, exploring topics of nomadism, transportation, trucking culture and the nature of “home.”

Mobile home designs on view at Truck-A-Tecture tackled issues of sustainability and technological advances that have led many to a leaner, efficient lifestyle. Also exhibiting in the show were Mark Mack Architects and Min|Day.

TRUSTEE, ALUMNI WIN 2014 LABC ARCHITECTURAL AWARDS

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More than three dozen of the year’s best architecture and design projects in the Greater Los Angeles area were recognized this year in the 44th annual round of awards hosted by the Los Angeles Business Council (LABC). The Emerson College’s Los Angeles outpost designed by founding SCI-Arc faculty and trustee Thom Mayne of Morphosis was honored with LABC’s 2014 Grand Prize in the recently announced 2014 Los Angeles Architectural Awards. The 100,700-square-foot facility nestled in the heart of Hollywood opened doors to its first group of students in January.

SCI-Arc alumni Michael Folonis (B.Arch ’78) and Tryggvi Thorsteinsson (B.Arch ’95) also received LABC awards this year.

Folonis’ Santa Monica based practice, Michael Folonis Architects, received a Design Concept Award for the South Bay Family Health Care Clinic. The building’s design promotes an indoor-outdoor connection, use of natural light and improved patient experience.

Thorsteinsson’s practice, Minarc, received a Beyond L.A. Award for their Ion Luxury Adventure Hotel in Iceland. The property incorporates innovative materials and sustainable practices to allow for a synergy between the built and natural environments.

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NEWS

Seoul, June 20

SCI-ARC ALUMNI, FACULTY AND TRUSTEES HONORED WITH 2014 AIA|LA AWARDS

SCI-ARC RECONNECTS WITH ALUMNI LIVING AND WORKING IN ASIA

The Los Angeles chapter of the American Institute of Architects this year recognized several SCI-Arc faculty, alumni and trustees with prominent awards conferred at the institute’s annual gala in October. Hosted at the Million Dollar Theater in Downtown Los Angeles, the ceremony incorporated prominents Los Angeles architects and designers, academic and civic leaders, design and architecture writers, as well as community movers and shakers.

SCI-Arc design faculty Tom Wiscombe, along with alumni Jeff Allsbrook (M.Arch ’95) and Yianna Bouyioukou (B.Arch ’01) crossed the stage to receive the institute’s prestigious 2014 Next LA Awards for unbuilt work. Wiscombe was recognized for his design of the Kinmen Passenger Service Center in Taiwan.

Allsbrook and partner Sylvia Kuhle were recognized for their design of the garden-wrapped Salford Meadows Bridge, while Bouyioukou received an award for her Innovative Bioclimatic European School Complex.

Built work such as the Pico House designed by alumna Angela Brooks (M.Arch ’91) and partner Lawrence Scarpa of Brooks+Scarpa received a 2014 AIA|LA Design Award. Additional alumni winners of the AIA|LA Design Awards included Christof Jantzen (M.Arch ’89) of Studio Jantzen for the City of Santa Monica Parking Structure #6, Miriam Mulder (M.Arch ’83) of the City of Santa Monica for the Tongva Park + Ken Genser Square developed together with James Corner Field Operations and Frederick Fischer & Partners; and Kevin Wronske (B.Arch ’02) of Heydey Partnership for the Buzz Court apartment complex in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles. Alumna Jennifer Marmon (M.Arch ’01) of Platform for Architecture + Research received the coveted Emerging Practice Award.

AIA|LA’s 25-Year Award in 2014 went to SCI-Arc trustee Thom Mayne and longtime faculty and honorary trustee Michael Rotondi (B.Arch ’75) for the design of the restaurant Kate Mantilini. Previous 25-year award recipients from SCI-Arc included Director Eric Owen Moss and Frank Gehry.

Over the summer, SCI-Arc Director of Academic Affairs Hsinming Fung and Chief Advancement Officer Sarah Sullivan travelled to Seoul, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore to reconnect with the dynamic and growing community of SCI-Arc alumni living and working in Asia. In each city, alumni gathered to hear updates from campus, network and discuss possible ways to activate the SCI-Arc community globally. SCI-Arc’s global reach was underscored by the diversity of alumni in each of these cities.

The alumni represent SCI-Arc’s many programs, multiple decades and a geographic breadth that stretches well beyond Asia. As the school’s student body becomes increasingly international–this academic year, students have come to SCI-Arc from 48 different countries–the alumni body is equally global, and SCI-Arc’s Office of Development and Alumni Affairs is committed to convening alumni around the globe.

SCI-Arc was delighted that so many alumni turned out for these events and thanks those who helped organize or hosted a gathering. In Shanghai, the alumni cocktail party was hosted by Steven Ma (M.Arch ’08) and Bin Lu (M.Arch ’10) at their practice, GN/LUMA in the Bund District. Joon Hyuk Lee (B.Arch ’01), with organizational help from Joori Chun (B.Arch ’03), hosted the Seoul gathering at Ver-TEX, the practice he and fellow SCI-Arc alum Taek Soo Kim (’98) founded. In Hong Kong, alumni enjoyed an evening on a junk in Victoria Harbor organized by Sophia Castillo (M.Arch ’08) and in Singapore alumni gathered at the recently opened PARKROYAL Hotel. If you are interested in helping SCI-Arc organize and host an event in your city, please contact Irene Mason, Associate Director for Annual Giving and Alumni Affairs at irene_mason@sciarc.edu. And stay tuned for future events in cities around the world!

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Hsinming Fung and Sanghee Kim (M.Arch ’06) 2.

Joori Chun (B. Arch ’03) 3.

Guests at the event Shanghai, June 26 4/5.

Guests at the event held in the offices of GN/LUMA 6.

Director of Academic Affairs Hsinming Fung, Steven Ma (M.Arch ’08), Bin Lu (M.Arch ’10) and GN Director Shen Lijian 7.

Shao Chang (B.Arch ’98) and Julie Lee (M.Arch ’00) Hong Kong, June 28 8.

