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
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. -
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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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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