16 Cara Lee (M.Arch ’96) and Stephan Mundwiler (M.Arch ’95) of lee+mundwiler won a 2013 AIA California Chapter merit award for the Geology Museum and Research Center in Shenzhen, China, which was completed earlier this year. They also received an AIA│LA honor award for their residential project “L House” in Culver City, Los Angeles.
Vicken Derderian (B.Arch ’99) debuted his designs as part of the Academy of Art University’s Spring 2014 collection for the MercedesBenz Fashion Week in New York. Derderian recently graduated with an M.F.A. in Fashion Design from the San Francisco-based school.
David Nosanchuk (M.Arch ’96) has been invited to contribute ideas to Flavor Paper, a Brooklyn producer of avant-garde wallcoverings. Seven of his designs of collaged bits of buildings such as the Pantheon and Bernini’s Colonnade at St. Peter’s Basilica are available to order from Flavor Paper.
Demetrios Avraamides (M.Arch ’00) has finished the design of a public primary school in a low income neighborhood in the town of Paphos, Cyprus. The new building will replace an existing school that was originally built as a prison. Groundbreaking took place in December.
Hadley Arnold (M.Arch ’97) and Peter Arnold (M.Arch ’94) received a 2013 AIA│LA Presidential Award for Community Contribution. The two founded the Arid Lands Institute at Woodbury University to research innovative responses to climate change and water scarcity. Their Dry Studio involves wild and bumpy road trips across the arid west, where the entire class camps out, designing and erecting temporary drought-responsive structures. Mimi Zeiger (M.Arch ’98) recently spoke at the Harvard GSD on the frontiers of design criticism. She also taught Reread Remix, a cross-platform criticism workshop for GSD students, exploring the act of critical writing as it translates from the page to the screen to performance. Her essay, Toward a Collective Criticism was published in Volume #36: Ways to Be Critical, and she contributed a chapter to Ineffably Urban: Imaging Buffalo (Ashgate Publishers, 2013). Paola Zellner (M.Arch ’98), assistant professor at the School of Architecture and Design, Virginia Tech, has completed the installation Between the Pyramid and the Labyrinth in the Cube at the Center for the Performing Arts. The project, an interactive and responsive environment developed in collaboration with Tom Martin and students from her class, Textile Space, was sponsored by the Institute of Creativity, Arts and Technology. Beth Holden (B.Arch ’98) of New Theme presented a new exhibition at her NEW THEME Gallery on Melrose. Dubbed Diffraction, the show included art works by Holden and artist Zach Stadel. Eric Vogel (M.Arch ’98) recently published a book about Frederick Layton—an American businessman turned pioneering art collector and philanthropist—who founded the Milwaukee Art Museum. Titled Layton’s Legacy: A Historic American Collection, 1888-2013, Vogel’s book co-authored with John Eastberg was reviewed by OnMilwaukee.com and is available on Amazon.com. Tima Bell (M.Arch ’99) and Scott Sullivan (M.Arch ’99) have teamed up again to create Relativity Architects, an architecture firm focusing on low income housing, as well as hospitality, commercial and high end residential work.
2000s
Nico Marques (M.Arch ’00) of Photekt was featured in Archinect’s In Focus series profiling architectural photographers. Based in Los Angeles, Marques has recently photographed for Steven Ehrlich, Predock Frane, Kanner Architects, and Trulinea among others. His work was recently on view in the Never Built Los Angeles show at the A+D Museum.
Benjamin Ball (B.Arch ’03) and Gaston Nogues (B. Arch ’93) of Ball-Nogues Studio completed the permanent public art installation Air Garden for the new Bradley West International Terminal at LAX. They were commissioned to design three projects in Texas—Confluence Park in San Antonio, a public artwork in Houston, and a public artwork in El Paso. The October 2013 issue of Metropolis includes Ball-Nogues among the editors’ “Select Ten” emerging talents. Bryan Flaig (M.Arch ’04) of Los Angeles-based Undisclosable recently completed the Bocato restaurant in Culver City’s historic Helms Bakery. Flaig’s design team included alumni Nicholas Poulos (M.Arch ’11) and Rob de Cosmo (M.Arch ’04), and undergraduate student Omar Preciado (B.Arch ’16). Nerin Kadribegovic, AIA (M.Arch ’03), Principal with Lehrer Architects and member of the SCI-Arc Alumni Council, recently completed work on five affordable housing projects based on three prototypes designed by the firm. The projects are located throughout several challenging South Los Angeles neighborhoods. Kadribegovic is currently working on projects for the new Learning Center for Tree People, and a new headquarters for fashion designer Trina Turk.
