Master of Architecture ︎
Graduate Thesis
Graduate Thesis ︎ Spring 2021 ︎ Los Angeles
Instructor: Ryan Tyler Martinez
The culmination of the graduate professional program, students pursue a self-directed thesis in collaboration with a faculty advisor.
Graduate Thesis ︎ Spring 2021 ︎ Los Angeles
Instructor: Ryan Tyler Martinez
The culmination of the graduate professional program, students pursue a self-directed thesis in collaboration with a faculty advisor.
Envelope
& Image
Visualization 1 ︎ Fall 2020 ︎ Los Angeles
Instructor: Cody Miner
Students are inducted into the cultural and traditional conventions of architectural representation. The course operates as a workshop providing the analog and digital communication standards and making techniques for documenting, drawing, and modeling design ideas.
Visualization 1 ︎ Fall 2020 ︎ Los Angeles
Instructor: Cody Miner
Students are inducted into the cultural and traditional conventions of architectural representation. The course operates as a workshop providing the analog and digital communication standards and making techniques for documenting, drawing, and modeling design ideas.
San Diego Degree Project Studio
Degree Project Studio ︎ Spring 2021 ︎ San Diego
Instructor: David and Mikaela Pearson
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.
Degree Project Studio ︎ Spring 2021 ︎ San Diego
Instructor: David and Mikaela Pearson
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.
Open 'n Fill
Graduate Studio Five ︎ Fall 2020 ︎ Los Angeles
Instructor: Carmelia Chaing
Students study a contemporary architectural design topic through a vertical option studio or specialize through the selection of a focus studio. Topics vary and focuses correspond to the post professional tracks.
Graduate Studio Five ︎ Fall 2020 ︎ Los Angeles
Instructor: Carmelia Chaing
Students study a contemporary architectural design topic through a vertical option studio or specialize through the selection of a focus studio. Topics vary and focuses correspond to the post professional tracks.
ReForm: A New Civics Institute
Graduate Studio Three ︎ Fall 2020 ︎ Los Angeles
Instructor: Cody Miner
The systemic understanding of architecture is broadened through examination of the architectural object as a microcosm of an ever-expanding context, of a community or city as re-cycled. Building is introduced as infrastructure and infrastructure as intervention within ecology, land- and urban-scape, site, and territory.
Graduate Studio Three ︎ Fall 2020 ︎ Los Angeles
Instructor: Cody Miner
The systemic understanding of architecture is broadened through examination of the architectural object as a microcosm of an ever-expanding context, of a community or city as re-cycled. Building is introduced as infrastructure and infrastructure as intervention within ecology, land- and urban-scape, site, and territory.
Various Things of Different Sizes
Graduate Studio One ︎ Fall 2020 ︎ Los Angeles
Instructor: Ryan Tyler Martinez
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.
Graduate Studio One ︎ Fall 2020 ︎ Los Angeles
Instructor: Ryan Tyler Martinez
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.
Hybrid Body, Hybrid Representation
Visualization 3 ︎ Fall 2020 ︎ Los Angeles
Instructor: John Going
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.
Visualization 3 ︎ Fall 2020 ︎ Los Angeles
Instructor: John Going
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.
ReWork
Graduate Studio Two ︎ Spring 2021 ︎ Los Angeles
Instructor: Jordana Maisie Groot
Students are exposed to increasing complexity in architectural space through mining the conceptual organizing logics of design via cumulative exploration of modules and units. Programming, contextual and environmental prompts, regulating principles, circulation and urban networks, and systems of assembly become formative drivers through an investigation of housing (habits, habitats, and inhabitations).
Graduate Studio Two ︎ Spring 2021 ︎ Los Angeles
Instructor: Jordana Maisie Groot
Students are exposed to increasing complexity in architectural space through mining the conceptual organizing logics of design via cumulative exploration of modules and units. Programming, contextual and environmental prompts, regulating principles, circulation and urban networks, and systems of assembly become formative drivers through an investigation of housing (habits, habitats, and inhabitations).
