NEWS
SCI-Arc faculty member Margaret Griffin of Griffin Enright Architects, alumna Jennifer Siegal (M.Arch '94) of Office of Mobile Design, and Julie Smith-Clementi of Rios Clementi Hale Studios will appear as "Three Voices in Design" in the New Voices panel series hosted by the Architectural Foundation of Los Angeles.
The panel moderated by Alissa Walker will be hosted on Thursday, September 16, 7 to 8:30pm by the Ilan Dei Studio (2100 Zeno Place, Venice).
Sunday, September 12, 2010Ceremony 5:00-7:00pm
Reception 7:00-9:00pm
SCI-Arc Graduation Pavilion
The ceremony will be broadcast
live online>>
Sir Peter Cook--founder of Archigram, Director of CRAB, Professor of Architecture at the Royal Academy of Arts, London--will give a commencement speech entitled Let's fly - it's architecture.
Guest Reception:
The SCI-Arc Office of Development and Alumni Relations will host a special pre-ceremony priority seating reception for parents, family members, and guests to begin at 4pm in the Graduation Pavilion.
Pre-Ceremony Arrival:
Graduates should arrive no later than 4:30pm to check in with Peter Dung and Lisa Russo, who will assist with assigned seating and explain the procedure for walking to receive diplomas.
To guarantee that family secure priority seating, please RSVP to Aimee Richer at aimee_richer@sciarc.edu by Friday, September 3. Please include the names of your reception attendees.
Faculty member Juan Azulay of Matter Management, with the contribution of post-graduate student Shaocong Zhou, received 3rd place in a competition to design a 4-square-mile district in the 7,000-year-old city of Shaoxing in Southern China. Located in the urban district at Paojiang, the master plan called for an evolved water ecology culture.
Azulay traveled to China in early July to present the project to the Chinese authorities–alongside the other winning proposals.
A new exhibition by RailLA, LA Beyond Cars, introduces a multimedia experience showcasing concepts, ideas, and musings from around the world reflecting the future of Los Angeles—a future beyond just cars.
The exhibition opens Thursday, July 29,
at the Jewel Box, located in the Financial District of downtown Los Angeles.
The opening reception is scheduled
from 6 to 10pm.
Projects on view include work by Eric Owen Moss Architects, Zaha Hadid Architects, Morphosis, MVRDV, Topotek1, Fosters and Partners, Park 101 (AECOM), and The Piggy Back Yard—including Parsons Brinkerhoff, Michael Maltzan Architecture, Mia Lehrer + Associates, Chee Salette Architecture Office, and Perkins + Will.
The exhibition will remain on view through August 28, at the Jewel Box, located at 525 S. Flower Street.
When Dwell chose its favorite houses featured in the ten years the magazine has been publishing, it included four designed by SCI-Arc alumni and the Kappe Residence, designed by founding director Ray Kappe.
The just published special edition, 100 Houses We Love includes homes by alumni Jennifer Siegal (M.Arch '94) of Office of Mobile Design, David Hertz (B.Arch '83) of David Hertz Architecture, Rocio Romero (M.Arch '99) of Rocio Romero, and Beat Schenk (B.Arch '98) and Chaewon Kim (B.Arch '99) of UNI.
Kappe, SCI-Arc director from 1972 until 1987, built his Pacific Palisades home in the mid-1960s.
Click on the links below to read the entries for each of the featured homes:
Jennifer Siegal: #013 - Carlson Residence
David Hertz: #046 – Hertz/Fong Residence
Rocio Romero: #048 – LV
Beat Shank & Chaewon Kim: #057 – X-Small
Ray Kappe: #078 – Kappe Residence
SCI-Arc Board of Trustees member Merry Norris is featured as a patron of the arts in Pasadena in the current issue of Pasadena Magazine. Norris, who has served on SCI-Arc's board since 1987, talks about the importance of that affiliation:
I am so enamored with SCI-Arc. It's an incredibly challenging creative environment. It's a huge part of my life.
The article, The Grand Dames – Pasadena's Patronesses of the Arts, also features art benefactors Adelaide Hixon, Peggy Phelps, and Ada Gates Patton.
