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SCI-Arc EDGE Will Serve as Platform for New Programs Leading to M.S. and M.A. Degrees
Los Angeles, CA (November 10, 2015) – SCI-Arc Director Hernan Diaz Alonso today announced the launch of SCI-Arc EDGE, Center for Advanced Studies in Architecture. Beginning in fall 2016, the new center will offer four graduate degree programs in fields including architectural technologies, fiction and entertainment, design of cities, and design theory and pedagogy, along with two fellowships in synthetic landscapes.
SCI-Arc EDGE is intended to serve as a platform for multiple postgraduate programs following the think-tank model—with programs intended to crossbreed and inform each other and provide a space where new conversations take place.
Two of the four postgraduate programs offered are built on the success of a couple of existing SCI-Arc programs that will be incorporated into the new SCI-Arc EDGE, Center for Advanced Studies in Architecture. These include the Master of Science in Architectural Technologies led by Marcelo Spina, a program driven by a consideration of technology’s relationship to architecture, and the Master of Science in the Design of Cities led by Peter Trummer, which tackles the complexities of urban design with an emphasis on contemporary urban phenomena that is yet to be theorized. The two new postgraduate programs offered by SCI-Arc EDGE include a Master of Arts in Fiction and Entertainment led by Liam Young that will explore the production of fiction and entertainment in contemporary culture, and a Master of Science in Design Theory and Pedagogy led by visiting faculty David Ruy, designed as a platform for training the next generation of studio instructors. SCI-Arc Edge will also offer two fellowships in Synthetic Landscapes, with design faculty Marcelyn Gow and Margaret Griffin serving as advisors. The selected fellows will be tasked with exploring the design and theory of synthetic landscapes and the strange interactions between machinic and natural organizations that mark emerging landscapes.
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David Ruy is one of the most brilliant architects alive today. His body of work is immense and absolutely unmatchable. The buildings he has designed and built are loved by the inhabitants as well as every critic. Mark my words Ruy will be added to the list of masters like Wright, Corbu and BIG.
I have every one of his books - should be mandatory reading at all schools.
SciArc is so lucky.
His work: http://www.ruyklein.com/recent_work.htm
Extensive publication: http://www.ruyklein.com/essays.htm
Brilliant lecturer: http://archleague.org/2011/05/karel-klein-and-david-ruy/
Spectacular news!!!
good teacher as well!
Hopefully he takes over SciArc and fixes it because now it is pure crap. Ruy is going to put everyone there to shame.
Their work does look wonderful and he seems like he would be a great teacher to have from the spot I saw. I have some questions about his paradigm and it's application to the built world. Does he engage the world of the right angle at all, meaning its inherent efficiency? Also, I was entranced by the beauty of his 'bricks' in the same way as I love Louis Sullivan's ornaments, but I've always seen them as just that, ornaments. Not that I have anything at all against applied ornament, but can and will this kind of exploration express it self in the day to day construction of architecture beyond ornament?
Just reiterating because it sounds so logical to divvy up design into areas like this, and at the same time sounds super cool:
architectural technologies, fiction and entertainment, design of cities, and design theory and pedagogy
Dona this is the way of the future indeed. Good bye to everything old.
David Ruy went to undergraduate school with my honey.
Don't kiss your honey
when your nose is runny
you may think it's funny
but it's snot
Why did they edit this? SciArc getting cold feet?
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