SCIArc Viewbook 2012-2013

I SCI C ARC Application Deadlines

For specific questions about application deadlines and procedures, please visit sciarc.edu or contact the Admissions Office at admissions@sciarc.edu.

960 East Third Street Los Angeles, California 90013 213.613.2200

Fall Deadlines

Spring Deadlines

M.Arch 1 December 16, 2011

B.Arch (advanced placement) October 1, 2012

M.Arch 2 December 16, 2011 B.Arch (first year placement) January 16, 2012 Future Initiatives & Emerging Systems and Technologies December 16, 2011 B.Arch (advanced placement) May 1, 2012

All application deadlines are postmark deadlines.

Late applications are considered on a case-by-case basis.

Contents 5 Message from the Director

7 City for Architecture

9 Degree Programs and Course Information

31 Special Programs

41 Public Programs

47 Facilities and Resources

52 SCI-Arc Press

54 Student Life

56 Alumni Affairs

59 Admissions and Application

64 Financial Assistance

67 People and Contacts

68 Leadership

70 Faculty, Staff and Board of Trustees

Accreditation SCI-Arc’s degrees in architecture are accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB). SCI-Arc’s next accreditation review cycle for NAAB is scheduled to begin during the 2011/2012 Academic Year.

The NAAB states: “In the United States, most state registration boards require a degree from an accredited professional degree program as a prerequisite for licensure. The National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB), which is the sole agency authorized to accredit U.S. professional degree programs in architecture, recognizes three types of degrees: the Bachelor of Architecture, the Master of Architecture, and the Doctor of Architecture. A program may be granted a 6-year, 3-year, or 2-year term of accreditation, depending on the extent of its conformance with established educational standards.

Master’s degree programs may consist of a preprofessional undergraduate degree and a professional graduate degree that, when earned sequentially, constitute an accredited professional education. However, the preprofessional degree is not, by itself, recognized as an accredited degree.”

The NAAB Conditions of Accreditation, including Student Performance Criteria, are accessible at naab.org.

SCI-Arc is also accredited by: The Accrediting Commission for Senior Colleges and Universities of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC).

SCI-Arc’s next accreditation review cycle for WASC is scheduled to begin during the 2014/2015 Academic Year.

WASC 985 Atlantic Avenue, Suite 100 Alameda, CA 94501 510.748.9001 wascweb.org

The Southern California Institute of Architecture is dedicated to educating architects to imagine and shape the future. It is an independent, accredited institution offering undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate programs in architecture.

SCI-Arc’s faculty is composed of approximately 80 esteemed architects, theorists, writers, and artists renowned for confronting conventional architecture and education. Studio interaction is open and intensive. Students are rigorously challenged to re-examine assumptions, create, explore, and provoke the boundaries of architecture.

Through public lectures, panel discussions, events and gallery exhibitions, SCI-Arc embraces its connection to community, and establishes an intimate relationship to both Los Angeles and its 500 students, many of whom choose to study here from countries worldwide. Attracting local and international students, faculty, and members of the interested public inside and outside of architecture, SCI-Arc is at once a school and a forum for cultural discourse.

Located in an open space building that runs a quarter-mile long and stands over 30 feet high, SCIArc’s studios are spacious and bright. Originally built in 1907, the Santa Fe Freight Depot was eventually phased from use, and the building remained vacant through the 1990s. Covered in years layered by graffiti artists, it wore the beginnings of an emerging Arts District, which would gradually infuse and renew the eastside of downtown Los Angeles. Sensing the strength of its pulse, SCI-Arc made it home in 2000. Today SCI-Arc is a lively and integral part of a historic and future-tense cultural center, surrounded by a diversity of residential options, urban infrastructure, and attractions.

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Message from the Director

SCI-Arc opened its Santa Monica warehouse doors in 1972 to a small group of emancipated faculty and students, most of whom had rejected the prevailing institutional models of the time in favor of a more free-form intersection of teachers and learners, a patient critique of the old idioms, and an aggressive pursuit of the promise of an ever-renewable pedagogy.

Free form, patience, and aggressive pursuit are intact today.

The aspiration to determine new pedagogy was never an aspiration to formulate doctrine. It was innocent, perhaps naive, less self-conscious at first — a shared instinct that the imaginative future of architecture is not a destination but a way of thinking critically, independently testing prospects which, in retrospect, represent a chronology of provisional paradigms — first fragile, then established, later decayed, and finally replaced.

The pursuit of the fragile—conception in process — is intact today.

SCI-Arc is the institute of the provisional paradigm. And when the provisional paradigm threatens to become a permanent allegiance — and it inevitably does — we begin again.

In that warehouse in 1972, the conventional educational hierarchies of administrators and senior and junior faculty members disappeared in favor of a more fluid management model that mandated an essential connection of pedagogical content with the administrative direction of the school. Architects who re-imagine the design discourse also re-imagine the administrative discourse.

Today administrators continue to teach; teachers continue to administrate.

SCI-Arc had little or no interest in academic rivalries that so often fractionalize the discourse. It is never “our guys” versus “your guys” — but simply an enduring pursuit of that changing model of the discourse, wherever it leads. Those who joined that debate, whether they belonged to Los Angeles or to other venues, came to SCI-Arc regularly to discuss the prospects for architecture’s future. So SCI-Arc, almost immediately, began to develop a constituency of colleagues and friends, joined not by particular allegiances, but simply by a shared interest in the exploration of the architecture prospect.

SCI-Arc began as a race with a moving finish line. SCI-Arc is still running, and the finish line is still in motion.

Today SCI-Arc is the new owner of the recently purchased 90,000 square foot Santa Fe Freight Depot on the east side of downtown Los Angeles. Six robots operate around the clock in our recently constructed Robot House. Our design laboratory is no longer simply within the Freight Depot, but now includes the city itself. SCI-Arc’s LA outreach currently lists a children’s park, an outpatient center, a freeway adjacent roof top garden, and a grad pavilion, newly designed and constructed each year.

New time, new facility, new faculty, new tools, new friends. Everything has changed, and nothing has changed.

SCI-Arc will forever believe that SCIArc — that coalition of individuals, faculty, students, and colleagues — will continue to re-write history, and that history will continue to become the history we write.

— Eric Owen Moss

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1 Disney Music Hall, Gehry Partners 2 Samitaur, Eric Owen Moss Architects 3 Caltrans Headquarters, Morphosis

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City for Architecture

Los Angeles: from a City for Architecture to City Form Architecture Los Angeles is the paradigmatic city for the investigation and production of contemporary architecture. Perhaps, surprisingly, it is also becoming a center for the design of new sorts of civic arrangements and cities. Los Angeles is formless, endless, and largely undifferentiated in its design.

It generally imposes no order or hierarchy onto architecture. LA Architecture, it should be said, makes the City and this City makes architecture. The question that remains, in this century, is whether or not that condition will continue to be an ungovernable and disorganized process or can be directed towards an intelligent and self-reflexive series of large scale interventions and episodes. That may be SCI-Arc’s next mission.

Los Angeles is a City of Houses. It is not a City of Parks or a City of Piazzas or a City of Church Steeples. Los Angeles has no Great Square, no Grand Arch, no Temple. This is LA’s Urban Code. Los Angeles was designed or perhaps, more accurately, retrofitted for the car. Its boulevards were designed to be traversed rapidly, not casually meandered along on foot or in carriage. That is changing. Slowly its public networks are growing back and with them LA is evolving into a city of nuanced incidents and well-connected regions.

LA, the great convocation of standardized points or objects arrayed within an ever expanding, neutral urban field, resists characterization yet demands of architecture a certain character in to order resist its labyrinthine logic. Paradoxically, Los Angeles is uniquely suited to the formation of an ever new architecture, one which can challenge the city’s scale, its lack of differentiation, and its relentless infrastructure, its wild natural moments.

For the better part of the last century Los Angeles architects were resistant to this challenge, preferring to take on the problems associated with the development of new types of private spaces designed

for the car and the consumer/worker: the detached home, the mall, the office park and the suburb. This too will change as the scale of design shifts to the communal and the network. While the individual object— the house—remains central to the Developer, the Realtor and the Politician as a financial instrument, a commodity or the symbol of community, the reality of its virtues as a planning measure now seem suspect or at least ripe for reconsideration.

As the family structure and the demographics of habitation have mutated, the outlines of the house itself has also been transfigured. Today, the house is only one of many tasks for the LA architect to absorb and contest. In the place of only extraordinary domestic architecture, Los Angeles now beckons the architect to think beyond the unit and design towards the network, the strand, and the atmosphere. In the place of mannered artistry, the 21st Los Angeles architect will focus in the coming decades on questions of increased social and physical density, layered and articulated public infrastructures, and a vigorous reintroduction of new natural environments into our machined landscape.

Now in its fourth decade SCI-Arc continues to advance architecture. That should come as no surprise. What may startle us is that SCI-Arc is now poised to become a leading center for the discovery of how the jump in scale, density and ambition will motivate Los Angeles to become an even more cosmopolitan city, one that sponsors both unique buildings and audacious urban arrangements.

SCI-Arc, located at the cultural and physical center of Los Angeles, is well positioned to train the next generation of architects to redesign LA as it matures, and as well as to envision new cities around the globe, as they are born.

Peter Zellner Future Initiatives Coordinator Cultural Studies, Design Studio

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Degree Programs and Course Information

B.Arch Undergraduate Degree Program

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Hsinming Fung, Director of Academic Affairs John Enright, Undergraduate Program Chair

SCI-Arc’s NAAB accredited undergraduate program is aimed at educating young architects who will go on to lead the discipline as designers and question the status quo by searching for new models of architectural inquiry. The program achieves a fluid and holistic approach through an emphasis on a wide range of conceptual and practical skills, from critical thinking to technical expertise.

Advanced digital technologies and fabrication methods permeate the program and take advantage of SCI-Arc’s state-of-the art fabrication shops, ranging from 3D printers, CNC mills, and vacuum-forming machines to traditional forms of metal and wood working, as well as sophisticated automation and robotics facilities.

