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05/13/19
USC M.Arch students Ban Sheni, Dixon Wong, and Fabian Dietrich represented the School of Architecture in the 2019 AIA|LA 2x8:Exchange competition ...
05/15/19
LOS ANGELES, May 15, 2019 - University of Southern California School of Architecture today announced the appointment of associate professor Alison ...
05/16/19
The School of Architecture is pleased to announce the appointments of four new tenure track faculty for the 2019-2020 academic year. J. Yolande ...
We are educating citizen architects — capacious makers and thinkers who see the world through the prism of architecture thinking and view their role in the world as activists.
Dean Milton S.F. Curry
School of Architecture
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B.Arch student @dqvofficial shares his final project from his first year of school:
After several renditions, I stumbled upon my final design. My tent model is a complete narrative.
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It expresses the story of origami within architectural design, deriving from an understanding of the three types of folding:
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The fold, the unfold, and the crease.
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A continuation of the six unfolding cubes cut into a single sheet of flowing white paper, all contrasted with a three-sided folded pyramid. The wave, containing only three creases, stands as a testimony that origami is not all angular, but also fluid. This seamlessly contrasts with the traditional geometry of pyramid, exemplified with the graphic of a colorized crease pattern for an origami angel I designed based around triangular structures.
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I saw a beautiful narrative in this design, a story of three distinct designs originated from three distinct folds, none of which are derived off each other, yet all share and inhabit the same space.
For her graduate thesis project under instructor Jose Sanchez, M.Arch ’19 graduate Manyan Qian’s “System Collision” project creates modern modular housing that utilizes a traditional Jean Prouve panel system. The housing project with prefabricated panels and modular parts has a flexible interior and explores the possibilities for when two standardized prefabricated systems come together.
M.Arch students @mmg_1217 and @devonsavagedevon share a project from the Advanced Fabrication course with @rob.ley:
“The intricacy that composes the structural body, or skeleton, of architectural forms is generally concealed beneath its skin or within the confines of walls. As the bones grow, perhaps the necessity for skin coverage recedes proportionally. In designing a skateboard, we sought to play upon this tension between internal structure and external form. What happens when the boundary between bones and skin becomes interwoven such that one becomes indiscernible from the other?
We studied Herzog & de Meuron’s Beijing National ‘Bird’s Nest’ Stadium as a precedent to see how the reveal between structure and skin can operate over a large architectural form, the skeletal structure becoming the formal body itself. Utilizing birch plywood with an internal american walnut ply core, we layered over-woven strips upon one another to establish a structural rigidity and spatial coverage that would allow the strips to operate as the skateboard surface itself. The final design offers a reveal to the ground underneath as one skates upon its undulated form, placing oneself on a vehicle that brings as minimal a surface area as is necessary to perform.” — Devon
B.Arch student John Yu shares the futuristic table and chair he made for our furniture design course, which explores the intersection of architecture, art and design. 📷: @definitely.john
#tbt to fifth-year final reviews in Mary Casper’s studio, “The Realists.”
The 501 seminar interrogated contemporary realist movements in art, philosophy, popular culture and architecture to ask what makes spaces, buildings and the people they serve “real” in the increasingly fake reality we inhabit. In 502, students researched existing conditions in Hollywood and designed a series of projects that represented a body of speculative design thinking about the real future of the city.
The 13th annual BIM Conference returns to USC on Friday, June 28! For more information on this year’s program and to register, visit our website (link in bio ⬆️).
A repost from first-year B.Arch student @woody_chiang: This semester was such a journey for me. If someone showed me my #final, I would not have believed I could make that before the semester started. Project 1, I experimented with architectural origin forms of the #cave,the #hut, and the #tent as a way to describe the solid, the line, and the surface used in #architecture. In project 2, I used what I learned from project 1 to devise 4 coexisting systems of the point, the line, the surface, and the solid on a regular #grid to form my field. The result was a field of homogeneous forms with intersecting lines and cubes as well as surfaces that divide space to give expansive or narrow spatial qualities and a range of transparency across the landscape. I am incredibly grateful of the the instruction I received from my instructor @myrnaayoub_projects and my peers. Done with first year at @uscarchitecture. Four more to go!
Our 27th annual heritage conservation summer course is in full swing! Yesterday’s schedule included a field trip to The Getty.
