los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc
advisor: Eric Owen MOSS

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Hannah PAVLOVICH: The title of my thesis is “Puzzling.” Puzzling as in making a puzzle, puzzling as in solving a puzzle, puzzling as in the act of thinking, and puzzling as in enigmatic. Through a process of obfuscation, I have created an organizational mechanism that organizes space unpredictably but not illegibly.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc
advisors: Jeffrey KIPNIS & Andrew ZAGO.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Daiki TSUTSUMI: Semordnilap proposes the potentiality of delaying the common perception of symmetry, and it recaptures the understanding of one of the oldest tools in architectural history. . . .

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melbourne AUSTRALIA

RMIT University
advisor: Roland SNOOKS

Michael FERREYRA: This Museum of Science Fiction and Cinematic Affects explores the possibilities of a speculative architecture that embodies cinematic affects within the context of Melbourne, through the act of designing the image and drawing from the potential source of the science-fiction genre.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
Research Cluster 8 (2012.9-2013.8)/Research Cluster 6 (2013.9-)
tutor: Daniel WIDRIG.
critics: Alisa ANDRASEK, Ross LOVEGROVE, Jose SANCHEZ, & Frédéric MIGAYROU.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

bchiq (Bernardo DIAS, Chiaki YATSUI, & Qiuying ZHONG): A series of autonomous sculptures and structures stand along the river bank in Coimbra, Portugal.
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los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc
critic: Hernan DIAZ ALONSO

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Stefano PASSERI: “Inside and Outside are inseparable, but they’re different worlds. Outside, everything is clear: comfortable distance, 45-degree daylight from top left, you know where you stand, you calculate and measure. . . .”

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc
advisor: Elena MANFERDINI

Describe your project:

Marie-Sophie STARLINGER: The exploration of the relationship of inside to outside has been a constant in the discipline. Two main approaches have flourished in the architectural discourse in the past decades: the visual perception of exterior and interior, and the physical relationship of envelope to interior mass.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc
advisor: Florencia PITA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Emily CHEN CHOI: Deep Facade is a thesis that privileges the façade as an architectural element and pushes the façade to become the entire architectural experience. Traditionally, a façade operates as a two dimensional element that indexes the building and establishes boundary. It is the threshold that separates the interior from exterior, indicating a change in experience as one approaches and enters a building. By thickening the facade to an extreme, Deep Facade challenges this traditional notion of a thin surface facade, thereby prolonging the cadence of entering a building and blurring the distinction between interior and exterior.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc is pleased to announce the 2013 Graduate Thesis Weekend & Graduation Ceremony, taking place September 6-8, 2013 on the SCI-Arc campus in downtown Los Angeles.

A culmination of up to three years of study and coursework leading toward the Master of Architecture and M.Des.R post-graduate degrees, this public three-day event has students presenting their final projects to critics from all over the world and culminates with an all-school commencement ceremony for both undergrads and grads.

SCI-Arc, “2013 Graduate Thesis Weekend & Graduation Ceremony.”
09/06–09/08 / SCI-Arc Campus
960 E. 3rd Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc
critics: Andrew ZAGO w/ guest advisor Jeffrey KIPNIS

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Dale STRONG: This thesis is investigating formal architectural conditions existing between abstraction and legibility in order to challenge notions of sobriety and solemnity within the discipline of architecture. The context of the site, located on the campus of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, is architecturally earnest with neighbors like Mies Van der Rohe’s Brown Pavilion and Raphael Moneo’s Audrey Jones Beck building. To counter the seriousness of the surrounding and help lighten the mood, this thesis will make a serious attempt to introduce comic and licentious characteristics to the new building.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc’s all-school exhibition of thesis work, reviewed by members of the SCI-Arc faculty and distinguished local and visiting architects, is open for public viewing. Guest critics include: Frank Gehry, Thom Mayne, Hitoshi Abe, Neil Denari, Heather Roberge, Mark Lee, Greg Lynn, Sylvia Lavin, Kathryn Dean, Jimenez Lai, Nicolai Ourosouff, Brett Steele, Roland Snooks, Jason Payne, Theo Spyropoulos, Lisa Iwamoto, Abel Misla, Preston Scott Cohen, Ross Wimer, Nanako Umemoto, Bernard Tschumi, Frances Anderton, Dana Cupkova.

SCI-Arc Graduate Thesis Weekend
Graduate Thesis Coordinator: Elena Manferdini
Friday, 09/07 / 2.00–6.00pm
Saturday, 09/08 / 9.00am–6.00pm
Sunday, 09/09 / 9.00am–4.00pm
SCI-Arc
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013