The four parallel paths of the program feed into the design studio, creating a platform for the synthesis of the curriculum.

Cultural Studies, Applied Studies, Visual Studies, and General Studies are crafted so as to develop in students a rigorous knowledge of the discipline. An understanding of the inherent interrelationships of these topics is developed as students sequence through their five years of study. Throughout the program, emphasis is placed on the development of the individual student’s personal growth, self-reflection, knowledge and critical engagement of architectural design issues, including not only design, but advanced visualization techniques, information technologies, systems integration, deep cultural interactions, and new ecological and sustainable approaches.

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1 Phillip Ramirez Interval Space Undergraduate Thesis Advisor: Herwig Baumgartner

2 3A Studio Boris Cortez Instructors: John Bohn, Betty Kassis, Patrick Tighe, Greg Walsh

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Degree Programs and Course Information

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3 1A Studio Instructors: Nathan Bishop, Marcos Sanchez, Jenny Wu

4 Benedetta Frati Juan Pablo Zapeda Stadium at LA Live Vertical Director’s Studio Instructors: Hsinming Fung, Eric Owen Moss

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B.Arch I. Foundation Program

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The early foundation sequence of the program emphasizes General Studies as a holistic knowledge base, while the subsequent core sequence engages the more technical and practical aspects of architectural investigation. The advanced studies portion of the program includes Professional Practice coursework to prepare students for the complexities of the profession, while a choice of vertical design studios and electives enables students to pursue their individual interests. Students culminate their studies with a focused thesis project in their final semester to both manifest the cumulative knowledge of their education, and act as a point of trajectory from which to engage their discipline, field, and profession at large.

First Term—

Third Term—

DS1010

DS1020

GS7010

CS2024

1A

Material Strategies for the Physical World Introduction to Design Cultures GS7011

Collegiate Writing

History of Architecture 2: Modern to Contemporary GS7020

Humanities 2: Modern to Comtemporary

GS7013

AS3021

Visual Rhetorics

Second Term— 1B

Structures 1 VS4020

Technologies of Description 1

Conceptual Strategies for the Physical World

Fourth Term—

CS2012

DS1021

History of Architecture 1: Premodern to Modern GS7014

Humanities 1: Premodern to Modern GS7015

Advanced Calculus and Trigonometric Functions VS4011

Fabrications and Delineations

1/2 Elana Pappoff Wither and Wield... a technological fairytale Undergraduate Thesis Advisors: Peter Cook, Devyn Weiser

Formworks: Sites and Contexts

Introduction to the Physical World

GS7012

DS1011

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2A

2B

Frameworks: Programs GS7021

The History of Ideas AS3030

Structures 2 VS4021 Technologies of Description 2 General Studies Elective

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II. Core Program

III. Advanced Studies

Fifth Term—

Seventh Term—

DS1030

DS1040

3A

Field Operations: Static Architectural Systems CS2030*

Introduction to Urban Systems VS4030

Technologies of Description 3 AS3020

Environmental Systems 1 General Studies Elective

Sixth Term— 3B

DS1031

4A

City Operations: Architecture in Critical Settings with integrated Cultural Studies component CS2040

Introduction to Critical Studies AS3040

Design Development AS3032

Environmental Systems 2

CS2050

Thesis Project Research AS3050

Practice Environments: Contracts, Liabilities, and Business Models Elective or CPT

DS1051

Eighth Term— 4B

AS3042

AS3031

Vertical studio

General Studies Elective

CS2031*

Tectonics

5A

Tenth Term—

Vertical studio

AS3033

Ninth Term—

Smart and Sustainable Systems

Dynamic Architectural Systems with integrated Applied Studies component Philosophy of Technology

Degree Programs and Course Information

AS3041

Construction Documents Professional Internship By approval: Full-time Summer or Elective or CPT Non-Architectural Elective

5B

Thesis Project Studio Elective or CPT Elective or CPT

Course Key DS Design Studio VS Visual Studies AS Applied Studies CS Cultural Studies GS General Studies CPT Curricular

Practical Training

See Course Information

(p.28) for descriptions.

Please visit sciarc.edu for the most current information. *Non-Architectural/ General Studies Content

3 Hyonwoo Chung Manufacturing Manhattan Undergraduate Thesis 2010 Advisor: Devyn Weiser

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M.Arch and M.DesR Graduate Degree Programs Hsinming Fung, Director of Academic Affairs Hernan Diaz Alonso, Graduate Programs Chair

The century ahead of us will introduce many challenges we cannot possibly envision in advance, yet must solve as soon as they arrive. We have no choice but to imagine them, to model them, and to prototype our responses.

No matter how alien our world may come to seem, our adaptations and interventions will be based on fundamental questions that persist no matter how many times we think we have answered them. How do we design for our culture?

For whom are our buildings and cities designed? How can the material structures we make express what we think and feel?

Working to reveal and seed future directions in the architectural discipline, SCI-Arc’s graduate studies respond to shifts in society, technology, and culture within an evolving learning environment.

Programs are led by faculty engaged in worldwide architectural practice and discourse in fields ranging from design and engineering to visual and cultural studies. Through the feedback they provide from their practices, the graduate curriculum is continuously and dynamically shaped in an arrangement only available to an institution entirely devoted to architecture.

Promoting cross-pollination from other fields of study in a critical manner, the graduate programs mature a practice deriving from an emphasis on process and a synthesis of thinking, inquiry, and execution.

Attracting a diverse and international student body, the graduate programs at SCI-Arc are at once global and local, comprehensive and current, providing a rigorous and unusually intimate education that cultivates and recognizes experimentation and creative freedom.

The graduate programs offer four study options:

M.Arch 1 M.Arch 2 M.DesR: Future Initiatives (SCIFI) M.DesR: Emerging Systems and Technologies | Media (ESTM)

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Degree Programs and Course Information

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M.Arch 1

The Master of Architecture 1 (M.Arch 1) is a NAAB accredited three-year (seven-term) professional program open to applicants who hold a bachelor’s degree or equivalent in any field of study. This program requires attendance during the fall and spring terms for three years followed by a summer term for final thesis.

Throughout the M.Arch 1 program, emphasis is placed on the production of architecture and the ways in which making produces a unique intelligence for the field, defining a clear stance towards contemporary morphology with a renovated novelty of rigor, and progressive thinking about type evolution into new typologies to further innovation within the tradition of the discipline. The program operates from a place of deep knowledge within the discipline, with focus on the present and into the future.

Starting with a four-semester core sequence, students develop a framework for the discipline, as well as a strong foundation for critical inquiry and experimentation. By integrally linking each semester’s design studio with courses in the areas of Applied Studies, Cultural Studies, and Visual Studies, the program offers students immediate instruction into the depth of the relationship between architecture and technological advances, representation, and social change. With each progressive semester increasing in sophistication, students address a breadth of complex architectural issues while testing their own intellectual and design convictions.

Upon completion of the core sequence, students are encouraged to actualize a distinct point of view, investigating design through innovations in technology and advancing new praxes of design analysis through applied research in advanced studios and seminars.

Students conclude their studies with a presentation and public exhibition of a thoroughly researched architectural thesis. Select thesis projects are featured for extended public display in the SCI-Arc Gallery.

Prerequisite Courses

One semester each of college-level Calculus and Physics, with a grade of “C+” or better, satisfies this requirement.

Preparatory Course

Completion of Making+Meaning, which is offered during the summer term at SCI-Arc, may be required for admission to the program.

Recommended Software Preparation

Photoshop / Illustrator / AutoCAD / Rhino / Maya

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Degree Programs and Course Information

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1 Nanao Shimizu 2GB Studio Instructors: Juan Azulay, Margaret Griffin, Eric Kahn, Andrew Zago

2 Sarah Blahut 1GB Studio Instructors: Florencia Pita, Darin Johnstone, Ramiro DiazGranados, Volkan Alkanoglu

3 Paul Stoelting 1GA Instructors: Heather Flood, Dwayne Oyler, David Ross, Russell Thomsen

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M.Arch 1

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1 Jessica Brush Zachary Teixeira 2GA Studio Instructors: Wes Jones, Alexis Rochas, Devyn Weiser, Tom Wiscombe

2 Robert Eleazer Caustic Figuration Graduate Thesis Advisor: Marcelo Spina

3 Kristen George Vertical Studio Advisor: Coy Howard

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Degree Programs and Course Information

First Term—

Third Term—

Fifth Term—

DS1100

DS1120

Vertical Studio

1GA

Fundamental Architecture 1 CS2101

Introduction to Contemporary Architecture AS3100

Materials and Tectonics VS4100

Techniques of Representation 1

2GA

Architecture’s Integration CS2120

Architecture Culture 2 AS3120

Structures 2

AS3123

Environmental Systems 2: Sustainability and Complex Envelopes

VS4120

Second Term—

Advanced Computation 1

1GB

DS1101

Fundamental Architecture 2

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3GA

Cultural Studies Elective AS3130

Practice Environments: Contracts, Liabilities, and Business Models Elective or CPT

Sixth Term—

3GB

Vertical Studio CS2410

Fourth Term—

Thesis Research

2GB

Elective or CPT

CS2100

DS1121

Architecture Culture 1

Architecture’s Intervention

Elective or CPT

AS3101

CS2121

4GA (summer)

Structures 1

Urban Culture

AS3121

AS3122

Environmental Systems 1: Light, Air, and Sound

VS4101

Techniques of Representation 2

Seventh Term—

DS1420

Graduate Thesis

Design Development and Documentation

Elective or CPT

VS4121

Elective or CPT

Advanced Computation 2

Course Key DS Design Studio VS Visual Studies AS Applied Studies CS Cultural Studies CPT Curricular

Practical Training

See Course Information

(p.28) for descriptions.

Please visit sciarc.edu for the most current information.

4 Joe Carlos Brett Phillips 2GA Studio Instructors: Wes Jones, Alexis Rochas, Devyn Weiser, Tom Wiscombe

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M.Arch 2

The Master of Architecture 2 (M.Arch 2) is a NAAB accredited two-year (five-term) professional program open to applicants with a minimum of a four-year degree in Architecture, or its equivalent abroad. This program requires attendance of the fall and spring terms for two years followed by a summer term for final thesis.