Guest, Sofia Castillo (M.Arch ’08), Zach Sher (M.Arch ’08), Steven Ma (M.Arch ‘08) 9.

Thomas Tsang, Director of Academic Affairs Hsinming Fung, Yuliya Ustyuzhanina and Ilya Bourim (M.Arch ’11) 10.

Zach Sher (M.Arch ’08), Ilya Bourim (M.Arch ’11), Nick Benner (M.Arch ’09), Lionel Lambourn (M.Arch ’07), Ken Bong Chan (B.Arch ’00), Gary Chow (B.Arch ’04), Sofia Castillo (M.Arch ’08), Thomas Tsang and Hin Bun Kwok (B.Arch ’02) and guests

SCI-ARC WELCOMES NEW FAMILIES Every fall, the school welcomes a new cohort of students to the SCI-Arc community, and in recent years, has taken the opportunity to welcome their families as well. During fall orientation, the schedule of activities includes a welcome reception for parents and families hosted by the Office of Development and Alumni Affairs.

The reception is designed to give new parents an opportunity to meet one another and to hear from school leadership at this pivotal moment in the lives of their sons and daughters.

This year’s reception was held in the Kappe Library, where John Enright, Undergraduate Program Chair, and Hernan Diaz Alonso, Graduate Programs Chair, greeted families and described the energy at SCI-Arc, noting also the recent development of the surrounding neighborhood. The Chairs thanked parents for entrusting SCI-Arc with their children’s education and assured them that the incoming students had chosen the best and most exciting place to study architecture. The welcome reception is part of a growing program that helps parents connect with the school during their child’s time here. In recent years, the school has been a grateful recipient of support from parents who have made contributions, large and small, that help advance the programs and enhance the resources available to current and future SCI-Arc students.

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Eugene Kosgoron (M.DesR ’12), Evelina Sausina (B.Arch ’10), Manuel Oh (B.Arch ’12), Director of Academic Affairs Hsinming Fung, Stephanie Vuong (M.Arch ’10), Andrew King (M.Arch ’10), Tomo Miyauchi (B.Arch ’00), Mun Yi Chang (M.Arch ’16) and Chief Advancement Officer Sarah Sullivan

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Left: Jones, Partners: Architecture. Right: Aeromobile/Office of Mobile Design

JONES, SIEGAL EXPLORE MODERN HOUSING AT TRUCK-A-TECTURE SCI-Arc design faculty Wes Jones of Jones, Partners: Architecture and alumna Jennifer Siegal (M.Arch ’94) of Office of Mobile Design exhibited their pre-fab, mobile architecture designs in the Truck-A-Tecture group exhibition hosted this past summer at the KANEKO gallery space in Omaha, Nebraska. The group exhibition showcases designs and full-scale structures by four architecture firms, exploring topics of nomadism, transportation, trucking culture and the nature of “home.”

Mobile home designs on view at Truck-A-Tecture tackled issues of sustainability and technological advances that have led many to a leaner, efficient lifestyle. Also exhibiting in the show were Mark Mack Architects and Min|Day.

TRUSTEE, ALUMNI WIN 2014 LABC ARCHITECTURAL AWARDS More than three dozen of the year’s best architecture and design projects in the Greater Los Angeles area were recognized this year in the 44th annual round of awards hosted by the Los Angeles Business Council (LABC). The Emerson College’s Los Angeles outpost designed by founding SCI-Arc faculty and trustee Thom Mayne of Morphosis was honored with LABC’s 2014 Grand Prize in the recently announced 2014 Los Angeles Architectural Awards. The 100,700-square-foot facility nestled in the heart of Hollywood opened doors to its first group of students in January.

SCI-Arc alumni Michael Folonis (B.Arch ’78) and Tryggvi Thorsteinsson (B.Arch ’95) also received LABC awards this year.

Folonis’ Santa Monica based practice, Michael Folonis Architects, received a Design Concept Award for the South Bay Family Health Care Clinic. The building’s design promotes an indoor-outdoor connection, use of natural light and improved patient experience.

Thorsteinsson’s practice, Minarc, received a Beyond L.A. Award for their Ion Luxury Adventure Hotel in Iceland. The property incorporates innovative materials and sustainable practices to allow for a synergy between the built and natural environments.

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ALUMNI NEWS

ALUMNA JENNIFER MARMON RECEIVES AIA|LA 2014 PRESIDENTIAL HONOR, INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE AWARD SCI-Arc alumna Jennifer Marmon (M.Arch ’01) is one of AIA|LA’s 2014 Presidential Honorees honored at the institute’s Design Awards ceremony held in October. Her design studio, PAR, short for Platform for Architecture + Research, was recognized as an Emerging Practice pushing the boundaries of design innovation and advancing Los Angeles architecture. As Marmon describes it, “PAR is a platform for mixing keen analysis, formal exploration and pragmatic performance in an effort to realize project potentials.”

One of PAR’s recent projects, the Taichung Cultural Center in Taiwan, was met with critical acclaim, receiving an International Architecture Award from The Chicago Athenaeum. Marmon’s

work on the project began in 2013, when the Taichung city government hosted a competition asking architects to put forth their most daring visions for an expansive new cultural center.

The tilted loop structure designed by PAR sought to integrate the programmed elements of a library and a museum with an outdoor gallery and an open urban plaza. The structure’s form, replete with ramps and stairs that create connections throughout its stacked diagonal orientation, produces a dynamic space meant to attract curious passers-by who drift into the central plaza.

Marmon, who founded PAR in Los Angeles after completing her master’s degree at SCI-Arc, is currently at work on a hotel in Uruguay, houses in LA and DC, an art gallery in London and several international competitions. She has exhibited her work at the National Building Museum, the European Center for Architecture and the New York Center for Architecture.

Since 2010, she serves as an ongoing visiting critic at SCI-Arc and USC. She has also been a guest critic at Harvard GSD and Columbia GSAPP, and a juror for the international WAN Awards competitions.

