Main Event 2022

Main Event

Gala Dinner and Awards Program and Tribute

Director's Message

For 50 years, SCI-Arc has been restless, bold, and optimistic. We celebrate the tenacity of the figures and forces that created a movement never before seen in architecture education, which embraces the audacity of ever-shifting visions ahead. This year marks SCI-Arc's 50th anniversary, commemorated with a special scholarship fundraising gala as well as free and accessible events and programs taking place throughout 2022.

Tonight we welcome friends and supporters of SCI-Arc to gather for Main Event 2022, a scholarship fundraiser and celebration of the outrageous creativity that for 50 years has propelled our school’s thought leadership in architecture and design. Main Event benefits the SCI-Arc Scholarship Endowment with net proceeds empowering more students to access the world-renowned school of innovation and architectural thinking. Our Main Event gala dinner and awards is SCI-Arc's primary fundraiser supporting student scholarships, allowing us to sustain our commitment to creating inclusive opportunities for students of all backgrounds, including those from communities underrepresented in architecture, to study at SCI-Arc.

Director's Message

We are thrilled to honor inimitable creative leaders including architect Frank Gehry, visual artist Alison Saar, Walt Disney Imagineering, and the Herald Examiner Building/ Georgetown Company, and recognize SCI-Arc's founding faculty and past directors. SCI-Arc's special 50th anniversary Main Event fundraiser is guaranteed to be remembered for years to come. We would also like to extend our sincere gratitude to the generous sponsors who have supported the SCI-Arc Scholarship Endowment through their participation in Main Event 2022. Thank you for helping us support the next generation of architectural thinkers. SCI-Arc takes the lead in reimagining the limits of architecture, reflecting on our first 50 years to propel us into the future, and producing the next generation of risk-takers who will push us towards the potential of the next 50 years. We look forward to reconnecting with and expressing our gratitude to all who have played a role in making SCI-Arc the remarkable school it is today, while reveling in the accomplishments of SCI-Arc's first 50 years.

– Hernán Díaz Alonso

Congratulatory Letters

Congratulatory

OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR

April 30, 2022

Southern California Institute of Architecture 50th Anniversary

On behalf of Californians, I am honored to congratulate the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI Arc) on its 50th anniversary as an independent school of architecture.

Since 1972, SCI Arc has been dedicated to educating architects from all backgrounds to imagine and shape the future; to engage, speculate, and innovate; to take the lead in reimagining the limits of architecture. Their belief in an interconnectedness of great design and social change is to be commended.

I thank the staff, faculty, and students of SCI Arc for their commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. It is people like you who help make a California for All.

Sincerely, Gavin Newsom

Neuman

Co-Chair Tom Strickler

Abigail Scheuer

Co-chairs

DÍaz Alonso

Shelly Kappe

Lahti Thom Mayne Bill Simonian Glen Small Jim Stafford

Spotlight Sponsors

Spotlight Sponsors

Lise Strickler and Mark Gallogly

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

– Victor Hugo Tom Strickler

Congratulations to SCI-Arc on the school’s 50th anniversary and kudos to our esteemed honorees!

Tim Disney

The Ratner Family The Max Collaborative

Sustaining Sponsors

Congratulations to SCI-Arc on 50 years. The future will be out of this world! Suzanne Boda and George Grindahl

Here’s to SCI-Arc, and kudos to distinguished alumna and trustee Barbara

Class of 1992! Mary Blodgett and Carlton Calvin

Hernán Díaz Alonso and Florencia Pita

Sustaining Sponsors

Sustaining Sponsors

Sustaining Sponsors

Congratulations to SCI-Arc for 50 years of educating and inspiring the future of architecture!

Sustaining Sponsors

Write us a chapter No one writes the whole story SCI-Arc's the unfinished symphony Keep the music playing If it ain't broke Break it If it ain’t broke Fix it Make it new That's the SCI-Arc lesson

Ellen and Dan Strickler

Congratulations to SCI-Arc on 50 years as an influential leader in exploration, creation and testing the limits of architecture.

California

Congratulations to

Joe Day (M.Arch '94) and Nina Hachigian

Contributing Sponsors

Congratulations to SCI-Arc on 50 years of helping communities plan and create agefriendly communities for people of all ages and abilities.

We salute SCI-Arc for 50 years of preparing young and creative minds for the future. Thank you and congratulations! Roy and Janet Choi

Contributing Sponsors

Congratulations to SCI-Arc on the

Congratulations to SCI- Arc on 50 years of pushing the limits — from everyone at Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Company.

Hearst is proud to be partners with The

Company in

and

Tim Straker

Congratulations to SCI-Arc on 50 years! We salute all the designers who have paved the way before us!

Linear City Development

Trevor McFedries

Congratulations to SCI-Arc on the school’s

anniversary.

and Georgetown Company for your honor.

Happy Anniversary! We celebrate SCI-Arc’s 50 years of educating minds and innovation in architecture and art.

Congratulations to SCI-Arc's founders and directors, alumni, past and current faculty, students, trustees, friends of SCI-Arc and everyone who has contributed to our school's success!

Congratulations on fifty inspired years.

Abby Sher

Onward and upward! Happy halfway to 100.

to all the people who have made

is

Contributing Sponsors

to

for 50 years of being life changing. An incredibly special place to begin the exploration of architecture, space and phenomena.

to the next 50!

and Kerstin

SCI-Arc defies that traditional approach. It looks forward to the new with passion, energy, and a results oriented curriculum which embraces new visions, new ways of seeing, and new ways to respond to the ever-evolving way that people live. Hsinming Fung and Craig Hodgetts

Friends

Maxi Spina

Lex Coffroth

Ruy

Johnstone

Antares

Hertz and Laura Doss-Hertz

and Tom Gosney

Elissa Scrafano/ Scrafano

Oren and Michelle Lavee

Douglas Hays

Gibb

Joni and Steve

& Will

Friends

Swartz

Ferguson

and Susan Tabler

Peter Grueneisen

Amatya

Weinreber

Jim and Margaret Lynn

Kevin Daly Architects

Matthew Baker and

Fortmeyer

Aviva Carmy

Marcelo Spina and

Huljich

Thank you for supporting the SCI-Arc Scholarship Endowment, empowering more students to access the world-renowned school of innovation and architectural thinking.