The M.Arch 2 program is designed to build upon and reconsider knowledge gained from a prior undergraduate degree in Architecture. Students are introduced to an advanced critical perspective on contemporary architectural issues — both theoretical and design-related — as a tool to examine the complex and shifting relationship between architecture and cultural, political, economic, and social change. Architectural conventions and standards are challenged through examination and exploitation of other models of design and production. The program operates as a laboratory in which to identify new possibilities for the integration of emerging techniques and technologies. Students learn the latest developments in fabrication and gain an understanding of design methodologies within historical and contemporary contexts.

On completing the two-term core sequence, students select vertical studios and elective seminars that either continue the focus of their core studies or broaden the scope of their education.

Students complete their studies with a presentation and public exhibition of a thoroughly researched architectural thesis. Select thesis projects are featured for extended public display in the SCIArc Gallery.

Prerequisite Course for M.Arch 2

Introduction to Digital Design is a short, intensive workshop offered prior to the fall term that provides entering students with a foundation in digital tools essential to the M.Arch 2 program.

Required Courses

The Academic Counselor reviews the transcripts of students entering the M.Arch 2 program to verify completion of courses comparable to the following core Applied Studies classes offered at SCI-Arc:

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1 Tristan Brasseur, Keyla Hernandez 2 Jiahao Lu, Thomas Cheng 2GBX Studio Instructors: Elena Manferdini, Marcelo Spina, Tom Wiscombe

AS3101 AS3120 AS3121

Structures 1 Structures 2 Environmental Systems 1: Light, Air and Sound Students who have not passed these classes are required to do so at SCI-Arc.

M.Arch 2 students who have passed a sequence of courses on structures during their undergraduate courses at other institutions, but have not been introduced to seismic issues are required to take a course on that subject before the end of their second term at SCI-Arc. Incoming M.Arch 2 transcripts will be evaluated for achievement in the NAAB requirements for architectural traditions.

Degree Programs and Course Information

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3 Ryohei Koike Jarod Poentisch XLAB_RECON Instructor: Peter Testa

4 Michael Young A Home Within A Home Graduate Thesis Advisor: Hernan Diaz Alonso

M.Arch 2

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1/2 Sona Gevorkyan Transmaterialism Graduate Thesis Advisor: Elena Manferdini

3 Michael Young XLAB_Collapsing Instructor: Hernan Diaz Alonso

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Degree Programs and Course Information

First Term—

Fourth Term—

DS1200

Vertical Studio

2GAX

Compositional Morphologies CS2201

Theories of Contemporary Architecture 1 AS3200

Advanced Tectonics VS4200

Modeling, Tooling, and Computation

Second Term— 2GBX

DS1201

Generative Morphologies CS2200

Theories of Contemporary Architecture 2 AS3201 4

Advanced Building Systems AS3302

Advanced Structural Systems

Third Term— 3GAX

Vertical Studio or

DS1210­—XLAB

Cultural Studies Elective AS3222

Design Development and Documentation AS3230

Practice Environments: Contracts, Liabilities, and Business Models 4 Dave Bantz 2GAX Instructor: Herwig Baumgartner, Ramiro Diaz-Granados, Florencia Pita

3GBX

CS2410

Thesis Research Elective or CPT Elective or CPT

Fifth Term— 4GAX (summer) DS1420

Graduate Thesis Elective or CPT Elective or CPT

Course Key DS Design Studio VS Visual Studies AS Applied Studies CS Cultural Studies CPT Curricular

Practical Training

See Course Information

(p.28) for descriptions.

Please visit sciarc.edu for the most current information.

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M.DesR Future Initiatives (SCIFI) Peter Zellner and David Bergman, Program Coordinators

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SCI-Arc Future Initiatives (SCIFI) is a one-year (three-term) post-professional degree program leading to a Master of Design Research in City Design, Planning, and Policy. SCIFI is open to applicants with a professional degree in architecture, urban design and planning, or landscape architecture. The program requires attendance in the fall, spring, and summer terms.

As an intensive research-based, post-professional degree program and think tank dedicated to generating contemporary approaches to large-scale urban architecture, SCIFI’s curriculum takes a sequential approach to understanding and rethinking city design-making through the lens of architecture.

Students focus on identifying adaptive and holistic— rather than rigid and segmented—responses to economic, social, and environmental pressures. As a center for urban discussion, the program connects students, academics, theorists, and architects with public agencies, as well as those in private development, to generate debate regarding the role of cities and urban systems.

Established in 2005 to complement other programs offered at SCI-Arc, SCIFI draws on the resources of the school, its faculty, and the surrounding community. Furthermore, it promotes and extends its academic mission nationally and internationally via publications, public forums, exhibitions, and competitions.

Culminating in the production of a thesis and research projects, students work with core and visiting faculty to generate deliverables that form the basis of a dissertation–quality research portfolio.

Recommended Software Preparation

Photoshop / Illustrator / InDesign / Flash / AutoCAD / Rhino / Grasshopper / Processing

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1/2 Liz Deteresi, Karen Filippe, Ferdi Koorneef, Alan Kwan River? What River?

Instructors: OLIN­— Skip Graffam, Dennis McGlade, David Rubin

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Degree Programs and Course Information

First Term—

Third Term—

DS1500

DS1502

CS2200

CS2502

CS2600

Elective

SCIFI

Design Research Studio Seminar Seminar

SCIFI (summer)

Design Research Studio Seminar

Elective

VS2500

Interactive Mapping and Motion Graphics

3

Second Term— SCIFI

DS1501

See Course Information

(p.28) for descriptions.

CS2501

Please visit sciarc.edu for the most current information.

CS2601

Seminar Elective

3/4 Michael Garito, Alfonso Medina, Felipe Rodriguez Los Angeles Boulevards: Urban Typologies Instructors: David Bergman, Peter Zellner

DS Design Studio CS Cultural Studies VS Visual Studies

Design Research Studio Seminar

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Course Key

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M.DesR Emerging Systems and Technologies | Media (ESTM) Marcelo Spina, Program Coordinator

SCI-Arc Emerging Systems and Technologies | Media (ESTM) is a one-year (three-term) intensive post-professional degree program leading to a Master of Design Research in Emerging Systems and Technologies | Media. A rigorous and experimental program, ESTM aims to define new platforms for design innovation, fusing digital and physical research within the rapidly evolving fields of computation, material fabrication, and advanced building systems.

An intensive design and research laboratory uniquely tailored for applicants with a professional degree in architecture, engineering or industrial design, ESTM focuses exclusively on technology as it applies to the present and future of design, computation, media, digital fabrication, robotic manufacturing, sustainable engineering, material ecologies, and novel tectonics.

Newly constructed for this program, the SCI-Arc Robot House is the most progressive facility of its kind in the US academic environment and is among one of the world’s most advanced facilities.

Utilizing this and other platforms, ESTM faculty and students explore new production paradigms, envisioning the future of synthetic materials, free form assembly, and automated manufacturing, in close collaboration with partners both inside and outside the architecture building industry.

Testing new levels of environmental performance that will advance design practices in the 21st century, ESTM students are prepared to successfully integrate formal, technical, logistical, and material processes into advanced architectural design. Working with progressive architects, designers, and theorists worldwide, students will propose the next-generation of architecture in the form of specific projects, structural morphologies, sophisticated material prototypes, and complex construction systems.

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Recommended Software Preparation

Maya / AutoCAD / Rhino / Grasshopper / Processing Java / Ecotech / ZBrush / Arduino / Mathematica Adobe CS Package

1 Jeffrey Lam Hoiming Lam Instructor: Marcelo Spina

2 Dave Bantz Tom Benard Michael Gross Paul Mecomber Vince Pocsik Instructor: Tom Wiscombe

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Degree Programs and Course Information

First Term—

Third Term—

DS1700

DS1702

CS2201

AS3602

ESTM

Design Research Studio Theories of Contemporary Architecture 1 VS4300

Coding Form: Computation, Scripting, and Programming Applied Studies Seminar (as assigned)

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Elective Elective

Course Key DS Design Studio VS Visual Studies AS Applied Studies CS Cultural Studies

DS1701

Please visit sciarc.edu for the most current information.

AS3601

Prototyping 1 AS3701

Seminar (as assigned) VS4301

Seminar (as assigned)

4 Filipa Valente Instructor: Marcelyn Gow

Prototyping 2

See Course Information (p.28) for descriptions.

Design Research Studio

3 Brian Fraumeni Jonathon Stahl Max Vomhof Instructor: Peter Testa

Design Research Studio

Second Term— ESTM

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ESTM (summer)

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Course Information

Visual Studies Andrew Zago, Program Coordinator Core and Elective Courses

The practice of architecture relies on systems of communication to conceive, develop, and represent architectural ideas.

The Visual Studies program sets the foundation for building project communication systems required for effective presentation across the SCI-Arc course curriculum. It includes generative diagramming, concept representation, project communication, and project production documents. Students become familiar with current and emerging technologies and fabrication processes.

The Visual Studies curriculum responds to the evolving paradigms of architectural communication, introducing new tools within a progressively structured program. New media instruments — from advanced digital modeling and animation to robot-controlled fabrication processes — complement freehand methods of drawing, such as planimetric and sectional representations, construction perspectives and sketching.

Recent elective courses have focused on topics such as time-based visualization, graphic design, scripting, interactive navigation, animation, film documentary, photography, industrial and product design, and production design.

Applied Studies Tom Wiscombe, Program Coordinator Core and Elective Courses

Architecture is characterized by a constant feedback between desire and technology. The Applied Studies program at SCIArc is based on challenging how our world is constructed, what constitutes an environment, and how architecture of the next century might respond to global change.

The program offers courses that critically engage building technology and interpret its spatial and social consequences.

Foundation courses are offered in physics and other sciences, building systems, structural analysis, tectonics, material development, acoustics, lighting, and environmental control. Advanced courses explore the design consequences of materials and technology on architectural proposals in the physical world.