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ESTm ALUMNI ADVANCE INTO SECOND ROUND OF INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL FABRICATION COMPETITION A group of recent graduate students in the Emerging Systems Technologies & Media (ESTm) post-graduate program at SCI-Arc teamed up to participate in the Plasticity design competition hosted

by Tex-Fab in conjunction with ACADIA 2014. The students’ design prototype, PUFF’D, developed under the coordination of SCIArc design faculty Tom Wiscombe, was among four finalist projects selected to advance into the second round of the competition.

Inspired by Japanese joinery, puffy jackets and jet fighter airplanes, PUFF’D explores plasticity of composite construction and the role of the seam and joint in architecture. Instead of following parametric paneling and module-based logics, PUFF’D employs large monolithic building components or “mega panels,” suggesting new ways of full scale assembly on site.

Designed by Brennen Huller (ESTm ’14), Nels Long (ESTm ’14) and Nikita Troufanov (ESTm ’14), the project follows up on the students’ previous explorations with mega-panels, joinery and robotic assembly. Their idea for the project came out of a seminar led by Tom Wiscombe, in which students used the language of stitching and wood joinery to study how composite mega-panels may come together as assembly. For the Plasticity competition proposal, the designers and their instructor scaled up and developed an inflatable composite sandwich technique to minimize waste and explore new formal and structural possibilities.

PUFF’D advances a novel construction technique for full scale architecture.

MICHAEL ROTONDI AWARDED 2014 RICHARD J. NEUTRA MEDAL

ALUMNI SELECTED FOR WORLDWIDE STOREFRONT SERIES

Long-time architect and educator Michael Rotondi (B.Arch ’75) received the Richard J. Neutra Medal for Professional Excellence from the College of Environmental Design at Cal Poly Pomona.

Awarded annually, the Neutra medal rewards individuals who have dedicated their careers toward researching and developing new environments in which to work, live and play. “Michael Rotondi was selected for his commitment to architectural education, for the concern he shows in his work for society and the environment, and for the inventiveness of his architecture,” says SCI-Arc alumna Sarah Lorenzen (M.DesR ’04), who serves as associate professor and chair of the Department of Architecture at Cal Poly Pomona.

Rotondi’s architectural work has included the Boys and Girls Club of Hollywood, Silverlake Conservatory of Music, Liberty Wildlife center in Phoenix and the Prairie View A&M University School of Architecture. He has also made an impact as an architecture educator for the past 30 years, including at SCI-Arc, where he was a founding student, served as Director of Graduate Studies from 1980 to 1987, and as the school’s Director from 1987 to 1997. “Education paired with architecture is RoTo’s way. Michael is a great recipient of prestigious Neutra award, which is given to exceptional architects who take the profession to higher levels of artistry and creative thinking and building,” says SCI-Arc alumnus Orhan Ayyüce (B.Arch ’81), a senior editor at Archinect.

Past recipients of the Neutra medal have included architectural practitioners, such as Raphael Soriano, Thom Mayne, Ray Kappe and Tadao Ando; landscape architecture practitioners, including Lawrence Halprin, Garrett Eckbo, Roberto Burle-Marx and Francis Dean; as well as individuals who have made notable contributions to environmental design and public policy such as former Vice President Al Gore. The medal has been awarded since 1980.

Two projects by SCI-Arc alumnae Laurel Consuelo Broughton (M.Arch ’06) and Mimi Zeiger (M.Arch ’98) were selected for the international WorldWide Storefront (WWSF) series organized by the Storefront for Art and Architecture this fall. The initiative included a simultaneous, multi-locus of alternative spaces around the globe, coupled with a digital platform for the expression and exchange of latent desires within contemporary art and architecture practices.

From mid-September to mid-November, the ten selected entries located around the world opened simultaneously, offering a two-month program of exhibitions and events. Recordings of the events were broadcast through the WWSF online platform and presented at the Storefront for Art and Architecture Gallery in the installation WWSf Portal, a collaborative design by Marc Fornes and Jana Winderen.

Laurel Broughton’s entry, Gallery Attachment, developed together with Andrew Kovacs, featured a space designed and constructed under a bridge in Los Angeles. It served simultaneously as an architectural object and as a container for a series of events, exhibitions and performances. Mimi Zeiger’s Host: Natural Histories was based out of the The Neutra VDL Research Site in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles. The project explored the multivalent meaning of the word “host:” a talk-show host, a parasitic host body, a host house or city, via an exhibition and series of events.

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ALUMNI NEWS

ALUMNI DESIGN INSTALLATION FOR LACE GALLERY ARCHITECTURAL EXHIBIT A group of young alumni, part of Los Angeles collaborative Pentagon, designed a central installation for an exhibition about Italian architect Gianni Pettena, on view this fall at LACE Gallery (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibition). Alumni Benjamin Crawford (M.Arch ’12), Tyler McMartin (M.Arch ’12), Paul Stoelting (M.Arch ’12), Dale Strong (M.Arch ’12) and Paul Trussler (M.Arch ’12) created a media environment for projections of work depicting Pettena’s collaboration with American artists Robert Smithson and Allan Kaprow.

Dubbed Beyond Environment, the exhibition was curated by faculty member Amit Wolf and Emanuele Piccardo in collaboration with Woodbury University and the Graham Foundation. It combined approximately thirty works by Pettena, Kaprow, Smithson, as well as by Pettena’s Florentine milieu, that of Superarchitecture and the Italian ‘Radical’ groups UFO, Superstudio and 9999. It explored a little known architecture-art complex created by Pettena, who, during his first excursions to the United States, produced a series of “environments” together with Kaprow and Smithson that staged a veritable implosion of fields: counter-events and Happenings, Radical design and Land Art, as well as new technological landscapes and the pastoral Midwest.

A reception hosted November 6 by LACE Gallery in collaboration with the SCI-Arc Office of Development and Alumni Affairs welcomed a group of more than 50 alumni and friends who gathered to celebrate the work of Pentagon and the closing of the exhibition.

