Originally called the New School, SCI-Arc was based on the concept of a " college without walls " and it remains one of the few independent architecture schools in the world.

Although SCI-Arc was once unaccredited and its finances unstable — Moss joked, " We used to be considered one step ahead of the IRS, one step ahead of creditors "— the school is now fully accredited, and its finances improved to the point that SCI-Arc was able to pay $ 23. 1 million to buy its campus building in 2011.

When SCI-Arc arrived, the building was a stripped-down concrete shell.

SCI-Arc was “ to bring to Los Angeles the critical attitude toward the profession that was being practiced at Cooper Union in New York and the Architectural Association in London .”

Founded in 1972, SCI-Arc is widely regarded as one of the most avant-garde U. S. architecture schools, with a reputation for pushing the boundaries of academic study.

Educated at University of Southern California ( 1969 ) and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1978, Mayne helped found the Southern California Institute of Architecture ( SCI-Arc ) in 1972, where he is a trustee.

In 1972, Mayne collaborated with five other students and educators whom he met at while at USC, to create the Southern California Institute of Architecture, or SCI-Arc.

To these ends, SCI-Arc has been awarded a $ 400, 000 grant by ArtPlace to develop two on-campus public performance / lecture spaces, as well as development for a third public venue in the surrounding arts district.

SCI-Arc offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board ( NAAB ) and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges ( WASC ), including a five-year Bachelor of Architecture ( B. Arch ) program, a 3-year Master of Architecture ( M. Arch 1 ) open to applicants who hold a bachelor's degree or equivalent in any field of study, and a 2-year Master of Architecture ( M. Arch 2 ) open to applicants with a prior undergraduate degree in architecture.

In the fall and spring terms, design studios, seminars and workshops led by SCI-Arc faculty and visiting instructors offer students a multitude of choices and perspectives.

Accelerating SCI-Arc's pace, already at the leading edge of digital design and rapid prototyping, the new SCI-Arc Robot House, initiated by faculty members Peter Testa and Devyn Weiser, builds upon the school's strengths to create a next generation platform for experimentation and speculation on the future of architecture.

The full scope of SCI-Arc public programs includes lectures, exhibitions, faculty talks and other opportunities for interaction between the school and the community.

Approximately half of SCI-Arc ’ s students are enrolled in its undergraduate program and half in its graduate programs.

SCI-Arc attracts students from nearby and throughout the world in pursuit of the unique education the school offers.

SCI-Arc is serious about educating and challenging its students — but does it so in an unconventional atmosphere.

Students actively engage in preparing the SCI-Arc Gallery exhibitions, help fellow graduating students in setting up their models for thesis presentations, and contribute to workshops that result in projects throughout the school, such as the graduation pavilion and other unique structures.

Summer at SCI-Arc features two intro to architecture programs open to the public: Design Immersion Days, a four-week intense design and architecture workshop for high school students, and MAKING + MEANING, a five-week foundation program in architecture that introduces the principles of architecture in a hands-on exploration of spatial experimentation, design methodologies and the creative process.

Professors from architecture schools such as Beijing's Central Academy of Fine Arts and the Southern Californian Institute of Architecture ( SCI-Arc ) have proposed various development plans for the area that involve preserving the buildings, although those do not appear especially profitable financially.

The Southern California Institute of Architecture ( SCI-Arc ) in Los Angeles, California, is an independent, nonprofit school offering undergraduate and graduate degrees in architecture.

* Southern California Institute of Architecture (" SCI-Arc "), Los Angeles, California *

Since then he has held teaching positions at SCI-Arc, the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona ( Cal Poly Pomona ) and the University of California, Los Angeles ( UCLA ).

Students have access to their SCI-Arc studio spaces 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Successful candidates in the post-graduate programs receive a SCI-Arc Master of Design Research Degree ( MDesR ) in the respective fields.

At first glance this appears strange: of all people, was not America founded by rugged individualists who established a new way of life still inspiring `` undeveloped '' societies abroad??

William Coddington, who was running the colony, felt constrained to move seven miles south where, with others -- as mentioned above -- he founded Newport.

In the final analysis his contribution to American historiography was founded on almost intuitive insights into religion, economics, and Darwinism, the three factors which conditioned his search for a law of history.

When founded by Franklin the Gazette was a weekly family newspaper and under its new name its format remained that of a newspaper but its columns gradually contained more and more fiction, poetry, and literary essays.

He was named Product Manager of the Special Products Division of Sprague when it was founded in 1958, and was later promoted to his present post.

There, Mother was received by the scions of aristocratic lines which are dominated by the Budweisers ( of beer derivation ), the Chalmers ( of underwear origin ), and the Heinzes ( whose forbears founded a nationally famous trade in pickles ).

The Chinese world view during the Han dynasty, when the Lo Shu seems to have been at the height of its popularity, was based in large part on the teachings of the Yin-Yang and Five-Elements School, which was traditionally founded by Tsou Yen.

It was under the tutelage of the Guru that Bhai Kanhaiya subsequently founded a volunteer corps for altruism.

The single largest organization of Anthropologists is the American Anthropological Association ( AAA ), which was founded in 1903.

During this time most of what is known as ethnologie was restricted to museums, such as the Musée de l ' Homme founded by Paul Rivet, and anthropology had a close relationship with studies of folklore.

He was worshipped as Acraephius ( ; Ἀκραιφιος, Akraiphios, literally " Acraephian ") or Acraephiaeus ( ; Ἀκραιφιαίος, Akraiphiaios, literally " Acraephian ") in the Boeotian town of Acraephia ( Ἀκραιφία ), reputedly founded by his son Acraepheus ; and as Smintheus ( ; Σμινθεύς, Smintheus, " Sminthian "— that is, " of the town of Sminthos or Sminthe ") near the Troad town of Hamaxitus.

He was the third son of the writer and schoolmaster Leonard Huxley and his first wife, Julia Arnold, who founded Prior's Field School.

He founded Interview Magazine and was the author of numerous books, including The Philosophy of Andy Warhol and Popism: The Warhol Sixties.

The American Film Institute was founded in 1967 as a national arts organization to preserve the legacy of American film heritage, educate the next generation of filmmakers and honor the artists and their work.

Milne was an early screenwriter for the nascent British film industry, writing four stories filmed in 1920 for the company Minerva Films ( founded in 1920 by the actor Leslie Howard and his friend and story editor Adrian Brunel ).

The club was originally founded as a football team in 1891, with the name Buenos Aires English High School although it was obliged to change its name to Alumni Athletic Club ( the name was proposed by a former student of the English High School ) in 1901.

In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement after his split with Garry Davis ' movement Citizens of the World, which the surrealist André Breton was also a member.

It was founded in 1991 and is a training school for students of archaeology and anthropology.

Named in honour of Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen consort to King William IV, the city was founded in 1836 as the planned capital for a freely settled British province in Australia.

In 1867 gas street lighting was implemented, the University of Adelaide was founded in 1874, the South Australian Art Gallery opened in 1881 and the Happy Valley Reservoir opened in 1896.