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Eric Owen Moss
SCI-Arc Director
www.ericowenmoss.com
Eric Owen Moss holds Masters degrees in Architecture from both Harvard University and the University of California at Berkeley.
Eric Owen Moss Architects was founded in 1973. The office, located in Los Angeles, California, is currently staffed with twenty-five professionals designing and constructing projects in the United States and around the world. The firm has garnered over sixty design awards from Progressive Architecture magazine and the American Institute of Architects (AIA). In 1999, Moss won the Academy Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; in 2001 the firm won the LAAIA Gold Medal for Design; and in 2003, Moss won the Gold Medal Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of California at Berkeley.
There are ten published monographs on the Moss office, including three by Rizzoli and one, Gnostic Architecture by Monacelli Press. Most recent is Eric Owen Moss—The Uncertainty of Doing, published by Skira in 2006.
Moss continues to build, teach, lecture and exhibit. In 2002, the firm won two competitions in St. Petersburg, Russia, one for the New Mariinsky Theatre, the second for the redevelopment of New Holland. In 2003, Eric Owen Moss Architects won the international competition for the Queens Museum of Art in New York. In 2006, they won the Future Cities competition—LA, NY, Chicago —sponsored by the History Channel. The firm has featured regularly at the Venice Biennale, with exhibits that have included the controversial proposal for the New Mariinsky at the Russian Pavilion in 2002, and the international competition entries for the National Library in Mexico City and the Smithsonian Institute in 2004. In 2006, the firm exhibited the Los Angeles/Culver City project in the Cities, Architecture, and Society section.
Eric Owen Moss first taught at SCI-Arc in 1974, and was appointed director in 2002. He has held chairs at Yale and Harvard universities, and appointments at the Technische Hochschule in Vienna and the Royal Academy in Cohenhagen.
Chris Genik
Undergraduate Program Director
www.dalygenik.com
Chris Genik is principal of Daly Genik. He is the undergraduate program director at SCI-Arc, where he has taught since 1992. Genik practiced architecture in Houston prior to moving to LA to associate with Kevin Daly in 1989. He has directed the design of a number of the firm’s award-winning project including: the offices for Rioport.com in Santa Monica, the VIZrt.com in Amsterdam and Las Vegas, the Van’s Incorporated stores and the Boulder House in Vancouver. Daly Genik has been the architect for the Camino Nuevo Charter Academy Schools for which they received the prestigious Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence as well as state and Los Angeles AIA awards. Daly Genik is currently the architect for the Art Center College of Design’s renovation of the 100,000 square foot coop wind tunnel building in Pasadena, which assimilates the colleges’ graduate fine art studios and public outreach program classrooms in a converted warehouse. The project includes 95 units of new student housing in a separate set of new buildings, currently under design. The firm is also currently completing work for park replacement buildings for the City of Santa Monica Parks and Recreation Department and for the new design and prototyping studios of BMW/Design Works in Thousand Oaks. The work of Daly Genik has been published internationally, and in 2006, the firm was selected as the architects of Harvard’s first visual arts center at Allston-Brighton, MA. Chris Genik has taught at UCLA, UC Berkeley, Arizona State, University of Michigan, Carleton University in Ottawa, University of Houston, Rice, Art Center College of Design and USC. He has served on various juries and lectured at a number of institutions including Rice, VICO, Architectural League of New York and Georgia Tech.
Hsinming Fung
Graduate Program Director
www.hplusf.com
Hsinming Fung, AIA, principal of Hodgetts + Fung Design and Architecture, founded the firm in 1984 with Craig Hodgetts, FAIA. The director of graduate programs at SCI-Arc, Hsinming Fung has designed such critically acclaimed projects as the new Hollywood Bowl, Hyde Park Miriam Matthews Branch Library, the rehabilitation of the historic Egyptian Theatre, Sinclaire Pavilion at Art Center College of Design, Towell Library at UCLA and a host of other civic, educational and experimental projects. She has been the recipient of prestigious honors, including the Rome Prize for Advance Fellowship in 1991, the appointment to the National Council on the Arts under President Clinton, and visiting Eero Saarinen Professor at Yale University in both 1995 and 2000. Her work has received multiple local, national and international design awards. Current projects include the 29-story mixed-use Yamano Tower in Tokyo; Menlo-Atherton High School Performing Arts Center in Atherton, California; and ImaginAsian Center in Downtown Los Angeles. Hsinming Fung taught Architecture at California State Polytechnic University School of Environmental Design for sixteen years. She received a Bachelor of Arts from California State University, Dominguez Hills and a Master of Architecture from the University of California, Los Angeles. Hodgetts + Fung's monograph Scenarios and Spaces was published by Rizzoli.