BARBARA BESTOR DESIGNS COMMUNITY-FRIENDLY PROJECT IN ECHO PARK SCI-Arc alumna Barbara Bestor (M.Arch ’92), principal of Los Angeles-based Bestor Architecture, has joined forces with eco-conscious local developer LocalConstruct to design and build her project, The Blackbirds. Located in the LA neighborhood of Echo Park, The Blackbirds is described by Bestor as a pedestrian-friendly development that introduces “stealth density” to its eclectic neighborhood. Its design is linked to the Dutch “Woonerf” concept—which stands for “living street”—proposing a communal space around which a “micro-community” can thrive. This small lot, subdivision housing project presented Bestor and her team with the perfect opportunity to explore creative housing solutions on tight lots. Its 15-house units are clustered around an internal living street which promotes neighbor interactions and community participation.

REMEMBRANCES

NOTED LOS ANGELES ARCHITECT AND SCI-ARC TRUSTEE KURT MEYER Swiss-born architect Kurt Meyer, who designed numerous commercial buildings in the Los Angeles area, and served for five years as a SCI-Arc trustee, passed away in August after an eight-year battle with Parkinson’s disease. Meyer was a passionate advocate for great architecture in Los Angeles and a champion of saving the city’s architectural treasures. He believed wholeheartedly that it was possible to run a successful practice while at the same time serving the community.

Born in Zurich, Meyer studied architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and served in the Swiss Army during World War II. In 1948, he came to the U.S., first living in Harrisburg, PA, before making the cross-country trip that resulted in his settling in Los Angeles. He founded his practice, Kurt Meyer and Associates (now Meyer & Allen Associates) in 1957, gaining a reputation for designing financial institutions, including those of flamboyant screenwriter-turned-banker Bart Lytton. Among the firm’s biggest projects were the Exxon regional headquarters complex in Thousand Oaks that opened in 1983 and the South Coast Air Quality Management District building in Diamond Bar dedicated in 1991. His firm also drew up master plans for Simi Valley’s civic center, the city of San Fernando’s business center and several other cities and institutions.

Throughout his career, Meyer was an active member of several civic and professional organizations, participating as chairman and director of many committees. He was appointed by Mayor Tom Bradley to the Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) charged with spurring development in underserved areas. He was CRA chairman from 1976 to 1978, during which time the agency participated in several low-income housing projects, among them, the Angelus Plaza on Bunker Hill, to this day the largest senior affordable housing community in the States. While at the CRA,

ERIC KAHN, LONGTIME DESIGN STUDIO PROFESSOR The SCI-Arc community was saddened to learn about the passing of longtime professor and architect Eric A. Kahn, who died at the age of 58. A senior design studio faculty at SCI-Arc for 25 years, Kahn was instrumental in educating many generations of SCIArc students, with whom he generously shared his deep love for architecture and drawing.

SCI-Arc Director Eric Owen Moss spoke warmly about Kahn at a memorial held at SCI-Arc. “Eric Kahn was a powerful and enduring intellectual and emotive presence at SCI-Arc. His strong and compelling voice for the primacy of architecture, his idiosyncratic drawings compiled over many years, his struggle to understand the context of the Holocaust and to give it a tangible architectural form, his dedication to teaching, his intimate partnership with our long time faculty member, Russell Thomsen, and of course his devotion to his family and to his parents—all in our hearts.”

Kahn was one of three founding members of IDEA Office, formerly the Central Office of Architecture. He originally opened the office in 1987 together with fellow architects Ron Golan and Russell N. Thomsen. In 2009, he renewed his long-standing partnership with Thomsen to form IDEA Office. Their work includes design at all scales, from graphic design to installations

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Meyer worked with longtime SCI-Arc trustee Merry Norris, who became one of his closest collaborators. Norris, who was at the time President of the CRA’s Cultural Affairs Commission, speaks fondly about Meyer. “Kurt is the only mentor I ever had. He was clear, really smart and understood very well how the city worked.

He was instrumental in ensuring the Commission was able to fully exercise its power to guard over the design quality of public buildings and challenge design professionals to apply their skills to the fullest.”

Meyer joined the SCI-Arc board in 1987, and served as Chairman in 1992. SCI-Arc Director Eric Owen Moss remembers his keen focus on strengthening the school’s financial situation.

“Kurt was chairman of the SCI-Arc board, the first legitimate outside chairman, in an era when there wasn’t much organizational structure. He walked a delicate line between his efforts to manage and organize finances, accreditation, and the school’s instinct for a more laissez faire approach. Kurt was always careful to protect the investigatory and imaginative essence of SCI-Arc. As an architect himself, he had a lot of respect for the SCI-Arc instinct not only to develop conceptual ideas, but to develop those ideas with the intent to implement, to build. He saw SCI-Arc as a school for building architects.” Meyer’s generous support of SCI-Arc led to the establishment of an endowed scholarship in his name.

In 1992, at age 70, Meyer sold his firm to pursue a lifelong interest in the Himalayas. He left the board of SCI-Arc and made plans to fly to Kathmandu. At the same time he met Pamela, his third wife, and together they spent four winters exploring Nepal’s lowlands, producing two books and a documentary film about Nepal’s Tharu culture. Meyer loved spending time with his children and their families, and took great pride in their many accomplishments. In addition to his wife, he is survived by daughter Susanne Christopher of Portland, Ore.; sons Randy Meyer of Los Angeles and Rick Meyer of Simi Valley; three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

and industrial design, to architecture and urban planning. Recent works included a permanent installation at the Walt Disney Concert Hall and a new building at West Los Angeles College. The work of IDEA Office has been published in numerous journals and books, and a monograph of the work of COA was published in 1998 as part of the Contemporary World Architects series.

Kahn was an essential ingredient of SCI-Arc for several decades. Within the Media Archive, he can be seen in 1991, discussing his work with Russell Thomsen and Ron Golan at COA. And then with Thomsen again in 2010, where they discuss their work as IDEA. Kahn’s installations and work included theoretical urban proposals for Los Angeles in Spaces In-Between, exhibited at UCLA; Dynamic of the Metropolis, exhibited at Tokyo’s Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan; RE: American Dream, exhibited at Barnsdall Arts Gallery and UCLA; and selected writings which discuss the condition of architecture and the city. The work of IDEA Office is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco.

