Mohr_102b_Cover - Emily Mohr
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...
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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...
Aaron Abunu_Iman Ansari Studio - Iman Ansari
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 102 B - YUM COVER - Sandra Yum
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...
Final Board
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...
cover-Jonathan-Rieke
Beach Kits
This course gallery presents a series of beachfront pavilions and landscapes designed as collages of primitive architectural geometries.
ShinStudio
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...
maymind
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...
P3 - Scott Uriu
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,...
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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...
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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...
classroom_01 - Jennifer Siegal
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...
SP20-Arch_202b-Berry-Project_2-Jeanne_Marie_Pelletier-Drawdel-800x600 - Rob Berry
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_Juan Salazar Studio - Juan Salazar
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...
68E9E6C1-AB53-49A7-84DC-E431B331BE09 - Christof Jantzen
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...
cover-Eric-Nulman
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...
P02_06 - Mario Cipresso
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...
5_800x600 - Sascha Delz
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...
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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...
Marifer_Echeverri_302B_Wahlroos-Ritter_Cover-01 - marifer echeverri
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...
D&D - Alfred Koetter
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
502_Esnaola - Maria Esnaola
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...
Casper_502_Graphic - Mary Casper
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...
0415 _Motion book
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...
practice-hadrian
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...
Markets_01 - Andy Ku
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...
Haas online Expo image - Eric Haas
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...
Sanchez Bikini Atoll - Marcos Sanchez
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...