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Who Says What Architecture Is?
by Eric Owen Moss
Available at the SCI-Arc Supply Store
A collection of SCI-Arc Director Eric Owen Moss' introductions, essays and lectures. Moss draws from a wide range of literary, philosophical and historic sources to discuss the work of architects and theorists from all over the world who have lectured at SCI-Arc, as well as central themes such as 9/11 and the urban development of Los Angeles.
Onramp, No. 1
Edited by Florencia Pita
Available at the SCI-Arc Supply Store 02.15.08
Onramp is the first publication of all-student work created by SCI-Arc and depicts selected projects from the 2006-2007 academic year. Each studio, at every level, is shown alongside the teacher’s ideologies and methods of execution, revealing a wholly different way of going about the business of educating the next wave of architects. Edited by faculty member Florencia Pita, the publication will be an annual catalog of diverse, compelling and unorthodox work being done by SCI-Arc faculty and students.
Primitives: Fall 2007 1A Installation book – $10.00
Edited by Andy Ku, Marcos Sanchez and Jenny Wu
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Primitives documents the creative and design processes leading to the new installation by the 2007 1A Studio, which joins the 2006 and 2005 1A Studio installations still on display. The publication provides the original project brief along with a reflection by Marcos Sanchez on the many stages of design, starting with intricate paper sculptures made by each student, to small group models informed by the original shapes and mutated in various ways and finally to the construction of the installation itself.
Paffard Keating Clay
Modern Architect(ure)/Modern Master(s)
By Eric Keune
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This publication documents the relatively unknown work of Paffard Keatinge-Clay and brings to light the importance of the work in representing its time, as well as the influence of those for whom Keatinge-Clay worked. This is the first retrospective study of Keatinge-Clay's architectural projects and, as such, is an important record of an academically and socially significant body of work.
Paffard Keatinge-Clay is a unique figure in American architectural history. Born in England, he trained in Europe, at the AA in London then at the ETH in Zürich, then worked for Le Corbusier in Paris in 1948. Keatinge-Clay then came to America and apprenticed with Frank Lloyd Wright in 1950 and 1951. He practiced in America until the mid-1970s, yet his work remains largely unknown, even in San Francisco, where he worked for over twenty years. His own brand of orthodox modernism was decidedly out of step with the prevailing “Bay Area Modernism” exemplified by figures like Moore, Wurster, McCue, and Turnbull, who dominated both the academic and professional arenas at the time. As a result, Keatinge-Clay garnered minimal recognition in the area and struggled to execute his own unique and expressive architectural language. Keatinge-Clay lives in Malaga, Spain, where he is a practising sculptor.
Sessions
Edited by Hernan Diaz Alonso and Julianna Morais
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Sessions features interviews, conducted by Jeff Kipnis, with five members of SCI-Arc's faculty, young architects and theorists whose work embraces the possibilities of new computer technology to advance the architectural discourse. It features projects by Hernan Diaz Alonso (Xefirotarch), Marcelo Spina (PATTERNS), Marta Male, George Yu (George Yu Architects), and Benjamin Bratton (The Culture Industry).
Zago Architecture and Office dA: Two Installations
Edited by Julianna Morais, Martha Read and Dora Epstein-Jones
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This book chronicles the responses of two experimental architectural firms to the opportunity to design and build, with the assistance of their students at SCI-Arc, a site specific exhibition in the SCI-Arc Gallery, and explores their work through the lectures they delivered at SCI-Arc and through in-depth interviews conducted by SCI-Arc Director Eric Owen Moss.