there are interviews by Orhan Ayyuce floating around here in the features section with Thom Mayne, Michael Rotondi, Eric Owen Moss and Neil Denari. that might help.

I think SCIAR has lost the magic of experimental and unique, is now just another school, same old crap, stuff I seen produced there, is the same stuff from 10 years ago.. Nothing innovative, maybe a change of faculty or mentality, but we still have the same honchos teaching the same bs.

hope it helps.

If most of the designs are firmly based in the software used to generate them, wouldn't it be better to go to a school like sci-arc than a more expensive one like columbia, if one is learning similar software? In the end, isn't it what you make of it with the tools given (software know-how, maybe some theory)?

there are literally 20+ threads on this forum covering the exact same topic.

please use the search function at the bottom of the forum page and spend 5 minutes looking through previous and might I add recent discussions covering the same topic.

being a sci_arc grad, all I can say is that sci_arc is a very self-motivated program with very little hand holding, so if this is the level of research, insight and self starting you plan to bring to your academic studies, please plan on going to a different school.

i think f***k's comments for im guessing an 18yr old are a little harsh and i wouldnt take their comment too highly or make a first impression of the type of people who come out of sciarc.

I would suggest you visit sciarc if feasible so that you can talk to anyone you can find. if you still need more input you can email and i can pass your question to a friend of mine attending grad school there.

i wouldnt worry too much about reputation and graduate workforce. if you bust your arse, the cream always rises to the top. good luck!

I'm sorry. Architecture school is full of totally helpful people who only say positive things at reviews, give you big hugs and pave the way with hearts and flowers.

And clearly since I mentioned that I graduated from SCI-Arc, I couldn't be an 18 year old.

If you do visit or talk to someone, make sure it is someone in your own program. The graduate and undergraduate programs are vastly different in scale, scope, faculty and expectations. Talking to someone in the graduate program if your going for the undergraduate program will give you very little insight into your own personal questions.

I'm pretty sure panda was referring to the inital asker of the question as being an 18 year old (since s/he said s/he was going into the b.arch program) as opposed to calling .-.-.-.-.-.-. an 18 year old (which is what I am assuming .-.-.-. thought, since s/he seemed so insulted about being supposedly referred to as an 18 year old...).

I'm also pretty sure there is absolutely nothing wrong with someone asking the same question that has been answered before, since things often change and there may be new information to be added to the conversation. Theres pretty much no real reason to be such a dick about these sorts of things, in my own personal humble opinion.

Definitely go check the school out during the school year - particularly when reviews are happening. One of the things I like the most about SCI-Arc is how open ended it is. The "X" (M.Arch 2) program gets a lot of publicity and, unfortunately, that is my least favorite program there. There are a wide range of studios available which vary greatly in focus.

There are a lot of interesting courses, programs, ideas and projects there which don't get much press outside of the school walls. Another fantastic aspect is that the instructors are very supportive of new ideas - even if they don't understand where it will go etc - but you do have to prove yourself and produce "architecture" to back those ideas up.

don't go, sciarc sucks

there's a taco place nearby that's really good.
ups for tacos mexico.

"there are literally 20+ threads on this forum covering the exact same topic.

please use the search function at the bottom of the forum page and spend 5 minutes looking through previous and might I add recent discussions covering the same topic.

being a sci_arc grad, all I can say is that sci_arc is a very self-motivated program with very little hand holding, so if this is the level of research, insight and self starting you plan to bring to your academic studies, please plan on going to a different school."

Why dont you just assume i already read every thread on this board pertaining to Sciarc, so I decided to start a new thread out of a further quest for knowledge...really your post serves no purpose other than showing that youre a pompous douchebag.

No, I'm the pompous douchebag. Didn't you do a search first?

you might have prefaced your original post then with:

After going through some of the previous posts here on Archinect regarding SCI-Arc, I have some further questions pertaining to the Undergraduate program which I have been accepted to this fall.

and then detailed out your questions so that you avoided the response you were previously given. Leaving your audience to assume you already know or have done something typically leads to disastrous results (as you will soon find at your first pin-up) so it's generally best to make sure you clearly indicate these things upfront.

That said, I think you should visit the school and see specifically the work being done by people in your program. SCI_Arc typically gets associated with the work being produced by the March2 program and the faculty that teach in that program (i.e. Hernan, Wiscombe). The UG program at SCI_Arc, as mentioned previously (and on the other SCI_Arc forum I noticed you have posted on), is very different in focus and output and tends to be a little more structured and tectonic.

The admissions office should be able to show you some of the work from the last few semesters as the only students at SCI-Arc right now are graduate thesis and the Making and Meaning program.

are you ummm serious???...

why don't you go pester the other 20+ sciarc threadstarters on this forum to preface their threads with your stupid "ive already researched this topic thoroughly" clause

guess which one is Orochi!

cuz farnamg is obviously the one in the middle that didn't do a search.

Eww, I am not a quido. And that's not even good trolling.

I'm cornish for starters... so you may want to move your "douchebaggery" to chav status.

Tuppers would be acceptable too.

That's old school for sheep fuckers.

quido?
whatever.
spikey haired justice is what it is.
cornish=douchebag
god bless you each and every one.
I could care less for anyone's definition of trolling.
tra lelah lelah! blood on your hands!
is it really six am!?

sciarc thread to trolling in just 5 posts! i think that's a new record.

orochi, i don't know who you are, but i like your style.

wow farnamg. nice response. whose the douchebag now?

I can't wait for you to get a new asshole handed to you at your first review. I wish I could be there but thankfully I've already graduated and won't have to put up with sharing the school with you.

F'ing Undergrads.

hahahaha nice one dot.