Features and Publications
Artistic Outputs: Filmmakers and Production Designers on Using Generative AI
Via Zoom, Natou Fall shares her screen with me, allowing me to look at the hundreds of images she’s created using text prompts in the generative AI program Midjourney. The image resulting from the prompt above is an eerie one of a silhouetted couple holding hands, both wearing fashionable flared jackets and standing in a sparse, neon-accented nightclub with a figure lurking in the shadows. The whole image is bathed in an orange-red aura that is indeed reminiscent of Noé’s work, particularly the lighting scheme of the famous tunnel sequence in Irréversible.
Meet Natou Fall | Multi-Disciplinary Artist & Educator
We had the good fortune of connecting with Natou Fall and we’ve shared our conversation below. SL: Hi Natou, we’d love to hear about how you approach risk and risk-taking NF: Risk taking is where growth is. In my own practice, I would not be where I am now if I didn’t take on projects that were way out of my comfort zone.
Meet Natou Fall of Shaping Face in Chinatown/ DTLA
Today we’d like to introduce you to Natou Fall. VL: So, before we jump into specific questions, why don’t you give us some details about you and your story.
NF: I’m a Senegalese-American designer, born in Paris France, raised in Ft. Lauderdale.
Thesis Review: Natou Fall Problematizes Superficiality in Architecture Through The Lens of Self Expression and Self-Construction
Thesis Review is a collection of conversations, statements, and inquiries into the current state of thesis in academia. Thesis projects provide a better understanding of the academic arena while painting a picture for the future of practice. This week, we chat with Natou Fall from Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and her thesis titled, "Shaping Face." Fall shares with us her path pursuing an architectural education. She gets candid with Archinect by explaining what it takes to push a project forward and shed light on how to rethink architecture's relationship to the cosmetics industry.
SCI-Arc Ends 2019 Academic Year with Vibrant Graduate Thesis Exhibition
SCI-Arc Thesis defines the culmination of its graduate curriculum, and is designed to expand the boundaries of conventional architectural practice as well as push students to explore and prototype responses to contemporary architectural issues.
Duel + Duet Lecture Series Summer 2022
Duel + Duet is a series of public, one-on-one conversations between two SCI-Arc faculty, offering a forum for each to present and discuss two personal projects—architectural or otherwise—that shape their practice. Duel + Duet will be an opportunity for guests to share the detail and depth of their work with one another, followed by an open Q+A from the audience.
Check out this year’s virtual end-of-year exhibitions from architecture students across the country
During this past year, architecture programs across the United States adopted a wide variety of approaches toward design education in the time of a pandemic. While some universities pushed forward with in-person learning, others pursued hybrid or fully online models.
Spring Show Directors Conjure In-Situ Nostalgia Through Student Work
On May 22, 2021, SCI-Arc hosted its annual Spring Show exhibition, this year taking the form of an experimental narrative film and archive stream entitled Making A Scene. Directed and curated by design faculty Natou Fall (M.Arch 1 ’19) and Zeina Koreitem
Architectural Bestia
Architectural Bestia is curated by Hernán Díaz Alonso and designed by M. Casey Rehm. Featuring work by SCI-Arc Faculty
Deconstructing Kanye
After giving a tour of SCI-Arc to Kanye West and Willo Perron, Fall was a guest on the radio show Design and Architecture on KCRW hosted by Frances Anderton to discuss Kanye’s interest in Architecture, diversity in the field, and his potential influence.
SCI-Arc Spreads Innovation with Pop-Arc Workshops in Bangalore and Toronto
In keeping with its mission to spread design awareness through experimental architectural education, this fall SCI-Arc held two of its dynamic and inspiring Pop-Arc workshops in Bangalore, India and Toronto, Canada. Groups of high school students in each city were provided an engaging introduction to architectural thinking and design methods through week-long workshops.
How young Muslims across the world have practiced Ramadan during quarantine
In this video, young Muslims across the world reflect on the ways the virus has impacted Ramadan, and the methods they’ve used to adapt and stay positive. They also share some of what they’ve learnt from the experience. “I’ve learned a lot of self-discipline,” says Natou Fall, “having to sort of observe Ramadan by myself.”
Polymath Faculty Natou Fall (M.Arch '19) Talks Transformative Expansion of Architecture
Natou Fall (M.Arch 1 ’19) is a multidisciplinary artist and educator, based in Los Angeles. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Interior Architecture and Design at George Washington University in 2016 and earned her Master of Architecture from SCI-Arc in 2019.
SCI-Arc designers, architects teach AI to create art
What happens when you feed an artificial intelligence a steady diet of images and ask it to share what it “sees”? It’s what architects and designers at SCI-Arc Galleries set out to discover.
Architecture + Make-Up
Prior to beginning her final semester at SCI-Arc, Fall was interviewed by Issie Wing, Editor of Allen & Houston Magazine about her current work, her life as a student, and her upcoming thesis project Shaping Face
Teen Dream: High School Students Discover Where Design Can Take Them
123Make!, the summer program whose second annual installment wrapped at SCI-Arc earlier this month. For three weeks, SCI-Arc graduate students Abagael Warners and Natou Fall, with coordinator Betty Kassis, had led a group of high school students from around Los Angeles through the ins and outs of various design processes, including laser-cutting, 3D-printing, vacuum-forming, and more.