Kahn held a Bachelor of Architecture degree from California Polytechnic State University and worked at firms including Florence-based Superstudio, Morphosis, and Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, before founding IDEA Office. His book, The Anatomy of Observation was published by SCI-Arc Press in 1998.

As Professor Kahn would instruct us: There will be music again.

CLASS NOTES 1970s

Michael Rotondi (B.Arch ’75) has been awarded the Richard J. Neutra Medal for Professional Excellence from the College of Environmental Design at Cal Poly, Pomona, where Rotondi was a student before transferring to SCI-Arc. Michael Folonis (B.Arch ’78) was honored with a 2014 Los Angeles Architectural Award. His design project for the South Bay Family Health Care, one of Los Angeles County’s leading community clinic systems, received a Design Concept Award.

Nick Seierup, FAIA (B.Arch ’79) has been honored with national design awards for two of his recent projects.

Metro, a new home for the Los Angeles Police Department Special Divisions, is a transformation of the former Rampart Police Station, and received a Citation from the National AIA American Academy of Justice. His Sky Tower, a new inpatient facility at University Hospital in San Antonio, TX was recognized as the 2014 Best Regional Healthcare Project by Engineering News Record.

1980s

Michael Grefe (M.Arch ’82) has been teaching as an Assistant Professor with the Art Institute of Pittsburgh since 2005 and as Senior Faculty in the Department of Interior Design.

Grefe received an MFA in Illustration from the Academy of Art University in 2011. He has had illustrations and paintings displayed at the Academy Of Art University Spring Show and featured and exhibited in the Art Institute of Pittsburgh’s Faculty Show in 2009, 2011 and 2012. Grefe received his NCIDQ certification in April 2013.

James M. Lynn, AIA (B.Arch ’82) of Jacobs Engineering Group is currently serving as Project Director for the new Denver VA Replacement Medical Center in Denver, CO. The project is a $1B, 1.2 million-sq.ft. replacement of the existing aging VA Denver Medical Center, with a scheduled completion date in 2016.

Miriam Mulder (M.Arch ’83), City Architect with the City of Santa Monica, along with James Corner Field Operations and Frederick Fisher & Partners, received a 2014 AIA|LA Design Merit Award for the Tongva Park + Ken Gensler Square in Santa Monica. Mulder was Frances Anderton’s guest on KCRW’s DnA: Design and Architecture in October.

Annie Chu (B.Arch ’83) and Rick Gooding (B.Arch ’84), principals of Chu+Gooding Architects, provided exhibition design for Charles Gaines: Gridwork 1974-1989 at The Studio Museum in Harlem. The Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Financial Times visited the exhibit, and the show will come to The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles in 2015. Chu has joined the editorial board of Contract Magazine. A selection of Gooding’s “Subterranea” drawings was exhibited at The Art Gallery - Napa Hall at CSU Channel Islands in Camarillo this fall.

William Huang (B.Arch ’84) is Director of Housing and Career

Services for the City of Pasadena. The Urban Land Institute (ULI) Tewillinger Center for Housing recognized the City of Pasadena with the 2014 Ralph C. Larson Housing Policy Leadership Award, given for the nation’s most outstanding housing policy. Pasadena’s recognition was based on its housing policy and programs, which have resulted in the development of over 5,000 housing units in transit-oriented areas, including 1,370 units of affordable and workforce housing.

leave from her tenure position at the Southern Polytechnic State University, Martin-Malikian is at work creating a temporary pop-up in Beirut, where she plans to conduct field research as part of her Ph.D. candidacy at the University of Edinburgh. Pop-up Studio-X Beirut is GSAPP’s newest addition to an existing network of labs exploring the future of cities. Martin-Malikian is also currently writing a dissertation exploring Hedonistic Urbanism: The Beirut Postwar Experience.

Michael Blatt (M.Arch ’85)’s firm, Fung + Blatt Architects, received a 2014 Honor Award from the Pasadena & Foothill branch of the AIA for the design of the Sequoyah School Expansion. In addition, the project received a Savings

By Design Award in the Sustainable Buildings Category. Designed around Sequoyah’s place-based pedagogy, the project doubles the school’s classroom area within a cohesive new campus of multi-functional, flexible spaces.

Margi Nothard (M.Arch ’92)’s Kennedy Homes was featured in the October 2014 issue of Architectural Record. The design-focused affordable housing project in Fort Lauderdale was developed by her firm Glavovic Studio.

Chrisof Jantzen (M.Arch ’89) of Studio Jantzen with Behnisch Architeckten was recognized with a 2014 Design Merit Award by AIA|LA for the Santa Monica Public Parking Structure #6.

1990s

Peter Grueneisen (M.Arch ’90)’s firm has been designing studios for The Record Plant, 20th Century Fox, Disney, Sony Music Japan and DreamWorks Animation.

Elissa Scrafano (M.Arch ’90) has been appointed to the City of Los Angeles’ Cultural Heritage Commission.

Barbara Bestor (M.Arch ’91) designed the new Beats by Dre headquarters in Culver City, CA. The 105,000-squarefoot project includes renovating two existing industrial buildings.

Angela Brooks (M.Arch ’91) and Lawrence Scarpa’s firm, Brooks + Scarpa, was listed at number seven in the 2014 Architect 50 top architecture practices. The firm received the Copper Hewitt National Design award earlier this year and a Design Citation Award

by AIA|LA for Pico Place in Santa Monica, CA. Christopher Mercier (M.Arch ’91) and his firm, (fer) studio, won a citation award for a private residence in the Renovation Category of the AIA Pasadena & Foothill Design Awards.

Pavan Bhatia (B.Arch ’92) recently joined Jones Lang LaSalle as Capital Planning Manager for Amgen Inc. Her work includes developing a customized Capital Planning process and decisionmaking tools to be used for long-range planning on sites in North America and the Netherlands. Previously, she was the Lead Planner/Facilities Development Manager for the Los Angeles Unified School District, the second largest School District in the United States, where she completed initial planning for Measure-Q, a $7B-voter-approved bond to master plan and modernize existing LAUSD schools and develop the overall process for the entire District.

