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ARCH 102B: Architectural Design I

ON PERSPECTIVE: SPATIAL NARRATIVES

Developing and communicating a narrative with a series of scenes (storyboarding). Annotating and Illustrating layers of information over orthographic drawings and 3D model. Developing a series of section perspectives that…

ARCH 102B: Architectural Design I

Skills with misconceits, misnomers, and minutiae

This course provides students the opportunity to design and communicate space through narrative, accomplished via combination of three drawing types: paraline, perspective, and animation. Students will develop authorship over representation…

ARCH 102B: Architectural Design I

On Perspective: Spatial Narratives

Students represent formal architectural strategies together with narrative by relying on storytelling, drawing, and animation as media. Each project showcases an architectural sequencing, bridging a series of social activities and…

ARCH 102B: Architectural Design I

On Perspective: Analysis and Spatial Narratives

This studio provides students the opportunity to design and communicate space through narrative, accomplished via a combination of three drawing types: paraline, perspective, and animation. Students develop authorship over representation…

ARCH 102B: Architectural Design I

On Perspective: Spatial Narratives

Students represent formal architectural strategies together with narrative by relying on storytelling, drawing, and animation as media. Each project showcases an architectural sequencing, bridging a series of social activities and…

ARCH 102B: Architectural Design I

On Perspective: Spatial Narratives

Students represent formal architectural strategies together with narrative by relying on storytelling, drawing, and animation as media. Each project showcases an architectural sequencing, bridging a series of social activities and…

ARCH 202B: Architectural Design II

Material Stories

A cast of characters gathered together over the course of a few months to speculate on materiality, narrative, and community. Here are their stories.

ARCH 202B: Architectural Design II

The Details on Details

This studio investigated the role of detail as a generative tool for architectural design through the observation of its construction. Beginning with conventional details, students were expected to analyze, produce,…

ARCH 202B: Architectural Design II

The Detail Tells the Tale

This studio examines the fertile nature of technical tale by first questioning what material wants to be. A personified exchange, we have pressed, poked, and prodded at the detail to…

ARCH 302B: Architectural Design III

Oakwood Community Center

This studio designed a 40,000sf recreation center in the Oakwood Neighborhood of Venice. The program includes a long-span event/sports hall, classrooms, library, kitchen, admin, utility, and programmed exterior spaces. Each…

ARCH 302B: Architectural Design III

Oakwood Community Center

The Project – The Oakwood Community Center – located in the Historic Oakwood district of Venice, proposed the replacement of an existing building complex located adjacent to the Oakwood Park…

ARCH 302B: Architectural Design III

Oakwood Community Center

The existing Oakwood Recreation Center in Venice is slated to be replaced. Oakwood Park has been an active community site dating back to 1931, when the City of Los Angeles…

ARCH 500A: Comprehensive Architectural Design

Leimert Park Institute of Film Arts

ARCH500A – Comprehensive Design Studio focused on building systems such as structural systems, environmental systems, envelope systems, accessibility, fire life safety, materiality, and environmentally-conscious sustainable design. The Leimert Park Institute…

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

Designing for a New Collective Good – Inclusive Alternatives of Urban Value Creation

Questioning the status quo of urban value creation through the agency of design, this studio attempts to design components for an expanded notion of what could constitute a collective good….

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

The New New Realists: Building the Social Imaginary

Since the advent of photography in the early 18th century, architects have had to contend with “realism” – a promise of objectivity that made it possible to substitute a singularly…

ARCH 499: Exhibiting the Body of Architecture

Exhibiting the Body of Architecture

Conceived of as a topical seminar with an activist interest, this course will expose students to the current thinking, curation and understanding of architecture as an exhibition site and object…

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

Life/Work Practice

Our 502 degree studio section extends the discourse developed in the 501 seminar into discursive and polemical positions related to life-practice (live/work) speculations, ultimately manifested in the design of life/work…

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

Unholy Alliances, Alchemical Processes and Black Box Magic

We transform quality into quantity all the time, assessing value through observation and judgment and mechanistically translating it through a benchmarking protocol. That rubric is itself predicated on a system…

ARCH 502A: Architectural Design V

Proving Ground: UNESCO’s Laboratories

Cover Photo: Arlit uranium mine adjoining Air and Ténéré World Heritage Site, Niger (Maxar Technologies) This studio examined the international holdings and architecture of UNESCO, whose World Heritage Sites program…

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