Saturday, Sept. 10: 9:00am - 6:00pm
Sunday, Sept. 11: 10:00am - 2:00pm
Join us for the 2022 Graduate Thesis Weekend at SCI-Arc on September 10 and 11. This year’s graduating M.Arch 1 and M.Arch 2 students will present their incredible thesis work, culminating from a year of extensive research and experimentation. We’re excited to be fully in-person and in the SCI-Arc building, bringing back the vital opportunity for students to install and exhibit their work physically, and to engage their audience in real-time.
Crossing over with the first week of the fall term, Graduate Thesis at SCI-Arc is the nexus of school events, cultivating an inevitable link between outgoing thesis ideas with incoming students’ curiosities. The weekend of reviews gives thesis students an invaluable platform to articulate, propose, and defend their work to the SCI-Arc community and beyond. 62 students and 17 faculty advisors will converge with an array of invited guest critics from within and outside the discipline of architecture, to review, debate, and contemplate the provocations of this year's thesis projects.
We welcome our SCI-Arc community to join and support the 2022 Graduate Thesis class on September 10 and 11 as they share their accomplished thesis projects. To preview students’ work visit the Graduate Thesis 2022 website.
Graduate Thesis Coordinator:
Jackilin Hah Bloom
Teaching Assistants:
Jillian Leedy
Kyle Zufra
History + Theory Faculty:
Erik Ghenoiu
Marcelyn Gow
Director/CEO:
Hernán Díaz Alonso
Vice Director:
John Enright
Graduate Programs Chair:
Elena Manferdini
Faculty Advisors:
Kristy Balliet
Jackilin Hah Bloom
David Eskenazi
Marcelyn Gow
Ramiro Diaz-Granados
Soomeen Hahm
Jeremy Kamal Hartley
Mira Henry
Damjan Jovanović
Elena Manferdini
Rachael McCall
Eric Owen Moss
Anna Neimark
Marcelo Spina
Peter Testa
William Virgil
Devyn Weiser
Guest Critics
Hitoshi Abe
Professor - UCLA AUD, Founder - AHA
Iñaki Alday
Dean - Tulane SOA, Principal - Aldayjover Arquitectura y Paisaje
Matthew Au
SCI-Arc Faculty, Co-Principal – Current Interests
Kutan Ayata
Vice Chair - UCLA AUD, Founding Partner - Young & Ayata
Katy Barkan
Lecturer - UCLA AUD, Principal - Now Here
Germane Barnes
Assistant Professor - University of Miami SOA, Founder - Studio Barnes
Curime Batliner
SCI-Arc Applied Studies Faculty
Dana Bauer
Design Principal - Elysian Landscapes
Herwig Baumgartner
SCI-Arc Applied Studies Coordinator, Partner – B+U
Barbara Bestor
SCI-Arc Board Member, Alum, Principal - Bestor Architecture
Dutra Brown
SCI-Arc Alum, recent graduate of Harvard GSD
Galo Canizares
Assistant Professor - University of Kentucky College of Design, Director - office ca
Jennifer Chen
SCI-Arc Faculty, Tomorrow’s Thoughts Today
Annie Chu
Founding Principal - Chu-Gooding
Andrew Chittenden
SCI-Arc Alum, Computational Consultant, Gehry Technologies, Trimble Consulting
Kate Chiu
Executive Director - Materials & Applications, Lecturer - USC SOA and Woodbury University SOA
John Cooper
SCI-Arc Acting History+Theory Co-Coordinator
Joe Day
SCI-Arc Board Member, Alum, Principal - Deegan Day Design & Architecture
Neil Denari
Professor - UCLA AUD, Principal - NMDA
Yara Feghali
Lecturer - UCLA AUD, Creative Director & Founder - Folly Feast Lab
Brian Flaig
SCI-Arc Board Member, Alum
Heather Flood
Interim Dean - Woodbury SOA, Principal - F-Lab
Russell Fortmeyer
SCI-Arc Faculty, Woods Bagot's Global Sustainability Leader
David Freeland
SCI-Arc Faculty, Co-Principal – Freeland Buck
Benjamin Freyinger
Co-Prinicipal & Co-Founder - The Los Angeles Design Group
Ming Fung
SCI-Arc Faculty, Principal - Mithun | Hodgetts + Fung
Aaron Gensler
Chair - Woodbury SOA, Co-Founder – GenslerClipp
Matthew Gillis
Interim Assistant Professor - Woodbury SOA, Principal - Grant Gillis, Founding Principal - G!LL!S
Margaret Griffin