Elizabeth Martin-Malikian (M.Arch ’92) has been appointed Curator of Pop-up Studio-X in Beirut, Lebanon for Columbia’s GSAPP. While on research

Benjamin Ball (B.Arch ’03) and Gaston Nogues (B. Arch ’93) of BallNogues Studio are designing a canopy for a resort in Aqaba, Jordan. This year, they completed Not Whole Fence for Southwest University Park in El Paso, TX and two installations for the VA Aquatic Center in Palo Alto, CA. The two were finalists for the first annual Mies Crown Hall America’s Prize in Emerging Architecture. The studio was recently invited to speak for LA Forum, Art Center, Cal Poly Pomona, AECOM, Gensler and Ryerson University.

Hien Quan Ngo (B.Arch ’93)’s firm NQO Architects in Vietnam completed the Ba Ria Vung Tau Administration and Political Center, the largest political center in Vietnam, situated in the Ba Ria Province. Additionally, they completed Phase 1 of the Parc Spring Residential project in Ho Chi Minh City, a project embodying the firm’s ongoing studies of smart, efficient, user-friendly and sustainable design concepts.

Kim Colin (M.Arch ’94) and Sam Hecht, principals of Industrial Facility in London, received a 2014 Design Guild Mark Award for their Wireframe Sofa Group for Herman Miller. The Herman Miller-published book Locale, by Colin and Hecht, includes personal essays on design and over 50 photographs by Gerhart Kellermann.

SCI-Arc Trustee Joe Day (M.Arch ’94)’s design of the C-Glass House was highlighted by The Architectural Review (UK), along with his recent book drawing a comparison between prisons and museums, Corrections and Collections: Architectures for Art & Crime.

John Lodge, AIA (M.Arch ’94) was appointed Vice President of Development for Pacific Plaza Alhambra, a mixed use project with 120 residences and commercial retail, and the largest project currently under construction in Alhambra, CA. For the past decade, Lodge has served the City of Alhambra on the Design Review Board and is carrying out his fifth term on the Planning Commission. In April 2014, he was voted by the Commission as President, serving a one-year term.

Iris Anna Regn (M.Arch ’94) and Tim Durfee have designed public artwork for the Northeast Los Angeles Community Station scheduled for installation June 2015. Regn is teaching an interdisciplinary group of students in the Otis College of Art and Design’s Creative Action program. This year, she

formed a partnership with Specialty Dry Goods, designing and producing artisanal linens. She is also at work on a line of multipurpose home products under her own name. Regn spoke at the CAA in Chicago in January at Rutgers’ The Feminist Art Project about BROODWORK: Creative Practice and Family Life.

Principal Urban Designer for the City of Glendale, where he leads the City’s Community Design & Outreach Studio, which is responsible for developing and enforcing design policies, guidelines and historic preservation programs, in addition to providing design advice to city boards, departments, and applicants.

Jennifer Siegal (M.Arch ’94)’s firm Office of Mobile Design won the Theatrum Mundi’s “Designing for Free Speech” challenge. The project titled INDUSTRIAL UP-CYCLING: The Pop-Up SoapBox was exhibited in partnership with AIA New York at the Centre for Architecture earlier this fall.

Yianna Bouyioukou (B.Arch ’01) received a 2014 AIA|LA Next LA Merit Award for Innovative Bioclimatic European School Complex in Crete, Greece.

Jeff Allsbrook (M.Arch ’95) and Silvia Kuhle of LA-based Standard received a 2014 American Architecture Award for the Kayne Griffin Corcoran Gallery from the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design. Standard’s design for the Salford Meadows bridge competition received a 2014 Architizer A+ award and a 2014 AIA|LA Next LA Citation Award. The firm’s design for the new Hourglass Cosmetics store on Venice’s Abbot Kinney Boulevard was featured by the Los Angeles Times, Architectural Digest and Form.

Stephan Mundwiler (M.Arch ’95) and Cara Lee (M.Arch ’96) of lee+mundwiler received a WAN Civic Building Award 2014 for their Dapeng Geology Museum and Research Center in Shenzhen, China.

Tryggvi Thorsteinsson (B.Arch ’95), principal of Minarc, received a 2014 Los Angeles Architectural Award in the Beyond L.A. Award category for his design of the Ion Luxury Adventure Hotel in Iceland.

Joe Bob Merritt (M.Arch ’96) is developing The South Main Gunnison, Industrial Park for Good, a live/work/ grow zone for businesses, artists, teachers, and learners, woven together in a network of mutually beneficial relationships in Colorado. The SMS Zone is occupied by a somatic arts studio, an artifactory, an organic garden, and a salvage yard. Merritt is building functional co-operatives of companionship based on ideas of radical materialism. In 2014, Merritt received an Honorarium Grant from Burning Man Arts, and his Wind Horse House was the 6:00 gateway to the Souk of the Man at Burning Man Caravansary this year.

Mimi Zeiger (M.Arch ’98) was selected for the international World Wide Storefront (WWSF) series organized by the Storefront for Art and Architecture this fall. Her project, Host: Natural Histories at the Neutra VDL Research Site in Silver Lake, explored the multivalent meaning of the word “host” via an exhibition and series of events. WWSF’s 10 selected entries located around the world (including Laurel Consuelo Broughton (M.Arch ’06)’s Gallery Attachment) were opened simultaneously, offering a two-month program of exhibitions and events.

2000s

Alan Loomis (M.Arch ’00) was recently appointed Design Commissioner for the City of Pasadena. Loomis is the

Jennifer Marmon, AIA (M.Arch ’01) and her firm, PAR, received the 2014 AIA|LA Presidential Emerging Practice Award. In addition, The Chicago Athenaeum and The European Centre for Architecture honored PAR’s Taichung Cultural Center proposal with a 2014 International Architecture Award. Marmon is currently serving as a judge for the 2014 World Architecture News’ Transport in Architecture Awards.

