#SCI-Arc

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SCI-Arc: Concrete Tattoos: SCI-Arc and the Arts District

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Reckoning

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South Korean designers combine AR and human capabilities to create “Augmented” gardens — Archinect

South Korean designers combine AR and human capabilities to create “Augmented” gardens — Archinect

Read more at Archinect

— by Antonio Pacheco: Earlier this year, a colorful, terraced design created by South Korean designers Soomeen Hahm, Jaeheon Jung and Yumi Lee was selected among four other finalists for the 2020 International Garden Festival prize…

Image courtesy of Soomeen Hahm, Architect, Jaeheon Jung, Architect and Yumi Lee, Landscape Architect

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SCI-Arcの設立者である建築家のレイ・カップが逝去 享年92歳 (ArchDaily) Ray Kappe, Founding Director of SCI-Arc, Passes Away at 92 (ArchDaily)

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Sci-Arc Los Angeles CA - 31 July 2017

[lianabrooks]

What kind of idiot forgot that not everyone wears pants and not everyone wants people to be able to look at their undies? 

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Ke LI , IN– Accessible, los angeles CALIFORNIA, SCI-Arc,  advisor: Elena MANFERDINI,  thesis, concert hall on New York City’s East River.

via: http://www.suckerpunchdaily.com/2017/02/02/in-accessible/

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Ke Li’s Concert Hall, for of her Sci-Arc 2016 thesis

via Designboom

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Design as Practice

A conversation with Merve Bedir, Jason Hilgefort, and Liam Young

Wednesday, November 9, 2016

7 p.m.

The Frog

3041 N Coolidge Ave

Los Angeles, CA 90039

---> Facebook Event <---

The Frog joins forces with Art Center College of Design’s Media Design Practices and the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design to present the work of three designers: Merve Behir and Jason Hilgefort of Land+Civilization Compositions (L+CC) and Liam Young, founder of Tomorrows Thoughts Today and head SCI-Arc’s Master of Arts in Fiction and Entertainment. Their practices span the globe, with nodes in Rotterdam, Istanbul, Shenzhen, London, and Los Angeles. These three designers bring a shared interest in urbanism, research, and education to the conversation and all challenge the conventions of design culture and production.

Merve Bedir and Jason Hilgefort are partners at Land+Civilization Compositions (L+CC), a Rotterdam | Istanbul | Shenzhen based studio exploring issues at the ever expanding edge of urbanism and public realm, with a multidisciplinary approach that includes designing, curating, writing, filming and education. L+CC's work has taken part in Venice Architecture Biennale (2012), Shenzhen Biennale (2015), Bucharest Art Biennale (2016), Istanbul Design Biennale (2016), and Oslo Triennale (2016).

Jason Hilgefort is an urbanist | architect who studied at the University of British Columbia and the University of Cincinnati. His work experience ranges from New York, Rotterdam, to Mumbai and includes working with Peter Calthorpe, Rahul Mehrotra, and Maxwan A+U. He lead Maxwan’s numerous competition victories in Helsinki, Basel, Kiev, Brussels, Ostrava, Hannover, and Lithuania before winning Europan 11 in Vienna. He subsequently founded Land+Civilization Compositions. Jason’s teaching experience includes Russia, Ukraine, Brazil, Finland, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands.

He was in the curatorial team of Shenzhen/Hong Kong Urbanism/Architecture Biennale and a co-director of its educational platform. Currently he is the Academic Director of FUTURE+ Aformal Academy for urbanism | landscape | public art in Shenzhen. He was a regular contributor to uncube magazine - for architecture and beyond.

Merve Bedir studied architecture at Middle East Technical University (2003), and is a PhD candidate at Delft University of Technology. Merve’s recent work focuses on urban conflicts, urban transformation, migration and (forced) displacement. She was a curator for the Netherlands Architecture Institute (2013); curator of Vocabulary of Hospitality (Studio X Istanbul, 2015), and uncommon river (One Architecture Week, 2015). She taught for Columbia University GSAPP, The Hague Art Academy, and Piet Zwart Institute.

Merve Bedir was the producer of Agoraphobia, a film on urban transformation in Turkey. Her work was supported by Prins Claus Foundation, European Cultural Foundation, and European Union.

She has published in Volume, MONU, Funambulist, Docomomo, Zivot, Quaderns among others and her first book, Vocabulary of Hospitality, will be published by Dpr Barcelona/GSAPP Books (2017). Merve facilitates/actively volunteers for Matbakh-Mutfak, a transnational women collective in Turkey.

Liam Young is an Australian born architect who operates in the spaces between design, fiction and futures. He is founder of the think tank Tomorrow’s Thoughts Today, a group whose work explores the possibilities of fantastic, speculative and imaginary urbanisms. Building his design fictions from the realities of present, Young also co-runs the Unknown Fields Division, a nomadic research studio that travels on location shoots and expeditions to the ends of the earth to document emerging trends and uncover the weak signals of possible futures. He has been acclaimed in both mainstream and architectural media, including the BBC, NBC, Wired, Guardian, Time Magazine, and Dazed and Confused and his work has been collected by institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum. He has taught internationally including the Architectural Association and Princeton University and now runs an M.A. in Fiction and Entertainment at SCI-Arc. Young manages his time between exploring distant landscapes and visualizing the fictional worlds he extrapolates from them.

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Iterations

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Elventh edition of SCI-Arc’s academic journal Offramp hits the internet

Elventh edition of SCI-Arc’s academic journal Offramp hits the internet

The Southern California Institute for Architecture (SCI-Arc) released the eleventh edition of its yearly academic journal Offramp this week. This time, the journal pursues the theme of “Ground” and lists SCI-Arc director and CEO Hernan Diaz Alonsoas Editor-In-Chief. In a brief for the issue, Alonso puts forth the following provocation: “Issue #11 of Offramp aims to momentarily divert our critical…

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Young & Ayata - Wall Reveal

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LA is a jungle. -Kerouac

View from window in SCI-Arc Kappe Library

[isthisadrelevanttoyou]

I think that one of the crisis now of architecture is that people turn to architecture for ideas rather than turn to societies.

Wine, James. March 12, 1980. “James Wines: Part One.” In SCI-Arc Media Archive. Southern California Institute of Architecture. <http://sma.sciarc.edu/video/james-wines-part-one/>. (April 05, 2016). (14:42)