SCI-Arc

Please join us at NYCXdesign on Tuesday, May 19 for Design & The Crisis of Privacy with SCI-Arc Director/CEO Winka Dubbeldam. Panel: Winka Dubbeldam (@winkadub ) - Director/CEO, SCI-Arc; founder, Archi-Tectonics (@architectonics2129 ) Julie Lasky (@julielaskynyc ) - Writer and editor, The New York Times Walter Craven (@walterisaaccraven ) - Founder, Kabin Performance Sanctuary™ (@kabin.space ) John Crews - Shaw Contract (@shawcontract ) Location: 853 Broadway Shaw Contract NY Showroom3rd Floor New York NY 10003 RSVP at nycxdesign.com.

Thank you to everyone for making Spring Show 2026: FUTURE STARES BACK a massive success! Curated by Jennifer Chen (@jennifermulanchen ), Spring Show 2026 presented forward-thinking Undergraduate and Graduate work from this past year along with immersive music and dance performances creating new mythologies to guide us into the future. Spring Show 2026: FUTURE STARES BACK is on view now at SCI-Arc through May 27. More information at the link in bio. Musicians: @richardanmusic @kevingoodmusic @ben.remp @viola.wav Dancers: @lesliemburn @georgiaehrlich @cocoquero @hope.a.spears @femiemmymae @marcoavega

Register now for Making+Meaning at the link in bio. June 29 – July 24, 2026. One room at SCI-Arc. Four weeks. A group of students who arrived expecting to learn software and left with something they didn’t come for. Making+Meaning is a program about contemporary design tools. AI tools. Rhino. Grasshopper. 3D printers. Robotic arms. On paper it reads like a software bootcamp. In practice, the tools turn out to be the easy part. The hard part is what happens in between. The moment a tool stops feeling foreign and starts feeling like a hand. The moment a room of strangers stops being a room of strangers. The moment a student with no design background realizes she’s designing. None of that shows up in a syllabus. All of it shows up here. What the students take away isn’t the software. It’s the reflex. The instinct to reach for a tool they’ve never used and start trying. That’s the real curriculum. That’s what four weeks in this room actually teaches. You can learn the software online. You cannot learn this online. You have to be in the place.

To kick off the Spring 2026 semester, MS in Architectural Intelligence students completed a 6 week workshop with guest advisor @sutherlinsanto . Students developed proposals for a fictional brand from physically prototyping smart apparel, to building out production pipelines for brand design guides and a flagship store utilizing claude/MCP based 3d modeling and 2d media production. The store design uses smart technology to integrate user experience and novel retail ideas. There’s still time to apply for Fall 2026! Learn more about MS Architectural Intelligence at the Postgraduate Programs 💡 link in bio. Instructors: @mcaseyrehm @sutherlinsanto @juan_joselopezc Students: @desi.gns.ferras @tylerl_002 @shiny.yim @_cyenh_ @hillbilly_horselord @cloudinjun @andreselarios @de9ausser Euntaek Kim Jonathan Zahab Brian Xu

Project by M.Arch 1 student Jake Praglin (@jpraglin ) for Anna Neimark’s Fall 2025 Vertical Studio. There's still time to apply for Fall 2026! Learn more about SCI-Arc Graduate Programs at the link in bio. The West Los Angeles Veterans Administration campus has existed in prolonged crisis. Tents of unhoused veterans line the campus perimeter, while the HUD-VASH voucher process advances too slowly to meet demand. Housing is being developed, but slowly, and without supportive services. A burgeoning field of one-bedroom apartments will provide shelter, but lack the VA's intended emphasis on care. Asked to develop a supportive housing proposal for 101 unhoused veterans on the VA campus, this studio poses questions about architecture in a post-war condition. How can the formal organization of domestic functions foster a collective? Analysis of models for collective living prompted considerations on the meaning of provision. This project proposes the intertwinement of domestic functions (cooking, bathing, dining) with a collective infrastructure. Efficiency in the distribution of utilities (plumbing, HVAC, gas lines, electrical lines) is achieved through planar symmetries. Communal kitchens, dining areas, bathrooms and showers are situated within the perimeters and centers of shared courtyards. Variations of unit types provide multiplicity in shared conditions. The displacement of ritual that would be otherwise private intends to foster collectivism at an intimate scale, resembling something between a house and a dormitory. SCI-Arc M.Arch ranks consistently in the Top Ten #Graduate Programs: #4 in #Design #Technologies #5 in #Communications and Presentation #Skills #5 in #Interdisciplinary #Studies #6 in Design #Theory and #Practice #6 in #Research #7 in #Construction Materials and Methods #8 in Project #Planning and #Management #8 in #Transdisciplinary #Collaboration Across A/E/C #10 in Practice Management #10 in #Sustainable #Built #Environments / #Adaptive Designs

Watch “Worlds at SCI-Arc: Architecture Unbound” at the SCI-Arc Channel link in bio. Students arrive at SCI-Arc from across the world, each bringing a different background and perspective on architecture. Michal Larysz from Poland, Liva Sadovska from Latvia, and Luis Moreno from Santiago de Cali, Colombia represent three distinct paths that converge inside the experimental studios of Los Angeles. Through their reflections, this film explores what happens when architecture becomes a space for freedom and experimentation. At SCI-Arc, ideas are pushed beyond convention, theory meets fabrication, and students are encouraged to question how architecture can shape the world around them. Moving between speculation and making, the school becomes a laboratory where imagination takes physical form. For these students, studying architecture is not simply about buildings, but about discovering the courage to experiment, challenge norms, and take risks, while remembering if you’re not having fun along the way, what’s the point?

