2021_102b_nulman-studio_karim-fouad – Eric Nulman
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…
expo 102b – scott uriu
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…
cuevas_expo_cover – Erin Cuevas
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…
Image TBD – Myrna Ayoub
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…
USC F21_102B_SANTANA_FIGURE GROUND – Alfred Koetter
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…
ExpoIMAG – Selwyn Ting
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…
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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.
mohr-202b expo – Emily Mohr
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,…
frafaie_expo cover – Farnoosh Rafaie
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…
COVER2 – Melissa Shin
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…
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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…
oakwood aerial – Christof Jantzen
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…
ARCH500A_OlivierTouraine_SixuanChen_Cover – Sixuan Chen
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…
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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….
6a0765195c2fbb52832af507e84c4c46 – Mary Casper
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…
city_sunset-strip-300 for expo devon – Hadrian Predock
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…
thumbnail_image – Hadrian Predock
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…
Haas online Expo image 21 – Eric Haas
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…
Arlit Uranium Mine – Marcos Sanchez
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…