Located in downtown Los Angeles, SCI-Arc is a world-renowned center of innovation and one of the nation’s few independent architecture schools.
About
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Institution
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Message from the Director
Across our history, SCI-Arc has become a place where virtuosos train and thrive, but we also believe in the interconnectedness of great design and social change. -
Mission Statement
SCI-Arc teaches architects to engage, speculate, and innovate; to take the lead in reimagining the limits of architecture. -
History of SCI-Arc
SCI-Arc was founded in 1972 in Santa Monica by a group of faculty and students from the Department of Architecture at Cal Poly Pomona, who wanted to approach the subject from a more experimental perspective than traditional schools offered. -
Rankings
SCI-Arc ranks top 10 across all of the survey’s focus areas, including design theory, construction methods, materials, and sustainability, in both the graduate and undergraduate categories. -
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
At SCI-Arc, we believe in the interconnectedness of great design and social change.
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People
SCI-Arc’s leadership, faculty, and staff come from diverse backgrounds and countries, reflecting the globalism of the institution and its student body.
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Leadership
SCI-Arc's leadership have been educators and architects for many years, and have all played key roles in shaping the school’s curriculum. -
Faculty
SCI-Arc's faculty represents a wide range of contemporary approaches to architecture and related disciplines. Among its members are renowned theorists, critics, and historians and some of Los Angeles's leading architectural practitioners. -
Staff
SCI-Arc's staff is part of a diverse community dedicated to supporting the institution's goals and its students' needs. -
Board of Trustees
SCI-Arc’s Board of Trustees is charged with the governance, accountability, and sustainability of the school, and counts developers, architects, filmmakers, SCI-Arc founders, and philanthropists amongst its members. -
Alumni
SCI-Arc graduates are part of a global community of alumni, faculty, and friends who stay connected to the school through events, lectures, exhibitions, and continuing education opportunities that happen around the world. -
Parents
Parents are an integral part of our community.
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Facility
Within its quarter-mile-long campus, SCI-Arc offers students an integrated suite of resources that support academic progress and experimentation.
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Magic Box
SCI-Arc’s technologically transformative digital fabrication lab expands the school’s experimental approach to design. -
Robot House
The SCI-Arc Robot House is a platform for experimentation and speculation on the future of architecture, situated conceptually and physically between studio and shop, academy and industry. -
Fabrication Shop
SCI-Arc’s six-thousand-square-foot fabrication shop is equipped with a wide array of metal and woodworking machinery and tools, supporting hands-on experimentation with materials and construction. -
Store
The SCI-Arc Store serves the student body, by offering competitive prices for architecture supplies. -
Print Center
The SCI-Arc Print Center serves both the SCI-Arc student body and the local community, offering competitive prices for full service printing needs. -
SCI-Arc Galleries
SCI-Arc is the only cultural institution in Los Angeles committed to exhibiting experimental projects by contemporary architects. -
Kappe Library
The Kappe Library is the largest academic library in Southern California focused on architecture, and welcomes both students and outside architectural researchers.
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Resources
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COVID-19 Updates and Resources
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Academic Calendar
Important dates for the academic year can be found here. -
Accreditation
The undergraduate and graduate professional degrees awarded by SCI-Arc are accredited by both the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC). -
Policies and Disclosures
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Impact Reports
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Title IX
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Careers
SCI-Arc takes pride in recruiting and retaining the best and brightest candidates for a career at SCI-Arc, and is dedicated to creating a culturally rich, artistic, diverse work environment.
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Sky-Arc
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The Arc Podcast
Thought-provoking, intimate, and often surprising, The Arc interrogates the issues of our time. -
SCI-Arc Press
SCI-Arc Press was founded in 2005 as a distinct voice in architecture to examine and propagate the work and research of designers and theorists developing the next generation of ideas. -
SCI-Arc R*SEARCH
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