Kevin Wronske (B.Arch ’02) of Heydey Partnership received a 2014 AIA|LA Design Merit Award for Buzz Court, six LEED-rated homes in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Fernando Arias (B.Arch ’04) joined the American Society of Interior Designers [ASID] as Director of Strategic Initiatives in Washington D.C. Prior to joining ASID, Arias managed strategic relationships at the Clinton Global Initiative to engage cross-sector leaders in meaningful projects in global health and the built environment. He developed $58M worth of community resiliency and sustainability projects across the United States.

Catherine Johnson (M.Arch ’04) and Rebecca Rudolph (M.Arch ’00) of the firm Design, Bitches have received critical acclaim for their work in the Los Angeles restaurant scene. One of their recent projects is The Springs, located near SCI-Arc in the Downtown Los Angeles Arts District, featuring an organic juice bar, yoga studio, wellness center, and a raw vegan restaurant & wine bar.

Sarah Lorenzen (M.DesR ’04), director of the Neutra VDL House in Los Angeles, and Chair of the Dept. of Architecture at Cal Poly, Pomona, organized an exhibition that examined modern design in Germany during the Cold War and was on display this fall.

Simon Storey (M.Arch ’04) and his LA practice Anonymous were included in Architects Directory 2014, Wallpaper’s index of “the world’s best young architectural talent.” The publication highlighted Big & Small House, a recent project that Storey describes as “a wonderful balance between a tiny budget and a grand living space.”

Makoto Mizutani (M.Arch ’05) and Benjamin Luddy (M.Arch ’06) of LAbased industrial design practice Scout Regalia recently signed a contract with CB2 to design a lean-to tent that converts into a travel bag.

Carmen Salazar (M.Arch ’05) was appointed arts commissioner of the city of Laguna Beach, Orange County.

DONORS 1970s

Michael Rotondi (B.Arch ’75) has been awarded the Richard J. Neutra Medal for Professional Excellence from the College of Environmental Design at Cal Poly, Pomona, where Rotondi was a student before transferring to SCI-Arc. Michael Folonis (B.Arch ’78) was honored with a 2014 Los Angeles Architectural Award. His design project for the South Bay Family Health Care, one of Los Angeles County’s leading community clinic systems, received a Design Concept Award.

Nick Seierup, FAIA (B.Arch ’79) has been honored with national design awards for two of his recent projects.

Metro, a new home for the Los Angeles Police Department Special Divisions, is a transformation of the former Rampart Police Station, and received a Citation from the National AIA American Academy of Justice. His Sky Tower, a new inpatient facility at University Hospital in San Antonio, TX was recognized as the 2014 Best Regional Healthcare Project by Engineering News Record.

1980s

Michael Grefe (M.Arch ’82) has been teaching as an Assistant Professor with the Art Institute of Pittsburgh since 2005 and as Senior Faculty in the Department of Interior Design.

Grefe received an MFA in Illustration from the Academy of Art University in 2011. He has had illustrations and paintings displayed at the Academy Of Art University Spring Show and featured and exhibited in the Art Institute of Pittsburgh’s Faculty Show in 2009, 2011 and 2012. Grefe received his NCIDQ certification in April 2013.

James M. Lynn, AIA (B.Arch ’82) of Jacobs Engineering Group is currently serving as Project Director for the new Denver VA Replacement Medical Center in Denver, CO. The project is a $1B, 1.2 million-sq.ft. replacement of the existing aging VA Denver Medical Center, with a scheduled completion date in 2016.

Miriam Mulder (M.Arch ’83), City Architect with the City of Santa Monica, along with James Corner Field Operations and Frederick Fisher & Partners, received a 2014 AIA|LA Design Merit Award for the Tongva Park + Ken Gensler Square in Santa Monica. Mulder was Frances Anderton’s guest on KCRW’s DnA: Design and Architecture in October.

Annie Chu (B.Arch ’83) and Rick Gooding (B.Arch ’84), principals of Chu+Gooding Architects, provided exhibition design for Charles Gaines: Gridwork 1974-1989 at The Studio Museum in Harlem. The Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Financial Times visited the exhibit, and the show will come to The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles in 2015. Chu has joined the editorial board of Contract Magazine. A selection of Gooding’s “Subterranea” drawings was exhibited at The Art Gallery - Napa Hall at CSU Channel Islands in Camarillo this fall.

William Huang (B.Arch ’84) is

Academic Year 2013-14 SCI-Arc gratefully acknowledges the following individuals and organizations whose support allows the school to educate the architects and designers who will imagine and shape our future. $100,000 and Above The Ahmanson Foundation Tim and Neda Disney William Gruen † The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation $50,000-$99,999 American Architectural Foundation, through the Mayors’ Institute on City Design Partnership Joe Day (M.Arch ’94) and Nina Hachigian Scott Hughes (M. Arch ’97) National Endowment for the Arts $10,000-$49,999 Jamie and Carolyn Bennett California Community Foundation City of Los Angeles – Department of Cultural Affairs Forest City Gilmore Associates Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts The Green Foundation Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Company Johnson Fain Morphosis Toshikazu and Yasuko Okamoto, parents of Kazuhiro Okamoto (M.Arch ’15) Abigail Scheuer (M. Arch ’93) The La Vida Feliz Foundation The Vinyl Institute U.S. Bank W.M. Keck Foundation William Lyons Homes, Inc. Stephanie Bowling Zeigler (M.Arch ’95) $5,000-$9,999 Anonymous (2) Blu Homes John Boccardo (M.Arch ’84) Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation Jerry Neuman Michael Charles Poris (M.Arch ’90) Pasadena Art Alliance $1,000-$4,999 950 E. Third Street AGA architects Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP Michael and Shirin Amin (M.Arch ’04) William Brunner (M.Arch ’94) Rick Carter Eric Owen Moss Architects Anthony and Ronda Ferguson Elizabeth Anne Gibb (M.Arch ’89) Russell L. Goings hughesumbanhowar Architects Kaplan Gehring McCarroll Architectural Lighting Jena King Linear City Development Menn, Van Kuik & Walker, Inc. Merry Norris Contemporary Art Michael Maltzan Architecture, Inc. Eric Owen Moss and Emily Kovner n-lab architects One Santa Fe Roscoe & Swanson CPAs Cherry Lietz Snelling (M.Arch ’97) Steinberg Ted and Joan Tanner Walter P. Moore Wilson Pitruzzelli Investment LLC Würstküche