Elective courses offer further research and experimentation into advanced technologies that are redefining the conventions of architecture as a discipline and as a practice. Recent courses have explored building information modeling, parametric design, generative structures, composite tectonics, material research and development, complex assemblies, energy design, biomimicry, and robotic fabrication.

Cultural Studies Todd Gannon, Program Coordinator Core and Elective Courses

Cultural Studies at SCI-Arc refers to the study of architecture as a disciplinary subject, focusing on understanding the field through reading, research, and written exercises covering all aspects of architectural culture, history, theory, and criticism.

Cultural Studies locates the discipline of architecture within larger artistic, cultural, social, and political contexts and thereby aims to build within students a firm grasp of disciplinary interiority and exteriority, as well as architecture’s canons and traditions, critiques, and avant-gardisms.

At both the undergraduate and the graduate levels, the core program is composed of courses in Architectural History, Theory and Criticism, as well as Urban Studies, Literature, Art History, Philosophy, New Media, and Critical Theory.

After completion of their core studies, students may enroll in a series of advanced seminar electives exploring the most current perspectives alongside historical positions on the discourse and production of architecture.

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Degree Programs and Course Information

In addition to courses offered by regular faculty, the Cultural Studies program invites visiting architects, theorists, authors, and critics to share their recent work in this forum. Many courses are offered in conjunction with studios, publications, and conferences and enlist the active participation of students in research endeavors.

Therefore, while some elective courses do recur, all are subject to shifts in content and concentration.

General Studies Dora Epstein Jones, Program Coordinator Core and Elective Courses

Yushan Wu and Thom Mayne at Thesis Weekend.

A fully-integrated General Studies curriculum represents a fresh and innovative approach to teaching a wide breadth of knowledge and critical thinking skills.

Non-architectural content is directed with a two-pronged approach: firstly, as an intensive series of developed courses at the foundation level, and secondly, as a flexible series of one-time elective seminars taught by leading thinkers, writers, theorists and practitioners in a wide spectrum of fields and subjects, from real estate development to biomimicry to media culture to particle physics. By preparing students to think critically, engage other areas of thought and discipline directly, and acquire basic knowledge through reading, writing and iteration, students are positioned to understand the inherent complexity and expertise required in more specific fields during the later sequence of the undergraduate program. They are also prepared to meet the expected standards of their thesis work, as well as for specific engagement within their field and the profession of architecture.

A permanent course in the history of ideas serves as the cornerstone for this program, allowing students to critically understand the range, form, history, and organization of the complexity of all human concepts in order to empower and nurture independent, creative thinking.

Vertical Studios

SCI-Arc’s upper-level Vertical Studios are small elective studios that follow the core sequence, bringing students into contact with renowned architects whose interests follow distinctive architectural intentions.

Curricular Practical Training

Work experience in local architectural offices provides students with valuable hands-on training, an opportunity to improve skills, and an inside look at the everyday workings of an architectural practice. Curricular Practical Training (CPT) authorizes employment outside of SCI-Arc when it is required as an integral part of the academic program and is recorded as units toward a degree. To begin the CPT process, secure necessary approvals, and ensure course credit, all students must first consult with the Academic Counselor and international students must also meet with the International Advisor.

Thesis Program Elena Manferdini, Graduate Thesis Coordinator Devyn Weiser, Undergraduate Thesis Projects Coordinator

Two consecutive terms in length, the thesis program at SCI-Arc is designed to demonstrate students’ vested interests and processes. The first term primarily focuses on research and development of a formal thesis proposal to lay the groundwork for indepth design study during the following term. The final thesis term is dedicated to exploring responses to the inquiry posed by the proposal.

Students work with an advisor or advisor workgroup whose interests coincide with the topical orientation of the project.

Work is judged according to completeness, clarity, quality, thoroughness of research, and how well the subject of investigation relates to the discipline of architecture.

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Making + Meaning Alexis Rochas, Program Coordinator

Making + Meaning is a five-week summer program that introduces the principles of spatial experimentation and design methodologies through the creative processes of architecture.

In this intensive five-week summer program, students learn about the language of architecture and how to develop a design process, and hone representational and model-making skills in a studio atmosphere that fosters creativity, innovative thinking, and a flexible design process. Construction and modelmaking are introduced early on as means through which to visualize and test three-dimensional ideas. The program includes visits to a selection of important and innovative architectural sites, both historic and contemporary, that Los Angeles and Southern California have to offer. Field trips are held every Saturday for the duration of the program.

Students learn to balance initial intuitive responses with the need to clearly present their work to a jury. At the end of the program, students produce an exhibition for public viewing and review by members of the SCI-Arc faculty as well as professional architects practicing in the Los Angeles area.

Throughout the program, faculty and teaching assistants are available for advice, critique, and counseling on the development of a portfolio for application to architecture school.

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Design Immersion Days (DID) Darin Johnstone, Program Coordinator

Design fills our world and permeates our everyday existence.

Small objects, media, furniture, buildings, the city and nearly everything we use, live in and touch has been designed. Who designs these things? How do they do it? How do they see the world around them and change it?

Design Immersion Days (DID) introduces high school students to these issues in a five-week summer program. Rising Juniors and Seniors are offered the opportunity to explore careers in architecture and design or simply satisfy deep curiosities about how products, buildings, and environments are designed and produced. This is done by working side by side with other students and those who have devoted their lives to reshaping the world around us.

Through a series of lectures given by esteemed Los Angelesbased designers and field trips exploring the city, students are exposed to examples of design and modes of production on all scales. In the classroom and in the city, students are introduced to the fundamental ways of seeing, thinking, and doing that are essential for anyone interested in pursuing a degree and/or career in architecture or design.

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Travel Abroad

SCI-Arc students are offered the opportunity to participate in one-semester traveling studios once they have completed their core sequence.

Students have recently studied in India, the Netherlands, Mexico, China, Japan, Austria, and the United Arab Emirates.

In addition, SCI-Arc faculty frequently lead students on field trips to destinations that have included New York, Texas, California’s Owens Valley, Detroit, New Orleans, the Coachella music festival, and a desert site in Utah.

Japan: Selected Topics, Tokyo

While in Japan, students take a full semester’s worth of courses, including a SCI-Arc studio with a site in Tokyo and a project that directly engages many of the contemporary urban issues present in the great city. Students also interact with Japanese architecture students and attend lectures by Japanese faculty, as well as participate in visits to important historic and contemporary works of art and architecture throughout Japan. After a final review in Tokyo, students present their work to faculty and peers during the final week of studio reviews in Los Angeles.

Italy: Design is One, Milan

Organized more like a series of field trips than typical academic seminars, the course follows the development of design fields through a series of site visits to world leading Italian and American designer studios and cities that shaped the design field at large in the past century. In the first week of the program, students visit and interview architects in Los Angeles.

They then travel to Italy for two weeks, during spring break, where they get to know and interview leading Italian architects.

Upon returning to Los Angeles, the students and instructors put together a monographic publication of the course.

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One of Mexico’s leading universities, UIA provides the opportunity for SCI-Arc students to look closely at problems of organization, architecture and planning in an economy adjacent to the U.S. Established in 1943 by Jesuits, the university’s flagship campus is in the Santa Fe district of Mexico City and offers 36 academic programs.

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Special Programs

Korea: Inha University, Incheon

Founded in 1954 as a technical school, today Inha is a major university with 20,000 students and specializes in industry, engineering and technology. It is a member of the Global U8 consortium, which focuses on cross-cultural education through student exchange and the adoption of common curricula.

Incheon is a major seaport on the west coast of South Korea, near Seoul.

Austria: University of Applied Arts, Vienna

The University of Applied Arts in Vienna is home to more than 1,000 students, many of whom come from other European and overseas countries. The range of courses available at the school encompasses architecture, fine art and design.

Elsewhere

SCI-Arc also offers exchange programs with the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia, Aarhus School of Architecture in Denmark, Ecole Speciale d’Architecture in Paris, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, and Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands.

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Community Design

Through its Community Design program, SCI-Arc seeks opportunities to engage various local districts and populations by spearheading tactical, action-based projects that enable students to collaborate directly with community groups or agencies. Each project deals with practical, often urgent problemsolving challenges in response to relevant social, economic, and urban conditions.

Drawing upon the professional expertise of architects, urban planners, computer designers, visual artists, social scientists, cultural theorists and others, SCI-Arc faculty and students demonstrate a powerful capacity to impact specific social problems.

The program proposes a model of practice where students experience the profession as an agent of positive social change.

Whether coordinating with local government or residents, city or community agencies, educational or philanthropic institutions, or private industry, SCI-Arc’s Community Design program is known for applying solutions that are at once unique, innovative, and heartfelt. Recent projects include: Solar Decathlon

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An academic team from SCI-Arc and Caltech was selected to compete in the international 2011 Solar Decathlon sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy. The architecture students at SCI-Arc and the engineering students at Caltech collaborated to design and build a solar-powered house that will be displayed on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. in October 2011. The SCI-Arc/Caltech team is the first from Southern California to be chosen for the 20-team competition, which is held every other year. Selection for participation comes with a $100,000 grant to be used for the project. Additional funds are raised by teams as part of the competition process. The lead faculty members for this competition at SCI-Arc are architects Wes Jones and Dwayne Oyler.

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Cleantech Corridor

Imagining an innovative urban vision for the recently designated Cleantech Corridor district in downtown Los Angeles was the 2010-2011 focus of SCI-Arc’s Future Initiatives program. Under the direction of faculty member and Future Initiatives Coordinator Peter Zellner, the post-professional degree program partnered with The Architect’s Newspaper to sponsor its open ideas competition, Los Angeles Cleantech Corridor & Green District Competition. It asked professional and student entrants to create an integrated economic, residential, clean energy, and cultural engine for the city through architectural and urban strategies.

