W.M. Keck Lecture Hall Richard Schulman has been making photographs of unique architecture, design and cultural personalities for many years. In the field of architecture, he has focused on the portraits of architects as well as their buildings and designs. Such luminaries include Philip Johnson, Oscar Niemeyer, Tadao Ando, Herzog and DeMeuron, Zaha Hadid, Bjarke
Wednesday, March 2, 7pm in the W.M. Keck Lecture Hall Ray Kappe + Hernan Diaz Alonso: Duel + Duet Ray Kappe, Professor and Founding Director of SCI-Arc Hernan Diaz Alonso, Principal and Founder, Xefirotarch and SCI-Arc Director/CEO Ray Kappe, FAIA is an internationally recognized and published architect-planner-educator who has practiced architecture in Los Angeles since
What should be done when expertise with technology no longer hinders the possibilities of what could be done? In a contemporary context where the sources for inspiration have never been greater, outcomes from this diversity require theorization. Within an era of post digital virtuosity, architecture must calibrate the value of its contributions with greater clarity. Beyond latent potential,
Organized by faculty members Matthew Au and Maxi Spina, SCI-Arc’s tenth annual Spring Show follows the Undergraduate Thesis and features student work from all school programs. Undergraduate, Graduate and Postgraduate design studio projects, as well as coursework from the Applied, Cultural and Visual Studies seminars, will be exhibited schoolwide.
Control utilizes a conflation of techniques between interactive media and formal generation to produce a space which engages interface as a domestic and cultural condition. The installation exploits the ubiquitous distribution of intelligent agents as daily mediators of our environment and lives as a device to rethink surface and tectonic as instruments in service to both
Graduate Thesis Weekend Friday, September 9, 2pm-6pm Saturday, September 10, 9am-6pm Sunday, September 11, 9am-4pmElena Manferdini Graduate Program Chair Florencia Pita Graduate Thesis Coordinator Brett Steele Special Advisor All school exhibition of thesis work reviewed by members of the SCI-Arc faculty and distinguished local and visiting architects. Guest Critics Include: Antonino Saggio Axel Friedman Barbara Bestor
Ellie Abrons and Mira Henry come together to discuss work produced in two consecutive exhibitions, collaboratively supported by the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) and SCI-Arc. Ellie Abrons’ exhibition, Inside Things, was on view at SCI-Arc from March 18-May 1. Abrons’ work explores architectural interiority born from agglomeration and loose associations between inside
W.M. Keck Lecture Hall November 21, 2016 at 7:00pm Enrique Norten, Hon. FAIA, was born in Mexico City where he graduated in1978 from the Universidad Iberoamericana with a degree in architecture. He obtained a master of architecture from Cornell University in 1980. In 1986, he founded TEN Arquitectos (Taller de Enrique Norten Arquitectos) in Mexico
Didier Faustino is an architect and artist working on the relationship between body and space. He started his own practice at the crossroad of art and architecture just after graduating in architecture in 1995. He has been developing since then a multi-faceted approach, ranging from installation to experimentation, from visual art to the creation of
This lecture will explore the implications of space as an environment for future habitation both materially and conceptually. Research and development projects of LIQUIFER - implemented as part of the European space exploration program - highlight topics of living with limited resources, in limited spaces and living self-sufficiently. Concept studies for lunar and Martian bases
