Southern California Institute of Architecture

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Since it first opened in 1972, SCI-Arc has been relentlessly expanding and raising its ambitions. The scope of what SCI-Arc represents and offers to the world should keep multiplying. In our globalized era, design matters like never before, and we have the capacity to astonish the world by showing it all the different ways in which design can transform it.

The ethical questions of architecture are poignant for an institute so dedicated to innovation. It isn’t hyperbole to posit that the very existence of architecture as a profession and as a way of thinking and knowing is at stake. Architecture needs its own heroes, but more importantly the world needs architects to take on that position and to conjure images of what the future might become. We experiment and keep taking risks to remake the real.

Architecture is an act of optimism. We look forward to your contributions to this collective, evolving form of knowledge that is SCI-Arc.