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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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Various Things of Different Sizes ︎ Graduate Studio One


ARCH 583
Fall 2020 ︎
Los Angeles

Instructor
Ryan Tyler Martinez 


Work by M.Arch student Dave Zheng



Graduate Studio 1 is interested in introducing fundamental design concepts to develop both knowledge of the discipline and techniques for thinking about and creating architecture. The studio begun with studies of conceptual, formal, and organizational strategies to understand and analyze architectural precedents. The students focused on the interaction between two and three dimensions, as well as various methods for the creation and understanding of architectural techniques and workflows. This is a foundational studio and worked from conceptual ideas to real-world applications and details. Through the exploration of spatial systems, formal strategies, and tectonics by understanding different phases of a design process.



Work by MID Student Kim Te



In this studio, there was not the focus on the design of a single building, instead, looking at organizing, re-imagining, understanding building concepts, design elements, and social conditions with an interest in infrastructure, pavilions, bathrooms, and public spaces. The project aimed for intelligible conceptual relationships between lines, fields, form, shape, diagrams, program, and representation. The studio was broken up into three main topics: Infrastructure, objects, and program. An understanding architectural scale was highlighted as a foundation topic for the development of the student's time at WSOA. Each of the three phases operated at different scales; from large urban scale gestures to detailed bathroom ADA requirements – the studio is intersected in teaching students how to understand, operate, and challenge scale as a problem and tool for architecture.





Work by M.Arch Student Andew Davis




Catalog Description

The foundation graduate design studio prompts a phenomenological understanding of architectural space through an introduction to design methodologies across multiple media and within nested scales. Students explore the manipulation of two and three dimensions through skills development in drawing, material exploration, and modeling.