USC Architecture Blueprint 2021

BLUE PRINT SP.21 ADMITTED GRADUATE STUDENTS OPEN HOUSE

DEAN’S NOTE

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USC Architecture is a dynamic platform for educating and inspiring citizen architects to analyze problems and create design solutions that both respond to the challenges of our time and embrace the promise of a better built environment. This past year has tightened the focus on architecture’s role in calibrating its responses to climate precarity and social and racial justice.

Our School is committed to utilizing the powerful agency of architecture thinking to make transformative change.

USC Architecture is future-focused, with academic programs in architecture, landscape architecture and urbanism, building systems and technologies, and conservation, with joint degrees and certificates with other schools at USC. Active faculty research occurs in areas of broad interest including housing, landscape justice, performative technologies, city design, density and segregation, gentrification and urban conservation.

USC Architecture is a place of experimentation, risk-taking and leadership. From innovative post-war housing programs and the advent of California Modernism to some of the 20th and 21st century’s most influential works, this vibrant tradition of ambitious and creative thinking is the driving force that propels USC Architecture, encouraging students and faculty to defy constraints and reimagine the possibilities of the field.

Situated in Los Angeles, the School embraces the dynamic urban realm that is enriched by the nation’s most diverse populous and a constellation of cutting-edge arts and cultural institutions. Our academic and research initiatives are global - with active projects in Asia, Latin America and California’s Central Valley and Border regions.

At USC Architecture, we value the diversity of our students, faculty, staff and alumni. Your individual perspective and the collective culture of our students propels new questions and the production of new knowledge. We hope that you will choose to join this beloved community, becoming the newest cohort of citizen architects, designers and scholars!

Milton S. F. Curry Dean Della & Harry MacDonald Dean’s Chair in Architecture

SCHEDULE MAR. 26, 2021

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5:00–5:05 PM PT WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION OF PROGRAM DIRECTORS

Milton S. F. Curry Dean, Della & Harry MacDonald Dean’s Chair in Architecture 5:05-5:45 PM PT DISCOURSE WITH THE DIRECTORS

Justice, Dignity and Equity in Architecture, Landscape, Heritage Conservation and Building Science

Alvin Huang, AIA; Alison Hirsch, Ph.D., FAAR; Trudi Sandmeier; Doug Noble, Ph.D.; moderated

by Dean Milton Curry 5:45-6:00 PM PT

STUDENT LIFE PANEL Graduate Student Ambassadors

6:15-7:45 PM PT

PROGRAM SESSIONS

ALVIN HUANG, AIA Director of Graduate & Post-Professional Architecture Programs

DOUGLAS NOBLE, PH.D, FAIA Director of the Chase L. Leavitt Graduate Program of Building Science

TRUDI SANDMEIER Director of Graduate Programs in Heritage Conservation

SC H ED U LE

ALISON HIRSCH, PH.D., FAAR Director of Landscape Architecture + Urbanism

PROGRAM DIRE

ALVIN HUANG AIA, NOMA

ALISON HIRSCH Ph.D., FAAR

DIRECTOR, GRADUATE & POSTPROFESSIONAL ARCHITECTURE PROGRAMS

DIRECTOR, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE + URBANISM alisonh@usc.edu

alvinhua@usc.edu A USC Architecture alumnus and the founder and design principal of Synthesis Design + Architecture, Huang joined the USC Architecture faculty in 2011. He is an award-winning architect, designer, and educator specializing in the integrated application of material performance, emergent design technologies, and digital fabrication in contemporary architectural practice. His work spans all scales ranging from high-rise towers and mixed-used developments to temporary pavilions and bespoke furnishings. He received his M.Arch from the Architectural Association and his B.Arch from USC.

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Alison B. Hirsch, FAAR, is a landscape theorist, designer, and historian. Her design and written work focus on how understanding cultural practices, social histories and memories can contribute to the design of meaningful places.

She has recently immersed herself in work on the production landscapes of California’s Great Central Valley, focused most particularly on the San Joaquin Valley as a landscape of extremes that embodies the most pressing (socio) environmental questions of our day, particularly as they pertain to global food production.

She was awarded a Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Research and Development Grant in 2019 and the Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) Fellowship for Innovation and Leadership (2020-2021). Hirsch is also currently working on a book, The Performative Landscape, which emphasizes sociocultural dynamics as catalysts of physical design.

ECTORS DOUG NOBLE PH.D., FAIA

TRUDI SANDMEIER

DIRECTOR, BUILDING SCIENCE

DIRECTOR, HERITAGE CONSERVATION

dnoble@usc.edu

sandmeie@usc.edu

Doug Noble is a co-founder of the Facade Tectonics Institute, established in 2007 as a university-based research and education organization hosting conferences and publishing research focusing on building facade technology.

He also founded the CLIPPER Lab at USC with Karen Kensek in 1991 to support research about computers in architecture and design.

