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02/13/19
The USC Architectural Guild and the USC School of Architecture have selected Corinne Verdery as the 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient. In ...
02/14/19
In the last year, elected officials in the county and city of Los Angeles have begun to explore the boundaries of housing design and production in ...
02/14/19
The pioneering firm of Brooks and Scarpa recently was awarded a top prize in the LA County Housing Innovation Challenge for their design of the ...
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B.Arch student Taylor Abbott created FLOAT (Flexible Land on Aquatic Terrain) for his ARCH 402A topic design studio with Geoffrey von Oeyen last semester. This FRP (Fiber Reinforced Polymer) constructed housing system is a step toward floating architecture to address the housing crisis. Creating a modular system out of this light and affordable material allows designers to ditch conventional building materials for a more affordable breed. The system itself is quite simple and offers a plug-and-play construction method out of panelized units. Customization allows for variation in the units, creating a compelling facade seen from 360 degrees. Developing land on the water is the future of design and will challenge architects everywhere to create spectacular projects.
#Repost from faculty member @eekstudio
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Teaching something a little different this semester at @uscarchitecture. Based on a premise from a research seminar led by @laurelconsuelobroughton last fall, my degree project students are exploring intersections of art, architecture, and food. For their first project they designed and “performed” portable meal kits to delightful results.
Students currently studying abroad in Italy recently visited Urbino to study Giancarlo di Carlo architecture. Highlights included a visit to the Sassocorvaro Fortezza, a palazzo typology within a fortress shaped like a turtle, and Villa Giancarlo, the only villa ever designed by the renowned Italian architect.
Today would have been the 125th birthday of USC Architecture alum Paul Revere Williams, the first black member and fellow of the American Institute of Architects. In addition to his 1940s redesign of the Beverly Hills Hotel, he is known for his work designing homes for celebrities like Frank Sinatra, Lucille Ball, and Desi Arnaz. 📷: @bevhillshotel
We’re thrilled to announce two award recipients for this year's 60th Annual USC Architectural Guild Dinner! Corinne Verdery will receive the 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award and Gin D. Wong will receive the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously. This year’s dinner will take place on April 24 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Visit arch.usc.edu for more information.
Ciao! Our latest #TravelTuesday dispatch comes from Matera, Italy, where our students currently studying abroad recently visited. The Sassi historical center is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
“Portraits in Partition,” our second exhibition in this semester’s Faculty/Student Exhibition Series, features work from Myrna Ayoub and her ARCH 102 studio. The faculty exhibit looks at two neighboring countries—Syria and Lebanon—through methods of cartographic analysis and photo collage to portray the manifestation of identity, territory, and culture within a space of conflict. The photographs and data have been collected over the past five years to understand the forces of conflict within the region and the challenges they place on the development of urban environments across several scales. This exhibition is on view in the Watt Hall 2nd Floor gallery through Feb. 23.
#Repost @synthesisdna: Insane student work by @christie_deer in the graduate design studio at @uscarchitecture taught by @yaohuaw of @preliminary_research_office.
It’s #traveltuesday! Students in our Italy study abroad program visited the Vatican and Castel Sant’Angelo this week. Stay tuned for more updates throughout their semester abroad.
A #tbt #Repost from @morof_nick
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Honored to receive the “Best Overall Project” award for my proposal for a mass timber mid-rise in the Arts District restricted to a 4500sf footprint!
The design interrupts the closed store front typology of the area by opening the first 2 floors for public use as well as restaurant and store concept-testing space for future tenants.
The structural grid is informed by the street that runs perpendicular to the site. The design utilizes a stacking structural system and prismatic column profiles to enable equal contact with the beams at top and bottom.
The core is a long tube located on the East facade sacrificing the morning sun during non-office hours and anticipating building-height increases surrounding the site in future years. The continuous tube of CLT also provides significant structural stability to the building. The second set of egress is located on the Southwest corner of the building and doubles as a social balcony space with views of DTLA for coffee breaks and meetings.
More to come!
Hadrian Predock’s fifth-year architecture students showed off their “Spaces of Practice” mise-en-scene models in Watt Hall yesterday. @usc_architecture_ug
Our faculty/student exhibition series is back! Kicking off this semester is Peter Zellner’s TWOxSIX exhibition, which features two projects he built between 2010-2013—the Matthew Marks Gallery (with artist Ellsworth Kelly) and Casa Anaya—and six USC graduate architecture student projects from 2016-2018. On view in Watt Hall 2nd Floor Gallery now through Feb. 9. 📷: 1) Casa Anaya, credit Enrique de La Concha. 2) Matthew Marks Gallery, credit Joshua White.
