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- Habitat LA and SCI-Arc students complete an affordable, eco-friendly home for a U.S. veteran Wed, 22 Jun 16, 6:10amDeveloped over the course of a full academic year, IVRV House was designed during SCI-Arc’s fall semester, followed by final documentation in the spring semester, and constructed during the summer semester...
- Team SCI-Arc and Caltech’s Transforming DALE House Expands to More Than Double its Size at the Solar Decathlon Fri, 4 Oct 13, 12:08amThe SCI-Arc-/Caltech home, DALE, which stands for Dynamic Augmented Living Environment, is an exercise two years in the making that reacts to California's love for super-sized suburban tract homes by trading in the typical...
- DALE: Brilliant Solar-Powered Micro Home is Set on Rails for Mobility Tue, 2 Jul 13, 10:55pmDALE, which is an acronym for Dynamic Augmented Living Environment, is a net zero micro dwelling that produces all of its own energy with rooftop solar panels...
- Frank Gehry Donates $100,000 to SCIARC to Create Architecture Prize Sat, 8 Sep 12, 7:12amFrank Gehry is probably the most well-known living architect in the world and this week further established his legacy with $100,000 donation to the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc)...
- Frank Gehry’s $100,000 to the Southern California Institute of Architecture Will Support Annual Student Prize Sat, 8 Sep 12, 12:21amFrank Gehry is probably the most well-known living architect in the world and this week further established his legacy with $100,000 donation to the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc)...
- Students Re-Envision Los Angeles’ Ports O’Call for the Julius Shulman Emerging Talent Design Charette Fri, 6 Jul 12, 12:52amRead the rest of Students Re-Envision Los Angeles’ Ports O’Call for the Julius Shulman Emerging Talent Design Charette Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable development", Arc...
- VIDEO: Announcing the Winner of the 2011 Solar Decathlon Fri, 14 Oct 11, 3:08amIf you’re anything like us, you’ve been having Solar Decathlon withdrawal since the biennial design-build competition ended at the beginning of the month...
- SCI-Arc’s Billowing Graduation Pavilion Was Made With Giant Knitting Needles Fri, 23 Sep 11, 4:04amRead the rest of SCI-Arc’s Billowing Graduation Pavilion Was Made With Giant Knitting Needles Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Dwayne Oyler, eco design, green design, Jenny Wu, Los Angeles,...
- Solar Decathlon 2011: The CHIP House Wears Its Thermal Mass on Its Puffy Sleeve Tue, 7 Jun 11, 1:10amRead the rest of Solar Decathlon 2011: The CHIP House Wears Its Thermal Mass on Its Puffy Sleeve Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "energy efficiency", "sustainable architecture", CalTech, cfl, CHIP...
- SCIArc & CalTech Team Fight to Bring the Solar Decathlon Back to the National Mall Thu, 17 Feb 11, 10:30amWhen the U.S Department of the Interior announced its decision to kick this year’s Solar Decathlon off of the National Mall in January 2011, we doubt they expected such an uproar. One of the competing teams, a collaboration...
- SCIArc & CalTech Solar Decathlon Team Forging On Despite Unknown Competition Location Thu, 17 Feb 11, 3:12amRead the rest of SCIArc & CalTech Solar Decathlon Team Forging On Despite Unknown Competition Locationhttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed...
- Oasis-Sprouting Solar Umbrellas for Los Angeles Tue, 12 Oct 10, 8:54amProject UMBRELLA just took the $5,000 first place award in The Architect’s Newspaper and SCI‐Arc’s recent Los Angeles Cleantech Corridor and Green District Competition, which asked entrants to envision downtown...
- MASTODON Mobile Skyscraper is a Pop Up Disaster Relief Shelter Mon, 23 Aug 10, 11:59pmWe’ve seen our share of smart disaster relief shelters before, but none that ever featured a mobile skyscraper – until now. Dubbed the Transient Response System (TRS-1), this innovative design by architecture...
- SCI-Arc & CalTech Join Forces to Compete in the 2011 Solar Decathlon Fri, 23 Apr 10, 11:00pmThe 2011 Solar Decathlon is over a year and a half away, but teams around the world are already gearing up for the hottest competition in sustainable building...