$500-$999 Melissa Abe Karen Bragg (B.Arch ’87) C T Max Development Inc. Robin Donaldson (M.Arch ’87) Gensler Hennessey + Ingalls Alec (M.Arch ’90) and Sandra Kobayashi Hyon Cara Lee (M.Arch ’96) and Stephan Mundwiler (M.Arch ’95) Talbot McLanahan (M.Arch ’95) and Benjamin Harrison Sarah Sullivan Laurence Tighe (M.Arch ’91) Alison Wright (B.Arch ’81) Up to $499 Anonymous Bandar Sulaiman Alkahlan (M.Arch ’08) Atta H. Alsaleh (M.Arch ’88) Ball-Nogues Studio Christopher Banks Bojana Banyasz (M.Arch ’05) Adrien Beard (’05) David M. Becker (B.Arch ’86) Jonathan P. Bell Erin (M.Arch ’12) and Ian Besler Barbara Bestor (M.Arch ’92) Megan Elisabeth Blaine (M.Arch ’07) Howard Bogis (B.Arch ’91) Silvia Braun (M.Arch ’99) Jonathan Cantwell (M.Arch ’00) Victor Manuel Castillo (M.Arch ’01) Catherine Chen Lanabel Cho-josten (M.Arch ’88) John Hang Ngai Choi (M.Arch ’05) Deeing Chu (M.Arch ’80) Samson Chua (M.Arch ’02) Kimberlee Colin (M.Arch ’94) David Lawrence Gray Architects Design Initiatives Jonathan Drezner (M.Arch ’90) DU Architects Eat.Drink.Americano Edmund M. Einy (B.Arch ’83) Edwin (M.Arch ’03) and Kathleen Lehnert Jonathan Evans (M.Arch ’88) Tom Evans (B.Arch ’88) Jerry Figurski (M.Arch ’07) Robert Ginsberg (B.Arch ’79) Greg Slowik Design Eylse and Stanley Grinstein Minna Guillermo (B.Arch ’96) Shannon Han (M.Arch ’06) and Hunter Knight (M.Arch ’06) Birgit Hansen (B.Arch ’99) Jeanette Hattan (MDRSC ’12) Stephen Michael Hegedus (B.Arch ’00) Clint Helvey and Carol Schlanger Helvey, parents of Sierra Ruth Helvey (M.Arch ’14) Elena Howell (M.Arch ’06) Gregorio Calibo Isaac (B.Arch ’88) Louis DeLong Joyner (M.Arch ’85) Elizabeth Marie Keslacy (M.Arch ’04) Roy Kesrouani (M.Arch ’98) D.B. Kim (M.Arch ’91) Michael Kiner (M.Arch ’79) Jeffrey King Laura Foster Kissack (M.Arch ’99) Yu Fung Lai (M.Arch ’02) Jason Langkammerer (M.Arch ’99) Alain Lauriault and France Girard, parents of Sophie Lauriault (M.Arch ’12) Daniel Legaspi (’01) Yoram LePair (M.Arch ’98) Gabriel Lopez (B.Arch ’02) Ken Lowney (M.Arch ’93) Lauren MacColl Maass (M.Arch ’90) Randy S. MacBeth (B.Arch ’06) Andrea Lenardin Madden (M.Arch ’98) Bridgette M. Marso (B.Arch ’15) Irene Mason Josep Luis Mateo

Gioconda McMillan, parent of Russel McMillan (M.Arch ’15) Luis Menendez (B.Arch ’83) and Nasrin Nourian Menendez (B.Arch ’85) Dawn Mori Kavita Ahuja Moltz (M.Arch ’06) Janine Moss (M.Arch ’90) Jamie Myer (M.Arch ’02) Paul W. Nakazawa Paras Nanavati (B.Arch ’04) David J. Neuman Robert Noble Dean Nota (B.Arch ’76) Rod and Fariba Nourafshan, parents of Liana Nourafshan (B.Arch ’14) Catherine Pack (M.Arch ’02) Enrique Peñalosa Kirk Allen Phillips (M.Arch ’00) PNC Foundation Thomas Prinz (M.Arch ’88) Johnny Ramirios (B.Arch ’05) Andrea Rawlings (B.Arch ’82) Mark Rolfs (M.Arch ’97) Barry Rosenbloom Eric Safyan (M.DesR ’02) Nancy Samovar (’76) Thomas Scarin (M.Arch ’83) Alan Sieroty Nick Seierup (B.Arch ’79) Neal Shalat (M.Arch ’86) David Shoucair (B.Arch ’79) Jennifer Siegal (M.Arch ’94) Paul Joseph Sierra (M.Arch ’08) Nina Smith-Gardiner (M.Arch ’92) Derek Sola (M.Arch ’98) Kevin Southerland (M.Arch ’93) Donald Spivack Randy Spiwak (B.Arch ’79) Scott Sullivan (M.Arch ’99) Daniel Swartz Jun Tan and Jin Zeng, parents of Justin Tan (B.Arch ’15) Robert J. Tarr (M.Arch ’08) Nghi Trinh and Thai Huynh, parents of Dennis Huynh (B.Arch ’16) Anne Troutman (M.Arch ’87) and Aleks Instanbullu Urban Operations Ron Verdier (B.Arch ’90) Stephen Wagner (M.Arch ’84) Yaohua Wang (B.Arch ’10) Warren Techentin Architecture Dan Weinreber (M.Arch ’02) Benita C. Welch (M.Arch ’93) Will Sharp Architects Allyne Winderman Kevin Wronske (B.Arch ’02) Andrew Zago

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