Rebecca Rudolph (M.Arch ’00) and Catherine Johnson (M.Arch ’04), co-founders of Los Angeles design collaborative Design, Bitches, received an AIA/LA Restaurant Design Award for their work on Superba Snack Bar in Venice, Calif. They recently completed a second retail location for Coolhaus in Pasadena, and will be part of the Almost Anything Goes exhibition opening January 2014 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Monica. The two alumnae were also recently profiled by the Architectural Record in their Newsmaker column. Johnson is featured in the documentary film Coast Modern, released earlier this year.
Sang Dae Lee (M.Arch ’04), founder of Los Angeles and Seoulbased UnitedLAB, received a 2013 International Architecture Award from the Chicago Athenaeum for his project, Magok Waterfront: Intercity. The work was shown alongside other wining projects in a group exhibition at the 14th International Biennial of Architecture in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Coomy Bilimoria Kadribegovic (MRD ’01) was promoted to Senior Associate at AECOM, where she is currently working on the LACCD’s $6 billion building program. Nerin Kadribegovic (M.Arch ’03) and Coomy, who met while at SCI-Arc, recently welcomed the arrival of their second child.
Wagen Teh (M.Arch ’04) and his architecture practice, PROW Architects, were shortlisted for a World Architecture Festival 2013 award in the house category for his Arena House project. The design is a synthesis of an arena and a house typology in response to the client’s unique lifestyle in Singapore.
Dan Weinreber (M.Arch ’02), Partner at Kaplan Gehring McCarroll Architectural Lighting, was invited to speak at the Asia Lighting Arts Symposium in Guangzhou in June. He presented the lighting design for the 60-story Zhengzhou Greenland Plaza Tower, a collaboration with Skidmore Owings and Merrill. Weinreber is currently designing projects in New York, New Jersey, Boston, Chicago, Shanghai and Los Angeles.
Steve Boyer (M.Arch ’05) was selected to participate in this year’s Glow festival in Santa Monica. His work involved the deployment of thousands of smart devices to splash a 60x60 space with color and sound. Boyer invited festival goers to download a smartphone app and participate in the work by becoming a “smart pixel” and contributing their device’s screen to the crowd-sourced fields of color.
Kevin Wronske’s (B.Arch ’02) firm, Heyday Partnership, recently completed construction on a six-home small lot subdivision rated LEED Gold, located in the Glassell Park neighborhood of northeast Los Angeles. The project looks to create a denser, greener, healthier spec home in a neighborhood typically confined to banal stucco boxes.
Laurel Consuelo Broughton (M.Arch ’06) of Welcome Projects participated in an exhibition for the Santa Monica Museum of Art. Titled Wall Works: Black Holes, the show featured a milky way of black holes as interpreted through drawings inside TetraPak milk cartons by more than 500 kindergarten through 12th grade students in the Santa Monica-Malibu and Los Angeles Unified School Districts.
Kai Cole (M.Arch ’02) was mentioned in several stories about the contemporary adaptation of Much Ado about Nothing. The film was shot entirely at Cole’s Santa Monica home which she designed.
