SCI-Arc Graduate Thesis 2021

This year, SCI-Arc’s lively and immersive Graduate Thesis Weekend will be taking place September 10-12, 2021, held both in person at SCI-Arc and remotely. Featuring live-broadcast reviews streamed via the Graduate Thesis 2021 website, friends, family, and participants from all over the world will be able to experience the remarkable work of SCI-Arc’s 2021 Graduate Thesis class. The dedicated Graduate Thesis 2021 website enables all users to preview the review schedule, student work, as well as access to all reviews, both online and in-person, simultaneously in one interface.

Graduate Thesis is the culminating project of SCI-Arc’s curriculum that prepares M.Arch 1 and M.Arch 2 graduate students to make a statement and form a commitment that establishes their orientation to future architectural work. This year’s thesis has collectively explored the theme of “expanding the archives,” with every thesis project tackling questions and problems which are urgent to the discipline of architecture in 2021, making an attempt not only to synthesize the practice of design as it is now, but as it might become. This means taking account of the situatedness of every thesis project in relation to its many entanglements with the history and theory of the discipline, society, and environment, and projecting them forward into new possible futures.

Please join SCI-Arc’s Graduate Thesis class September 10-12, 2021 as they present and share their work with the world. Visit the Graduate Thesis 2021 website to preview review schedule, participating juror list, live feed and viewing links, student work, and more.

Graduate Thesis Coordinators

Kristy Balliet and John Cooper

Graduate Programs Chair

Elena Manferdini

Faculty Advisors:

Matthew Au (M.Arch ’11) Kristy Balliet Jackilin Hah Bloom Hernán Díaz Alonso Ramiro Diaz-Granados David Freeland Marcelyn Gow Mira Henry Damjan Jovanovic Gordon Kipping (M.Arch ’95) Karel Klein Zeina Koreitem Elena Manferdini Rachael McCall (M.Arch ’15) Eric Owen Moss Anna Neimark Florencia Pita Casey Rehm David Ruy Marcelo Spina Peter Testa William Virgil (M.Arch ’16) Devyn Weiser Tom Wiscombe

Cultural Agents:

Jasmine Benyamin John Cooper Erik Ghenoiu Marrikka Trotter

Guest Critics:

Cristóbal Amunátegui Sean Anderson Valéry Augustin Kutan Ayata Germane Barnes Miroslava Brooks Barbara Campbell-Lange Michelle Chang Annie Chu (B.Arch ’83) Adriana Cuellar Charles L. Davis II Neil M. Denari Ivi Diamantopoulou Gabriel Esquivel Mark Foster Gage Benjamin Freyinger Eric Howeler Alvin Huang Mariana Ibañez Alicia Imperiale Jeffery Johnson Victor Jones Lydia Kallipoliti Ulrika Karlsson Simon Kim Julia Koerner Jaffer Kolb Max Kuo Jimenez Lai Lara Lesmes Karen Lewis Igor Marjanović Thom Mayne John McMorrough Daniel Norell Dami Olufowose Patricia Olynyk Maya Ozvaldic Luke Pearson Sille Pihlak Marcel Sanchez Natasha Sandmeier Ashley Schafer Brett Steele Doris Sung Anthony Titus Jeanne Vaccaro Ingalill Wahlroos-Ritter Lois Weinthal Marion Weiss Mimi Zeiger (M.Arch ’98) Mo Zell

To learn more you can watch live on the Graduate Thesis Website.