Today's #fbf project comes from MLA student Dani VonLehe. Her fall 2019 “Ground Up” proposes a structure that increases access to play in Canoga Park through the rejuvenation of already existent, underused spaces. Click the link in our bio for more details on her project!

M.Arch +3 student Katherine Denti's fall '19 project, "Los Angeles Outpatient Rehabilitation Center," focuses on the importance of green spaces within the healing process. The clinic building is located along the axis of Barnsdall Park, making a connection with the park as well as being centralized on the site to emphasize its importance to the project. The Center also features an education building, exercise building, and occupational and physical therapy building, which are located in separate buildings around the site.⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #uscarchitecture #usc #architecture #la #losangeles #architecturestudent #architectureschool #architecturemodel #architecturedrawing #architecturerendering

Our spring mini-symposia series, Conversations: Technology in Public Spheres, resumes tonight at 6:00 PM with our second discussion, "The Education of a Technologist." Co-moderated by USC Architecture faculty Doris Sung and Joon-Ho Choi, the event also features visiting panelists Felecia Davis, Ronald Rael and Jenny Sabin. This event is free and open to the public. Link in bio for more info.⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ 📷: Lumen by Jenny Sabin Studio for The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1’s Young Architects Program 2017. Photo by Jesse Winter.

It’s a throwback #TravelTuesday to the USC | Bhartiya City Studio, taught by Kim Coleman and Warren Techentin in conjunction with Wong Chiu Man and Maria Warner Wong of WOW Architects in the Spring of 2016. This studio explored design and programmatic solutions for a financial hub and urban lifestyle center as a key component of Bhartiya City, a new urban precinct of Bangalore, India. “Throughout our stay in India, we traveled to multiple cities and saw many amazing monuments that demonstrated the beauty and sophistication that is distinct of the architecture in India” -Nicolette Landucci, Andrea Mendoza, Ian Nally; students from The USC | Bhartiya City Studio . 📷: @mariawarnerwong. CC: @wtarch @cxckim @bhartiyacity

@berryandlinne shares “Reconsidered Conditions” of ‘L.A. School’ houses. Student work by: 1) Elena Prado; 2) Jose Botello-Herrera; and 3) Yagmur Uysal.

#BrutalismIsBeautiful ✊

#tbt to these #workinprogress images of "Fluid," Sai Liang’s (M.Arch ’20) fall project for graduate studio ARCH 705A. It's a high-rise tower in DTLA, exploiting the concept of co-working through the form of fluid totality. The model is a chunk cut from the tower, showing the integrated furniture and inhabitable circulation.⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #uscarchitecture #usc #architecture #la #losangeles #architecturestudent #architectureschool #architecturemodel #architecturedrawing #architecturerendering

We're thrilled to announce our 61st Annual USC Architectural Guild Dinner honorees! ⠀ ⠀ Alumni Maria Warner Wong, ‘87 and Wong Chiu Man, ‘88 will be honored with the Distinguished Alumni Award, and alumnus Arthur Danielian, ‘63, FAIA, will be presented with the second annual Lifetime Achievement Award. Wayne Ratkovich has been selected to receive the third annual Distinguished Business Leadership Award. The first-ever Citizen Architect Award, a new award this year that honors leaders who help solve design challenges for the public good, will be presented to Zena Howard, FAIA.⠀ ⠀ For more information and to purchase tickets for this year's event on April 22, click the link in our bio. ⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #uscarchitecture #usc #uscalumni #architecture #design #realestate #la #losangeles #singapore

Our current Faculty/Student Exhibition, “Architecture Mobile & Visionary Environments,” features the work of adjunct associate professor Jennifer Siegal. The exhibit showcases Jennifer’s 10 years of practice, research, and teaching at @uscarchitecture. Student research from Siegal’s 2010 topic studio, "Generation Mobile: Exploring the Deployable ‘Free-Range’ Truck Culture," and current work from her company, Office of Mobile Design, including the project Prefab Off-The-Grid (launching in 2020), are also on display. On view now through Feb. 17 in the Watt Hall 2nd Floor Gallery. ⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ 📷: Jennifer Siegal's home, Venice, CA. Photo Courtesy of Marvin Rand.

