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本帖最后由 archboy 于 2009-5-25 03:00 编辑

应版大要求介绍下SCI-ARC, 时间不是很多，有空就进来补出一点, 转一片校庆的内部文章from Ray Kappe, 希望对SCI-ARC不太了解的朋友有所帮助.
SCI ? ARC will be 36 years old in October 2008.  For those, new and old to our school, this short history is presented.
The Founding of SCI-ARC
The Southern California Institute of Architecture SCI-ARC was founded by well-known Architect Educator, Ray Kappe FAIA, in 1972.  Already an established and recognized Architect, he had become interested in architectural education in the early 1960's when he taught classes and thoughtfully analyzed the program at USC.
In 1968 he was chosen to be Founding Chairman of the Architecture Program at California State Polytechnic University at Pomona, helping to form the School of Environmental Design.  In three and one half years the program had grown to 350 students and was developing a good reputation.  When an extremely controversial and apparently unsolvable administrative problem arose, Kappe resigned, after weeks of student demonstrations, with large building posters and tee shirts with Kappe?s image, patrolling helicopters overhead, because of student unrest, and a court decision in his favor, for the Professors Union. It had become a ?cause celebre? on the campus and in the Los Angeles press.  Most of the young faculty having been hired by Kappe, probably would not have survived had they stayed on.  Instead, Thom Mayne, Jim Stafford, Glen Small, Ahde Lahti, Bill Simonian, as well as Shelly Kappe, who, as a volunteer consultant, had been doing special programs and PR, joined him in the alternative educational experiment that became SCI-ARC.  These six became the high-energy, committed Founding Faculty who contributed so much to SCI-ARC?s success.
Fifty students, including Michael Rotondi, Dean Nota, and John Souza courageously followed and were joined by twenty-five more from all over the U.S. and Canada.  They had heard about ?The New School,? as the students called it at first, although Kappe had already given it the name of the Southern California Institute of Architecture with the memorable acronym of SCI-ARC.
Ray Kappe had a busy, diverse practice of 19 years, having completed seventy-five buildings and projects by that time, which were recognized with numerous design awards and local, national and international publication, and was also active in the Los Angeles,  California and National American Institute of Architects organization.  All of this, plus Kappe?s having founded the Cal Poly Architecture Program so successfully, gave SCI-ARC instant credibility and professional support, and it immediately started to grow and thrive.
Growth & Development
As Founding Director and Chairman of the Board, Kappe skillfully led the school for fifteen years, having the pedagogical experience and financial expertise, as well as the interpersonal skills that enabled him to moderate the diverse personalities that made the school so successful.  Under his leadership, SCI-ARC was able to purchase 120 acres of  land in Topanga Canyon, California for experimental structures, as well as to acquire and restore a  200 year old Italian Villa in the hills overlooking Lake Lugano  in Vico Morcote, Switzerland for SCI-ARC?s European Studies Program.
Started in 1978 as a traveling European summer program,  the Vico program has given some 1000 students the opportunity to live and study in the villa and travel to see the architecture of Europe, a  very special European experience.  On June 7, 2008, the Vico Morcote program had a gala celebration of its 25 + (30th) Anniversary, attended by over 100 students, alumni, friends and faculty, including Shelly & Ray Kappe, the Founders of the program.
From the beginning, there was much interest in what was happening at SCI-ARC.  A constant stream of visiting lecturers from all over the world participated in the program.  With Shelly Kappe doing PR, Special Programs, and teaching Architectural History, and with
Design Studio Faculty Mayne, Stafford, Small, Lahti and Simonian, joined by Eric Moss and Terry Glassman in 1974, producing innovative projects with the students, many of which, especially the Glen Small / Ahde Lahti projects were covered in the press, SCI-ARC achieved national and international recognition very quickly.  In just four years it obtained national professional accreditation, with an energized student body of 200.
Ray Kappe?s talent as a designer and entrepreneurial spirit made him a good role model for and mentor to his students and young faculty, to whom he gave support and encouragement.  Many of them started their own offices and, over time, began winning design awards and publication.  The so-called ?Santa Monica School,? was mostly about the work of the SCI-ARC faculty.
Ray Kappe again served as Chairman of the Board from 1998 to 2002.  Also, in the Fall of 2001, he was appointed Interim Director to keep the school running smoothly between Directors.
The Kappe Library
The library at SCI-ARC was started with the Kappe?s personal art and architectural book collection in 1974.  Shelly Kappe continued to develop the library with book purchases and encouraging other donated collections until 1987 when she retired. In the early 1990?s, as a gesture of appreciation, the library was named the ?Shelly & Ray Kappe Library,? with a large stainless steel nameplate at the door.  In 2002, Ray Kappe arranged for the donation of a  $3l,000 gift of Classic Modern furniture for the Sitting / Reading Area  of  the Kappe Library from Design Within Reach, in lieu of a consulting fee.  Not only were the chairs and tables by Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and Marcel Breuer a gracious addition to the library, but it also gave SCI-ARC students the opportunity to enjoy and experience excellence of design.
Since 2000, SCI-ARC has been located in an historic, restored 1,450 ft. long reinforced concrete building, formerly, a Santa Fe Railway freight depot, which Kappe helped secure.  Adjacent to the Los Angeles River and the Artists District, and a part of the downtown renaissance, SCI-ARC has continued to grow and achieve recognition.

SCI-ARC Today
SCI-ARC currently has a student body of some 500, and at the age of 36 years, over 3,000 graduates working, practicing, writing and teaching all over the world.  Many former faculty are now heading other schools. Founding Faculty member Thom Mayne was the 2005 recipient of the Pritzker Prize, and other faculty and alumni are also achieving success, publication and recognition.  Alumni, Nick Seierup of Perkins & Will, and Steve McConnel of NBBJ, were honored with Fellowship in the American Institute of Architecture, at the 2006 National Convention; Michael Folonis and David Hertz were made Fellows at the 2008 Convention; and Michael Rotondi, who became the second Director after Ray Kappe retired, was made a Fellow of the AIA in 1997.  Illustrious alumnus Shigeru Ban, of Japan, was also made an Honorary Fellow of the AIA. SCI-ARC has long been considered to be one of the most respected schools of Architecture in the world.
SCI-ARC?s Influence
SCI-ARC, as well as, SCI-ARC Vico Morcote, Switzerland have been an inspiration and role model for many schools and programs that have followed, including:  the Woodbury School of Architecture & Design in Burbank; The LAIAD Program; the Design program of Otis College of Art; The New School in San Diego ; the CCAC School in San Francisco ; the School of Architecture at Arizona State University,;the School of Architecture, University of Michigan; The
Berlage School in Rotterdam, Netherlands; The Bartlett School at the University of London; The Academia of the Swiss Federal Technical Institute - the ETH ? in Mendrissio, Switzerland; the Como, Italy program of USC; the Kent State program in Florence and the Beijing
Architecture Studio Enterprise, among others.  The most recent to reflect SCI-ARC?s influence is the School of Architecture at the University of Limerick, Ireland, from which Ray Kappe has recently returned after attending successful Accreditation and Advisory Board meetings in the official capacity of "External Examiner," the third year of a four-year appointment.

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