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Please join us on June 6 + 7 at the SCI-Arc campus for LITLIT: The Little Literary Fair.

LITLIT is a free, public celebration of independent presses, literary organizations, and book makers from across the West Coast. Over two days, attendees can explore a wide range of publications, meet editors and publishers, and engage with programming that highlights the richness of contemporary literary culture.

SCI-Arc's ONRAMP 8 publication returns with the thesis work from 2024/25 graduating class, engaging AI, climate, fabrication and material futures. Pick up your copy during LITLIT.

Publications by SCI-Arc faculty will also be available for purchase at the SCI-Arc Retail Store throughout the event including Puzzling assemblies, by Dwayne Oyler + Jenny Wu and City as a Technical Being: On the Mode of Existence of Architecture, by Peter Trummer.

Don't miss the Sunday, June 7 panel at 1pm: Archiving Los Angeles: Art, Community, and Infrastructure featuring Pierce Myers of the Resilient Futures Task Force at SCI-Arc.

More info: https://www.sciarc.edu/events/events/litlit

Not just a summer program. A shift in how you think.

At Making+Meaning, you’ll design, collaborate, experiment—and build a body of work that actually means something. June 29 – July 24.

Spots are limited. Sign up now: https://www.sciarc.edu/academics/summer-programs/making-and-meaning

Project by B.Arch student Timothy Moon for Matthew Au's Spring 2026 1B Studio.

There's still time to apply for Fall 2026! Learn more about Undergraduate Programs: https://www.sciarc.edu/academics/undergraduate-program/why-sci-arc

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Project by M.Arch students Gabriella Vitela + Ana Adams for Jackilin Bloom and Damjan Jovanovic's Spring 2025 2GBX Studio.

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Aquapod is a theater that integrates water systems as part of a sequential theater experience. Our concept began with a series of pods, which would become sequential theaters. A shell then wraps and begins to lightly take on the form of the pods within. What is enclosed inside becomes expressed on the exterior shell, giving the mass a bubbly form. The building integrates two independent water systems. Both of which are represented in our sequential theater pods that add to the theatrical story. One system being rainwater harvesting for water screens and on a larger scale the direct ocean capture system as a method of extracting carbon dioxide. Actively improving the environment. Lifting off from street level, our building opens the ground to public plaza space. This draws the community in to engage with our building and use the public plaza space and gives hints of the water processes above. Spatially, the pods become floating in space per say, creating moments where users orient themselves in space and get to experience a rhythm of moving between theater to back in the open atrium of the shell. All together this creates a system of movement to promote the waterfront of Seattle's urban environment.

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Project by M.Arch students Eduardo Cortazar Cuilty + Ashely Ku for Jenny Wu’s Fall 2025 2GAX Studio.

There's still time to apply for Fall 2026! Learn more about SCI-Arc Graduate Programs: https://www.sciarc.edu/academics/graduate/why-sci-arc

The project explores formal complexity and off grid systems within the context of an adaptive reuse intervention of the Lincoln Heights Jail.

The formal process stems from compositions of modular arrangements of various wood trims arranged in orthogonal and freeform compositions. These were subsequently reinterpreted as architectural elements of space, void and skin. Through these elements, the existing concrete structure is expanded, covered and carved away.

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