Located in downtown Los Angeles, SCI-Arc is a world-renowned center of innovation and one of the nation’s few independent architecture schools.
Institution
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About
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Message from the Director
SCI-Arc is always expanding and raising its ambitions. In our globalized era, design matters like never before, and we have the capacity to astonish the world by demonstrating all the different ways in which design can transform it. -
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 who wanted to approach architecture from a more experimental perspective than traditional schools offered.
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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.
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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 Art and Architecture Supply Store serves both the student body and the downtown community, offering competitive prices for architecture and art supplies. -
Print Center
The Print Center at SCI-Arc provides students and faculty with access to a variety of regular and large-format high-resolution color plotters and printers at a fraction of typical service center prices. -
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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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).
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National Architectural Accrediting Board
The National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) accredits the professional degrees in architecture offered by SCI-Arc: the B.Arch degree, and the M.Arch degree offered through the M.Arch 1 and M.Arch 2 programs. -
Western Association of Schools and Colleges
The Accrediting Commission for Senior Colleges and Universities of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) is a regional accrediting agency serving a diverse membership of higher education institutions.
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Support the School
SCI-Arc relies on philanthropic support from alumni, parents, and friends to sustain our world-renowned educational programming.
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Giving Tuesday
This fall SCI-Arc will join organizations worldwide for the annual #GivingTuesday celebration which happens on November 27, 2018. -
Give Now
Use our secure online form to make a gift or pledge to SCI-Arc. -
Ways to Give
Gifts of cash, securities, or other assets, in-kind donations of goods and services, and multi-year pledges to SCI-Arc can be made a variety of ways. -
Annual Fund
The SCI-Arc Annual Fund is an important source of revenue for the school’s operating budget and provides financial support for SCI-Arc’s most pressing needs, including scholarships. -
Partnerships
Creating partnerships with our alumni, the community, and like-minded corporations is crucial to the success of SCI-Arc. -
Leadership Circle
SCI-Arc’s Leadership Circle caters exclusively to Southern California’s most generous enthusiasts of architecture and speculative innovation. -
Main Event Sponsorship
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Publications
SCI-Arc’s publications examine current discourses in architecture and design, and further the institution’s objectives of excellence in research, scholarship, and education.
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SCI-Arc Magazine
SCI-Arc Magazine is a biannual publication offering the latest news about the school as well as feature stories highlighting the exciting ways in which faculty, students, and alumni are engaging with the community and the world. -
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.
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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.