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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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Hybrid Body, Hybrid Representation


ARCH 564
Fall 2020 ︎
Los Angeles

Instructors
John Going 





Work by B.Arch Student: Bailey Bestul


In an increasingly digital age, we are becoming ever more connected to hardware and software that augment and virtualize our everyday spaces and experiences. As Toyo Ito has pointed out, this interconnection has come to a point where “We of the modern age are provided with two types of bodies. The real body which is linked with the real world by means of fluids running inside, and the virtual body linked with the world by the flow of electrons.” Indeed, the contemporary individual is shaping and being shaped by a wider range of spaces and processes than ever before. In the context of the virtual, the augmented, the dematerialized, and our associated digitally-connected bodies, how might its representation and our associated spatial understandings begin to shift? 


Interact with some of M.Arch Student Emily Vanagas’s work here, here or here and below:



Work by B.Arch student Emily Vanags



Work by M.Arch students Isabella Pina


This studio uses the investigation of architecture’s inhabitants - the human body, and by extension, the individual - as an entry point into the exploration of visualization and novel representational methodologies. Rather than conceiving of representation as an impartial or conclusive tool in the design process, this studio treats representation as an implement of creative speculation and futurecrafting - it is both active and a vital component in exploration and design. The studio operates as a laboratory of quick and frequent iteration on outlandish ideas. We will explore both historic analog and emergent digital representational processes and technologies, and their potentials for hybridization. Ultimately, we will seek to produce a speculative aesthetic and representational approach for architecture that brings together the past and present, the analog and digital.



Catalog Description


Students are exposed to the aesthetic and philosophical objectives of drawing and modeling. The complexities of dependency between architectural conceptualization and representation are analyzed through a study of changing techniques within mixed media.