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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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World Architecture & Urbanism I  ︎ Criticism 1


ARCH 240 | 554 Fall 2020 ︎
Los Angeles

    Instructors
     Ewan Branda
    Jon Linton






Students were asked to create weekly entries in a sketchbook. These hand-drawn and hand-labelled sketches and diagrams encouraged students to process graphically the reading and lecture for that week. The goal was not comprehensive summarization but rather digesting and analyzing the material.





Sketches focused on three aspects of the build environments we studied: form (geometry, organization, and shape of buildings and cities), inhabitation (functions, rituals, movement, and perception), and environmental performance (sun, wind, water, and other resources). 

Diagrams are a crucial tool in the architect’s toolkit, particularly during a period when screens were the dominant medium. These sketchbooks explored the potential of the diagram to analyze examples of architecture represented in other visual media and explain that analysis through concise visual codes.




A selection from the sketch books of students: Leslie Aguilar, Erhima Ahnoud, Nicholas Brito, Andrea Castaneda, Hakob Chagaian, Rebecca Covarrubias, Andrew Davis, Julian Dela Fuente, Mahdi Elayyan, Jessalyn Garcia, Sona Ghevondyan, Tatiana Hajjar, Rudy Interiano-Osuna, Zachary Jawharjian, Salam Khalil, Cassandra Kuba, Michelle Kurkjian, Saad Ladhani, Dara Elise Levardo, Ruben Manopla, Anashe Mirzakhanian, Elizaveta Nitenko, Andrei Joseph Paraz, David Petrosyan, Lizbet Romero, Elham Zare, David Zheng.



Catalog Description


A survey of the history and theory of architecture and urbanism in Western and non-Western societies spanning a chronological period from pre-history to the nineteenth century. This course traces history via focused explorations into diverse cultures, geographies, and places, examining many layers of historical time. When considered together, these explorations contribute to an understanding of architecture as a deeply bound discipline with components ranging from the artifacts of everyday life and ritual, to building traditions and practices, to the larger forces of geography and the design of entire cities. Analytical drawing and modeling exercises link representational media to historic comprehension.