Archinect - Features 2024-12-18T02:08:17-05:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/149933876/ray-kappe-founder-of-sci-arc-revisits-the-school-s-roots Ray Kappe, founder of SCI-Arc, revisits the school's roots Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2016-03-10T11:50:00-05:00 >2024-08-28T00:58:30-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/9z/9zkjbt2rxe1xk94i.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Distinguished by nearly forty-five years of SCI-Arc history between them, founding director Ray Kappe sat with current director Hernan Diaz Alonso last Wednesday evening for a reflective public conversation at the school. Part of SCI-Arc&rsquo;s &ldquo;Duel + Duet&rdquo; speaker series, where a visiting figure is interviewed by a leader at the school, Alonso prompted Kappe to chart the school's historical narrative, touching on both the exciting possibilities and potentially debilitating difficulties inherent to running an independent educational institution &ndash; no less true today than they were in the 1970s.</p>