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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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PER[FORM]ANCE: A MONTAGE METROPOLIS  ︎ Degree Project Studio


ARCH 431
Spring 2021 ︎
Los Angeles

Instructors
Bailey Shugart


Work by B.Arch student Leonardo Acevedo


“The theater, in which architecture serves as a possible background, a setting, a building that can be calculated and transformed into the measurements and concrete materials of an often elusive feeling, has been one of my passions.”- Aldo Rossi 1979. This course explores the cinematics of architectural performance in the city. Cinematography plays a vital role in how we will envision the new metropolis through the process of cutting and pasting (in this case, montage) as oppose to collage. The course aims to develop an entirely new city based on the research of past cities combined with the advancing technologies of today. Our research will begun from exploring the mega scale “City”, down to the personal space “Body”.




Work by B.Arch student Melissa Uyuni


If we study the city more vigilantly, we will begin to generate new ideas for how a metropolis should be designed. What components are necessary? Design acts as a stage for how we perform and communicate – design builds communities. Our goal is to research and create a montage of a performing city. Ultimately the final research produced will be a foundation for the stage for developing our ideas of per[FORM]ance and mobility in the metropolis through the lens of Architecture. This studio does not dictate a real context and the students will invent a universal site to support the project.





Work by B.Arch student Ryana Rangel


“The city is more than just a complicated pile of regulations and properties. It is the place where culture is made. The city is dramatic theatres where we make and watch stories unfold. We watch people perform, but we are also the performers.” – Hernan Diaz Alonso





Work by B.Arch student Patrick Castro




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.