70's. Los Angeles, post Vietnam, pre Blade Runner. Computer aided design is still on baby formula, most everything is physical.
SCI-Arc, a Ray Kappe invention, with his gang and their students, is up and running, beaming with energy from 1800 Berkeley Street in Santa Monica. A hot-rodded school of experimental architecture, trials and errors. By its environment and output it is the House of Glen Small, a Los Angeles architect at the time and a founding member of the school.
Inside the 8000 square-foot, corrugated metal SCI-Arc, dismantled airplane wings along with the student models of space stations and large interplanetary cities built for zero gravity are suspended from the ceiling, and rhombic structures sitting like mushrooms on multi level platforms, housing the students who are living and working in them. There are other kids hanging out in the school that aren't students but are interested in futurism, film and art. Everything is interchangeable with “kee klamps, steel pipes and 8'x 8' modular wood panels”. A low, plus or minus 600 dollars (no big money even then), gets you a semester with a young faculty of talented architects and artists. Most people are attracted to SCI-Arc because, conceptually, it is a free thinking school and it is about the Future. The New School (its first name) is magnetic.
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posted by: O.A
SCI-Arc, a Ray Kappe invention, with his gang and their students, is up and running, beaming with energy from 1800 Berkeley Street in Santa Monica. A hot-rodded school of experimental architecture, trials and errors. By its environment and output it is the House of Glen Small, a Los Angeles architect at the time and a founding member of the school.
Inside the 8000 square-foot, corrugated metal SCI-Arc, dismantled airplane wings along with the student models of space stations and large interplanetary cities built for zero gravity are suspended from the ceiling, and rhombic structures sitting like mushrooms on multi level platforms, housing the students who are living and working in them. There are other kids hanging out in the school that aren't students but are interested in futurism, film and art. Everything is interchangeable with “kee klamps, steel pipes and 8'x 8' modular wood panels”. A low, plus or minus 600 dollars (no big money even then), gets you a semester with a young faculty of talented architects and artists. Most people are attracted to SCI-Arc because, conceptually, it is a free thinking school and it is about the Future. The New School (its first name) is magnetic.
Read the whole article
posted by: O.A
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