Thanks to the George H. Mayr Traveling Fellowship, B.Arch ’20 student Ana Teresa Prolik Schuchovski was able to travel to South America to study Latin American residential architecture this past summer. Click the link in our bio to read about her experience! #TravelTuesday

Last Wednesday, at our first in a series of three Tech Conversations this semester, professors Jose Sanchez and Dr. Bhavna Sharma sat down with guest speakers Yanni Loukissas, Catie Newell and Virginia San Fratello to discuss how architecture projects can engage hyper-local contexts and generate bridges within communities. We hope to see you back in Harris 101 for our second Tech Convo on Weds., Feb. 12.

Cheryl Kuo's (M.Arch +3) fall '19 "Barnsdall Rehabilitation Center" project promotes health and wellness through connection to nature. Clinics for patients and exercise rooms for the healthy are similarly unified in a shaded indoor-outdoor atrium space where green landscape "spills in" from adjacent Barnsdall Park.

Calling all alumni! We're now accepting submissions for the fourth annual Generation NEXT, a celebration of the broad range of independent design work produced by recent USC Architecture alumni. Click the link in our bio for more information on how to submit your work for this year's event. ✌️

Our spring mini-symposia series, Conversations: Technology in Public Spheres, kicks off tonight at 6:00 PM with our first discussion, "Designing Down the Barrier." Co-moderated by USC Architecture faculty Jose Sanchez and Bhavna Sharma, the event also features visiting panelists Yanni Loukissas, Catie Newell and Virginia San Fratello. This event is free and open to the public. Link in bio for more info.⠀ ⠀ 📷: Virginia San Fratello

Congrats to our ninth annual USC Architectural Guild Design Charrette winners! Our first-place prize of $10,00 went to graduate students Andrew Blumm, Alison Iwashita and William Izu. ⠀ ⠀ This year's Charrette focused on natural disasters affecting the lives of many Californians, and more recently, the victims of Australia’s devastating bushfires. Students were challenged to create a resilient prototype for a California hillside Fire Command Post that would also accommodate nature-loving residents outside of fire season. Swipe for images of the winning proposal and click the link in our bio for more details on this year's competition and first-place project.

Ciao to our students studying abroad in Italy this semester! #TravelTuesdays

Our spring 2020 lecture series kicks off tonight with a presentation from Yale's Keller Easterling. Join us tonight at 6:00 PM in Harris Hall 101 for this free, open-to-the-public event.

Our faculty/student exhibition series returns this semester with “O.K. Publications,” featuring work from lecturer Andrew Kovacs. This exhibition displays various publications over an eight-year period that the design work of Office Kovacs has been disseminated through. Through the display of projects in various publications, the exhibition becomes a portfolio that demonstrates a body of work along with the method and process of Office Kovacs. On view now through Feb. 1 in Watt Hall. ⠀ ⠀ 📷 : Office Kovacs, Colossal Cacti, Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Indio, California, 2019

A few more excellent student projects from last semester's 605A graduate studio, which challenged students to transform parking garages into housing. Swipe for work by:⠀ 1) Mudi Niu⠀ 2) Zhaoxiong Han⠀ 3) Liudmila Sergeeva⠀ 4) Makoto Izu⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #uscarchitecture #usc #architecture #la #losangeles #architecturestudent #architectureschool #architecturemodel #architecturedrawing #architecturerendering #housing

A #tbt post featuring graduate architecture student @sinclairdrift’s housing aspect from Karen Kensek’s ARCH 590: Arch Presentation. The USC Jefferson parking garage is retrofitted for 40% parking, 40% 9x18 micro unit housing with exterior HVAC (due to low overhanging concrete beams) that creates South facing facade with the addition of vertical grid for low maintenance vines to dissipate solar radiation, Murphy beds, vertical storage, communal kitchens, and an all-inclusive Salon that encompasses the remaining 20%.