17 first child, Sydney Joan Siegal McNamara, in June. Jeffrey Allsbrook (M.Arch ’95) and his firm Standard designed the Local Park installation for deLab’s space in front of Local restaurant on Sunset Blvd. Taking cues from PARK(ing) Day’s theme, the iconic Hollywood sign, Local Park features four large “topiary” letters that spell the word P-A-R-K. In combination with the existing storefront behind, the sign reads “Local Park.” The installation grabs the attention of the driving and bus-riding public and leaves the enigmatic impression of a green park at the side of the boulevard. The installation was also featured at ULI at the LA Convention Center in an exhibition curated by Frances Anderton. Greg Roth (M.Arch ’95) and partner Daniel Shapiro launched Modern Bite, a bakery that creates cakes, cupcakes, and cookies topped with modern designs, for sale online. The company relies on Shapiro’s baking experience and expertise and Roth’s eye for aesthetics. Roth practiced with Frank Gehry Associates, Kerry Joyce Associates and Audrey Alberts Design before launching Gregory Roth Design in 2001, which focuses on interiors and graphic design. David Montalba, AIA (B.Arch ’96) of Santa Monica-based Montalba Architects, received the 2011 AIA Institute Design Honor Award in Interior Architecture for his design of a 1,900-square-foot sustainable dental office in San Francisco. Since its completion, the project has also received the 2011 Green Good Design Award, and Merit Awards in Interior Architecture from AIA California Council and AIA San Francisco. Montalba Architects is currently at work on a private residence in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, the design of a new café on Walt Disney Imagineering’s Glendale campus, and the renovation of a ski lodge in Mammoth, California. Rick Miller (M.Arch ’97) is currently conducting research on the construction and inhabitation of the ger districts in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, with funding help from Fulbright. Beth Holden (B.Arch ’98) is at work on a new restaurant project for the Knitting Factory, located in an old warehouse building in the San Fernando Valley. She recently completed a Hollywood Hills residence project for photographer Jill Greenberg, featured in a cover story in the LA Times, and in AIA|LA home tours. Launched in October, Holden’s studio includes a gallery showing local artists and a storefront that features her furniture and design objects. Michael Pinto (M.Arch ’98) of Osborn Architects had two projects featured at the Center for Architecture in Philadelphia as part of a Community Design Collaborative Showcase: Mudtown Farms, the result of a SCIArc class research project to create a series of speculative propositions for a 2.5-acre agriculture site in a city center; and the Miraloma Park Master Plan, selected as one of 62 State of California Proposition 84 Grant applicants to receive funding. Osborn Architects recently completed the
LAX Cultural Master Planning Study. Pinto was also selected as a juror for the 2011 AIA Pasadena-Foothill Design Awards. Jeff Goldberger (M.Arch ’99) started a mock-architecture blog called Barkitecture at barkitecturemag.com, with the intention of bringing humor to the world of architecture. Everyday discussions range from intellectual, to fiscal, to fantastical, to technological. The project is still in its development phase, and Goldberger hopes to make the site a fun and disarming read for architecture aficionados. Forthcoming segments include an opinion page and sections on competitions, education, and travel, as well as a forum. David Valdes (M.Arch ’99) works as a part-time project designer and coordinates business development at RoTo Architects. Recent projects include a school in Suzhou, China and master planning projects in Dubai, with RoTo Architects; the LKSC Center for Learning and Knowledge at Stanford’s School of Medicine, with nbbj; and the campus center complex at Foothill College, with Perkins+Will. Valdes is also involved in a small start-up for medical innovations, and next year, he plans to enter an MBA program with a focus on strategic planning and financing.
