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01/04/19
Mary Casper joined the School of Architecture in 2017, teaching first year undergraduates. She comes to USC with experience as a project designer ...
01/16/19
The USC Architectural Guild, with generous support from the Jack A. and Marilyn M. Zuber Charitable Trust, hosted its eighth annual Design Charrette ...
01/03/19
Top industry authorities gather at USC Architecture to explore how architecture is a unique carrier of social and financial capital University of ...
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.
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#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.
Did you know? Watt Hall, our school’s main hub today, was dedicated in 1974. It was designed by alumnus Edward Killingsworth (‘40) with Samuel Hurst, the School’s dean from 1961-1973, serving as the supervising architect. #nationaltriviaday
You may be wishing you could 3D print another week of winter break, but we can’t wait to welcome back all of our talented students next week!
Happy holidays, from our Watt Hall family to yours. 🎁
A final project #tbt from @erick_reyes_5:
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402A Final Plan Oblique
El Pueblo Bridge Housing Project Proposal
#USCarchitecture Project 2 Floor Plans Part 1
That’s it for the fall semester. ✔️Here are a few more shots from finals to commemorate the hard work of our students!
More scenes from architecture and landscape architecture final reviews this week. Congrats to all our students on their hard work!
Graduate architecture students in @jomasan’s studio presented their final projects yesterday. The Discrete Economies is an attempt to revive a project of dimensional coordination of building systems to provide open source patterns of architecture to local communities.
Graduate architecture students in Anthony Morey’s studio, Lorem Ipsum, remapped Los Angeles using VR technology for their final project. By assembling this mega map with Oculus, they’re able to virtually explore and jump into each other’s models and drawings. Dean Curry enjoyed exploring the project, too.
#Repost @mcipresso ・・・
Another third-year housing project from my studio at @uscarchitecture by Mika Nagar. The students were asked to design a 50-unit permanent-supportive housing project in Los Angeles on a tough site near the freeway and at a very busy intersection. This project sought to create an oasis for residents by providing a central courtyard that would shelter them from the chaotic city beyond while still inviting the public into the ground floor and a partially submerged public plaza below the building that is programmed for community and casual activities.
Contest alert! 🚨 We’re in the giving spirit and want to thank you for following us through another year of exceptional design thinking. As a thank you, we’re giving away a USC Architecture swag bag to one lucky follower. To enter:
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1. Like this post.
2. Follow @USCArchitecture on Instagram.
3. Comment on this post and name a USC Architecture alum who has inspired you. ✌🏻
B.Arch student Zida Liu shares his final project from Andy Ku's 302A studio.
This model is for an affordable housing project located in South LA, designed for veterans and mainly focused on maintaining the tenants' physical and psychological well-being. The color coded blue portion is a circulation loop system and running track connecting the top floor and first-floor garden in order to provide a continuous circulation for tenants to walk or run around. This system also connects and stitches through the two mega units so that tenants can join this loop from every level and unit. A badminton court and gym are located on the top floor while psychological consultant rooms and classrooms are located at the ground level to provide social and spatial contributions to the community.
This ARCH 500 final project by B.Arch student Lourdes Castillo is for a mid-rise office building set in the Arts District. Its design, which lets light straight through, is based on the movement of the sun.
Finals are in full swing!
#Repost @usc_architecture_ug:
Engaging new conversations about CONTEXT in 2nd year design studio. Student work by Juan Villatoro, Stephanie Saunders and Madelyn Rosen. Studio coordinated by Alfie Koetter. @slkkoetter
We’re thrilled to return to Design Miami/ this year for a Design Talk in partnership with PIN-UP Magazine. Join us on Dec. 7 if you’re attending the show!
@USCARCHITECTURE
←
→
#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.
Did you know? Watt Hall, our school’s main hub today, was dedicated in 1974. It was designed by alumnus Edward Killingsworth (‘40) with Samuel Hurst, the School’s dean from 1961-1973, serving as the supervising architect. #nationaltriviaday
You may be wishing you could 3D print another week of winter break, but we can’t wait to welcome back all of our talented students next week!
Happy holidays, from our Watt Hall family to yours. 🎁
A final project #tbt from @erick_reyes_5:
・・・
402A Final Plan Oblique
El Pueblo Bridge Housing Project Proposal
#USCarchitecture Project 2 Floor Plans Part 1
That’s it for the fall semester. ✔️Here are a few more shots from finals to commemorate the hard work of our students!
More scenes from architecture and landscape architecture final reviews this week. Congrats to all our students on their hard work!
Graduate architecture students in @jomasan’s studio presented their final projects yesterday. The Discrete Economies is an attempt to revive a project of dimensional coordination of building systems to provide open source patterns of architecture to local communities.
Graduate architecture students in Anthony Morey’s studio, Lorem Ipsum, remapped Los Angeles using VR technology for their final project. By assembling this mega map with Oculus, they’re able to virtually explore and jump into each other’s models and drawings. Dean Curry enjoyed exploring the project, too.
#Repost @mcipresso ・・・
Another third-year housing project from my studio at @uscarchitecture by Mika Nagar. The students were asked to design a 50-unit permanent-supportive housing project in Los Angeles on a tough site near the freeway and at a very busy intersection. This project sought to create an oasis for residents by providing a central courtyard that would shelter them from the chaotic city beyond while still inviting the public into the ground floor and a partially submerged public plaza below the building that is programmed for community and casual activities.
Contest alert! 🚨 We’re in the giving spirit and want to thank you for following us through another year of exceptional design thinking. As a thank you, we’re giving away a USC Architecture swag bag to one lucky follower. To enter:
_____________________
1. Like this post.
2. Follow @USCArchitecture on Instagram.
3. Comment on this post and name a USC Architecture alum who has inspired you. ✌🏻
B.Arch student Zida Liu shares his final project from Andy Ku's 302A studio.
This model is for an affordable housing project located in South LA, designed for veterans and mainly focused on maintaining the tenants' physical and psychological well-being. The color coded blue portion is a circulation loop system and running track connecting the top floor and first-floor garden in order to provide a continuous circulation for tenants to walk or run around. This system also connects and stitches through the two mega units so that tenants can join this loop from every level and unit. A badminton court and gym are located on the top floor while psychological consultant rooms and classrooms are located at the ground level to provide social and spatial contributions to the community.
This ARCH 500 final project by B.Arch student Lourdes Castillo is for a mid-rise office building set in the Arts District. Its design, which lets light straight through, is based on the movement of the sun.
Finals are in full swing!
#Repost @usc_architecture_ug:
Engaging new conversations about CONTEXT in 2nd year design studio. Student work by Juan Villatoro, Stephanie Saunders and Madelyn Rosen. Studio coordinated by Alfie Koetter. @slkkoetter
We’re thrilled to return to Design Miami/ this year for a Design Talk in partnership with PIN-UP Magazine. Join us on Dec. 7 if you’re attending the show!