Hernan Diaz Alonso and Erick Carcamo

Tune in to Episode 22 of the PA Talks series with Hernan Diaz Alonso and Erick Carcamo.

Hernan Diaz Alonso is an Argentinian architect, the current director/ CEO of SCI-Arc, and the principal of Los-Angeles based architecture office HDA-X. He moved to Los Angeles in 2001 to pursue filmmaking, product & motion design and founded Xefirotarch in the same year. Alonso often uses animation software to create amorphous frames, exemplarily the well-known installation at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in Queens in 2005. He has been a distinguished faculty member of SCI-Arc since 2001, serving in several leadership roles, including coordinator of the graduate thesis program from 2007–10, and graduate programs chair from 2010–15. He is widely credited with leading SCI-Arc’s transition into digital technologies and played a key role in shaping the school’s graduate curriculum over the last decade.

Erick Carcamo is an educator, designer, and the principal & co-founder of Allblackform. Erick has been in pursuit of innovation and technology in the field of architectural thinking and teaching processes, and has taught numerous design studios and visual studies seminars at various universities, such as Yale School of Architecture, SCI-Arc, and UPenn School. His expertise, expanding his graduate thesis at GSAPP, is based on researching digital experimental techniques and strategic thinking for the manipulation of form in design. Erick holds a master’s Degree in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University and a bachelor’s Degree from The Southern California Institute of Architecture, SCI_Arc.

The discussion focused on Hernan’s trajectory in digital design, his influence at SCI_Arc, as director/CEO. as well as his teaching approach and philosophy towards architectural design and learning.