Sandy Yum_Gallery Cover Photo_ARCH 505b – Sandy Yum
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
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
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….
download (2) – John Southern
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
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
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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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
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
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
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
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…
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Directed Design Research
Fourteen speculative projects from fourteen curious minds, seeking to reimagine the boundary of architecture.
21_793_Tong_800px – J. Yolande Daniels
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…