11/16/19

Graduate students in ARCH 705 are exploring the possibilities of Vacuum Envelope Systems. Student Linzi Liu’s project explores the use of pneumatic inflatables inside the vacuum system that control opacity and sunlight. Check out her #workinprogress!⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #uscarchitecture #usc #architectureschool #la #losangeles #architect #architecturestudent

B.Arch ‘20 student Fadi Abd-El-Malek poses with his ARCH 500A project, a diagrid tower for a heavyweight timber office building. 📷: @fadysalib

@andronicusalumni #tbt - Members of the #Andronicus Chapter of #AlphaRhoChi pose in front of the under-construction Watt Hall in 1973, which today houses the USC School of Architecture. 📐📏👷‍♂️👷‍♀️ #uscarch100

Join us tonight for a lecture by Jennifer Newsom from @dreamthecombine at 6:00 PM, Harris 101. This event is free and open to all. See you tonight!⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #uscarchitecture #usc #architecture #freelecture #losangeles #la #dreamthecombine

This semester, @usc_aalu_2019 students studied sustainable building elements in Singapore with the Future Cities Laboratory, and students presented their final projects to faculty from USC Architecture and the Future Cities Lab last week. To learn more about the AALU and Future Cities Lab collaboration, click the link in our bio. ⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #uscarchitecture #TravelTuesday #travel #studyabroad #usc #ethzurich #futurecitieslaboratory #singapore #architectureschool #sustainable #globalstudies

Our current faculty/student exhibition, on view now through Nov. 16 in Watt Hall, showcases work from assistant professor Faiza Moatasim. “Forms and Aesthetics of Informal Spaces” features time-lapse clips of temporary street commerce in the cities of Los Angeles and Rawalpindi (Pakistan), which show how inherent in the architectural forms and aesthetics associated with street hawking and vending is a particular logic of informal urbanism, or long-term temporariness. The corresponding student work on display features their interpretation of the various typologies of homelessness in Los Angeles. ⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #uscarchitecture #usc #architecture #urbanism #facultywork #studentwork #exhibition #losangeles #la #pakistan

Field trip Friday! ⁣ ⁣ @usclandarchurbanism shares photos from a recent power-mapping workshop with Jessica Bremner, site visit and pin-up for studio “Corridor of Power: Multi‐sectorial strategies for the Just City” taught by Jen Toy and David Maestres. The studio is looking at the 10-mile power line corridor that runs through South LA, Southgate and Downey as well as unincorporated areas. It addresses issues of historic disinvestment, discriminatory planning policies, concentrated poverty, and fears of displacement. ⁣ ⁣ ⁣

Happy Halloween from USC Architecture! Swipe for #tbt photos of past student pumpkin carving competitions. 🎃 ⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #uscarchitecture #usc #halloween #happyhalloween #pumpkincarving #jackolantern

Join us tonight for a USC Architecture lecture and book sale/signing with Richard Rothstein, author of “The Color of Law,” at 6:00 PM in Harris 101. The book signing and reception will immediately follow the lecture. See you tonight!⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #USCArchitecture #usc #booksigning #thecoloroflaw #freelecture #losangeles #la

Student study abroad work from our fall 2018 AALU and Barcelona programs and our spring 2019 Italy program is now on view in Verle Annis Gallery! Check out this incredible and insightful pop-up exhibition, this week only. ⁣ .⁣ .⁣ .⁣ .⁣ .⁣ #uscarchitecture #usc #architecture #traveltuesday #travel #studyabroad #globalstudies #asia #europe #italy #barcelona

Thanks to our speakers and everyone who joined us last week for our fall symposium on Architecture, The City and Democratic Capitalism! We hope to see you at our remaining public programming events this semester (calendar link in bio). ⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #uscarchitecture #usc #architecture #urbanism #symposium #la #losangeles

M.Arch '19 graduate Yuxin Liu's spring 2019 thesis, "Future Housing System," used basic blocks to create a system for future housing that allows people to customize their own house and easily assemble and replace parts.

Between 1919 and fall 1924, the Department of Architecture's enrollment went from 12 to 120 students. Today, there are 760 students and over 100 faculty members in the USC School of Architecture! #USCArch100 ⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #uscarchitecture #usc #architecture #architectureschool #la #losangeles #usc #uscarchitecture #studentlife #thenandnow

M.Arch '19 alum Yating Guo's spring 2019 thesis proposed a renovation of Oslo Central Station. The project "brings the multifunction pink curve system into the white regular modular system to create the post-Mat-building, studying fluidity and modularity. It has more advantages than the traditional Mat–building as it highly relies on the grid system and repetitive layout and lacks hierarchical organization."⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #uscarchitecture #usc #oslo #la #losangeles #thesis #architectureschool

Our latest Faculty/Student Exhibition, “Color Profile,” features work from lecturer Sandra Yum, whose firm @projectroomla has recently been looking at crafting smaller scale objects that tell a story through their figuration and color. The student work on display looks at figure and its use in architecture. On view now through Nov. 2 in Watt Hall!⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #uscarchitecture #usc #architecture #architecture faculty #architectureschool #exhibition #la #losangeles

Thanks to everyone who helped us celebrate 100 years of innovation last night to kick off Reunion Weekend! #uscarch100

In 1974, Watt Hall became the School’s new official home. The building was designed by alumnus and former adjunct professor Edward Killingsworth with Dean Samuel Hurst serving as supervising architect.⠀ ⠀ Drawings by USC Architecture faculty Graeme Maxwell Morland. #USCArch100⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #tbt #losangeles #la #watthall #architectureschool #usc #architecture #uscarchitecture

Reminder! Head to Harris 101 tonight at 6:00 PM for a USC Architecture lecture by Sojin Kim from the Smithsonian’s Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage. See you there! @smithsonianfolklife⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #USCArchitecture #USC #Lecture #FreeEvents #LosAngeles #LA #Smithsonian

Thanks to the Chase L. Leavitt Traveling Fellowship, Jessi Jacobowitz (B.Arch ’19) had the opportunity to travel through South America for six weeks this past summer. Jessi shares her experience backpacking through Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, as well as visiting eight World Heritage Sites on the USC Architecture Updates from Overseas blog. Article linked in bio! #TravelTuesday

M.Arch ’19 alum Li Wei’s spring 2019 thesis, Interiority, was an addition to the LA Central Library. Interiority “tries to capture the memory of the existing art deco building and show a new open public space with elements of the old one.”