2024-11-14T11:34:46-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150356176/longtime-beloved-sci-arc-faculty-member-robert-mangurian-passes-away Josh Niland 2023-07-10T13:01:00-04:00 >2024-10-25T04:07:38-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/35/3561db0b88d88e3f7994033ab7e599fe.jpeg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>The <a href="https://archinect.com/sciarc" target="_blank">Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc)</a> has announced the recent passing of influential longtime faculty member Robert Mangurian in Los Angeles at the age of 82.</p> <p>Mangurian originally hailed form Baltimore. After moving to the Bay Area to study at the&nbsp;<a href="https://archinect.com/UCBerkeley" target="_blank">University of California, Berkeley</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://archinect.com/schools/cover/17258579/stanford-university" target="_blank">Stanford</a>, respectively, he moved to NYC to practice, and soon after relocated to Los Angeles where he joined the Los Angeles-based practice Studio Works Architects in 1969, originally founded by Craig Hodgetts, Keith Godard, and Peter DeBretteville.</p> <p>Mangurian lectured at Yale, Rice, Harvard, the University of Michigan, and the University of Virginia in addition to his decades-long tenure at the SCI-Arc, which ended in 2018. He was awarded the prestigious Chrysler Design Award in 2001 and was later inducted into the American Academy in Rome along with his practice partner and fellow SCI-Arc faculty member, Mary-Ann Ray.</p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/01/012825ad4297fd7ce2ec38d8d4330b02.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/01/012825ad4297fd7ce2ec38d8d4330b02.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Mangurian, along with Frederick Fisher, Eric Owen Moss, Coy ...</figcaption></figure>