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- The institutional history, With and Without Walls, reveals the origins and progress of the influential Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) through the 1970s and 1980s.
- Author(s): Benjamin J Smith
- 300 Pages
- Architecture, Study & Teaching
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The institutional history, With and Without Walls, reveals the origins and progress of the influential Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) through the 1970s and 1980s. After separating from the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona in 1972 amidst feelings of bureaucratic and ideological oppression, Ray Kappe, a Los Angeles-based architect and professor, proposed the formation of SCI-Arc and was the school's first director. Focusing on its early years under Kappe's leadership and the context of the social, cultural, and ecological idealism of the 1960s, the culture of the emerging school became an alternative model for training architects. Building off of the school's founding premise, that in providing freedom through self-study it would be possible to produce both architects and architecture, the book shows how SCI-Arc utilized the "college without walls" concept, a variation on a pedagogical approach popular in the 1970s, "school without walls," in the specific context of an architecture school. SCI-Arc's institutional culture adjusted over time, and it increasingly relied on the versatility of the institutional framework to forge its pedagogy. The principles engendered by the college without walls concept created challenges over the operation of the school and provided opportunities for the creative resolution of those challenges by empowering experimentation. In this way, SCI-Arc was, in itself, both a design problem and a solution in the field of architectural education.Dimensions (Overall): 10.0 Inches (H) x 7.0 Inches (W)
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Sub-Genre: Study & Teaching
Genre: Architecture
Number of Pages: 300
Publisher: Applied Research & Design
Format: Paperback
Author: Benjamin J Smith
Language: English
Street Date: October 1, 2025
TCIN: 1002898385
UPC: 9781961856936
Item Number (DPCI): 247-02-6054
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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