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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.



Mission

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.


Vision

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.

Through engaged faculty-student interaction, we transform our students into innovative professionals with a commitment to the power of good design. Our students and faculty share a commitment to sustainable practices, community outreach and civic engagement.

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.

We believe that our school is a role model for the direction in which the profession is heading – improving gender parity and ethnic diversity among its members, and reaffirming the importance of ethical conduct and social responsibility. Ours is a welcoming community for every race and orientation, and we resist acts of intolerance in favor of thoughtfulness, generosity and kindness. The economic, ethnic, and academic backgrounds of our students reflect Southern California itself. We are determined to provide a place for open debate, the respectful airing of differences, and for rich forms of expression and imagination.


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Hallucinations: Urban Space in the Age of A.I. ︎ Degree Project Studio


ARCH 492
Spring 2020 ︎
Los Angeles

Instructors
Ewan Branda
Cody Miner



Work by B.Arch Student: Ka Kit Chiu


Today’s intelligent algorithms are sometimes called “intuition machines.” Deep Learning, for example, simulates human creative thought by compiling experience from data and then, as AI researchers put it, “hallucinating” new possible realities. The parallels to design are obvious, since all design authorship can be seen as the intuitive production of plausible yet fictitious realities through the fabrication of controlled hallucinations. This course examined the changing nature of design authorship in the age of intelligent algorithms. While deep fakes, image recognition, and other machine learning techniques have become commonplace in popular culture and their techniques have become easier to use, the precise way in which they will affect architectural design remains in question.




Work by B.Arch students Aarti Patel, Anahit Antanyan, Hosam Fatani, Kenia Roman Cortez, Kevin Guerrero, William Garcia



Work by B.Arch students Anahit Antanyan, Edgar Cabadas, Esra Kilickan, Ka Kit Chiu, Kenia Roman Cortez, Kimberly Perez, Melissa Ramirez


This course investigated possible answers through the problem of urban morphology – the study of the ways in which large-scale building form determines our experience of the city. In particular, we looked at the 1970s and 80s work of Rob Krier and other neo-rationalists, whose work establishes a close dependency between large-scale morphology and subjective spatial perception. Our working hypothesis asserts that machine learning negates the age-old dichotomy between the rational and the empirical, or the diagram and the picture. Students explored this hypothesis using housing as the primary program. In addition to housing and associated amenities, students also worked with a secondary program of your choosing that addresses the problem of storage.




Work by B.Arch Student Storm Campo



Work by B.Arch Student Kenia Roman Cortez


Work by B.Arch Student Kevin Guerrero



Catalog Description


Through a rigorous level of clearly resolved work, students must demonstrate the application of theoretical research and positioning, plus the ability to integrate site, program, and other design issues in a self-initiated architectural design project incorporating a high degree of critical thinking, skill, and craft.