2000s Tima Bell (M.Arch ’00), principal of Tima Winter, recently completed three projects which include Salvage, a new bar in downtown Los Angeles, GRATiAE Cosmetics on Fremont Street in Las Vegas, and Hormeta, the flagship cosmetic store in Las Vegas’ Harrah’s Casino, which he co-designed with Scott Sullivan (M.Arch ’00). Laura Burkhalter (B.Arch ’00) recently completed a project for the food truck-turned restaurant, The Flying Pig Café, located near SCI-Arc at 2nd and Central in downtown LA. The restaurant opened for business in June. Nicolas O. S. Marques (M.Arch ’00) has been at work growing his architectural photography business. Most recently, he has photographed projects in the U.S. and in Portugal, and his work has been printed in local and international publications. He was invited to exhibit at the Aaroe Group in Old Town Pasadena and is in negotiations with several magazines for additional new projects. Pooja Bhagat (M.Arch ’01) and her firm Moore Ruble Yudell Architects won a Citation Award from the LABC for the Village Master Plan and Housing in Santa Monica, for which she was project manager and design associate-in-charge. She also received awards for the Pico Affordable Housing Project and Village Housing for Innovation in Design from the Westside Urban Forum and AIA awards for the Santa Monica Civic Centre Parking Structure and the Chongqing Master Plan and Housing in China. Bhagat is a licensed architect and is LEED BD+C accredited. She has been with MRY for more than 8 years.
Britton Glynn (M.Arch ’01) and Aaron Glynn received the 2011 International Architecture Award from The Chicago Athenaeum, Museum of Architecture and Design, for the Manhattan Beach project Surfhouse, designed for XTEN Architecture. The two opened their firm, Glynn Designbuild, in 2005, working primarily on high-end residential remodeling projects and new construction in the Los Angeles area. Aidin Khoei’s (MR+D ’02) project Year 2030, a skyscraper in Belgium that uses air flow created by the exchange between hot and cool air and windmills to allow natural support for growing vegetation on the building, was featured by Archi-World. Khoei practices architecture and design in Los Angeles. Grit Leipert (MR+D ’02) and Frank Pasker (MR+D ‘02) recently completed construction on the Nob Hill House, their own certified green home in Mt. Washington. In June, the home was featured by the LA Times and received recognition from the city of Los Angeles for “outstanding creativity in architectural and sustainable design.” It features the first permitted gray water system in Los Angeles and creates all of its electricity on site. Leipert is an associate senior designer with AC Martin and Pasker is a licensed architect and project manager with DDB Architects in Los Angeles; both are LEED APs. Lorenz Quinley (M.Arch ’02), after several years at GKK Works, recently moved to Shenzhen, China to take on a Senior Design Manager position with Joseph Wong Design Associates. JWDA is headquartered in San Diego, with offices in Shanghai and Shenzhen. Jeremy J. Quinn (M.Arch ’03) and partner Michele Jaquis, co-founders of the collaborative arts organization Rise Industries, were invited to participate in a residency at the Institute of Cultural Inquiry (ICI) in Los Angeles, which culminated in an exhibition this summer. Acting as curators, creators and collaborators, Quinn and Jaquis brought their organization’s full membership into the residency, making it the first exhibition to feature all current Rise Industries collaborators. Brian O’Laughlin (M.Arch ’03) has been with Gehry Partners since 2003, and practicing as a California Licensed Architect since 2007. Recent projects include the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY which includes a 19,000 seat multi-format arena, and Atlantis Sentosa in Singapore with a themed aquarium, botanical museum, and resort project in collaboration with Greg Lynn and Peter Arnell. O’Laughlin is currently working on the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Museum located in the United Arab Emirates. Elita Seow (B.Arch ’03) is a senior architectural designer for AEDAS in Hong Kong, where she oversees projects ranging from hospitality, to residential and educational, covering all phases of design, from master planning to construction. She is currently at work on a luxury beach resort in Vietnam and a master plan for the city of Baoyunpian, China. Seow also
