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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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Off The Wall ︎ Visualization 3


ARCH 564
Fall 2019 ︎
Los Angeles

Instructor
 Anali Gharakhani




Work by M.Arch student Cody Carpenter


Graffiti art, although technically illegal, has become a Los Angeles staple since the 1980s. Much of the existing architecture in the city occupy some form of it. Often seen in railroad yards and along the walls of the LA River, “tagging” has gone from low brow visual vandalism to commissioned and well-paid urban murals illustrated by street artists. Today graffiti symbolizes accessible art that defines the city’s expression of multicultural demography. Meanwhile works of graffiti can occupy a multitude of surfaces that are not necessarily indicative of any given city’s native architecture. Generic or specific, any and all, mostly vertical, rigid surfaces are fair game to becoming the host of graffiti. The subject matter of the work, although specific to the artists’ style, color palette, geometric language, use of symbolism, etc. in most cases does not address the location or characteristics of its host. This relationship between the host (architecture) and the parasite (graffiti) will drive our visualization investigation.



Work by M.Arch student Mahzad Changalvaie



Work by M.Arch student Nick Daniel


While artists like Banksy and Shepard Fairey are widely credited by the media for popularizing graffiti art, many of today's most iconic pieces in the graffiti scene are created by women. In this course we examined the notion of de-contextualization and de-familiarization of an iconic figure through two and three-dimensional modes of representation derived from works of graffiti created by female artists. This process involved subjective two-dimensional analysis that will materialize in an empirical three-dimensional manner. Ultimately, we used graffiti as a generative point of departure while considering its many characteristics to arrive at an architectural representation that best encapsulates two and three-dimensionality. At each stage that which is being de-familiarized is assessed and methods are developed to achieve a transformation.







Catalog Description


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.