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on art, technology, science and math. Matthew Rosenberg (M. Arch ‘09)’s studio M-Rad was featured in ArchDaily for a proposal involving live-work towers in downtown Las Vegas. KQED featured SCI-Arc faculty Ilaria Mazzoleni and alumni Maya Alam (M.Arch ‘11), Astri Bang (UG ‘10) and Janni S. Pedersen (UG ‘11), profiling their design of a banana-slug inspired greenhouse prototype, equipped with special silicone units that capture and release water.
stemming from the content of the conference. Rachel Bagan (B.Arch ’14) has been working as a designer at Omgivning, an architectural firm in downtown Los Angeles, while making her way towards becoming a licensed architect. On the side, she has been developing a personal jewelry line called DNRMYNT and was recently featured as a designer in a RAW Artistic Showcase held in Silver Lake, Los Angeles.
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Marcus Friesl (M.Arch ’07) and Teri Moore (B.Arch ’07) are founders of architectural film Moore+Friesl. There current projects include a grand display in New York at the Museum of Moving Image, a flagship boutique for Van Cleef & Arpels, and the Lincoln Square Synagogue. Yaohua Wang (B.Arch ‘10) won the Harvard GSD’s 2014 James Templeton Kelley Prize for Best M.Arch II Thesis for his project, “Salvaged Stadium.” His design proposal is regarding the adaptation of Olympic stadiums worldwide that face issues of post-event sustainability. Matthew Noe (M.Arch ’11) works in the DC office of HKS Architects where he was responsible for the design refinements and detail documentation of the Capital One World Headquarters’ main entry canopy, a complex and dynamic sculptural form at the base of the 31-story tower. He also recently completed the HKS Fellowship design competition where his team created small interventions in Anacostia, a lowincome neighborhood in DC. Future projects include leading the design and building of the 2015 USGBC Green Build Conference Legacy project, in which HKS partnered with the Capital Area Food Bank to add an outdoor kitchen to their existing Urban Garden. Their collaborative “Urban Food Studio” was selected out of four finalists for USGBC funding and will begin construction this summer. Erin Besler (M.Arch ’12) was elected by the Museum of Modern Art as one of five finalists for its 2015 Young Architects Program, an annual competition to design and build an outdoor space for the summer at the museum’s PS1 satellite location in Long Island City, NY. She has also been selected to participate in the Chicago Architecture Biennial in the fall. Ralph Spencer Steenblik (M.Arch ’12) organized “Sculpting the Architectural Mind,” a symposium held at Pratt Institute in New York City. The conference included many esteemed speakers including Sanford Kwinter, Harry Francis Mallgrave, and others. The conference was co-organized with Dan Bucsescu and along with Pratt Institute and was sponsored by the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture. Ralph has been approached by several publishers regarding an edited volume
Alumni and faculty guests at the Class of 1990 25th Reunion dinner at SCI-Arc on April 25, 2015 (from left to right) Top row: Alan Hess, Elissa Scrafano, Elizabeth Gibb, Matthew Fineout; 4th row: Robert Mangurian, Mary-Ann Ray, Ron Verdier, Hassan Majd, Bob Bangham, Jerry Sullivan, Brenda Economides; 3rd row: Yasi Vafai, Susan Narduli, Tami Wedekind, Dane Twichell, Cynthia Carlson, Peter Grueneisen; 2nd row: Michael Poris, Andreas Hierholzer, Lauren Maass, Birgitte Bear Verburgt; Front row: Geoffrey Kahn, Andre Bilokur, Benjamin Marcus, Tracy Levine, Spike Wolff