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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 are Eric Owen Moss - The Uncertainty of Doing, published by Skira in 2006; Eric Owen Moss - Provisional Paradigms, published by Marsilio in 2007; and Eric Owen Moss - Construction Manual (1988-2008), launched in December 2009.

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. In 2010, Moss became the first foreign architect invited to curate a national pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale.

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 Copenhagen.

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Hsinming Fung

Director of Academic Affairs
www.hplusf.com
Hsinming Fung, AIA, principal of Hodgetts + Fung Design and Architecture, founded the firm in 1984 with Craig Hodgetts, FAIA.

Hsinming Fung, SCI-Arc's Academic Affairs Director, 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, the Wild Beast Music Pavilion at CalArts, 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.

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Hernan Diaz Alonso

Graduate Programs Chair
www.xefirotarch.com

Hernan Diaz Alonso is principal and founder of the Los Angeles-based design practice Xefirotarch.

Considered one of the most influential voices of his generation, Diaz Alonso has served for the past several years as Distinguish Professor of Architecture and the Graduate Thesis Coordinator at SCI-Arc. Previously, he was a design studio professor at Columbia University GSAPP, and head studio professor in the "Excessive" post-graduate program at the Universitat fur angewandte Kunst in Wien, Austria. He was recently honored by Yale University with the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professorship of Architectural Design for fall 2010.

Diaz Alonso has lectured extensively at major institutions around the world. His architecture designs have received numerous awards and have been displayed in both architecture and art museum exhibitions. His work has been widely published in magazines and periodicals worldwide and multiple books, including the "Excessive" monograph.

In 2005, Diaz Alonso was the winner of PS1 MoMa's Young Architects Program (YAP) competition. His work has since been the subject of solo shows at the San Francisco MoMa in 2006, and the Art Institute of Chicago and the MAK Centre, Wien in 2007. He is currently scheduled to produce a solo show at the Pompidou Center, Paris in 2011.

His work is part of the permanent collections of the FRAC Center, the San Francisco MoMa, and the Art Institute of Chicago.

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John Enright

Undergraduate Program Chair
www.griffinenrightarchitects.com

John Enright, AIA is a co-founder and Principal of the Los Angeles-based firm Griffin Enright Architects.

John Enright brings over 20 years of professional experience to SCI-Arc, where he oversees the school's undergraduate degree program. Prior to establishing his firm with Margaret Griffin in 2000, he worked for twelve years with Pritzker Prize-winner Thom Mayne of Morphosis Architects, as project architect on numerous award-winning projects.

Griffin Enright Architects' work has been extensively published nationally and internationally, and has received dozens of awards for design excellence including, local, state and national AIA Awards and The American Architecture Award from the Chicago Athenaeum. The firm recently completed the award winning 36,000 sq. ft. St. Thomas the Apostle Education Campus in Los Angeles, CA and have completed a wide range of projects from installations to residential and institutional projects. The firm is currently working on a mixed-use project in Venice CA, and a series of projects in China.

Enright has taught design studios and technology seminars at SCI-Arc, Syracuse University, University of Houston, and most recently, as an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California.

His academic research focuses on design and building technology including Building Information Modeling and new digital paradigms as applied to fabrication and construction. An exhibition of his research into the work of Konrad Wachsmann was recently exhibited at the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design. John has been the recipient of multiple grants including; USC's Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences Initiative, and an NCARB Grant for the Integration of Practice and the Academy in 2009.

Enright has recently served on the advisory committee for the national AIA's Educator Practitioners Network (EPN), and has been appointed to the Los Angeles Mayor's Design Advisory Panel. He earned his Bachelor of Architecture degree from Syracuse University and a Master of Architecture degree from Columbia University.

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Jamie Bennett

Chief Operating Officer

Jamie Bennett is the Chief Operating Officer of SCI-Arc, where he oversees planning, operations, and campus, student and administrative functions. He works closely with the Director to develop and direct financial plans consistent with the school's educational mission.

Before joining SCI-Arc, Bennett worked extensively in nonprofits and as an executive in media companies in Los Angeles and in London. Most recently he has been a business advisor, investor and Director with the Pasadena Angels, which specializes in local emerging growth companies.

He served as CEO of worldwide productions for London-based Pearson Television, as CEO of L.A.-based ACI television and as a senior vice-president at Disney's Buena Vista TV Productions in Burbank. Prior to working for the Disney Company, Bennett worked for CBS, including five years as General Manager of KCBS-TV in Los Angeles.

Bennett holds an MBA from Harvard University and a BA in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. He has served on the Public Television Advisory Board at the Annenberg School at USC and on the boards of the National Environmental Trust in Washington, D.C., Northfield Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts, and Marlborough School in Los Angeles, among others.

He and his wife, Carolyn Bennett, who holds a master's degree from the Architectural Association in London, make their home in Los Angeles.

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