FLEDGE: A Double Gateway Sustainable Interface for the Los Angeles Freeway Overpass

In proposing a unique partnership with the LA City Bureau of Engineering, LA Care Health Plan, and The California Department of Transportation engineers (Caltrans), SCI-Arc aims to support an educational initiative leading to the design, planning, and implementation of an Architectural Interface to resolve railing and fence requirements for the 7th Street Bridge over the 110 Freeway. The project seeks to establish a strong visual identity to North-South motorists while providing EastWest passerbys with a novel and secure experience as they traverse the bridge connecting Downtown Los Angeles and Central City West. Design proposals aspire to transform and enhance the formal, material, and ecological attributes of our urban infrastructure through a series of design methodologies including: material research, component design and propagation, parametric definition, and environmental impact estimation.

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Lecture Series

Lecture Series

Each semester’s lecture series offers an eclectic selection of speakers from multiple disciplines, including architects, designers, artists, film-makers, engineers, theoreticians, and performers. The series often includes symposia focusing on a comprehensive array of accomplished panelists. Speakers are selected by a forum of students, faculty, alumni, and administrators. The lectures are free and open to the public. Lectures are followed by a dinner, allowing an intimate group of students and faculty to interact more personally with the invited speaker. SCI-Arc lectures are webcast for simultaneous viewing at sciarc.edu/live.

The 2010-2011 lecture and symposia series included:

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Architecture and Beauty, a Troubled Relationship Symposium moderated

by Yael Reisner with Sir Peter Cook, Hernan Diaz Alonso, Frank Gehry, Greg Lynn, Thom Mayne, and Eric Owen Moss Patrik Schumacher, Partner, Zaha Hadid Architects; Founding Director AADRL, London Bernard Tschumi, Principal, Bernard Tschumi Architects, New York/Paris; Professor, Columbia University Brendan MacFarlane, Principal, Jakob + MacFarlane, Paris

Marc Fornes, THEVERYMANY, New York

Hilary Sample, MOS Architects, New York

Christian Moeller, Artist and Professor, Department of Design and Media Arts, UCLA, Los Angeles

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Steven Holl Principal, Steven Holl Architects, New York Paolo Cascone, Principal, COdesignLab; Director, Urban Ecologies programme, ESA; Paris

Michael Rotondi, Principal, ROTO Architects; Distinguished Faculty, SCI-Arc

Sanford Kwinter, Professor of Theory and Criticism, Co-director Master in Design Studies, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge

Material Beyond Materials: Composite Tectonics Conference on Advanced Materials and Digital Manufacturing with Michelle Addington, Marcelyn Gow, Bill Kreysler, Greg Lynn, Achim Menges, Marcelo Spina, Peter Testa, Tom Wiscombe and many others.

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Faculty Conversations

All faculty members at SCI-Arc are practitioners as well as teachers. They have imagined, designed and fabricated some of the most engaging recent projects in the field of architecture.

Each semester, selected faculty members are invited to speak about their professional work as a way for students to engage with projects taking place outside the classroom. Faculty Conversations are held on Friday afternoons before studio.

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Exhibitions

The SCI-Arc Gallery and the Library Gallery exist in a larger artistic context, in close proximity to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Disney Concert Hall and REDCAT Theater and Gallery, the Japanese American Museum, and the Chinatown and Downtown art galleries. Many exhibitions have been published nationally and internationally and are widely attended by the greater LA public. The exhibitions at SCI-Arc are often accompanied by a public panel discussion or presentation to further investigate the works presented in each of these spaces.

SCI-Arc Gallery

The SCI-Arc Gallery is the only cultural institution in Los Angeles committed to exhibiting experimental projects by contemporary architects. The works created for the space occur at the intersections of architecture, urban planning, design and art. Each of the SCI-Arc Gallery’s five yearly exhibitions is executed as a workshop in which students work closely with the invited architect to assist in the fabrication and installation/deinstallation of the exhibit. The goal of the gallery is to exhibit work that provokes a critical discussion of current building practices – it is a space where practitioners, professionals, faculty, students, and the public can learn about and experience provocative architecture.

Recent SCI-Arc Gallery exhibitions include:

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Jason Payne / Hirsuta: Rawhide Barbara Bestor Architecture: ¡Disco Silencio!

Patrick Tighe with composer Ken Ueno and fabricator Machineous: Out of Memory Coy Howard: Part I: From Hand to Mouse, From Furniture to Architecture and Part II: Whispers and Echoes Atelier Hitoshi Abe: len-tic-u-lar-is davidclovers: Immuring Juan Azulay / Matter Management: Vivarium 2

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Library Gallery

The SCI-Arc library hosts exhibitions of built projects, design proposals and student work, fabricated and installed by SCIArc students and faculty, as well as architects and students from around the world. These formal, didactic exhibitions change the traditional study environment into a space for auxiliary discourse and research.

Recent Library Gallery exhibitions include: Audience of Objects Curated by Eric Owen Moss for the Venice Architecture Biennale 2010 Austrian Pavilion with BplusU, Xefirotarch, Hodgetts+Fung, Atelier Manferdini, I/O, PATTERNS

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London Eight Curated by Sir Peter Cook with Marjan Colletti & Marcos Cruz/Yusef AlMehdari, CJ Lim/ Pascal Bronner, Mark Smout & Laura Allen/ Johan Hybschmann

LA in Wien / Wien in LA Vienna University of Economics and Business Competition Exhibition with CRABstudio Architects, Eric Owen Moss Architects, Hitoshi Abe Studio, Morphosis Architects, Zaha Hadid Architects

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Facilities and Resources

SCI-Arc offers students an integrated suite of tools and facilities to support academic progress and experimentation. These include some of the most advanced digital fabrication machines available, computer facilities with all software necessary for the school’s curriculum, low-cost printing, a supply store, and a library dedicated to the study of architecture and related disciplines.

Fabrication Shop

The 5,000-square-foot facility plays an integral role in student work, supporting hands-on experimentation with materials and construction. It includes a machining room, model-making shop, bench room, metalworking area and assembly spaces.

Students have access to a variety of hand and power tools along with instruction and facilities for model-making, furniture making, industrial design and aluminum foundry casting. The facility enables and encourages experimentation with materials such as concrete, metal, and plastics, and allows for the creation of substantial projects. Recent additions to the SCI-Arc Fabrication Shop include a 4’ x 10’ panel saw and an improved covered exterior metal working lab.

CNC/Digital Fabrication Facilities

SCI-Arc is equipped with some of the most advanced digital fabrication machines available. Tools include computer numerical controlled (CNC) machinery directed specifically towards architecture and design—laser cutters, a vacuum-former, 3-axis milling machine, and 3D printing stations capable of sculpting surfaces in a variety of materials, including wood, plastic and metal, from CAD and CAM files. All of the CNC machinery interfaces with the most current industry standard software and protocols. Students are able to output and fabricate their work using all the most popular design software.

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Robot House

Accelerating SCI-Arc’s pace, already at the leading edge of digital design and rapid prototyping, the new SCI-Arc Robot House builds upon the school’s strengths to create a next-generation platform for experimentation and speculation regarding the future of architecture. Situated conceptually and physically between studio and shop, academy and industry, the doubleheight, 1,000-square-foot Robot House is a research space for hands-on collaborative experimentation, exploration, advanced multi-robotics, and architectural agency. Exploring opportunities outside of traditional digital production, six state of-the-art Staübli robotic systems offer a new design environment that focuses on institute-approved research and coursework.

Robot House is comprised of two main spaces. The Robot Room is where the five large Staübli robots are configured in a multi-robot work cell. Their layout empowers investigation, with the widest range of interaction and process sequences possible in a simulation and programming environment. The adjacent Robotics & Simulation Lab houses the Staübli TX40 laboratory robot. This is where students, along with their instructors, conduct hands-on research.

Projects explore additive, free-form fabrication tied to advanced composite materials. The robots themselves support a reconfigurable 3D workspace, with a wide range of applications, including on-site construction.

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Computer Resources and Print Center

SCI-Arc’s computer labs are accessible to students 24 hours a day, and include both PCs and Macs programmed with the advanced digital design tools used by cutting-edge architects.

The Print Center provides access to large-format high resolution color and black-and-white plotters and laser-jet printers.

SCI-Arc Art Supply Store

The SCI-Arc Supply Store was created by students to support the SCI-Arc curriculum, providing the tools and materials necessary to allow students to experiment with model making and drawing. It also provides books and readers for seminars.

The store serves both the student body and the downtown community by offering low prices for architecture and art supplies. The extensive inventory of model-making materials includes a wide selection of basswood and hardwoods, as well as plastic, metal, and wood structural shapes.

SCI-Arc Art Supply Store 255 S. Santa Fe Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90013 213.687.0854 Kappe Library

The only academic library in Southern California focused on architecture, the Kappe Library supports architectural research, teaching, and learning at SCI-Arc with a concentrated collection maintained by experienced staff. Since the library began in 1974—with donations from faculty, students, and staff—it has grown through the support of the SCI-Arc community and many foundations. It is named for architect Ray Kappe, the school’s first director and founding faculty member.

With architecture and related technical and design subjects, the collection includes 20,000 books in 97 subject areas and 100 print magazine subscriptions with over 3,000 bound volumes of back issues. Approximately 1,500 titles are added each year.

Audio-Visual Equipment

The library loans audio-visual equipment to students and faculty, including digital projectors, digital video cameras, slide projectors, and VCRs. A full-time Media Assistant is available to help with audio-visual needs.

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Online Resources

The online library is located at southerncaiofa.booksys.net/ opac/scaioa/. From the Library Online Portal students can access reference and orientation guides, such as the Kappe Library Study Guides; look up books in the book catalog; find magazine article citations in the Avery Index of Architectural Periodicals; locate information about materials via Material ConneXion; access digital images, full-text newspaper and journal articles, past SCI-Arc lectures, and mapping tools; and renew books and monitor their individual accounts. The library also subscribes to and makes available to students the online resources most useful for architectural research. In addition to the school-wide SCI-Arc wireless access, the library provides a wireless connection for visitors, and maintains six public workstations with internet access, including four scanning workstations.

Digital Lecture Archive

SCI-Arc began its video archive before videotaping lectures became standard practice at educational institutions.

