SCI-Arc announced that it has appointed Hernan Diaz Alonso as its next director. (SCI-Arc)

The Southern California Institute of Architecture is getting it's first new director in more than a decade.

Hernan Diaz Alonso will succeed current director Eric Owen Moss when Moss' term concludes next September. The appointment was announced Thursday by Jerold B. Neuman, chairman of the SCI-Arc board of trustees.Reached by phone after his appointment, Diaz Alonso said he was thrilled but added that he wasn't ready to go into detail about his plans for SCI-Arc.

"The idea that the next appointed director has one year to establish plans for curriculum and development is a very refreshing thing," he said.

"I'm excited and humbled by the scope of the job. Stepping in after Eric Moss, who was a great director, makes my job both easy and more difficult because I have to go up from there," Diaz Alonso said.....Continue Reading

> via LA Times