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SCI-ARC LAUNCHES COMPREHENSIVE MEDIA ARCHIVE AT SMA.SCIARC.EDU
DIRECTORS, FACULTY AND ALUMNI WIN 2012 AIA | LA AWARDS The recently announced 2012 AIA | LA Presidential, Design and NextLA Awards from the Los Angeles chapter of the American Institute of Architects recognized several SCI-Arc faculty, alumni and leadership for their unyielding contribution to advancing the architecture profession and their support to architectural initiatives in Los Angeles. Presidential award winners included SCI-Arc Director Eric Owen Moss, who received the 25-Year Award for his design of the Petal House; faculty members Jenny Wu and Dwayne Oyler of Oyler Wu Collaborative, recipients of the Emerging Practice award; Graduate Programs Chair Hernan Diaz Alonso, recognized with the Educator Award; and visiting faculty member Julie Eizenberg and partner Hank Koning of Koning Eizenberg Architecture, awarded the 2012 AIA | LA Gold Medal. Design Awards went to faculty members Michael Folonis (B.Arch ’78) of Michael W. Folonis Architects, Marcelo Spina of PATTERNS, and Peter Zellner of ZELLNERPLUS. The Cultural Affairs Commission Award was received by alumnus Nick Seierup (B.Arch ’79), who serves on the SCI-Arc Board of Trustees. NextLA Award winners included Angela Brooks (M.Arch ’91) of Brooks+Scarpa; Griffin Enright Architects’ Margaret Griffin, SCI-Arc faculty, and John Enright, SCI-Arc Undergraduate Program Chair; alumni Scott Hughes (M.Arch ’97) and John Umbanhowar (M.Arch ’98) of Hughesumbanhowar Architects; SCI-Arc trustee Bill Fain of Johnson Fain; alumna Jennifer Marmon (M.Arch ’01) of Platform for Architecture + Research; and Marcelo Spina.
MARCELO SPINA COMPLETES MULTI-FAMILY HOUSING PROJECT IN ARGENTINA SCI-Arc faculty member Marcelo Spina and partner Georgina Huljich of Los Angeles-based PATTERNS completed Jujuy Redux, a multi-family housing project in Rosario, Argentina. Consisting of thirteen small, shared-floor units and a duplex organized in a cross-ventilated layout, the mid-rise apartment building proposes a subtle delineated mass, operating both at the scale of the entire volume and the scale of each apartment. The project took four years to complete. Most recently, Spina and Huljich were awarded one of the prestigious 2012 United States Artists (USA) fellowship grants in the architecture and design category.
More than 3,000 architecture and design-related topics are covered in 1,000-plus hours of recordings made available to the public in the new SCI-Arc Media Archive (SMA), which launched late September. An online showcase of public events held at the school from 1974 to the present, the SMA features essential voices from five decades of creative experimental design lectures and events videotaped at the school. Found at sma.sciarc.edu, the archive is home to more than 600 videos of public events, features 700-plus speakers, and forms a comprehensive digital media platform designed to be useful for students and scholars, but also for anybody with an interest in architecture, Los Angeles and experimental design. It provides access to never-before-seen footage of some of the most influential architecture and design leaders and artists, including Frank O. Gehry, Zaha Hadid, David Hockney, Rem Koolhaas, John Lautner, Thom Mayne, Eric Owen Moss, Kazuyo Sejima, and many more. Many appear more than once, providing opportunities for analysis of their development over a long span of their careers. “This website is a wonderful resource and a great archive for anyone interested in modern architecture and its major players from the past four decades,” comments Sarah Weber, Director of Education at the Los Angeles Conservancy. “Looking at some of the longer lectures, I found myself wishing I could hear shorter clips from them, only to discover that they were already there. As the content on this site continues to grow, I can only imagine that it will become one of the ‘go-to’ resources for primary media sources in modern architecture.” Major support for the SCI-Arc Media Archive was provided by The Getty Foundation as part of the Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture initiative. Additional support was provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. These transformative grants were used by SCI-Arc to digitize, describe and organize one of the most complete architectural archival collections of its kind in the world.