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ARCH 102B: Architectural Design I

Architectural Primitives: Geometric and Mythological

After spending the first half of the semester studying and redefining the geometric primitive, each student proposed a set of typologically primitive pavilions, ultimately proposing...

ARCH 102B: Architectural Design I

Architectural Primitives: Geometric and Mythological

This studio redefines the geometric primitive by exploring basic formal strategies of volume, line, and surface through a series of pavilions. These formal strategies transform...

ARCH 102B: Architectural Design I

Drawing Diaries

Building on the first year design studio brief, 'Drawing Diaries' focuses on the reflexive role of representation in the production of architecture. Predicated on the...

ARCH 102B: Architectural Design I

The Fundamentals of Architecture and Narrative

This studio began by having students extract their own formal systems from fragments of salient architectural works. Students translated these new systems firstly into purely...

ARCH 102B: Architectural Design I

Architectural Primitives: Geometric and Mythological

After spending the first half of the semester studying and redefining the geometric primitive, each student proposed a set of typologically primitive pavilions, ultimately proposing...

ARCH 102B: Architectural Design I

Beach Kits

This course gallery presents a series of beachfront pavilions and landscapes designed as collages of primitive architectural geometries.

ARCH 102B: Architectural Design I

Paloma to Rose: Primitives, Curiosities, Collage

After a close reading of Piranesi’s Campo Marzio dell’antica Roma etchings, students explore geometric primitives and hybrids through a series of pavilions and interventions on...

ARCH 202B: Architectural Design II

The Materiality of Schools, Sites, and Sheds

The studio investigated the work of the 'LA School,' specifically in terms of how materiality and form has evolved in Los Angeles, a city with...

ARCH 202B: Architectural Design II

The LA School, Materials, and a Kindergarten: Carefully Careless / Serious Play

Admittedly, I have a slight Sisyphusian attitude when writing a gallery statement, the factoid of if I mention phrases as deconstructionist precedent analysis, topological explorations,...

ARCH 202B: Architectural Design II

The “L.A. School” School

The studio investigated the work of the 'LA School,' specifically in terms of how materiality and form has evolved in Los Angeles, a city with...

ARCH 202B: Architectural Design II

The Materiality of Schools, Sites, and Sheds

The studio investigated the work of the 'LA School,' specifically in terms of how materiality and form has evolved in Los Angeles, a city with...

ARCH 202B: Architectural Design II

The Materiality of Schools, Sites, and Sheds

The studio investigated the work of the 'LA School,' specifically in terms of how materiality and form has evolved in Los Angeles, a city with...

ARCH 202B: Architectural Design II

The Materiality of Schools, Sites, and Sheds

This studio investigates materiality and its representation. Using both the built work and projective drawings of architects associated with the “L.A. School” as a precedent...

ARCH 202B: Architectural Design II

The Materiality of Schools, Sites, and Sheds

The studio investigated the work of the 'LA School,' specifically in terms of how materiality and form has evolved in Los Angeles, a city with...

ARCH 302B: Architectural Design III

Re-thinking the LA industrial vernacular and the long span tradition

This studio explored the disciplinary topic of contemporary vernacular while addressing the technical requirements of a comprehensive design project. Students examined a specific type of...

ARCH 302B: Architectural Design III

Re-thinking the LA industrial vernacular and the long span tradition

This studio explored the disciplinary topic of contemporary vernacular while addressing the technical requirements of a comprehensive design project. Students examined a specific type of...

ARCH 302B: Architectural Design III

Re-thinking the LA industrial vernacular and the long span tradition

This studio explored the disciplinary topic of contemporary vernacular while addressing the technical requirements of a comprehensive design project. Students examined a specific type of...

ARCH 302B: Architectural Design III

Re-thinking the LA industrial vernacular and the long span tradition

This studio explored the disciplinary topic of contemporary vernacular while addressing the technical requirements of a comprehensive design project. Students examined a specific type of...

ARCH 302B: Architectural Design III

Re-thinking the LA industrial vernacular and the long span tradition

This studio explored the disciplinary topic of contemporary vernacular while addressing the technical requirements of a comprehensive design project. Students examined a specific type of...

ARCH 302B: Architectural Design III

Re-thinking the LA industrial vernacular and the long span tradition

This studio explored the disciplinary topic of contemporary vernacular while addressing the technical requirements of a comprehensive design project. Students examined a specific type of...

ARCH 402B: Architectural Design IV

Dungeons and Diptychs

In this studio, proposals were developed for 2,000 - 3,000 sf additions to one of three Frank Lloyd Wright Mayan Revival textile block houses in...

ARCH 402B: Architectural Design IV

CITY X: Venice Biennale Proposals for Xiong’An New Area

The USC SOA, along with a number of other schools, institutions, and offices, was invited to participate in the CITY X project to be presented...

ARCH 402B: Architectural Design IV

Co-location Community Library + Housing Prototype for Los Angeles

Application of a Chicago Co- Location Competition to Los Angeles urban and community strategies for growth and transformations to meet current needs. * the application...

ARCH 402B: Architectural Design IV

Thresholds: Los Angeles

In the physical demarcations of boundaries, thresholds reveal cultural approaches to space and construction. The studio explored threshold conditions in a series of design problems...

ARCH 402B: Architectural Design IV

Confluent Ecologies: New Urban Ground

This studio seeks to develop elastic strategies that take its formative clues from the confluence of field (ocean) and convergent (urban waterfront) conditions to investigate...

ARCH 502: Architectural Design V

House Tour: ten new models for domestic life in LA

We have a cemented idea of dwelling. One that history has sanitized -by using gender politics, policy and economy- and then marketed. We consume and...

ARCH 502: Architectural Design V

The New Realists

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

ARCH 502: Architectural Design V

Dinner Party

Dinner Party asked its 9 hosts to explore personal, cultural, and social interests through the design of intimate experiences centered around food. As a fundamental...

ARCH 502: Architectural Design V

Let’s Practice!

Advanced questions of practice work on the deeper layers of meaning, representation and rhetoric related to architecture. These modes of inquiry, curiosity and desire have...

ARCH 502: Architectural Design V

Markets

As our environment desires for instantaneity and commodity, is it possible for architecture to respond to this currency, to identify culpable territories for immediate engagement...

ARCH 502: Architectural Design V

Unholy Alliances, Alchemical Processes and Black Box Magic

We mechanistically translate quality into quantity all the time, assessing value through observation and judgment and translating it through some kind of benchmarking protocol. That...

ARCH 502: Architectural Design V

Proving Ground: UNESCO’s Laboratories

This studio examines the international holdings and architecture of UNESCO, whose World Heritage Sites program dates to its earliest postwar campaigns. Departing from previous vocabularies...

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