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ALUMNI NEWS AND EVENTS
OPEN SEASON 2012 Open Season facilitates introductions between current students and SCI-Arc alumni in the professional design world, encouraging alumni and professional partners to observe and potentially recruit students. Guests and attendees at the Spring Open Season career event included the following alumni: John Lodge (M.Arch ’94) Commercial Realtor, Coldwell Banker Santino Medina (M.Arch ’06) Senior Project Consultant, Gehry Technologies Monica Gutierrez (M.Arch ’09) Project Consultant, Gensler Kristen George (M.Arch ’10) Designer, Gensler Marisol Mejia (B.Arch ’08) Designer, Gensler Ruben Markarian (B.Arch ’05) Designer, HNTB Eugene Park Interaction Designer, HUGE, Inc. John Winston (M.Arch ’04) Principal, John Winston Studio Dan Weinreber (M.Arch ’02) Associate Principal, KGM Architectural Lighting Keith Mckloskey (M.Arch ’02) Design Director, KTGY Group Peter Gruenstein Principal, Nonzero Architecture Nerin Kadribegovic (M.Arch ’03) Director of Operations, Lehrer Architects Martin Mervel (M.Arch ’81) Principal, SLab Architecture Michael Miller (M.Arch ’00) Senior Associate, Steinberg Architects
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ALUMNUS EXHIBITS THESIS PROJECT IN LOS ANGELES Young alumnus Michael Nesbit (B.Arch ’12) exhibited his undergraduate thesis project, Towards (Ph2)latness, in a group show hosted by Studio Sereno. On view May 5-20th, Protostellar: Survey of Los Angeles Student Art Work featured 16 artists from 9 schools. For the past 14 months, Nesbit has conducted a series of exercises that have tested the cycle between technique and representation. His thesis project represents construction diagrams of the drawing. By placing emphasis on the drawing and not the object, Nesbit’s Towards (Ph2)latness re-inserts the role of judgment back into representation, allowing the drawing to produce something far greater than what it originally represented. In Nesbit’s own words: “Architecture is built on our ability to use representation as an effect for production… from sketch to model, from model to drawing, from drawing to building. Along the way we use judgment as an affect for guiding our creative process. Within our contemporary discipline, we have been given an extensive tool set that has pushed architecture forward, but due to instantaneous output of new techniques the process has eliminated many of our previous entry points. This thesis looks to bring back judgment.”
DLR Group/WWCOT Lehman Smith McLeish Morphosis Architects OLIN Pfeiffer Partners Shimoda Design Group HDR Nova Lighting AECOM
ALUMNA HEATHER FLOOD RECEIVES C.O.L.A FELLOWSHIP Alumna and faculty member Heather Flood (M.Arch ’04) of F-lab has been awarded one of the 2012 C.O.L.A Individual Artist Fellowships from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. Flood’s fellowship will culminate in an installation at the Municipal Art Gallery in September. Flood is a designer of information, graphics, and architecture. In 2007, she founded F-lab with Ramiro Diaz-Granados and is now the sole principal of the firm. F-lab is a research based design practice committed to the production of architectural form and its relationship to contemporary culture, both pop and sub. F-lab’s recent commissions include a retail expansion strategy and store prototype for a new frozen yogurt brand, the design of a single family residence in Los Angeles, and the design and fabrication of the winning scheme for a board of director’s conference table. In addition to her professional practice, Flood teaches in the undergraduate and graduate programs at SCI-Arc.