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SCI-Arc is pleased to present En Pointe, a new installation in the SCI-Arc Gallery designed by Los Angeles architect Heather Roberge. An array of architectural objects, En Pointe reflects on the historical and spatial significance of the column as both object and series. Inspired by Henry N... View full entry »
Now in its Fifth Year, Design Immersion Days Debuts June 22 on the School’s Campus in Downtown LASCI-Arc has been awarded a $30,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support Design Immersion Days (DID), a summer program for high school students designed to educate and inspire... View full entry »
In September 2014, SCI-Arc and Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles announced the start of a strategic partnership tackling innovative ways to redevelop neglected properties in LA and design low-income homes that would positively impact their communities.During fall, a group of graduate and... View full entry »
SCI-Arc is pleased to announce the 2015 Undergraduate Thesis presentations and the opening for the school’s end-of-year Spring Show exhibition, featuring student work from all programs.Thesis PresentationsFriday, April 24, 2-6pmSaturday, April 25, 10am-1pm & 2-5pmSpring Show Opening... View full entry »
The Thickening of Time, a new book by senior SCI-Arc faculty Coy Howard, continues the school’s tradition of innovation by challenging the current status of digital architecture. Published by SCI-Arc Press in collaboration with the architect, the 288-page volume features Howard’s... View full entry »
Interpretations, distorting, bending with alternatives, lies, lying, liar. The multi-faceted nature of contemporary discourse in architecture can be conceived as a field of partial and subjective truths evidenced by its mediums and conventions. Questioning traditional notions of representation as... View full entry »
A group of SCI-Arc faculty and alumni will be attending the 103rd annual conference hosted by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) from March 19-21, 2015 in Toronto, Canada. The annual meeting co-chaired by David Ruy of the Pratt Institute and Lola Sheppard of University of... View full entry »
SCI-Arc is pleased to present Hypostyle, a site-specific SCI-Arc Gallery installation by architect Henry N. Cobb. Since time immemorial, hypostyles have been constructed as halls wherein highly ordered arrays of vertical supports populate roofed spaces that are conceptually limitless—but to... View full entry »
Thursday, March 5, 7pmW.M. Keck Lecture HallCOOP HIMMELB(L)AU's "Dynamic Raumplan" in the SCI-Arc Gallery is not an object but a spatial installation that operates like a machine, designed to communicate a new urban vision for the future. In this installation, the city is seen as a complex system... View full entry »
The Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) is pleased to announce its spring 2015 series of public programs and events. Each semester, SCI-Arc’s dynamic lecture series engages speakers from a broad range of disciplines, including award-winning architects, urban historians... View full entry »
The Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) is pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for the 2015-2016 Design of Theory Fellowship program.Long established as an institution dedicated to the innovative and original exploration of Architecture, SCI-Arc created... View full entry »
SCI-Arc is pleased to present IDEA’s Thinking the Future of Auschwitz, an architectural proposal for the future of the Nazi concentration camps in Poland. The exhibition opens Monday, November 3 at the SCI-Arc Library, with an opening discussion featuring Russell Thomsen of IDEA and SCI-Arc... View full entry »
SCI-Arc is pleased to present Bryan Cantley/Form:uLA’s upcoming exhibition in the SCI-Arc Gallery, Dirty Geometries + Mechanical Imperfections. The show is an opus in three distinct parts: the articulation of fallacy and artificial chronology of the architectural drawing; the suggested... View full entry »
The Board of Trustees of the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) last week appointed Hernan Diaz Alonso, architect and educator, as the Los Angeles architecture school’s new Director beginning September 2015.Diaz Alonso will succeed architect Eric Owen Moss, SCI-Arc... View full entry »
Project is Shortlisted for MYLA2050 Grants Challenge Competition to Win $100,000 Grant from Goldhirsh Foundation in Partnership with GOODA new collaboration between SCI-Arc and Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles (Habitat LA) will tackle innovative ways to redevelop neglected properties in... View full entry »