Because SCI-Arc’s distinctive identity helped to attract the biggest names in architecture to teach and lecture, the archive is considered an important record of architectural discourse in Southern California. The collection is available for students to view in the library and online at sciarc.edu/ lectures archive.php.

In 2010, SCI-Arc received two major grants from the Getty Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts to create the SCI-Arc Digital Lecture Archive, an archive to include more than 1,000 hours of these key lectures and symposia from 1974 to the present, which will extend from online to phone apps, e-readers, and other new media.

Scheduled to launch in 2012, the archive will be supported by a sophisticated search engine, allowing access to all or specific parts of each lecture. Forming one of the most complete architectural collections of its kind in the world, it will make available never before seen footage of some of the most influential leaders in architecture and design, including Frank O. Gehry, Zaha Hadid, David Hockney, Rem Koolhaas, John Lautner, Thom Mayne, Eric Owen Moss, Kazuyo Sejima, and many more.

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SCI-Arc Press

SCI-Arc Press was founded as a distinct voice in architecture to examine and propagate the work and research of designers and theorists developing the next generation of ideas. Its mission is to publish works that engage and challenge current discourses in architecture and design, and further SCI-Arc’s objectives of excellence in research, scholarship, and education.

SCI-Arc publications provide a forum for new voices and ideas of relevance to students, faculty, alumni, educators, scholars, and architects, as well as the interested public.

Publications include: SCI-Arc Gallery 2002-10 This 670-page book documents 35 unique site-specific installations in the SCI-Arc Gallery from Office dA’s Zero Tolerances in 2002 to Alexis Rochas’s Still Robot in 2010. Under the direction of Eric Owen Moss, the SCI-Arc Gallery commissions emerging and established architects to test their ideas and research in exhibition form. SCI-Arc students then collaborate in the fabrication of the installations during architect-led workshops. SCI-Arc Gallery 2002-10 highlights process with copious illustrations and photographs and includes discussions with exhibitors since 2007.

Onramp A publication of selected work by SCI-Arc graduate and undergraduate students, Onramp is a catalog of diverse, compelling and unorthodox work being done at SCI-Arc. Edited by Florencia Pita, the three editions feature projects from the 2006-2010 academic years.

Cleantech Corridor What is it about this place? Why is it logical for Los Angeles to be a locus of activity for Cleantech industries? What can catalyze and make that happen? The answer, hopefully, is architectural and urban design. The Future Initiatives program held its

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second competition around Los Angeles urban issues, focusing on downtown’s Cleantech Corridor. Edited by Peter Zellner and published with the support of the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and sponsored by The Architect’s Newspaper, winning entries from 70 professional and student proposals from 11 countries are featured with jury discussions and essays.

Who Says What Architecture Is? In this collection of introductions, essays and lectures, SCI-Arc Director Eric Owen Moss contextualizes current architectural issues and practice through the work of renowned architects and theorists who come to lecture at SCI-Arc. Paffard Keatinge-Clay: Modern Architect(ure)/Modern Master(s) The first monograph on Paffard Keatinge-Clay documents the work of a relatively unknown but wholly exceptional figure in architecture. Born in England and trained in Europe, Keatinge-Clay practiced for 20 years in San Francisco, where his modernist approach was decidedly out of step with the prevailing “Bay Area Modernism.” Author Eric Keune elucidates how Keatinge-Clay’s oeuvre represents its time as well as influence of architects with whom he studied and worked: LeCorbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, among others.

Zago Architecture and Office dA: Two Installations Examines the work of Office dA and Andrew Zago through their respective installations in the SCI-Arc Gallery and indepth interviews by Eric Owen Moss.

Sessions Features the work of five SCI-Arc faculty members: George Yu, Marcelo Spina, Marta Male-Alemany, Benjamin Bratton, and Hernan Diaz Alonso. The publication includes interviews conducted by Jeffrey Kipnis.

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Student Life “At SCI-Arc, we are not learning a way to solve a problem, but a way to learn in itself, and how we can apply that to any problem we face...”

Matheos A. (B.Arch)

“I chose SCI-Arc because it has so many different things to offer that all come together under one roof...”

Erin B. (M.Arch)

“Traditional school programs work from A to Z, whereas a program like SCI-Arc may work from Z to A, or A to M to K to Y....”

H. Clark (M.Arch)

“Because at SCI-Arc we learn from practitioners, we get an idea about how things function in the real world...”

Laura K. (M.Arch)

Student Union

The Student Union is the voice of the students for all aspects of their academic and social life. The organization is made up of representatives from each studio and holds open bimonthly meetings. A student representative sits on the SCI-Arc Board of Trustees for a two-year term, reporting directly to and from the student community. Representatives on the Academic Council meet monthly to advise the director on school curriculum and academic policy matters. The Student Union provides the student body with a formal arena in which to bring concerns to the director, faculty and staff—all of whom can also provide feedback on any student-initiated policies.

Social Events Organized by the Student Union: Fridays at Five Annual Halloween Party Thanksgiving Dinner

Students help with planning the graduation ceremony, are actively engaged in the SCI-Arc Gallery exhibitions, and are involved in shaping and organizing the lecture series, student exhibitions, and student design competitions. The Student Union may also purchase supplemental tools for departments such as the Fabrication Shop and the IT Department.

Housing

All SCI-Arc students live off-campus, and each student is responsible for finding his or her own living accommodations.

Most students live within 5 to 15 miles of the school in surrounding communities; others live a short walk from the school in nearby loft apartments.

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Facilities and Resources

Online Housing Board

To help students find housing, the Admissions Office hosts an online housing board. Accepted students are given access to this housing board which connects incoming students, current students and area property owners. dtlarentals.com laloft.com recycler.com westsiderentals.com craigslist.com Transportation

While a car is convenient and useful for getting around Los Angeles, SCI-Arc is conveniently located for those who use public transportation.

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Office of Development and Alumni Affairs The Office of Development and Alumni Affairs is responsible for connecting, broadening and deepening SCI-Arc’s community of external partners, as well as raising needed support for the school. The team achieves this through the cultivation, solicitation, stewardship and engagement of a variety of SCI-Arc stakeholders, including alumni, parents, colleagues, foundations, corporations, and government agencies.

Raising philanthropic support to provide students with financial aid, attract and retain faculty, improve facilities, invest in technology, and develop new programs, the Office of Development and Alumni Affairs sustains and enhances support for SCI-Arc by running a robust annual fund program, securing institutional support from corporations and foundations, partnering with government agencies on major grants and contracts, and hosting fundraising events. In the last year, transformative gifts were raised from new donors, including the Ahmanson Foundation, the Getty Foundation, the Fletcher Jones Foundation, the James Irvine Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).

The Office of Development and Alumni Affairs is aided by the work of the SCI-Arc Alumni Council—a group of leadership alumni volunteers–whose mission is to connect alumni with one other, the school, and the students. Council members provide a strong link between the walls of SCI-Arc and the “real world” beyond. The goals of the Council are to: Host alumni networking and social events around the world Help facilitate intra-alumni communications Aid SCI-Arc students and alumni with their professional growth through mentorship, internships, networking and recruitment programs Assist in the identification and recruitment of superior prospective students, particularly minority candidates, for admission to SCI-Arc Encourage alumni participation in ensuring the financial strength of SCI-Arc, especially supporting student scholarships Act as ambassadors for SCI-Arc in promoting a positive identity for the school Provide counsel to SCI-Arc leadership on alumni needs

To provide career support for alumni and students, the Alumni Council hosts Open Season, a series of career networking events created to connect SCI-Arc alumni and professional partners in the architecture and design field to SCI-Arc students. These drop-in, day-long events invite potential employers to observe, and potentially recruit, SCI-Arc students as they present their studio and thesis work to faculty and jurors for academic review. Each date includes an informal networking reception at which alumni and staff are on-hand to facilitate introductions between students and firms.

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Alumni Profiles Benjamin Ball (B Arch ’93), Gaston Nogues (B Arch ’93) Ball-Nogues Studio

Exploring the nexus of art, architecture and industrial design, Ball-Nogues Studio has exhibited throughout the world, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Guggenheim Museum; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; arc en rêve centre d’architecture + Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux; the Venice Biennale; the Hong Kong/Shenzhen Biennale and the Beijing Biennale. They have received three American Institute of Architects Design Awards, United States Artists Target Fellowships and a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. In 2007, the studio was the winner of the Museum of Modern Arts PS1 Young Architects Program Competition. Recently, their work became part of the permanent collection of MoMA. Their work has appeared in a variety of publications, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Guardian, Architectural Record, Artforum, Icon, Log, Architectural Digest, and Sculpture.

Adam Goldstein (M Arch ’01), Christian Schulz (M. Arch ’01) [Studio Collective]

Adam Goldstein (M Arch ’01) and Christian Schulz (M. Arch ’01) of [Studio Collective] established their Santa Monica firm in 2009 after working for well-known designers including Frank Gehry, Phillippe Stark, and Dodd Mitchell. Studio Collective recently completed refurbishment work on the Spare Room cocktail lounge, one of Hollywood’s latest entertainment destinations, located at the iconic Roosevelt Hotel. Opened in early 2011, the Spare Room has been featured in magazines and city blogs including Vogue, LA Weekly, and blackbookmag.com.

Studio Collective has completed hospitality projects for sbe entertainment, Thompson Hotels, and several concept retail designs for Quiksilver, including the promenade flagship store in Santa Monica. Currently the studio is developing a penthouse design for the Roosevelt Hotel, an ocean-view restaurant in Malibu, a nightclub in Kansas City, as well as several private residences. In 2010, Christian was a guest on Frances Anderton’s DnA show on KCRW, and Adam Goldstein was awarded a “Wave of the Future Award” by Hospitality Design.

Emily White (M Arch’06), Lisa Little (M Arch ’06) Layer Architecture

Emily and Lisa met at SCI-Arc and worked for several Los Angeles-based firms, including Testa & Weiser, Inc., Naga Studio Architecture, Patrick Tighe Architecture, and Pugh+Scarpa Architects. In 2008, Emily and Lisa co-founded Layer, whose work has been featured in the Los Angeles Times and on the cover of Interior Design Magazine. Lisa is a licensed architect in the state of California. Emily currently teaches at SCI-Arc.

