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Sandy Yum_Gallery Cover Photo_ARCH 505b – Sandy Yum

ARCH 505B: Graduate Architecture Design I

Clusters and Aggregates: Housing and Urbanism

The studio engaged in two design projects over the semester that focused on the relationship between fundamental elements and principles, and the architecture of domestic space in Los Angeles. The…

postcard collage2 – Takako Tajima

ARCH 541B: Landscape Architecture Design

Re-wilding MacArthur Park

One of the unanticipated outcomes of the pandemic has been the enthusiastic embrace of the great outdoors and people discovering their local open space amenities. The public health crisis however…

ocean-map – Aroussiak Gabrielian

ARCH 542: Landscape Architecture Design

Landscape Beyond Land

“Whether we speak of fishing zones or fish migration, coastal resilience or tropical storms, the ocean is both a frame for regulatory controls and a field of uncontrollable, indivisible processes….

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ARCH 605B: Graduate Architecture Design – Comprehensive

L.A. Med-hive

The L.A. MED-HIVE represents a re-envisioning of the community resource center already found in piecemeal fashion throughout the Los Angeles. While these centers usually are housed in rented store fronts,…

mbsarea v3 – Karen Kensek

ARCH 692B: Building Science Thesis

Building Science Thesis Projects

Graduate students in Building Science are required to pursue research and write a thesis about it. Here is a summary of the results. Note the image of the empty studio….

Cover Photo_Home Territory_Shun Feng – Katy Foley

ARCH 698B: MLA Advanced Design Research

Home Territory: Studies for the Democratization of Civic Space

This advanced design-research studio studied the problematics of homelessness in Los Angeles by asking critical questions focused on the evolution of a more hospitable civic landscape. Students refined individual design…

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ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

PARTICLES

Architecture has long been defined by the visible and structural components or materials that constitute buildings. This studio focuses on various methods, tools and techniques that consider architecture as spatial…

GI21 – Andy Ku

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Graphic Intervention

This Architecture Directed Design Research engages studies on graphic agents and agencies that influence architectural thinking and design approaches. The graphic medium has a historical and developmental relationship in architecture….

793b expo main image – Lisa Little

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Critical Drawings, No Pens

Directed Design Research enables students to dedicate a year of work to a single critical position. In the ‘Critical Drawings, No Pens’ section of the research (thesis prep) seminar, students…

composite image – Wesley Jones

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Innovation Through Mastery

This studio looked at how continuity is logically necessary for architectural meaning. Consequently, in this section the precedents were not simply convenient launching pads or punching bags, but positively essential…

Composite_Figures_GvO_GF42 – Geoffrey von Oeyen

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Composite Figures: Design Innovation Toward Resilient Housing Communities in Los Angeles

The graduate directed design research students in Geoffrey von Oeyen’s “Composite Figures” thesis studio are exploring the creative application of multidisciplinary Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) composite material innovation towards housing…

default – Yaohua Wang

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Directed Design Research

Fourteen speculative projects from fourteen curious minds, seeking to reimagine the boundary of architecture.

21_793_Tong_800px – J. Yolande Daniels

ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research

Utopic and Crisis Forms

This architecture thesis framework draws inspiration from the work of architects that sought to re-envision society in visionary projects in response to historic social crises. The thesis projects began with…

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