World Architecture
Critisim One ︎ Fall 2020 ︎ Los Angeles + San Deigo
Instructors: Ewan Branda, Jon Linton
Studio One, Principles + Processes, provides a technical, conceptual, and ethical foundation for approaching architectural issues. Students learn fundamental skills for generating, representing, and archiving three-dimensional form with precision and clarity using a wide range of tools. Students are introduced to fundamental media used to generate, produce, and represent three-dimensional form and space. Qualitative issues surrounding mass, space, and circulation are foregrounded in the production of a 1,000 square foot building proposal.
Critisim One ︎ Fall 2020 ︎ Los Angeles + San Deigo
Instructors: Ewan Branda, Jon Linton
Studio One, Principles + Processes, provides a technical, conceptual, and ethical foundation for approaching architectural issues. Students learn fundamental skills for generating, representing, and archiving three-dimensional form with precision and clarity using a wide range of tools. Students are introduced to fundamental media used to generate, produce, and represent three-dimensional form and space. Qualitative issues surrounding mass, space, and circulation are foregrounded in the production of a 1,000 square foot building proposal.
Drawings,
Models, Buildings, & Text
Graduate Thesis & Degree Project ︎ Spring 2020 ︎ Los Angeles
Instructor: Ryan Tyler Martinez
ARCH 492: 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.
ARCH 692: The culmination of the graduate professional program, students pursue a self-directed thesis in collaboration with a faculty advisor.
Graduate Thesis & Degree Project ︎ Spring 2020 ︎ Los Angeles
Instructor: Ryan Tyler Martinez
ARCH 492: 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.
ARCH 692: The culmination of the graduate professional program, students pursue a self-directed thesis in collaboration with a faculty advisor.
Home Now
Graduate Studio Four ︎ Spring 2020 ︎ Los Angeles
Instructor: Linda Taalman
Students are challenged to synthesize architectural considerations, from the conceptual to the tangible, in the comprehensive design of a building. The studio project grows from a strong theoretical base into a response to the complexities of program and site. Accessibility, environmental performance, and life safety are addressed. Emphasis is placed on the integration of building systems with envelope and structure. Material selection is guided by both climate and context and is sensitive to resource conservation.
Graduate Studio Four ︎ Spring 2020 ︎ Los Angeles
Instructor: Linda Taalman
Students are challenged to synthesize architectural considerations, from the conceptual to the tangible, in the comprehensive design of a building. The studio project grows from a strong theoretical base into a response to the complexities of program and site. Accessibility, environmental performance, and life safety are addressed. Emphasis is placed on the integration of building systems with envelope and structure. Material selection is guided by both climate and context and is sensitive to resource conservation.
Call Center: Urban Gateways in an
Opportunistic Landscape
Graduate Studio Three ︎ Spring 2020 ︎ San Diego
Instructor: Marcel Sanchez-Prieto
Systemic understanding of architecture is broadened through examination of the architectural object as a microcosm of an ever-expanding context, of a community or city as recycled. Building is introduced as infrastructure and infrastructure as intervention within ecology, land-and urban-scape, site and territory. Studio, twelve hours per week.
Instructor: Marcel Sanchez-Prieto
Systemic understanding of architecture is broadened through examination of the architectural object as a microcosm of an ever-expanding context, of a community or city as recycled. Building is introduced as infrastructure and infrastructure as intervention within ecology, land-and urban-scape, site and territory. Studio, twelve hours per week.
Portraits in Motion
Visualization 4 ︎ Spring 2020 ︎ Los Angeles
Instructor: Ryan Tyler Martinez
Students advance visualization skills through experimentation with shifting representational technologies, including and surpassing digital fabrication tools and innovative softwares (not limited to BIM, Catia, GIS, Grasshopper/Rhino, rendering engines, and/or website production).