Our Chase L. Leavitt Graduate Building Science class of 2019! Congratulations to our new graduates of the master of building science program. ✌🏻
More scenes from EXPO 2019, an exhibition of student work from the class of 2019. Pictured here are graduate architecture thesis projects (part 2/2).
Scenes from EXPO 2019, an exhibition of student work from the class of 2019. Pictured here are graduate architecture thesis projects (part 1).
B.Arch student @brianchouser shares images of his final model from his third-year project, “Prism Public Pool.” The project proposes a new focal point for the Westchester Park community of LA.
Congratulations to the class of 2019!!! 🎓✌🏻🎓
Congratulations to M.Arch students Ban Sheni and Fabian Dietrich who won a citation award in last night’s AIA|LA 2x8 competition! Ban and Fabian won for 4300 Degnan, a middle-rise, high-density housing project in Leimert Park, Los Angeles that emphasizes community values and shared resources.
Our students are hard at work getting ready for EXPO 2019, our annual exhibition of student work from this year’s graduating class. Stay tuned for more exhibition photos to come or check out the exhibition in person on Friday, May 10 in Watt Hall.
Our second-year students presented their final projects to a super jury on Friday afternoon at the @aplusd_la. The studio studied materiality and specifically centered on an investigation of “L.A. School” architecture and its particular genealogy of how materiality evolved in Los Angeles.
A big thanks to our super jury for their time!
Paulette Singley
Milton S. F. Curry
Wes Jones
Michele Saee
Hadrian Predock
Stephen Phillips
Jennifer Siegal
Ingalill Wahlroos-Ritter
Eui Sung Yi
Alice Kimm
Herwig Baumgartner
Today is the day! Join USC Architecture alumni and the USC community and give to what inspires you most about USC Architecture. (Elaine Kwong – B.Arch 2012) #DayofSCupport
Our spring final reviews continue to showcase some stunning student work. This collection photographed by @synthesisdna highlights student work by @leonaxxchun & @anateresapsch in the @uscarchitecture urban topic studio taught by @wtarch.
Join USC Architecture alumni and the USC community this Saturday and give to what inspires you most about USC Architecture. Every dollar counts! (Arjun Mahesh – B.Arch 2014)
Link in bio ⬆️
#DayofSCupport
Fifth-year students in Erin Kasimow’s studio presented final projects last week that explored the intersections of art, architecture and food. Their final reviews included an interactive performance element that our critics got to enjoy.
@USCARCHITECTURE
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→
B.Arch student @dqvofficial shares his final project from his first year of school:
After several renditions, I stumbled upon my final design. My tent model is a complete narrative.
-
It expresses the story of origami within architectural design, deriving from an understanding of the three types of folding:
-
The fold, the unfold, and the crease.
-
A continuation of the six unfolding cubes cut into a single sheet of flowing white paper, all contrasted with a three-sided folded pyramid. The wave, containing only three creases, stands as a testimony that origami is not all angular, but also fluid. This seamlessly contrasts with the traditional geometry of pyramid, exemplified with the graphic of a colorized crease pattern for an origami angel I designed based around triangular structures.
-
I saw a beautiful narrative in this design, a story of three distinct designs originated from three distinct folds, none of which are derived off each other, yet all share and inhabit the same space.
For her graduate thesis project under instructor Jose Sanchez, M.Arch ’19 graduate Manyan Qian’s “System Collision” project creates modern modular housing that utilizes a traditional Jean Prouve panel system. The housing project with prefabricated panels and modular parts has a flexible interior and explores the possibilities for when two standardized prefabricated systems come together.
M.Arch students @mmg_1217 and @devonsavagedevon share a project from the Advanced Fabrication course with @rob.ley:
“The intricacy that composes the structural body, or skeleton, of architectural forms is generally concealed beneath its skin or within the confines of walls. As the bones grow, perhaps the necessity for skin coverage recedes proportionally. In designing a skateboard, we sought to play upon this tension between internal structure and external form. What happens when the boundary between bones and skin becomes interwoven such that one becomes indiscernible from the other?
