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1. Oyler Wu’s Storm Cloud pavilion 2. Debbie Garcia (B.Arch ’17) 3. Greg Lynn, Sylvia Lavin, Jeffrey Kipnis 4. John Enright, Andrew Zago, Todd Gannon 5. Merry Norris and Eric Owen Moss 6. Bonnie Solmssen, Paula Edwards Agnew, Jacqueline Greenberg (M.Arch ’95), Annabelle Adler Avery (M.Arch ’95) 7. Oyler Wu’s Storm Cloud pavilion 8. Greg Walsh, Steve Glenn, Dean Nota (B. Arch ’76), Ray Kappe, and Robin Donaldson (M. Arch ‘87) 9. David Hertz (B. Arch ’83) and Laura Doss 10. Alexis Rocha’s outdoor structures 11. Robert Mangurian, Sheridan Lowrey (M.Arch ’93), Mary-Ann Ray, Michael Maltzan 12. Michael Folonis (B.Arch ’78) and Dean Nota (B.Arch ’76) 13. Michael Rotondi (B.Arch ’75), Marina Forstmann Day Livadary, Joe Day (M.Arch ’94) 14. Wyndham Chow (M.Arch ’91) and Terry Chow 15. Hsinming Fung and Eric Owen Moss 16. Monica Ponce de Leon, Florencia Pita, Jenny Wu 17/19. The dinner space for the event 18. Nick Seierup (B.Arch ’79) and Susanna Seierup 20. Michael Speaks, Neil Denari and Hitoshi Abe (M.Arch ’89)
SCI-Arc Celebrates 40
On April 20, 2013, SCI-Arc celebrated its 40th anniversary with a party that was as unconventional as the school’s approach to architecture education. Alongside brightly color-coded polygonal tables and galleries of some of the year’s best student work, 330 alumni, trustees, faculty, and friends joined all four SCI-Arc directors Ray Kappe, Michael Rotondi (B.Arch ’75), Neil Denari, and Eric Owen Moss, to raise nearly $400,000 in support of student scholarships. The benefit dinner celebrated SCI-Arc’s forty years of innovation and architectural experimentation, and the school’s mission to find radically new responses to the needs and aspirations of today’s world. “SCI-Arc is ageless,” said SCI-Arc Director Eric Owen Moss, who served as one of the evening’s hosts along with emcees Tom Gilmore, a SCI-Arc trustee, and Frances Anderton of KCRW’s architecture and design program, DnA. In a design that both recollected the school’s past and recognized its forward vision, SCI-Arc faculty member Alexis Rochas completely transformed the North Gallery. White studio walls were replaced with a sleek gray dinner space, punctuated with an array 7
of custom-designed tabletops with hues arranged in a unique pattern of syncopated color. A large-scale media installation showcasing a timeline of the school traveled across an entire studio wall over the course of the evening. The timeline alternated images from SCI-Arc’s historical collection, visuals of faculty, student, and alumni work, and snapshots of campus life. Beforehand, a casual cocktail hour allowed guests to view some of the best student projects from undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate design studios and seminars. The exhibition filled W. M. Keck Hall and the entirety of the South Gallery. The SCI-Arc Robot House showcased live demonstrations and the Fabrication Shop unveiled the design for the Magic Box, the school’s new digital fabrication laboratory which will break ground later this year. 8
At the north end of the school, A Confederacy of Heretics: The Architecture Gallery, Venice, 1979, SCI-Arc’s contribution to the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A., was open late in the SCI-Arc Gallery and Library Gallery. After-Party in the Storm Cloud and The Paths Hundreds of SCI-Arc alumni, faculty and students joined dinner guests for an after-party held outdoors in the SCI-Arc parking lot. The Storm Cloud pavilion designed by faculty members Dwayne Oyler and Jenny Wu of Oyler Wu Collaborative hovered over the after-party. The installation made use of the existing structure of graduation pavilions from 2011/2012, and played off of the contrast between the existing rectilinear structure and a new system of eccentrically curvilinear elements at the bottom of the columns. Spandex fabric was stretched between the two contrasting frames, creating the dramatic illusion of a transformative and undulating canopy. Complementing Storm Cloud outdoors were The Paths, also designed by Alexis Rochas, a set of five self-supporting, semi-circular lightweight structures defined by bold color