Download the complete feature >>
A story about the AIA/LA Young Talent Awards—which recognized faculty members Dwayne Oyler, Jenny Wu and Tom Wiscombe, as well as noted submissions by alumni Cathy Johnson (M.Arch '05), Rebecca Rudolph (M.Arch '00) and Kevin Wronske (B.Arch '02)—was published in the April West Coast issue of Architect's Newspaper.
The article, Young Guns, mentions the award ceremony hosted by the AIA/LA at SCI-Arc on April 5 and goes on to describe the work of the winning architects.
The same issue features a story about London Eight, an exhibition of architectural drawings presented this past spring in the SCI-Arc Library Gallery.
London Eight […] is a dazzling display of inventive draftsmanship by graduates and faculty of the Bartlett, the architecture school of London University, selected by Peter Cook, its former chair.
In his story, Drawn, Not Digital, architectural writer Dirk Sutro notes that "the exhibit reminds architects, planners, and others who shape the built environment that materials can have meaning even when they aren't seen, that anonymous laborers are the ones truly responsible for the structures around us, and that common, often-invisible materials can be exposed and combined into thoughtful works of art."
Read the full article about London Eight >>
SYNTHe, the innovative rooftop project designed by faculty member Alexis Rochas and students in the Community Design Program at SCI-Arc, is featured prominently in two foreign publications: Korean magazine ELA and Italian publication Lotus.
In addition to choosing the project for their cover, ELA ran an 10-page spread with photos and descriptions of SYNTHe. Lotus ran a 4-page, bi-lingual feature on the project.
The rooftop garden prototype is located atop The Flat, a downtown Los Angeles residential mid-rise building, and was completed in 2009.
Download the article in ELA (in Korean) >>
Download the article in Lotus (in English/Italian) >>
The March 2010 issue of Dwell magazine features SYNTHe – the first city-approved green roof in Los Angeles. The 3000 sq. ft. structure was build by faculty member Alexis Rochas and his students in the Community Outreach and Design Building program at SCI-Arc. Completed in 2009, the galvanized sheet metal structure lies atop the Flat, a six-story downtown apartment complex.
Rochas and students worked with the city of Los Angeles and project developer Bret Mosher to create the multifunctional modular structure that "acts like a shell, hiding beneath it the utilitarian infrastructure that is often found on the top of urban buildings."
"Ridges of the laser-cut structure form seating and leisure areas for the building's residents, creating a uniquely active space high above the pavement," writes Dwell reporter Nate Berg.
SCI-Arc alumna Barbara Bestor picked up kudos from Dwell for the Venice Beach Surf Shack she designed for creative director Eric Grunbaum. Writes Dwell, "Bestor has a formidable reputation in Southern California for her bohemian modernism, and for Grunbaum, she created a 2,000-square-foot, three-bedroom, three-bath home that harbors a traditional sensibility with a contemporary heart."
For more about the projects, visit www.dwell.com
LOS ANGELES, January 19, 2010 -- Architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne of the Los Angeles Times uses the opening of the Aqua skyscraper in Chicago to take measure of how female architects are faring these days—and includes the names of a number of prominent women with ties to SCI-Arc.
Aqua, an 82-story hotel and residential tower designed by Jeanne Gang of Studio Gang, is the tallest building in the world by a female-led architecture firm.
Hawthorne cites the achievements of a number of other women architects rising to national prominence, including more than half a dozen who have taught at SCI-Arc or are alumni:
- Many of the top architecture schools in the country are now overseen by female deans, including Jennifer Wolch at UC Berkeley and Monica Ponce de Leon at the University of Michigan. This month, Sarah Whiting, formerly at Princeton, became the dean at Rice University's School of Architecture. . . . The list of women at the top of prominent firms with impressive track records of built work grows longer by the year. It includes Elizabeth Diller, Kazuyo Sejima, Annabelle Selldorf, Winka Dubbeldam, Marsha Maytum, Billie Tsien, Carol Ross Barney and Marion Weiss, to name just a few. In Southern California the list is headed by Barbara Bestor, Jennifer Luce, Brenda Levin, Julie Eizenberg, Elizabeth Moule, Sharon Johnston and Jennifer Siegal.
Ponce de Leon, Whiting, Tsien, Eizenberg and Johnston have taught at SCI-Arc; Bestor and Siegal are alumni. On Feb. 24, Ponce de Leon will be a guest lecturer at SCI-Arc.
For the full article by Hawthorne, click HERE
