Institution
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About
Located in downtown Los Angeles, SCI-Arc is a world-renowned center of innovation and one of the nation’s few independent architecture schools.
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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 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 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 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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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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Give Now
Use our secure online form to make a gift or pledge to SCI-Arc. -
Strategic Giving
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. -
Partnerships
Creating partnerships with our alumni, the community, and like-minded corporations is crucial to the success of SCI-Arc. -
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. -
Honor With Books
By participating in Honor With Books, you can pay lasting tribute to a special person while supporting SCI-Arc’s Kappe Library. -
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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AmazonSmile
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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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The Arc Podcast
Recorded and produced at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles, The Arc is led by SCI-Arc faculty and History + Theory Coordinator Marrikka Trotter.