SCI-Arc Faculty, Partner – Griffin Enright Architects
Graham Harman
Philosopher & SCI-Arc Liberal Arts Coordinator
Kordae Henry
SCI-Arc Faculty, Filmmaker
Craig Hodgetts
Principal - Mithun | Hodgetts + Fung
Coy Howard
SCI-Arc Faculty, Architect
Alvin Huang
Graduate Director - USC Architecture, Principal - Synthesis D+A
Ryan Hughes
San Francisco Based Designer
Georgina Huljich
Faculty - UCLA AUD, Partner - Patterns
Abigail Coover Hume
Adjunct Professor - Pratt Institute SOA, Principal - Overlay Office
Mariana Ibañez
Chair - UCLA AUD, Founding Principal - Ibañez Kim
Jerry Jenkins
Professor - Palomar College
Yuehao Jiang
Lecturer - UCLA Design Media Arts, New Media Artist
Darin Johnstone
SCI-Arc Acting Undergraduate Co-Chair, Principal - DJA
Margarita Jover
Director - Tulane SOA, Principal - Aldayjover Arquitectura y Paisaje
Simon Kim
Associate Professor - UPenn Weitzman School of Design, Principal - Ibañez Kim
Alice Kimm
Partner - JFAK Architects
Karel Klein
SCI-Arc Faculty, Partner – Ruy Klein
Max Kuo
Lecturer - UCLA AUD, Founding Partner - ALLTHATISSOLID
Jimenez Lai
Lecturer - USC SOA, Founder - Bureau Spectacular
WonJu Lim
Multimedia Artist
Karen Lohrmann
SCI-Arc EDGE Design of Cities Faculty
Angelica Lorezi
SCI-Arc Faculty, DID Coordinator
Zoe Malecki
SCI-Arc Alum, Designer - Brooks+Scarpa Architects
Alexey Marfin
SCI-Arc MS Fiction & Entertainment Faculty
Scrap Marshall
Adjunct Professor - Woodbury SOA, Founding Principal - HA+MA
Ryan Tyler Martinez
SCI-Arc Alum, Faculty - USC SOA, Principal - Studio Ryan Tyler Martinez
Jake Matatyaou
Lecturer - UCLA AUD, Founding Partner – JuneJuly
John May
Associate Professor - GSD, Founding Partner - MILLIØNS
Thom Mayne
SCI-Arc Board Member, Founding Partner – Morphosis
John McMorrough
Associate Professor - Taubman College of Architecture, Principal - Studio APT
Laure Michelon
SCI-Arc Alumni, Lecturer - UCLA AUD, Designer - Ishida Rehm Studio
Emily Mohr
SCI-Arc Faculty, Lecturer – USC SOA, Co-Principal – Mohr Rieke Studio
Jerry Neuman
SCI-Arc Board Member
Ginger Nolan
Assistant Professor - USC SOA
Jaime Norden
Gehry Partners
Patricia Olynyk
Director - Washington University School of Design & Visual Arts, Director - Leonardo/ISAST NY LASER
Michael Osman
Associate Professor - UCLA AUD
Dwayne Oyler
SCI-Arc Faculty, Partner – Oyler Wu Collaborative
Güvenc Özel
Lecturer - UCLA AUD, Founder - Ozel Office
Francisco Pardo
SCI-Arc Mexico Faculty, Francisco Pardo Arquitecto
Florencia Pita
SCI-Arc Faculty, Principal – Florencia Pita & Co.
Casey Rehm
SCI-Arc MS Architectural Technologies Coordinator, Principal – Studio Kinch
Julie Riley
SCI-Arc Alum, Designer - Welcome Projects
David Ruy
SCI-Arc Postgraduate Programs Chair, Partner - Ruy Klein
Natasha Sandmeier
Assistant Adjunct Professor - UCLA AUD, Executive Director - A+D Museum
Mohamed Sharif
Assistant Adjunct Professor & Director - UCLA AUD, Founding Principal - Sharif, Lynch: Architecture
Roger Sherman
Design Resilience Leader & Design Director - Gensler, Principal - RSAUD
Kevin Sherrod
Lecturer - USC SOA, Arts & Culture Practice Area Leader – Gensler
Paulette Singley
Professor - Woodbury SOA, Author
Maxi Spina
SCI-Arc Undergraduate Thesis Coordinator, Partner – SpinaGu
Brett Steele
Dean - UCLA School of Arts & Architecture
Dale Strong
SCI-Arc Alum, Partner - Pentagon LA
Nathan Su
Lecturer - UCLA AUD, Founder & Director - Inferstudio
Doris Sung
Director - USC SOA, Founder & Architect - DOSU Studio
Russell Thomsen
SCI-Arc Faculty, Principal – RNThomsen Architecture
Peter Trummer
SCI-Arc Visiting Faculty, Chair – IOUD University of Innsbruck
Jan Tumlir
Lecturer - Washington University School of Design & Visual Arts, Writer - Artforum
Jenny Wu
SCI-Arc Faculty, Partner – Oyler Wu Collaborative
Liam Young
SCI-Arc MS Fiction & Entertainment Coordinator, Founder – Tomorrow’s Thoughts Today