Join a Student Organization
Students serve on various school committees and actively participate in the direction and development of the School. The following lists the organizations that students have participated in over the years.
• Alpha Rho Chi (APX), a professional co-ed architecture fraternity
• American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS)
• American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA Student Chapter)
• Architecture Student Council (officers elected by the student body)
• Asian American Architects and Engineers (AAA/e)
• Association for Women in Architecture (AWA)
• Graduate Architecture Student Association
• Illuminating Engineers Society (IES)
• National Organization of Minority Architects Students (NOMAS)
• Tau Sigma Delta Honor Society
• USC Architecture Brigades
The USC chapter of AIAS aims to provide a forum for students to interact outside of the classroom while reinforcing the education they are receiving at the School of Architecture. The chapter includes non-members in their activities to enhance the community of students as a whole. They also have a strong commitment to serving the greater community of which USC is a part. They participate in University sponsored programs as well as their own.
The undergraduate Architecture Student Council is recognized as the representative body of the students. It serves as a link between students, faculty, and administration of the School of Architecture. The ASC strives to create unity throughout the undergraduate student body by conducting student events and activities. The organization also provides a forum for discussion by allowing students to have an active voice in administrative decision-making processes. Meetings are generally held on Mondays before or after studio.
USC Architecture Brigades is a volunteer student-based organization dedicated to the research, design, and construction of socially responsible, environmentally sustainable architecture in the developing world. Each year the volunteers work on a different project that will create lasting change within a community by providing needed infrastructure. Building structures are cooperatively designed and construction is carried out over the course of two separate trips. Currently, the Brigades are working in a rural village in Panama building a "rancho" (meeting space, kitchen, bedroom, storage area & silo, crop solar-drying room) and wind-protection solution, to protect a communities crops from inclement weather.
To learn more about the USC Architecture Brigades, email or visit their blog.