Topic

Evan and Cormac discuss the recent controversies surrounding and following a live event (and corresponding live stream on YouTube) in SCI-Arc’s Basecamp lecture series entitled “How to be in an Office” on March 25, 2022 featuring panelists Tom Oyler (Oyler Wu), Marikka Trotter (Tom Wiscombe Architecture), and Margaret Griffin (Griffin Enright Architects). Topics in this discussion include education, internships, firm culture, studio culture, scholarships, business models, toxic culture, exploitative environments, suffering for the art, work/life balance, disconnected “leadership”, and more.

Links

Basecamp: How to be in an Office (by SCI-Arc on YouTube)

SCI-Arc LowLights - Basecamp: How to be in an Office (video synopsis of the spicy parts by Anon505 on YouTube)

“We all make our own choices” by The Hustle Architect (@VitruviusGrind on Twitter)

Controversy at SCI-Arc over labor practices leads to faculty members placed on leave. Isolated incident or a wake up call for the industry at large? by Katherine Guimapang (Archinect)

What is going on at SCI-Arc? by Audrey Wachs (The Architect’s Newspaper)

SCI-Arc town hall leaked audio files

SCI-Arc town hall response from SCI-Arc CEO Hernán Díaz Alonso (Archinect)

SCI-Arc public salary records 2019 (Archinect)

Scholarship misconduct allegations: SCI-Arc Faces a Reckoning Amid Allegations of Faculty Misconduct (Architectural Record)Listen and Subscribe to Archispeak

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