heads the SCI-Arc Alumni Council regional committee for Asia. Casey Hughes (B.Arch ’04) of Casey Hughes Architects recently completed the Coldwater Studio, a West Hollywood writer’s two-story home which features a recessed balcony carving a rectangular hole in its façade. The house has been featured widely in publications including The New York Times, Dwell, Domus, and Dezeen. Sang Dae Lee (M.Arch ’04), principal of UnitedLAB, received an Honor Award at the ASLA 2011 Professional Awards for her Regeneration/Yongsan Park project in Seoul, Korea. Tony Trinh (M.Arch ’05), Yohannes Baynes (B.Arch ’07) and Sam Iravani (B.Arch ’07) have recently launched a new cross-culture website, The Superslice. The online platform covers topics including art & design, music, technology, and pop culture, and functions as part aggregator, and part online magazine featuring original content. The team is also nurturing “The Superslice” into a lifestyle brand and will have limited edition merchandise available in the near future. Fumio Hirakawa (M.Arch ’05) and Marina Topunova (M.Arch ’06) of 24° Studio received an Honorable Mention, Interior Lighting for their Hope Tree project at the Premios Lamp Lighting Award 2011 in Barcelona. Originally shown at Tokyo Designers Week 2010, and one of the winners of the Environmental Container Competition, Hope Tree evokes nature in a space for display. A second installation, Crater Lake, which won the Shitsurai Art International Competition organized by the city of Kobe, Japan, will be on view at the Kobe Biennale 2011. Jody Beck, AIA (M.Arch ’06), principal of Traction Architecture in Tampa, Florida, was recently appointed by the Mayor to the Architectural Review Commission of the City of Tampa, where she will serve a three-year term. Beck also teaches courses in Architectural History and Theory at the University of South Florida and St. Petersburg College. Steve Fuchs (M.Arch ’06) relocated from Los Angeles, where he was working for Frank Gehry’s digital research lab, Gehry Technologies, and is currently residing in Illinois, where he is helping lead a young graduate program at Harrington College of Design in downtown Chicago. His full-time responsibilities include a mix of theory, methods, and studio classes, curriculum review, college governance, and a wide range of thesis duties, including chairing multiple committees. Part of the reason Fuchs credits as being hired was “a wonderful conversation about our pedagogy of making and meaning” one afternoon at SCI-Arc during an informal interview with his current director. Fuchs is still surfing both in and out of class— leading the advanced digital and computational design specialization using Rhino + Grasshopper, and has found overhead waves year-round on Lake Michigan.
Benjamin Luddy (M.Arch ’06) and Makoto Mizutani (M.Arch ’05), co-founders of Scout Regalia, participated in October’s High Desert Test Sites (HDTS) 2011 event. Their project, Trail Registry, will be a long-term installation in Pioneertown just outside of Joshua Tree, and is inspired by the registries found at trailheads. It encourages people to leave and/or take a memento tied to the enameled aluminum rods, similar to the way people leave rocks in a pile at the top of a mountain or leave artifacts near trailheads. Emily White (M.Arch ’06) and Lisa Little (M.Arch ’06) of Layer LA launched a series of projects and installations, including the 3-Horned Beast pavilion at The New Children’s Museum in San Diego, which will remain on view for the next two years. A second project produced for the Women Hold Up Half the Sky exhibition at the Skirball Cultural Center features a transparent canopy hovering over the exhibit. In addition, several drawings by Little and White are on view in the Unruly group exhibition at the Arena 1 Gallery in Santa Monica, alongside work by alumna Laurel Broughton (M.Arch ’06) and SCIArc faculty Andrew Atwood and Chandler McWilliams. Michael Arellanes II (B.Arch ’08) of MA2 Architectural Design, has two design proposals featured in the August/September issue of MARK Magazine (No.33)—an Urban Stadium for Seoul, Korea and a Stage for Miami’s downtown Marine development. Nina Marie Barbuto (M.Arch ’08) opened Assemble, a community space for arts and technology in Pittsburgh, whose mission is to activate the community with the contributions and presence of the audience and makers. Programs include gallery crawls, workshops, lectures and community activities. Those interested in showcasing their work at Assemble can contact Nina at assemblepgh@ gmail.com. Assemble is a not-for-profit organization with an active, contributing board. Joe Tarr (M.Arch ’08) has been working in Mexico City for the past three years. After a brief stint with TEN Arquitectos, he settled in at his current location with Rojkind Arquitectos.
2010s Adam Grove (M.Arch ’10) has assumed the position of Level Coordinator for the first year graduate program in architecture at New School of Architecture and Design in San Diego, where he has been teaching since January. Jorge E. Mutis’ (B.Arch ’11) design proposal, farm{air}, which relocates agricultural infrastructure into airborne bubbles and uses helium to keep them afloat above their grounded “Docs,” received an honorable mention in the suckerPUNCH Center for Urban Farming Competition.