toyo-ito-white-u-1 - Gary Paige
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...
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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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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
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
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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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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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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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...
documentation & Analysis_MillOwners_M.Campbell 11 - Wesley Jones
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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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
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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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...
793b LITTLE section - Lisa Little
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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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...