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ADMISSIONS AND APPLICATION

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Admissions

Visiting SCI-Arc

Applicants are welcome and encouraged to visit SCI-Arc to experience our unique learning environment. The Admissions Office offers tours on Mondays and Fridays at 12:30pm.

To sign up for a tour and/or schedule an appointment with a counselor, please contact the Admissions Office at admissions@sciarc.edu or 213.356.5320.

Review Dates

Accomodations

Fall 2011

SCI-Arc contracts with two downtown hotels for special rates:

Mid-term reviews October 17-28 Final reviews December 12-16

Spring 2012 Mid-term reviews February 20-March 2 Final reviews April 16-20

The Standard 55 S. Flower St. (at 6th Street) Los Angeles, CA 90071 213-892-8080 standardhotels.com

Kyoto Grand Hotel & Gardens 120 S. Los Angeles St. Los Angeles, CA 90012 213-629-1200 kyotograndhotel.com

Other hotels and short-term stay options include: Miyako Hotel 328 E. 1st St. Los Angeles, CA 90012 800.228.6596 miyakoinn.com

Stay Hotel/Hostel 636 S. Main St. Los Angeles, CA 90014 213.213.7829 stayhotels.com

Metro Plaza Hotel 711 North Main St. Los Angeles, CA 90012 213.680.0200 metroplazahotel.com

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Applying to SCI-Arc

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Application Deadlines

Resume/Curriculum Vitae

Applications for admission to the undergraduate program are accepted for the fall and spring terms. Graduate and post-graduate applications are accepted for the fall term only.

All applicants are required to submit a resume or curriculum vitae. This information should list the applicant’s professional experience, academic and artistic achievements, and published works.

Fall Deadlines

Spring Deadlines

M.Arch 1

B.Arch (advanced placement)

December 16, 2011

October 1, 2012

M.Arch 2 December 16, 2011

B.Arch (first year placement) January 16, 2012

Future Initiatives & Emerging Systems and Technologies

All application deadlines are postmark deadlines.

Late applications are considered on a case-by-case basis.

December 16, 2011

B.Arch (advanced placement) May 1, 2012 For instructions on submitting application materials, please visit the SCI-Arc website.

Application Form

All applicants are required to submit a completed online application form together with their supporting materials.

Application Fee

A $75.00 application fee must accompany the supporting documents. Payment of this fee may be made by check, money order, or credit card. Checks and money orders should be made out to “SCI-Arc” and must be written in U.S. dollars.

Statement of Purpose

This one- to two-page essay should describe the applicant’s educational and/ or professional background and explain his or her desire to study architecture, and in particular, why he or she wishes to pursue an architectural education at SCI-Arc.

Portfolio

All applicants are required to submit a portfolio of creative work. Individuals who have no formal architectural education or experience should include work that demonstrates his or her visual design sensibilities, sense of form and space, experience with different materials or media, craftsmanship, and imagination. This work may include, but is not limited to, drawings, sketches, photography, painting, sculpture, ceramics, wood and metal work. Applicants with a background in architecture are expected to present appropriately documented architectural projects in place of, or in addition to, other creative work.

Letters of Recommendation

Applicants must submit three letters of recommendation. These letters should attest to the applicant’s academic achievements and/or creative abilities and/or professional experience. At least two letters should be from past or current instructors. Applicants with extensive work experience may submit professional references. For every letter of recommendation submitted, please print out the Letter of Recommendation Form, and complete Part One. Submit the form to the person writing your recommendation letter, and instruct them to complete Part Two of the form and submit it with their letter of recommendation. Each letter of recommendation should be written on school/organization letterhead and must be accompanied by a completed Letter of Recommendation Form. Letters of recommendation

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should be mailed or delivered directly to SCI-Arc’s Admissions Office.

Academic Transcripts

Official transcripts from ALL schools attended are required, regardless of credit received or courses completed.

These records should include course work through the most recent term completed at each school. Applicants in the process of completing their degree will be required to submit final transcripts that indicate the degree completed and the date received. Official transcripts must arrive in a sealed envelope from each school.

International students must submit certified and/or official copies of their academic records with English translations.

SAT I or ACT

Undergraduate applicants who have completed less than twenty-four (24) units of college credit are required to submit test results from either the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT I) or the American College Test (ACT). For more information on these exams, please visit collegeboard.com or act.org.

GRE

Applicants to the M.Arch 1 or M.Arch 2 programs are required to take the Graduate Record Exam (GRE) General Test. The GRE should be taken no later than January of the same application year. For more information on the GRE, go to ets.org/gre. GRE school code: 2781.

TOEFL/IELTS

All students applying from non-Englishspeaking countries are required to take the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or the International English Language Testing System (IELTS). The minimum score requirement is 90 on the internet-based TOEFL, 560 on the paper-based TOEFL, or a 6.5 band score on the IELTS. Students should take the exam no later than January of the same application year.

For more information on these two testing systems, please visit ets.org/toefl or ielts.org. TOEFL school code: 7802.

Interviews are conducted only at the request of the Admissions Committee.

For specific questions about application deadlines and procedures, please visit sciarc.edu or contact the Admissions Office at admissions@ sciarc.edu.

SCI-Arc does not discriminate on the basis of race, national or ethnic origin, sexual reference, or physical disability in the administration of its admission and educational policies, scholarship and loan programs, and other college administered programs. SCI-Arc complies with the requirements of Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972. In accordance with Title IX, it does not discriminate on the basis of sex in educational programs or activities that it operates. Inquiries concerning the application of Title IX should be referred to the admissions coordinator.

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Financial Assistance

Scholarships

Each year, the Admissions Committee awards a number of scholarships to entering students. These scholarships are awarded on the overall merit of an applicant’s application submissions and his or her potential to succeed at SCI-Arc. All entering students—domestic and international—are considered for admissions scholarships, and all enrolled students are eligible to apply for continuing scholarships after completing their first two semesters of study.

Financial Aid

For accepted SCI-Arc students, your ability to pay is based on the information you provide on the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), the SCI-Arc Financial Aid forms and the federal tax returns. The Financial Aid Office offers information on many programs to incoming and continuing students.

Students must reapply for financial aid and scholarships every year. It is recommended that students reapply for financial aid by completing the FAFSA online in January. SCI-Arc’s Financial Aid Application and other required forms are made available each January for students who wish to receive financial aid in the following academic year. It is recommended that all students complete their applications by the priority deadline (March 2) to ensure that there is no delay in receiving their funds.

International students are not eligible to receive federal or state financial assistance. However, foreign students may be eligible for educational loans through private lenders, banks and other financial institutions or organizations. For more information, visit the financial aid portal on the SCI-Arc website.

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Leadership

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Directors

Wide[Band] Nomadic Café, A+D Museum, Los Angeles

John Enright

Samitaur Tower, Culver City, CA

Eric Owen Moss

Director Eric Owen Moss Architects (EOMA) Producing innovative structures, lectures, exhibitions, publishing and teaching around the world for over 37 years, Moss continues to shape the discourse of architecture internationally.

Undergraduate Program Chair Griffin Enright Architects Founded on the belief that collaboration yields the most innovative, creative and forward-thinking design, Enright’s practice approaches architecture as a simultaneous blurring and exploitation of distinctions between inside/outside, built form/landscape, site/urban context, and theory/practice.

Faculty Program Coordinators

Andrew Zago Visual Studies Coordinator Zago Architecture

Bringing open-ended, creative inquiry to disciplinary concerns in architecture, Zago’s practice is noted for its prescient articulation of emerging sensibilities, wedding quasi-autonomous aesthetic studies to the art of making buildings and cities.

Wild Beast Music Pavilion, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

Hsinming Fung

Director of Academic Affairs Hodgetts+Fung With a primary focus on the dialogue between technology and meaning, Fung’s experimental practice is both visionary and practical, seeking to unravel the complicated relationship between object and perception, time and experience, imagination, and realization.

Beijing National Hotel

Tom Wiscombe Applied Studies Coordinator EMERGENT

Chairs

Questioning excess and efficiency in architecture, in favor of a more complex understanding of both through biological thinking, Wiscombe’s work stands out in its synthesis of form, pattern, color, and technology, blending aesthetic and engineering issues into singular, irreducible constructions.

MoMA PS.1, Long Island City, NY

Hernan Diaz Alonso

Graduate Chair Xefirotarch One of the most influential voices of this generation, Diaz Alonso’s biomorphic architecture is recognized and exhibited in both architecture and art museums around the world.

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Todd Gannon Cultural Studies Coordinator With essays appearing in Log, Loud Paper, Dialogue, and elsewhere and a Ph.D. focusing on revisionist theory and practice in postwar British architecture, Gannon has lectured at institutions across the United States and in Europe.

Dora Epstein Jones General Studies Coordinator Jones, Partners: Architecture

Dora Epstein Jones is a theorist and teacher of architectural culture, who has been published in architectural journals, publications and anthologies.

Carbon Tower, Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture, MOCA, Los Angeles

Devyn Weiser

Undergraduate Thesis Coordinator Testa/Weiser

Emphasizing emerging technologies, advanced materials, and new manufacturing, Weiser’s multidisciplinary studio is dedicated to the practice of architecture, design, and new media projects at all scales.

Toy Factory Loft, Los Angeles

Peter Zellner

Future Initiatives (SCIFI) Coordinator Zellnerplus

Through design of public and private art galleries, residences, institutional facilities and corporate work environments, Zellner’s work is recognized for its delivery of uniquely tailored spaces.

Still Robot, SCI-Arc Gallery, Los Angeles

Alexis Rochas Making + Meaning Coordinator I/O

A practice focusing on the development of dynamic architectural methodologies integrating design, technology and advanced fabrication techniques.

Prism Gallery, West Hollywood, CA

Marcelo Spina Emerging Systems, Technologies and Media (ESTM) Coordinator PATTERNS

Integrating interests in techniques, material effects and sensations with interests in pure programmatic performance, Spina’s design and research practice seeks to evolve patterns as dense organizations, capable of affiliating and texturing cultural and social life into material form.