Visualization 4 ︎ Spring 2020 ︎ Los Angeles
Instructor: Ryan Tyler Martinez
Students advance visualization skills through experimentation with shifting representational technologies, including and surpassing digital fabrication tools and innovative softwares (not limited to BIM, Catia, GIS, Grasshopper/Rhino, rendering engines, and/or website production).
Animating
OrthographyVisualization
2 ︎ Spring 2020 ︎ Los Angeles
Instructor: Mark Ericson
Architectural representation is composed as spatial enabler and interpreter that establishes and conveys perspective. Engagement occurs through two- and three-dimensional analog and digital hardware and software.
Instructor: Mark Ericson
Architectural representation is composed as spatial enabler and interpreter that establishes and conveys perspective. Engagement occurs through two- and three-dimensional analog and digital hardware and software.
In the Thick of it
Graduate Studio Two ︎ Spring 2020 ︎ Los Angeles
Instructor: Anali Gharakhani
Students are exposed to increasing complexity in architectural space through mining the conceptual organizing logics of design via cumulative exploration of modules and units. Programming, contextual and environmental prompts, regulating principles, circulation and urban networks, and systems of assembly become formative drivers through an investigation of housing (habits, habitats, and inhabitations).
Graduate Studio Two ︎ Spring 2020 ︎ Los Angeles
Instructor: Anali Gharakhani
Students are exposed to increasing complexity in architectural space through mining the conceptual organizing logics of design via cumulative exploration of modules and units. Programming, contextual and environmental prompts, regulating principles, circulation and urban networks, and systems of assembly become formative drivers through an investigation of housing (habits, habitats, and inhabitations).
Envelope
& Image
Visualization 1 ︎ Fall 2019 ︎ Los Angeles
Instructor: Cody Miner
Students are inducted into the cultural and traditional conventions of architectural representation. The course operates as a workshop providing the analog and digital communication standards and making techniques for documenting, drawing, and modeling design ideas.
Visualization 1 ︎ Fall 2019 ︎ Los Angeles
Instructor: Cody Miner
Students are inducted into the cultural and traditional conventions of architectural representation. The course operates as a workshop providing the analog and digital communication standards and making techniques for documenting, drawing, and modeling design ideas.
Off the Wall
Visualization 3 ︎ Fall 2019 ︎ Los Angeles
Instructor: Anali Gharakhani
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.
Visualization 3 ︎ Fall 2019 ︎ Los Angeles
Instructor: Anali Gharakhani
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.
House Studies
Graduate Studio One ︎ Fall 2019 ︎ Los Angeles
Instructor: Heather Flood
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.
Graduate Studio One ︎ Fall 2019 ︎ Los Angeles
Instructor: Heather Flood
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.
International Guest House for MOCA
Graduate Studio Five ︎ Fall 2019 ︎ Los Angeles
Instructor: Ryan Tyler Martinez
Students study a contemporary architectural design topic through a vertical option studio or specialize through the selection of a focus studio. Topics vary and focuses correspond to the post professional tracks.
Graduate Studio Five ︎ Fall 2019 ︎ Los Angeles
Instructor: Ryan Tyler Martinez
Students study a contemporary architectural design topic through a vertical option studio or specialize through the selection of a focus studio. Topics vary and focuses correspond to the post professional tracks.
Meet Me In the Street: Very Long Skinny Street-Buildings,
Building-As-Streets, & Corridor Housing Graduate Studio Three ︎ Fall 2019 ︎ Los Angeles
Instructor: Alex Maymind
The systemic understanding of architecture is broadened through examination of the architectural object as a microcosm of an ever-expanding context, of a community or city as re-cycled. Building is introduced as infrastructure and infrastructure as intervention within ecology, land- and urban-scape, site, and territory.
Instructor: Alex Maymind
The systemic understanding of architecture is broadened through examination of the architectural object as a microcosm of an ever-expanding context, of a community or city as re-cycled. Building is introduced as infrastructure and infrastructure as intervention within ecology, land- and urban-scape, site, and territory.