We studied Herzog & de Meuron’s Beijing National ‘Bird’s Nest’ Stadium as a precedent to see how the reveal between structure and skin can operate over a large architectural form, the skeletal structure becoming the formal body itself. Utilizing birch plywood with an internal american walnut ply core, we layered over-woven strips upon one another to establish a structural rigidity and spatial coverage that would allow the strips to operate as the skateboard surface itself. The final design offers a reveal to the ground underneath as one skates upon its undulated form, placing oneself on a vehicle that brings as minimal a surface area as is necessary to perform.” — Devon
B.Arch student John Yu shares the futuristic table and chair he made for our furniture design course, which explores the intersection of architecture, art and design. 📷: @definitely.john
#tbt to fifth-year final reviews in Mary Casper’s studio, “The Realists.”
The 501 seminar interrogated contemporary realist movements in art, philosophy, popular culture and architecture to ask what makes spaces, buildings and the people they serve “real” in the increasingly fake reality we inhabit. In 502, students researched existing conditions in Hollywood and designed a series of projects that represented a body of speculative design thinking about the real future of the city.
The 13th annual BIM Conference returns to USC on Friday, June 28! For more information on this year’s program and to register, visit our website (link in bio ⬆️).
A repost from first-year B.Arch student @woody_chiang: This semester was such a journey for me. If someone showed me my #final, I would not have believed I could make that before the semester started. Project 1, I experimented with architectural origin forms of the #cave,the #hut, and the #tent as a way to describe the solid, the line, and the surface used in #architecture. In project 2, I used what I learned from project 1 to devise 4 coexisting systems of the point, the line, the surface, and the solid on a regular #grid to form my field. The result was a field of homogeneous forms with intersecting lines and cubes as well as surfaces that divide space to give expansive or narrow spatial qualities and a range of transparency across the landscape. I am incredibly grateful of the the instruction I received from my instructor @myrnaayoub_projects and my peers. Done with first year at @uscarchitecture. Four more to go!
Our 27th annual heritage conservation summer course is in full swing! Yesterday’s schedule included a field trip to The Getty.
Our Chase L. Leavitt Graduate Building Science class of 2019! Congratulations to our new graduates of the master of building science program. ✌🏻
More scenes from EXPO 2019, an exhibition of student work from the class of 2019. Pictured here are graduate architecture thesis projects (part 2/2).
Scenes from EXPO 2019, an exhibition of student work from the class of 2019. Pictured here are graduate architecture thesis projects (part 1).
B.Arch student @brianchouser shares images of his final model from his third-year project, “Prism Public Pool.” The project proposes a new focal point for the Westchester Park community of LA.
Congratulations to the class of 2019!!! 🎓✌🏻🎓
Congratulations to M.Arch students Ban Sheni and Fabian Dietrich who won a citation award in last night’s AIA|LA 2x8 competition! Ban and Fabian won for 4300 Degnan, a middle-rise, high-density housing project in Leimert Park, Los Angeles that emphasizes community values and shared resources.
Our students are hard at work getting ready for EXPO 2019, our annual exhibition of student work from this year’s graduating class. Stay tuned for more exhibition photos to come or check out the exhibition in person on Friday, May 10 in Watt Hall.
Our second-year students presented their final projects to a super jury on Friday afternoon at the @aplusd_la. The studio studied materiality and specifically centered on an investigation of “L.A. School” architecture and its particular genealogy of how materiality evolved in Los Angeles.
A big thanks to our super jury for their time!
Paulette Singley
Milton S. F. Curry
Wes Jones
Michele Saee
Hadrian Predock
Stephen Phillips
Jennifer Siegal
Ingalill Wahlroos-Ritter
Eui Sung Yi
Alice Kimm
Herwig Baumgartner
Today is the day! Join USC Architecture alumni and the USC community and give to what inspires you most about USC Architecture. (Elaine Kwong – B.Arch 2012) #DayofSCupport
Our spring final reviews continue to showcase some stunning student work. This collection photographed by @synthesisdna highlights student work by @leonaxxchun & @anateresapsch in the @uscarchitecture urban topic studio taught by @wtarch.
Join USC Architecture alumni and the USC community this Saturday and give to what inspires you most about USC Architecture. Every dollar counts! (Arjun Mahesh – B.Arch 2014)
Link in bio ⬆️
#DayofSCupport
Fifth-year students in Erin Kasimow’s studio presented final projects last week that explored the intersections of art, architecture and food. Their final reviews included an interactive performance element that our critics got to enjoy.