SCI-Arc Media Archive
The Media Archive is a continuously-expanding online showcase with over 1000 hours of video, featuring the world’s most significant architects, designers, and theorists—including 11 Pritzker Prize winners—from 1972 to now, offered to the public unedited, for students, scholars and anybody with an interest in architecture, Los Angeles and experimental design. Founded in 1972, the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) is an independent school offering graduate and undergraduate degree programs in architecture. It is recognized internationally not only as a center for design innovation, but as a forum for debating new ideas in architecture. From the beginning, SCI-Arc actively engaged the community with public programs, including a lecture series, which started in 1974 and still happens Wednesday nights. Most of these videos document public events held at SCI-Arc. Support for the Media Archive was provided by The Getty Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Marcelo Spina & Georgina Huljich ; After context - grounds for the new (October 1, 2025)
Rossana Hu : Liminality (March 17, 2025)
Coy Howard - The Max Palevsky Residence
Coy Howard - Ikebana & Other Infidelities
Noah Barker : A Long wave with an undertone of expansion (February 12 2025)
Coy Howard: The Thickening of Time - Red Villa 3, New York, New York
Coy Howard: The Thickening of Time - Pink & Yellow, Villa 5, Los Angeles, California
Coy Howard: The Thickening of Time - Amber, Villa 2, Tokyo, Japan
Coy Howard: Silhouette of Feeling - Tables
Coy Howard: Silhouette of Feeling - Sofas
Coy Howard: Silhouette of Feeling - Lights
Staging futures : Exhibition making & design as a speculation apparatus (November 6, 2024)
Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin, JoNina Abron-Ervin: Rebuilding the city from the bottom up (December 7, 2024)
Joint Dialogue Series: Futuring, in collaboration with Berggruen Institute (July 17, 2024)
Ferda Kolatan: Misfits & Hybrids (October 15, 2024)
Sarah M. Whiting : Dynamic wholes (October 9, 2024)
Luigi Alberto Cippini : A4Shit\ - Armature Globale (October 2, 2024)
Matthias Kohler : Digital materiality in architecture (November 20, 2024)
Ali Rahim : Catalytic forms (March 27, 2024)
Full Spectrum: Color in Contemporary Architecture symposium (March 22, 2024)
Benedetta Tagliabue: Sewing the urban fabric (March 6, 2024)
Gabriela Carrillo: Resonance (February 21, 2024)
Markus Miessen : Agonistic assemblies - On the spatial politics of horizontality (February 7, 2024)
David Eskenazi : Under the tent, with Hernán Díaz Alonso & Mira Henry (November 1, 2023)
Graduation 2023 (September 10, 2023)
Pooyan Ruhi : Making an audience - stories of resistance & transgression (November 16, 2023)
David Hertz : The Resilience imperative (November 8, 2023)
Graduation 2022 (September 11, 2022)
Alper Aytaç : Topography (November 1, 2023)