West Coast Pavilion, Architectural Beijing Biennale

Elena Manferdini Graduate Thesis Coordinator Atelier Manferdini

Based on a multi-scale work methodology, Manferdini’s practice embraces the philosophy that design can participate in a wide range of multidisciplinary developments that define our culture.

Palos Verdes Estates, Palos Verdes, CA

Darin Johnstone Design Immersion Days (DID) Coordinator Darin Johnstone Architecture

Engaging architecture as an overarching discipline, Johnstone’s research and practice explores contemporary materials and the role of generative computational methods in the design and fabrication process.

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Leadership and Faculty

Alexis Rochas

Phyllis Dubinsky

Jamey Lyzun

Marcelo Spina

Making + Meaning Coordinator

PDK Urban Strategies Applied Studies

Director

Darin Johnstone

John Enright

ARUP Applied Studies, Visual Studies

PATTTERNS Applied Studies, Design Studio

Hsinming Fung

Design Immersion Days (DID) Coordinator

Griffin Enright Architects Design Studio

Faculty

F-lab Design Studio

Leadership

Eric Owen Moss

Director of Academic Affairs

Jamie Bennett Chief Operating Officer Chairs

Hernan Diaz Alonso Graduate Programs Chair

John Enright

Heather Flood Volkan Alkanoglu Visual Studies, Design Studio

Andrew Atwood Belzberg Architects Design Studio

Juan Azulay

Undergraduate Program Chair

MM | Matter Management Visual Studies, Design Studio

Faculty Program Coordinators

Herwig Baumgartner

Andrew Zago Visual Studies Coordinator

Tom Wiscombe Applied Studies Coordinator

Todd Gannon Cultural Studies Coordinator

Dora Epstein Jones

B+U Applied Studies, Design Studio

Victoria Behner Cultural Studies

John Bencher AGA Architects Applied Studies

David Bergman MR+E, Cultural Studies

General Studies Coordinator

Design Studio

Peter Zellner

John Bohn

Future Initiatives (SCIFI) Coordinator

David Bergman

Nathan Bishop

JBohn Associates Design Studio

Michael Folonis Folonis Architects Applied Studies

Hsinming Fung Hodgetts+Fung Design Studio

Todd Gannon Ph.D. UCLA Cultural Studies

Marcelyn Gow Servo Cultural Studies, Design Studio

Margaret Griffin Griffin Enright Architects Applied Studies, Design Studio

William Hogan Applied Studies

Coy Howard Coy Howard & Company Design Studio

Darin Johnstone

Graduate Portfolio Coordinator

Devyn Weiser Undergraduate Thesis Coordinator

Ramiro Diaz-Granados Amorphis Applied Studies, Visual Studies, Design Studio

Eric Owen Moss

Jay Vanos

Eric Owen Moss Architects Design Studio

Vanos Architects Applied Studies

Dwayne Oyler

Visual Studies

Oyler Wu Collaborative Design Studio

Julian Parsley Applied Studies

Claire Phillips Cultural Studies

Jill Vesci Gregory Walsh Architect, FAIA Design Studio

Devyn Weiser Testa & Weiser, Applied Studies, Design Studio

Stephen Phillips

Emily White

SPARCHS Visual Studies, Design Studio

Layer Design Studio, Visual Studies

EMERGENT Applied Studies, Design Studio

Wes Jones

Alexis Rochas

Jenny Wu

Jones, Partners: Architecture Cultural Studies, Design Studio

I/O Design Studio

Oyler Wu Collaborative Design Studio

Joe Day

Ramiro Diaz-Granados

Scott Uriu B+U Applied Studies

Mary-Ann Ray

Marcelo Spina

Graduate Thesis Coordinator

Buro Happold Consulting Engineers Applied Studies

Studioworks Design Studio

Dora Epstein Jones

Hernan Diaz Alonso

Matthew Melnyk

Patrick Tighe Tighe Architecture Design Studio

Claude Willey

Jones, Partners: Architecture Cultural Studies

Xefirotarch, Distinguished Faculty Member Design Studio

Ilaria Mazzoleni IM Studio MI/LA Visual Studies, Design Studio

Russell Thomsen IDEA Office, Design Studio

Architect Cultural Studies

Bruce Danziger

Elena Manferdini

Robert Mangurian Studio Works Design Studio

Florencia Pita

ARUP Applied Studies deegan day design llc Visual Studies

Peter Testa Testa & Weiser Applied Studies, Visual Studies, Cultural Studies, Design Studio

fpmod Visual Studies, Design Studio

Darin Johnstone Architecture Design Studio

Future Initiatives (SCIFI) Coordinator Emerging Systems and Technologies | Media (ESTM) Coordinator

Elena Manferdini Atelier Manferdini Visual Studies, Design Studio

Eric Kahn IDEA Office Design Studio

Betty Kassis Design Studio

Rob Ley Urbana Design Studio

Michael Rotondi RoTo Architects, Distinguished Faculty Member Visual Studies, Design Studio

Janet Sager Sager Design Research + Communication Applied Studies

Tom Wiscombe

Denise Zachy-Popoch Visiting Faculty Applied Studies

Andrew Zago Zago Architecture Visual Studies, Design Studio

Peter Zellner Zellnerplus Cultural Studies, Design Studio

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Recent Visiting Faculty

Benjamin Ball Ball-Nogues Studio, Los Angeles

Peter Cook Director of CRAB, Professor of Architecture at the Royal Academy of Arts, London

Lise Ann Couture Asymptote Architecture, New York

Odile Decq Odile Decq Benoit Cornette Architectes Urbanistes, Paris

Manuel De Landa Philosopher, Media artist, New York

Julie Eizenberg Koning Eizenberg, Los Angeles

Jean-Pierre Hebert Artist, Los Angeles

Craig Hodgetts Hodgetts+Fung, Los Angeles

Lisa Iwamoto Iwamoto Scott Architecture, San Francisco

Jeffrey Kipnis Ohio State University, SCI-Arc Distinguished Visiting Faculty Member

Sulan Kolatan KOL/MAC Studio, New York

Sylvere Lotringer Literary critic, Cultural theorist, Los Angeles

Laurie D. Olin OLIN, Los Angeles

Wolf Prix Coop Himmelb(l)au, Vienna

Staff and Board of Trustees

Financial Aid Peter Trummer Architect, Researcher, Assistant Marisela de la Torre Amsterdam marisela@ sciarc.edu Xu Weiguo 213.356.5376 Dean, School of Architecture Finance Office Tsinghua University, Billing Contact Shenzen, China

Cynthia Dizon

Staff The general telephone number at SCI-Arc is 213.613.2200 Admissions Director

JJ Jackman

john_jackman@ sciarc.edu 213.356.5321

cynthia_dizon@ sciarc.edu 213.356.5333 Library Manager

Kevin McMahon

kevin_mcmahon@ sciarc.edu 213.356.5323 Media Manager

Reza Monahan reza_monahan@ sciarc.edu 213.356.5322

Director of Recruitment and Outreach

Shop Manager

kirstie_rothauge@ sciarc.edu 213.356.5345

rodney_rojas@ sciarc.edu 213.356.5337

Kirstie Rothauge

Admissions Coordinator

Sandy Frigo

admissions@ sciarc.edu 213.356.5320 Academic Affairs Manager

Paul Holliday

paul_holliday@ sciarc.edu 213.356.5314 Registrar/ International Student Advisor

Lisa Russo

lisarusso@sciarc.edu 213.356.5314

Rodney Rojas

Robotics and Simulation House Manager/ Robotics Technical Instructor

Nazareth Ekmekjian

nazareth_ekmekjian@ sciarc.edu 213.356.5378 Supply Store Manager

Patricia Mitchell

patricia_mitchell@ sciarc.edu 213.687.0854 Chief Development Officer

Bill Kramer

Academic Counselor

bill_kramer@ sciarc.edu 213.356.5319

peter_dung@ sciarc.edu 213.356.5316

Associate Director Annual Giving, Alumni Relations

Peter Dung

Financial Aid Director

Helen Lara

helen_lara@ sciarc.edu 213.356.5346 Financial Aid Counselor

Debby Unoura

debby_unoura@ sciarc.edu 213.356.5326

Aimee Richer

aimee_richer@ sciarc.edu 213.356.5388

Board of Trustees SCI-Arc’s Board of Trustees is charged with the governance, accountability, and sustainability of the school. The board also works to ensure SCI-Arc upholds the mission it set out to accomplish 30 years ago: To test the limits of architecture in order to transform existing conditions into the designs of the future.

Chairman

Jerry Neuman

Board Members at Large

Joseph Day Anthony Ferguson Frank O. Gehry John Geresi Russell L. Goings III William Gruen Scott Hughes Thom Mayne Eric Owen Moss Merry Norris Greg Otto Kevin Ratner Michael Rotondi Nick Seierup Dan Swartz Ted Tanner Honorary Members

Elyse Grinstein Ray Kappe Ian Robertson

Vice Chair

Joe Day

SCI-Arc Director

Eric Owen Moss

Treasurer

Dan Swartz

Secretary

Tom Gilmore Faculty Representative

Dwayne Oyler

Alumni Representative

Nerin Kadribegovic

Student Representative

Chris Skeens

Design

SCI-Arc Publications Photography

Karim Attoui Tom Bonner Julian Brummitt Roland Halbe Lida Mahabadi Priyank Mehta Chung Ming Matthew Momberger Rafael Sampaio Rocha Joshua White

Southern California Institute of Architecture

Undergraduate Graduate

I SCI C ARC Future Initiatives (SCIFI)

Emerging Systems and Technologies | Media (ESTm)

Visual Studies

Applied Studies

Cultural Studies Vertical Studios

Thesis Program

Making+Meaning

Design Immersion Days (DID) Travel Abroad

Community Design Public Programs Lecture Series Faculty Talks

SCI-Arc Gallery Library Gallery Facilities and Resources Robot House Student Life Alumni Affairs

Admissions, Financial Aid, and Housing Faculty, Staff and Board of Directors