USC Architecture Xpo
This project explores the potential of in-between space to challenge traditional architectural boundaries through ambiguity, adaptability, and dynamic transitions. It aims to create hybrid environments that promote connectivity, inclusivity, and resilience in urban design. Located at Taylor Yard, where urban development meets ecological restoration, the project introduces an architectural system that operates between infrastructure, landscape, […]
By preserving the value of architectural ornamentation—continuing its historical significance while simultaneously adding, merging, and evolving new forms—architecture can shift traditional hierarchies and give rise to a new, dynamic type of ornament. While traditional ornamentation, ranging from classical motifs like human figures and fleurons, once held deep cultural and aesthetic value, modern architecture often stripped […]
The world has been turned upside down via a global pandemic, lack of affordable space, inflation, new attitudes about work and life, etc. As a result, the architectural pieces have been shaken-up and spilled back onto the table as a new set of considerations. This now includes questions about what housing is, how it’s organized, […]
Architecture of the built environment (and reality in general) is overwhelmingly ordinary. This ordinariness is represented through a range of architectural expressions: the generic, the copy, the perfunctory, the banal, the useful, the bare logics of capitalism, etc. Arguably some of the stranger and more compelling recent forms of visual expression exist much more closely […]
In this thesis group, each student will construct a large model at roughly 100 x 100 x 100 cm (or max out at 48”x48”x48”). This studio calls for each thesis project to be articulated in the medium of architecture, completing the B.Arch degree with an oversized model. Additionally, each student will produce a large axonometric […]
Le Corbusier reportedly said things were easier for Ledoux, 150 years his senior, because he didn’t have to deal with plumbing. He didn’t know the half of it. For today’s students, 115 years younger than Corb, the complexities of meaningfully contributing to the built environment have grown even more formidable. How does one ensure potency […]
‘Hidden Infrastructures – Cultural Edition’ is an exploration into the novel, playful, and critical discourse of architectural disguise, related to topics of data and fossil fuel (oil) in cities and suburban neighborhoods. With a focus on LA28, the cultural programming and institutional architectural typography, this edition of “hidden infrastructures” studio focuses on the urban and […]
Architecture, and the making of architecture, can be accounted for in endless ways. Buckminster Fuller once asked Norman Foster, “How much does your building weigh?”—a simple question at once easy or impossible to answer, containing values, critique, and a challenge. Taking stock involves rigor and attention to detail—a rehearsal of simultaneously broad and narrow perspectives […]
Architecture is inherently public. Our work as architects necessarily engages with the concerns of the world around us. We do not (and cannot) work in isolation; rather, through our actions, we enter into an exchange with the interests and welfare of the common good. Any act of architecture—building, drawing, idea—is a public proclamation about the […]
This thesis reimagines the vision of the original Case Study House Program to propose three modern prototype homes. Using Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) and incorporating resilient design strategies, these new Case Study Houses will serve as a forward-looking blueprint for housing in Los Angeles. By synthesizing mid-century ideals with contemporary technological and material advances, this project […]