We interview Hernan Diaz Alonso, designer and for nearly the past decade Director of SCI-Arc. Hernan has exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Museum of Modern Art, New York; SFMoMA to name a few. He is widely credited with spearheading SCI-Arc’s transition to digital technologies, and he played a key role in shaping the school’s graduate curriculum over the last decade.

We talk about what it means to design, and why architecture anchors us to memory and stillness. With memory, we talk about the nature of learning, about the changing need and nature of education and the institutions that support them, and the nature of architecture and education as necessary luxuries.

 

SCI-Arc Profile:

https://www.sciarc.edu/people/faculty/hernan-diaz-alonso

 

HDA-X:

https://www.hda-x.co/