Architecture by Coleman Griffith's Students

10/27/2023

I have some very sad news to share. Ian Witarsa, esteemed graduate of the Pasadena City College Architecture Program passed away on October 16th, 2023. Ian was a distinguished student in our program from 2002 - 2005. During his final semester at PCC he worked for me as my TA in the second year studio. In Fall 2005, he transferred into the third year at SCI-Arc where he completed his architectural education receiving his BArch.

Ian was one of the most inspirational and talented architecture students I have had the pleasure of knowing. He greeted everyone at all times with a smile, kindness and humility. In studio, he was a generous classmate and friend, sharing his hard earned insights and creative knowledge with all others, including myself. Rest in peace dear Ian

A funeral service for Ian will be held Tuesday, October 31, 2023 from 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM at Rose Hills Memorial Park - Memorial Chapel, 3888 Workman Mill Rd, Whittier, California 90601.

Celebrate the life of Ian Witarsa, leave a kind word or memory and get funeral service information care of Rose Hills Alhambra.

07/08/2023

https://www.sciarc.edu/news/2023/robert-mangurian-critical-figure-in-sci-arcs-formation-and-history-has-died #

SCI-Arc is a world-renowned center of innovation and one of the nation's few independent architecture schools, offering undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate programs.

07/08/2023

I just read the deeply sad news on SCI arc’s instagram that Robert Mangurian has past away. He had such a deeply positive impact on Architectural education, students and educators like myself. I had the honor and pleasure of working with both he and Mary-Ann Ray at Sciarc in the early 2000’s.

02/23/2023

Boiler House knock offs 🤣🤣🤣

131K Likes, 3,957 Comments - Design Future () on Instagram: "This house unfolds in eight minutes at the push of a button. Would you buy one? Via "

01/31/2023

03/04/2020

Denise Scott Brown told CNN that "as a woman, she had felt excluded by the elite of architecture throughout her career," and that "the Pritzker Prize was based on the fallacy that great architecture was the work of a 'single lone male genius' at the expense of collaborative work."[57] In 2020, the Pritker jury said in its citation awarding the prize to Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara – making them the fourth and fifth women to ever be awarded the prize – that they were, "pioneers in a field that has traditionally been and still is a male-dominated profession [and] beacons to others as they forge their exemplary professional path."

The Pritzker’s are trying to remedy what they did by not giving Denise Scott Brown, the award in 2013. I hope that Denise Scott Brown and other deserving architects like Elizabeth Diller, Jeanne Gang and others will be recognized by the Pritzker !!!!

Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara founded Grafton Architects in Dublin in 1978. The Pritzker Architecture Prize jury called the two Irish architects "beacons" in a male-dominated field.

03/04/2020

https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/review-jane-hall-breaking-ground-architecture-women-1202679306/

Jane Hall’s survey of women in architecture identifies built work by women within small partnerships, large international offices, and female-led firms, all flattened to the same register, re…

02/09/2020

http://codyglen.com/hollenbeck.html

01/29/2020

Wow the end of an era....

The School of Architecture at Taliesin, which Frank Lloyd Wright established nearly 90 years ago, will shut in June this year, after failing to come to a financial agreement with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.

08/27/2019

https://www.bbc.com/reel/playlist/homes-of-the-future?vpid=p06ywmwh

At the touch of a button, these incredible homes of the future can self-deploy and build themselves in less than 10 minutes, transforming from a box into a building eight to ten times its original size. Ten Fold Engineering's David Martyn explains the surprisingly simple design concept that makes th...

02/22/2019

02/15/2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/14/arts/design/serpentine-pavilion-junya-ishigami.html?partner=applenews&ad-keywords=APPLEMOBILE®ion=written_through&asset_id=100000006348857&fbclid=IwAR2NIYV3-2ldAX4IyQPwxfWq56LBhgHrkI--8oPMk6CbcTFLxKFkeIar8Eo

Junya Ishigami is to create the structure in Hyde Park, London, this summer, promising a design that would look “like a billowing piece of fabric.”