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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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The Geological Atlas of Built Los Angeles ︎ Studio 8


ARCH 402
Spring 2021 ︎
Los Angeles

Instructors
Joshua G. Stein







Work by B.Arch Student: Lizbet Romero


To assemble the Geological Atlas of Built Los Angeles, each student selected one material within the region’s construction industry and traced its history in both time and space, revealing the impacts of extraction and production globally as well as locally, in LA’s Sun Valley neighborhood.



Work by B.Arch student Kimberly Molina


The Geological Atlas of Built Los Angeles reimagines the metropolis as a continuous geological landscape that traces material lines to suture together the city with sites and populations it has historically attempted to push outside its identity. By mapping the mineralogical and geological connections between Los Angeles and its hinterlands, the Atlas documents not only the sources of our construction materials, but also the sources of urban inequities between marginalized communities in “forgotten” zones and the larger metropolis.






Work by B.Arch students David Martinez


Through an in-depth investigation of the relationship between the San Fernando Valley neighborhood of Sun Valley and Los Angeles at large, this research develops an understanding of the alignment between social and mineralogical inequity. The speculative proposals offer provocations towards a post-extraction future for Los Angeles while attempting to mitigate the detrimental effects of the construction industry on the local communities of Sun Valley.





Work by B.Arch Student Nazaret Khobiarian


Catalog Description


This Topic Studio explores and tests architectural design as it relates to one or more issues relevant to contemporary architectural discourse.