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transitions that linked the dinner space and indoor exhibitions with the after-party. In Attendance The celebration brought together hundreds of guests from the worlds of architecture, design, film, public service, and education. In attendance were the four event chairs and SCI-Arc directors from the past four decades, Ray Kappe, Michael Rotondi (B.Arch ’75), Neil Denari, and Eric Owen Moss; board of trustees members Rick Carter, Joe Day (M.Arch ’94), William Fain, Anthony Ferguson, Tom Gilmore, Scott Hughes (M.Arch ’97), Thom Mayne, Merry Norris, Greg Otto, Kevin Ratner, Abigail Scheuer (M.Arch ’93), Nick Seierup (B.Arch ’79), Abby Sher, Dan Swartz, Ted Tanner, Andrew Zago, honorary trustee Ian Robertson, and Board Chairman Jerry Neuman; former councilwoman Jan Perry, city planners Art Beccera, Tanner Blackman, Raymond Chan, Alfred Fraijo, Robert Hertzberg, Director of City Planning Michael LoGrande, and William Roschen; graphic designers April Greiman and Lorraine Wild, CalArts President Steven D. Levine, media and entertainment executives David Agnew and Tim Disney, Linda Dishman of the LA Conservancy, Con Howe of the Urban Land Institute, and international architects Stefano Casciani, Peter Cook and Wolf Prix, UCLA Architecture Chair Hitoshi Abe (M. Arch ’89), Anabelle Adler Avery (M.Arch ’95), Benjamin Ball (B.Arch ’03), Barbara Bestor (M.Arch ’92), Monique Birault (M.Arch ’92), SCI-Arc chair of graduate programs Hernan Diaz Alonso, SCI-Arc chair of undergraduate programs John Enright, Michael Folonis (B.Arch ’78), SCI-Arc director of academic affairs Hsinming Fung, Elizabeth Gibb (M.Arch ’89), Steve Glenn, Marcelyn Gow, Jackie Greenberg (M.Arch ’95), Margaret Griffin, Peter Grueneisen (M.Arch ’90), David Hertz (B.Arch ’83), Craig Hodgetts, Beth Holden (B.Arch ’98), Darin Johnstone, Jeffrey Kipnis, Sylvia Lavin, Cara Lee (M.Arch ’96), Jeremy Levine (M.Arch ’93), Sheridan Lowrey (M.Arch ’93), Greg Lynn, Michael Maltzan, Elena Manferdini, Robert Mangurian, William McGregor, Dean Nota (B.Arch ’76), Margi Nothard (M.Arch ’92), Nick Patsaouras, Monica Ponce de Leon, Elissa Scrafano (M.Arch ’90), Aaron Sosnick,Michael Speaks, Marcelo Spina, Tim Sullivan, SCI-Arc chief advancement officer Sarah Sullivan, Ardie Tavangarian (B. Arch ’80), Peter Testa, Russell Thomsen, Laurence Tighe (M.Arch ’91), Devyn Weiser, Tom Wiscombe, Stephanie Bowling-Zeigler (M.Arch ’95), and Peter Zellner. The program included taped messages from all four SCI-Arc directors, and a special 40th anniversary film Recollecting Forward highlighting thoughts and recollections from SCI-Arc students, faculty and board members past and present including Hernan Diaz Alonso, Joe Day, Neil Denari, John Enright, Dora Epstein-Jones, Hsinming Fung, Tom Gilmore, Marcelyn Gow, Ray Kappe, Jeff Kipnis, Thom Mayne, Eric Owen Moss, Jerry Neuman, Ian Robertson, Alexis Rochas, Michael Rotondi, Nick Seierup, Marcelo Spina, Tom Wiscombe, and Andrew Zago. The film was included in a DVD package along with a timeline of SCI-Arc’s past 40 years that was given as a parting gift to guests. There were also comments from Board of Trustees chairman Jerry Neuman, Eric Owen Moss, and undergraduate student Deborah Garcia (B.Arch ’17).
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