Guy Horton (M.Arch ’06) was recently picked by KCRW to be one of its new design reporters for DnA: Design & Architecture, produced and hosted by Frances Anderton. Horton will be contributing writing and on-air
segments to the show and podcast. His first aired interview was with Denise Scott Brown. Benjamin Luddy (M.Arch ’06) and Makoto Mizutani (M.Arch ’05) of Scout Regalia recently launched their new product collections featuring handmade wall hooks, utility pouches and bicycle saddlebags designed in collaboration with Winter Session of Denver, Colo. The two were recently featured in Archinect’s Working out of the Box series presenting architects who have applied their architecture backgrounds to alternative career paths. Mirai Morita (M.Arch ’06) was appointed lecturer at the University of Adelaide in South Australia. Previously, she worked at Atelier Bow-Wow, OMA, Asymptote and Michael Sorkin Studio. Gabie Strong (M.Arch ’06) completed the site-specific public art installation It Calls from the Creek with collaborators Matthew Hebert and Jared Stanley. Together as Unmanned Minerals, the design+art+poetry group were commissioned by the Art on Site/ Sierra Fund to design and build a semipermanent outdoor installation along the Deer Creek Tribute Trail in Nevada City, Calif. Joshua Taron (M.Arch ’06) was awarded tenure as Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary, Canada, where he also co-directs the Laboratory for Integrative Design (LID). Taron founded his office, Synthetiques, in 2008, focusing on the hybrid ecologies afforded through the interface of virtual and physical economies across multiple scales. Moses Hacmon (B.Arch ’07) hosted an exhibition of his photographs at HUB LA in Downtown Los Angeles. Part art, part science, and part spiritual awakening, his show included a unique collection of images of water. Hacmon spent ten years studying water and developing a photographic technique that captures the hidden life of this element, portraying its pure form in motion. Jong Hwa (Duly) Lee (M.Arch ’07) founded and has been directing a social experimental project called Festival Abierto in Panama. A first-of-its-kind in Panama, the event provides a platform for both private and public sectors to connect with cultural citizens through education, music, art and science. Its most recent edition welcomed more than 25,000 attendees, as well as a special collaboration with the Smithsonian Institute and the UN Development Program. Ninaki Priddy (B.Arch ’07) joined the accessories team for Lucky Brand earlier this year. In her role as Jewelry Designer for the company, she will impart her creative expertise in design development and creative direction to the brand aesthetic. Priddy will continue to work on her eponymous line, and will be launching a new collection in 2014.
2010s
Alfonso Medina (SCIFI ’10), founder of New York based T38 Studio, was highlighted by CurbedNY in a story about promising up-and-coming talent in the fields of architecture, interior
design and urban development. Jonathan Wimmel (B.Arch ’10) received a Master of Architecture from Columbia University. While in New York, he collaborated with Serendipity’s Thierry Morali on completing the full delivery of schematic design for a 12,000-square-feet home on Dubai’s Palm Island. Wimmel now resides in Houston, Texas, where he is Design Principal and Project Manager at Prozign Architects. He recently completed a 90,000-square-feet interior renovation with a construction budget of $14 million, for a space that will house a joint program between the University of Texas and the Houston Community College. Seth Weiner (M.Arch ’10) developed a score for his conceptual project Choir Corridor, a site and space-specific performance in the Main Hall of the MAK Vienna. In collaboration with a professional choir, the work examines the interplay of human interaction and space in regard to group dynamics, mechanisms of crowd control, protest movements and the potential for voice to approximate a barrier. In Spring 2014, he will be joining the Department of Media Communications at Webster University in Vienna as an Adjunct Professor. Alique Pempejian (B.Arch ’11) and Lusine Miribyan (B.Arch ’10), designers at Gin Wong Associates, have recently performed at the 5th annual Unfrozen Music concert, a collaboration of architects and designers who happen to also play music. Alique on the violin and Lusine on the piano performed their own rendition of Time from the movie Inception, in collaboration with photographs of Faces of Water provided by alumnus Moses Hacmon (B.Arch ’06). Adriana Argyropoulos (M.Arch ’12) exhibited her SCI-Arc thesis project, Slow Space, in the 2013 edition of Currents, an internationally renowned new media festival in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Liz von Hasseln (M.Arch ’12) and Kyle von Hasseln (M.Arch ’12) cofounded The Sugar Lab, a micro design firm for custom 3D printed sugar in Silver Lake, Los Angeles. Their work has recently been featured in Al Jazeera America, The Guardian, TechCrunch, Fast Company, Wired, and Los Angeles Magazine. In September, 3D Systems acquired the startup, which the partners will continue to manage as creative directors. In November, the couple presented their work at TEDx in Manhattan Beach. Ralph S. Steenblik (M.Arch ’12) will have work published in “Educating 21st Century Architects” by Neil Spiller. His Sonata Panel piece was selected by a jury to be included in the Design Lab exhibit at Site Santa Fe. Steenblik recently completed a 3000 sq. ft. vacation residence project on Yuba Lake.