<p>how good is it. i just realized there was an architecture forum, and had posted this in the art forum</p>
<p>no one seems to talk about it much.</p>
<p>SCIARC was meant to be the (expensive) Cooper Union of the West Coast. To the extent that SCIARC encourages a highly conceptual and artistic approach to design, it has been successfull. I'm not sure the graduates end up with the same level of discipline, however. There are some very slick faculty models and photo-realistic renderings--but not much substantial built work. The graduate work is mostly retail, interior and residential. <a href="http://www.sciarc.edu/portal/work/index.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.sciarc.edu/portal/work/index.html</a></p>
<p>The CC poster with the most in-depth knowledge would be larationalist. You could pm her.</p>
<p>it seems like the work sci arc churns out are all really similar...and highly impractical...dunno if that's a bad thing though</p>
<p>they dont' offer an actual college experience. but i dunno..it may fit you</p>
<p>i already attend otis for fashion design, but always wondered about the school, because NO ONE, not even other students talk about it. The only reason I knew it existed was because I was driving around in Downtown LA and was intrigued by the building.</p>
<p>and it also just seems like a bargain, considering that they're tuition is like half of regular private universities and other la art schools.</p>
<p>I'd been under the impression that SCI_Arc was just as expensive as the rest.</p>
<p>Cheers and I seem to have found something we can agree on at last. I've had the opportunity to hear the opinion of professors that have taught at several of the LA architecture schools, and they seemed to agree that SCI<em>Arc produces some extremely creative people, but at the expense of all practical concerns, and expressed that they would shy away from hiring SCI</em>Arc grads with less than five years working experience. The idea there being that if they made it through five years of work, they'd have made up the practical learning that they'd missed out on in school, and they'd rather that learning come at the expense of another firm.</p>