Project by B.Arch student Rafael Murro (@l_rafamu05 ) for Ramiro Diaz-Granados' (@ramirodiazgranados ) Fall 2025 3A studio. There's still time to apply for Fall 2026! Learn more about Undergraduate Programs at the link in bio. This 50-unit residential complex project is located on York Blvd in Highland Park, California. The building’s unique form wraps around a central staircase pattern, supported by exposed steel beams. Its modernist architectural style features a sophisticated blend of concrete and wood panels, designed to enhance the local atmosphere.

POV: you spent your summer creating, not just scrolling. Design Immersion Days 2026. Register now at the link in bio. Design Immersion Days (DID) is a four-week summer experience where high school students explore design and architecture through hands-on experimentation. The program sparks curiosity, builds foundational design and critical thinking skills, and connects students to the diverse design culture of Los Angeles. #summer #design #architecture #highschool #summerprogram

Project by M.Arch 1 student Fu Li (@life.ric_ ) for David Eskenazi (@d.esk ) and Matthew Au's (@wvyvwvyvw ) Fall 2025 1GA Studio. There's still time to apply for Fall 2026! Learn more about SCI-Arc Graduate Programs at the link in bio. This museum explores how architecture can shape a public experience through light, movement, and layered space. The design features stacked modular volumes that, when shifted and combined, create a sequence of galleries, public spaces, and a clear circulation path for visitors. An inverted glass pyramid at the entrance brings daylight to the lower level and establishes a strong visual identity, emphasizing the museum’s focus on transparency, openness, and spatial continuity. Transparent art storage along the main staircase allows visitors to view stored artworks as they ascend, making circulation an active and immersive experience. Larger glass surfaces on the upper levels provide abundant natural light, reducing reliance on artificial lighting and supporting sustainability goals. A mesh façade wraps the building, filtering sunlight, softening the form, and minimizing glare to create a unified architectural expression. It reveals a spatial gradient from an open public ground floor to defined gallery spaces and lighter, more transparent upper levels. Together, these elements create a museum that is open, fluid, and evolving, with architecture, light, and movement deeply interconnected.

UG Thesis 2026 in the books 🎓✨ A huge moment of ideas, experimentation, and bold proposals for what architecture can become. From speculative futures to critical reflections, this year’s undergraduate thesis pushed the conversation forward in powerful ways. Still thinking about joining us? Fall 2026 applications are open—hit the link in bio to learn more about our Undergraduate Programs.

Project by B.Arch student Indi Kusuma (@kusuma_designs ) for Peter Testa's (@peter_testa ) Fall 2025 4A studio. There's still time to apply for Fall 2026! Learn more about Undergraduate Programs at the link in bio. The ‘Center’ is a radial tower designed to expand existing programs at SCI-Arc while providing space for new research and partnerships. It offers a flexible, future oriented social condenser that shifts as SCI-Arc evolves. The project acts as a mixing chamber that accelerates interaction between disparate activities. It is a vertical social condenser designed to capture the energy of the institution. The form is centripetal, drawing activity inward. While radial, it is grounded by an ‘Asterisk’ of entries that act as the interface between the public city and the private institution, funneling circulation toward the central core. Inside, the building operates as vertical infrastructure organized through flexible clustering rather than a fixed hierarchy. The ground floor is a porous extension of the street and the school, anchoring vertical circulation while supporting the tower above. It remains highly active, mixing civic space with production, while above the energy shifts into spaces of discourse. By stacking these contrasting programs, the building forces intersection. A lightweight, responsive envelope encloses this activity. Semi translucent louvers filter light and mitigate heat, creating a well tempered environment. At night, the tower becomes a lantern in the Arts District. This project is not just an addition to SCI-Arc, but a complementary organism. While the form is centripetal, the effect is centrifugal, projecting energy back into Los Angeles. The structure ensures it remains generative, an open infrastructure ready to absorb the future of SCI-Arc’s pedagogy.

This Saturday, May 2 at 6pm, step into Spring Show 2026: FUTURE STARES BACK—where ideas evolve into mythologies and creation becomes pilgrimage. Through landscapes shaped by environment, technology, and society, this collection reminds us: the future isn’t just imagined, it’s built with optimism. Live opening ritual begins at 7pm. Refreshments served from @zomozmezcal and @sacredriverwine . More info at the link in bio.