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toyo-ito-white-u-1 - Gary Paige

ARCH 505B: Graduate Architecture Design I - Elements, Principles and Phenomena

Dialogues Between Inside and the Outside

Architecture can be seen as a strange amalgam of enduring principles and continual change or flux. Yet, while walls, stairs, windows and other architectural elements...

jiaxin - Takako Tajima

ARCH 541B: Landscape Architecture Design

Topographies for Succession: A New Forest in MacArthur Park

The studio concerned itself with the area in and around MacArthur Park in the neighborhood just west of downtown Los Angeles. MacArthur Park is one...

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ARCH 542: Landscape Architecture Design

Landscape at the Intersection of Life and Death

“We find it hard to escape the ‘resolutely flat perspectives’ to which we have become habituated...[which is both] a political failure as well as a...

So Cal Hydrologic Region - Esther Margulies

ARCH 542: Landscape Architecture Design

Southern California Hydrologic Region Climate Adaptation

Southern California is a microcosm of global climate impacts and conditions experiencing extreme heat, drought, wildfires and sea level rise. The economic engine fueling the...

605B - Jose Sanchez

ARCH 605B: Graduate Architecture Design - Integrated Technologies Studio

Open Source Cross Laminated Timber

Instructors: Victoria Coaloa, Kim Coleman, John Dutton, Aaron Neubert, José Sanchez, John Southern, Doris Sung, Patrick Tighe The studio is framed around the study of...

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ARCH 692B: Building Science Thesis

Building Science Thesis

Scientific and technological progress has accelerated rapidly in the past 100 years. To a large degree this is due to a shift in worldview and...

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ARCH 698B: MLA Advanced Design Research

STUB: An Emerging Atlas of Drylands Design

Eleven students in their final year of the Master’s in Landscape Architecture + Urbanism program set out to retrieve, document, and analyze (a portion of)...

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ARCH 698B: MLA Advanced Design Research

The Los Angeles River

This course is focused on two primary aspects of the Los Angeles River: (1) its powerful current role as a form and place of cultural...

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ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

The sense of purposefulness in Architecture

Value is what sets architecture apart from building. In architecture this value is expressed through Meaning. But meaning is fraught. Meaning is sometimes a mess...

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ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Directed Design Research

Ten speculative projects from eleven curious minds, seeking answers for questions such as where to find the ground and how to reimagine the sky.

Final-Review-Poster-800 - Alvin Huang

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Form Follows Performance

Form Follows Performance interrogates the notion of performance in architecture as a catalyst for formal experimentation and a basis for understanding opportunities to challenge conventional...

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ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Composite Figures

The graduate directed design research students in my “Composite Figures” thesis studio are exploring the creative application of multidisciplinary Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) composite material...

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ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

The Drawing, Computation, The Machine, and The Hand

Architects have been using drawings to visualize technology-based design for decades without the technology to produce those drawings. Precedents of this nature are studied to...

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ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Future Traditions of Nature: Bonaventure 2076

“Postmodernism is what you have when the modernization process is complete and nature is gone for good.” –Fredric Jameson Every piece of architecture registers the...

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