#fbf to graduate architecture student Yizhi Hu’s Santa Maria del Fiore Observatory project, which won USC’s Graduate Thesis Prize in spring 2017. The proposed structure situated above the altar conceals the circulation behind it and becomes a new art piece.
B.Arch student Helen Hye Kyung Kong developed this LACC Nest House for Gary Paige’s 402A class last semester. The project is a shared house for Los Angeles City College homeless students located on a half-acre site in Koreatown. The spatial concept of the project is nesting – spaces within spaces – that are created in multiple nests of varying sizes and configurations. These form an outdoor courtyard for four smaller nests for dining, living, recreation, and study. The programs of a typical residential house are atomized and redistributed in the shared courtyard space.
#tbt to Saturday’s Olympic Village-themed Design Charrette and all of these incredible models, which students designed and constructed within just five hours. 🙌
Our pop-up exhibition, “Ed Ruscha: Films,” is on view now through Friday in Verle Annis Gallery. Don’t miss the chance to see screenings of two rare films from iconic LA artist Ed Ruscha! This exhibition is free and open to the public.
Congrats to our eighth annual Design Charrette winners who took home these big checks on Saturday!
First place: Jiawei Ji, Mingyue Ge, and Qingyu Zhu
Second place: Xiaohan He, Manyan Qian, and Qiyu Miao
Third place: Lingyu Huang, Gonghao Liu, and Haoren Xu
Saturday’s eighth annual Design Charrette was a whirlwind of a day! Thanks to our fantastic jury - @christopherhawthorne, Thom Mayne @morphosisarchitects, David Martin @themadworkshop, and Doris Sung @dosustudio - and congrats to all our student teams. Stay tuned for more photos of this year’s winning projects.
Generation NEXT, our annual celebration of independent design work from recent alumni, will return on Feb. 27. Mark your calendars and check out arch.usc.edu for this year’s submission guidelines if you’re interested in participating!
We’re thrilled to announce our spring 2019 public programming lineup, which kicks off this Wednesday evening with a lecture from @mpdlstudio. Visit arch.usc.edu for more information on this semester’s lineup.
@USCARCHITECTURE
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B.Arch student Taylor Abbott created FLOAT (Flexible Land on Aquatic Terrain) for his ARCH 402A topic design studio with Geoffrey von Oeyen last semester. This FRP (Fiber Reinforced Polymer) constructed housing system is a step toward floating architecture to address the housing crisis. Creating a modular system out of this light and affordable material allows designers to ditch conventional building materials for a more affordable breed. The system itself is quite simple and offers a plug-and-play construction method out of panelized units. Customization allows for variation in the units, creating a compelling facade seen from 360 degrees. Developing land on the water is the future of design and will challenge architects everywhere to create spectacular projects.
#Repost from faculty member @eekstudio
・・・
Teaching something a little different this semester at @uscarchitecture. Based on a premise from a research seminar led by @laurelconsuelobroughton last fall, my degree project students are exploring intersections of art, architecture, and food. For their first project they designed and “performed” portable meal kits to delightful results.
Students currently studying abroad in Italy recently visited Urbino to study Giancarlo di Carlo architecture. Highlights included a visit to the Sassocorvaro Fortezza, a palazzo typology within a fortress shaped like a turtle, and Villa Giancarlo, the only villa ever designed by the renowned Italian architect.
Today would have been the 125th birthday of USC Architecture alum Paul Revere Williams, the first black member and fellow of the American Institute of Architects. In addition to his 1940s redesign of the Beverly Hills Hotel, he is known for his work designing homes for celebrities like Frank Sinatra, Lucille Ball, and Desi Arnaz. 📷: @bevhillshotel
We’re thrilled to announce two award recipients for this year's 60th Annual USC Architectural Guild Dinner! Corinne Verdery will receive the 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award and Gin D. Wong will receive the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously. This year’s dinner will take place on April 24 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Visit arch.usc.edu for more information.
