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WSOA In-Flux

WSOA In-Flux

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WSOA In-Flux is a publishing platform for student work launched by Woodbury School of Architecture in 2020.




Woodbury School of Architecture is distinguished by its multiple locations at the heart of the Southern California creative industries: Los Angeles, Hollywood and San Diego. Together, these sites form a critical infrastructure for architectural investigations.

Our undergraduate and graduate programs prepare students to effect positive change in the built environment, to tackle theoretical debates, and to take on architecture and interior design as critical practices. We educate our students as entrepreneurs, citizen architects, and cultural builders equally committed to professional practice, theoretical discourse, social equity and to formal and technological inquiry.

Our faculty are architects, designers, academics and policy makers practicing in Los Angeles, San Diego and Tijuana. This internationally recognized and award-winning group works closely with students to teach the skills required to push the limits of practice.



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Good design is a human right. Woodbury School of Architecture produces graduates who affirm the power of design to improve the built environment and the lives of others by addressing the pressing issues of our time. We transform our students into ethical, articulate and innovative design professionals prepared to lead in a world of accelerating technological change.


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The future belongs to Woodbury. Woodbury School of Architecture creates an environment that empowers our students to impact the future of the profession through meaningful built work. We imagine a world in which there are no disciplinary rights or wrongs, where diverse and sometimes contradictory values collide to generate new ideas, design innovation, unexpected practices, and the means to expand the influence of our discipline.


Woodbury School of Architecture offers a welcoming environment for students to develop their own unique design voice.  We approach the design disciplines multi-dimensionally, teaching a range of pedagogies and design methodologies. Our students leave Woodbury with the confidence to engage in local and global discourse.

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Our School of Architecture is among the first 14 accredited architectural programs to be accepted for participation in the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) Integrated Path to Architectural Licensure (IPAL) initiative. Successful students will have the opportunity to have an architectural license upon graduation.

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Animating Orthography ︎ Visualization 2


ARCH 563
Spring 2020 ︎
Los Angeles

Instructor
 Mark Ericson




Work by M.Arch Student Garo Klian


Animating Orthography argues for the projective role of history in the implementation of technology in architecture. It focuses on the most ordinary type of architectural drawing, orthographic projection, and speculates on its potential to be re-imagined as a digital process. Orthographic projection has existed since the 15th century, becoming the definitive geometry of drawing in architecture in the early 16th century. Contemporary architecture has displaced orthographic drawing from its traditional place of importance because digital architecture’s founding myths deemed it incompatible with the ambitions of digital form. Yet orthographic drawing persists, mainly through the bureaucracies of academia and practice. Architects therefore have two choices: cleanly sever the link to this 400-year-old technique, or try to reconcile it with contemporary ambitions. This course proposes the latter through the analysis and subsequent translation of 17th century orthographic projection into digital processes. Students will learn to use Grasshopper, Rhinoscript and the programming language of Python to create animations, drawings, and objects that are products of the rich overlap of history and technology. The class will position orthographic projection as technique for the production of form in lieu of a convention of representation.





Work by M.Arch Student Emily Rose Vanags



Work by M.Arch student: Merhuzan Karapetyan


Catalog Description

Architectural representation is composed as spatial enabler and interpreter that establishes and conveys perspective. Engagement occurs through two- and three-dimensional analog and digital hardware and software.