(L to R): MoMA/PS1 Bamboo Canopy & Forrest Pavilion, Eric Bunge; 3M Headquarters, Minnesota, Atelier Hitoshi Abe; Serpentine Gallery, London, Sou Fujimoto Architects (Download Press Images)SCI-Arc is pleased to announce its fall 2014 series of public lectures and events. Each semester... View full entry »
The Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) is now accepting applications for its Interaction/Hardware/Software Design Fellowship program, which advances and advocates the innovative processes of design through the lens of architecture.The SCI-Arc Robot House focuses on the... View full entry »
A group of graduate students in the Emerging Systems Technologies & Media post-graduate program at SCI-Arc teamed up this summer to participate in the Plasticity design competition hosted by Tex-Fab. Their design prototype, PUFF’D, developed under the coordination of SCI-Arc design... View full entry »
SCI-Arc is now accepting fellowship applications for its Design of Theory Fellowship program, advancing and advocating the necessity for theory and discourse within the contemporary architectural design spectrum. Over the course of the one-year program cycle, Design of Theory Fellows will be... View full entry »
Friday, June 20, 7pm: Discussion with Heather Flood and SCI-Arc Director Eric Owen Moss, followed by an opening receptionHeather Flood's Punk’d installation opening June 20 at SCI-Arc Gallery explores the visual effects that can be produced when two-dimensional graphic patterns are... View full entry »
A group of noted architects and close friends of visionary architect and draftsman Lebbeus Woods (1940-2012) will gather at The Cooper Union on Friday, April 25 and Saturday, April 26 for a symposium honoring the life, work and fearless nature with which the late architect created.Among the... View full entry »
Following a nationwide selection process, SCI-Arc was announced as a regional partner and host of one of three regional sessions presented this year by the Mayors’ Institute on City Design (MICD). The school will organize a two-day design workshop where eight mayors from the West region will... View full entry »
Friday, April 11, 7pm: Discussion with Herwig Baumgartner, Scott Uriu and SCI-Arc Director Eric Owen Moss, followed by an opening receptionSCI-Arc is please to present Apertures, a site-specific installation designed by Herwig Baumgartner and Scott Uriu, opening April 11 in the SCI-Arc Gallery... View full entry »
Friday, March 14, 7pm: Exhibition Discussion with designer Florencia Pita, Joseph Rosa, and SCI-Arc Director Eric Owen Moss followed by Opening ReceptionLOS ANGELES, CA (February 25, 2014) –SCI-Arc is pleased to present Florencia Pita/PFmod: UMMA Table & Objects, opening March 14 in the... View full entry »
In early December, SCI-Arc announced that it will break ground on a technologically transformative new digital fabrication space that will ignite the kinds of innovation, entrepreneurship and out-of-the-box thinking that are the hallmark of a SCI-Arc education. Dubbed the Magic Box, the... View full entry »
SCI-Arc is pleased to announce its Spring 2014 schedule of public lectures, discussions and exhibitions. The downtown LA architecture school’s highly anticipated series of public events provides audiences with access to award-winning architects, urban historians, artists, designers... View full entry »
Lebbeus Woods, No Title, 1990, Courtesy of Blythe and Thom Mayne© Estate of Lebbeus WoodsExhibition Symposium + Opening ReceptionFriday, October 11, 7pm: Symposium in the W.M. Keck Lecture Hall followed by an opening reception in the GalleryLebbeus Woods is an ArchetypeHernan Diaz Alonso... View full entry »
Richard Baptie of the general contractor Hathaway Dinwiddie, Writer, Director and Producer Tim Disney, and Urban Strategist Enrique Peñalosa, a Former Mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, Join SCI-Arc’s Board of Trustees SCI-Arc elected three new trustees to its ranks today: Richard... View full entry »
SCI-Arc Director Eric Owen Moss will address new directions in architecture education at the 3rd International Architectural Education Summit (IAES) held Sept 13-14th in Berlin. Organized by ANCB The Metropolitan Laboratory in partnership with UCLA Architecture and Urban Design, Los Angeles and... View full entry »
World Renowned Architects, Designers, Artists Featured in Noteworthy Lectures and Exhibitions Admission to SCI-Arc events is always free SCI-Arc is pleased to announce its schedule of public lectures, discussions and exhibitions for Fall 2013, when the school welcomes an international roster of... View full entry »