Ciao! Our latest #TravelTuesday dispatch comes from Matera, Italy, where our students currently studying abroad recently visited. The Sassi historical center is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
“Portraits in Partition,” our second exhibition in this semester’s Faculty/Student Exhibition Series, features work from Myrna Ayoub and her ARCH 102 studio. The faculty exhibit looks at two neighboring countries—Syria and Lebanon—through methods of cartographic analysis and photo collage to portray the manifestation of identity, territory, and culture within a space of conflict. The photographs and data have been collected over the past five years to understand the forces of conflict within the region and the challenges they place on the development of urban environments across several scales. This exhibition is on view in the Watt Hall 2nd Floor gallery through Feb. 23.
#Repost @synthesisdna: Insane student work by @christie_deer in the graduate design studio at @uscarchitecture taught by @yaohuaw of @preliminary_research_office.
It’s #traveltuesday! Students in our Italy study abroad program visited the Vatican and Castel Sant’Angelo this week. Stay tuned for more updates throughout their semester abroad.
A #tbt #Repost from @morof_nick
・・・
Honored to receive the “Best Overall Project” award for my proposal for a mass timber mid-rise in the Arts District restricted to a 4500sf footprint!
The design interrupts the closed store front typology of the area by opening the first 2 floors for public use as well as restaurant and store concept-testing space for future tenants.
The structural grid is informed by the street that runs perpendicular to the site. The design utilizes a stacking structural system and prismatic column profiles to enable equal contact with the beams at top and bottom.
The core is a long tube located on the East facade sacrificing the morning sun during non-office hours and anticipating building-height increases surrounding the site in future years. The continuous tube of CLT also provides significant structural stability to the building. The second set of egress is located on the Southwest corner of the building and doubles as a social balcony space with views of DTLA for coffee breaks and meetings.
More to come!
Hadrian Predock’s fifth-year architecture students showed off their “Spaces of Practice” mise-en-scene models in Watt Hall yesterday. @usc_architecture_ug
Our faculty/student exhibition series is back! Kicking off this semester is Peter Zellner’s TWOxSIX exhibition, which features two projects he built between 2010-2013—the Matthew Marks Gallery (with artist Ellsworth Kelly) and Casa Anaya—and six USC graduate architecture student projects from 2016-2018. On view in Watt Hall 2nd Floor Gallery now through Feb. 9. 📷: 1) Casa Anaya, credit Enrique de La Concha. 2) Matthew Marks Gallery, credit Joshua White.
#fbf to graduate architecture student Yizhi Hu’s Santa Maria del Fiore Observatory project, which won USC’s Graduate Thesis Prize in spring 2017. The proposed structure situated above the altar conceals the circulation behind it and becomes a new art piece.
B.Arch student Helen Hye Kyung Kong developed this LACC Nest House for Gary Paige’s 402A class last semester. The project is a shared house for Los Angeles City College homeless students located on a half-acre site in Koreatown. The spatial concept of the project is nesting – spaces within spaces – that are created in multiple nests of varying sizes and configurations. These form an outdoor courtyard for four smaller nests for dining, living, recreation, and study. The programs of a typical residential house are atomized and redistributed in the shared courtyard space.
#tbt to Saturday’s Olympic Village-themed Design Charrette and all of these incredible models, which students designed and constructed within just five hours. 🙌
Our pop-up exhibition, “Ed Ruscha: Films,” is on view now through Friday in Verle Annis Gallery. Don’t miss the chance to see screenings of two rare films from iconic LA artist Ed Ruscha! This exhibition is free and open to the public.
Congrats to our eighth annual Design Charrette winners who took home these big checks on Saturday!
First place: Jiawei Ji, Mingyue Ge, and Qingyu Zhu
Second place: Xiaohan He, Manyan Qian, and Qiyu Miao
Third place: Lingyu Huang, Gonghao Liu, and Haoren Xu
Saturday’s eighth annual Design Charrette was a whirlwind of a day! Thanks to our fantastic jury - @christopherhawthorne, Thom Mayne @morphosisarchitects, David Martin @themadworkshop, and Doris Sung @dosustudio - and congrats to all our student teams. Stay tuned for more photos of this year’s winning projects.
Generation NEXT, our annual celebration of independent design work from recent alumni, will return on Feb. 27. Mark your calendars and check out arch.usc.edu for this year’s submission guidelines if you’re interested in participating!
We’re thrilled to announce our spring 2019 public programming lineup, which kicks off this Wednesday evening with a lecture from @mpdlstudio. Visit arch.usc.edu for more information on this semester’s lineup.