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SCI-Arc would like to congratulate M.Arch 2 students Carnation Kng and Rene Perez Ignacio who received 2nd and 3rd place awards respectively in the 2021 Vertikal Habitat Urban Housing Tower competition! Read more: https://bit.ly/2VeFxOl

Join us today at 2PM PDT for a lecture with artist, designer, and educator John Carpenter: New ways of seeing the Pattern. This talk will discuss the use of gesture and a 320 immersive workspace at ob.long.in Industries to prototype, design, and build real-time, interactive, software-based environments that explore datasets from early heart formation to the news. More info: https://bit.ly/3oBAmCK

Graduate Programs Chair Elena Manferdini proffers some of its recent graduate schemes and outlines its pedagogic philosophy. https://bit.ly/3jH58JQ

Why learn in 2022 what you can learn now? Making+Meaning Registration closes TODAY. makingandmeaning.sciarc.edu This summer, instructors @williamvirgil @curimebatliner @jeremykamal @kumsi10000 will be creating the M+M formal alphabet using A to D as the departing set of letters describing the basic structure for unique ways of making. Each stage will give students access to methods of ‘making’ with various design and software techniques. Students should be equipped with four different form-finding methods to apply to their design language by the end of the program.

Today at 3:30! Join Inner-City Arts to hear more about our upcoming Pop-Arc Summer Program

Graduate Thesis project Perceptive Places by M.Arch 2 student Yash Mehta @flash_yash featuring special guest #DogsofSCIArc Beanie Smalls (Adviser: @hernandiazalonso) Perceptive Places is about accidental phantoms. The project explores facets of fakeness to embed places with dramatic unreal-reality. The thesis positions itself somewhere in between the plausible and the surreal; the present and the absent. This series of Imaginary places are revealed through a series of sp...eculative encounters of architecture in the realm of the phenomenal, the intangible, and the imaginary. We expect maps to tell the truth; indeed we need them to on a fierce and primal level. We obey our phones and dashboard GPS navigators even when they send us off a cliff. Realism is defined as a constructed tension between reality and its representation. Architecture has always been positioned as conceptual or sensorial or abstract or real, but the project intervenes between desires; fakeness, and imagination. The project is about a dreamarchitecture is not a dreambut it allows us to push the boundaries of reality. A dream where architectural consciousness encounters a new world. The thesis questions the assumptions about the way we perceive reality and initiates new sensory givens of places that could have existed. Phantom Islands are artifacts of the age of maritime discovery and colonial expansion. During centuries of ocean exploration, these islands were sighted, charted, described, and even exploredbut their existence has never been ultimately verified. Poised somewhere between cartographical facts, errors and maritime fiction, they existed on various maps for hundreds of years, inspiring legends, fantasies, and counterfactual histories. Perceptive Places is a collection of these phantom places that explore the limits of our contemporary architectural consciousness. This Thesis is therefore a culturally provocative place, producing new kinds of allegorical symbolism in the cultural imagination which disclose new consciousness.

Queerness/queer identity and space, as well as the politics thereof, have been inextricably linked for centuries. Raising LGBTQIA+ voices in the architecture community has become more critical than ever in the fight for equity within certain industriesespecially those that have been historically and overwhelmingly cisgender, straight, White, and maleincluding, but not limited to, architecture and design. Read more: https://bit.ly/3htuZ5w

Architectural Bestia, an exhibition curated by SCI-Arc Director Hernán Díaz Alonso and designed by Architectural Technologies Coordinator M. Casey Rehm, opened as part of the Venice Architecture Bienniale on May 22. Read more: https://bit.ly/3w5nLK7

SCI-Arc Undergraduate Program Chair Tom Wiscombe unveils Sunset Spectacular harnessing aerospace engineering for a 21st-century billboard. Read more: https://bit.ly/3Abpfpg

Final project by M.Arch 1 student Paige Davidson @davidso9 in Margaret Griffin’s 1GB studio. @margaret_griffinp Topics of figure/ground, mass/void, and interiority/boundary are the main topics of study with the bathhouse. Playing with signifiers of figural voids and figure grounds a series of idiosyncratic bulbous forms create a family of spatial volumes. These forms are meant to be perceived as a multiplicity: void, shell, and mass. From the exterior, colorful spikes line ...each mass, creating a textured patterning. From the interior, the spikes reveal to create a constellation of punched skylights, taking cues from historical lighting in hammams. Both nestled within and carved out of a singular blocky mass, they read as objects within a space with their own characteristic and identity. Colorful, spiky, and rude, the project rejects notions of tectonics, scale, and reality. SCI-Arc M.Arch ranks consistently in the Top Ten Graduate Programs: #4 in Design Technologies #5 in Communications and Presentation Skills #5 in Interdisciplinary Studies #6 in Design Theory and Practice #6 in Research #7 in Construction Materials and Methods #8 in Project Planning and Management #8 in Transdisciplinary Collaboration Across A/E/C #10 in Practice Management #10 in Sustainable Built Environments/Adaptive Designs/Resilient Design - Top Ten Most Admired Schools #designintelligence #SCIArcGrad

Join us today at 2PM PT for a lecture with Dr. LeRonn P. Brooks: The Poetics of Sanctuary and Place: Paul R. Williams https://bit.ly/3w1GBSD Watch live here: gradthesis21.sciarc.edu

The notion of queerness, as it relates not only to gender, politics, and personhood, but also to design, architecture, and aesthetics, can be understood as a conceptual framework through which academics and practitioners have developed meaningful discourse in the twenty-first century. SCI-Arc’s Kappe Library has curated a series of lectures from the SCI-Arc Media Archive alongside films, panels, and documentaries produced by SCI-Arc Channel featuring architects, designers, curators, and artists that delve deeply into conversations considering ideas of equity, space, bodies, mythology, materiality, liberation, performance, form, and history. Watch here: https://bit.ly/3h2TOEZ