With Kensek, he conducted early computer-based architecture design studio experiments.

Noble is passionate about supporting emerging professionals and academics and created, with Kensek, the “NotLY: Not Licensed Yet” support system for individuals preparing for the Architect Registration Exam (ARE). He is a graduate of the doctoral program in Design Theories and Methods (DTM) in the Department of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley.

From 2000-2011, Trudi Sandmeier worked for the Los Angeles Conservancy, the largest local historic preservation nonprofit in the U.S., holding the titles of Preservation Advocate, Broadway Initiative Coordinator and Director of Education. She co-founded and currently serves as president of the nonprofit Will Rogers Ranch Foundation, an organization dedicated to the ongoing resto-ration, rehabilitation, and preservation of Will Rogers State Historic Park. In addition, she serves as secretary of the Docomomo Southern California chapter, a board member of the Historic Preservation Education Foundation, a member of the re:code LA – Zoning Advisory Committee - Historic Preservation Working Group (Planning, City of Los Angeles), and as part of the Education Committee of the California Preservation Foun-dation. Sandmeier holds a B.A. in History from the University of California, Los Angeles and an M.A. in Historic Preservation Planning from Cornell University.

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STUDENT LEADERS

STUDENT

ORGANIZATIONS AIAS

The AIAS organization serves as a resource arm for the students of USC at the School of Architecture. The American Institute of Architecture students is the national coalition of students and is based on campuses nationwide. This organization provides the support and resources for the integration of students with their professional counterparts through events planned by the board.

A SLA

USC ASLA is the USC student chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects. The organization hosts a series of workshops and professional networking events throughout the year and encourages collaboration across disciplines. The student leaders are dedicated to fostering communication and advancing student development and opportunities within the School of Architecture and reaching our networks across the greater Los Angeles region. We hope to be a strong resource for students entering the program and are available to answer any questions on being new to the city and/or being an advocate for landscape architecture practice.

G A SA

The Graduate Architecture Student Association is an organization comprised and representative of the USC School of Architecture graduate student body. The purpose of this organization is to explore and promote academic and career issues related to the field of architecture. We represent the concerns and needs of all of the graduate student body by providing interdisciplinary exchanges, and provide insight of special interests to its students. Our goal is also to help create memories and connections that will make your time here at USC memorable by working to improve all aspects of the graduate student experience.

NOMAS

The National Organization of Minority Architecture Students (NOMAS) Chapter at the University of Southern California strives to enhance the USC Architecture community by promoting the cultural backgrounds and experiences of our minority students. We do this through events and activities that benefit all students and faculty members as well as the community that we live in.

S AWA- US C

The Student Association of Women Architects is dedicated to the advancement and support of women in the field of architecture.

SAWA-USC encourages and fosters high levels of women’s achievement in design through conversation, networking, mentorship, scholarship, and more. SAWA-USC cultivates awareness of the value of equality in the workplace. SAWA-USC fosters an empowering environment for women and provides students the opportunity to learn from women faculty, alumni, and professionals practicing in the field of architecture.

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STUDENT

LEADERS

VICKY DAM

Los Angeles, CA AIAS, Grad VP Guild, Student Representative M.Arch +2, Second Year; MBS, First Year damv@usc.edu

JARED EDGAR MCKNIGHT

Undergraduate school/major: B.A. in Architecture, UC Berkeley Favorite LA / USC moment: Working on the USC Precast Project CARAPACE and camping with my classmates at Joshua Tree.

ASLA President MLA+U +2, Second Year jemcknig@usc.edu

Undergraduate school/major: M.Arch, University of Pennsylvania B.Arch, Pennsylvania State University Favorite LA / USC moment: Engaging in meaningful research and design work through the MLA+U program’s Landscape Justice Initiative, including designing and building a community garden with my classmates at Rio de Los Angeles State Park as part of our Fall 2020 studio.

SHAY MIRZAEI

Undergraduate school/major: B.A. in Psychology, UC Santa Barbara

Pittsburgh/ Philadelphia, PA

Shiraz, Iran

GASA President M.Arch +3, Second Year shadanmi@usc.edu

JAMEEL MARSDEN

The Bronx, New York City/ Dallas, TX NOMAS President M.Arch +2, First Year jamarsde@usc.edu

Favorite LA / USC moment: Walking around campus on Game Day!

Undergraduate school/major: B.S. in Architecture, Texas Tech University Favorite LA / USC moment: So far, I have enjoyed exploring LA on my own throughout this virtual experience outside or through hiking trails.

TISHYA RAO

Undergraduate school/major: B.S. Urban and Regional Studies, Cornell University

SAWA, Graduate Representative M.Arch +3, First Year trrao@usc.edu

Favorite LA / USC moment: Having my first boba tea during a visit to LA approximately seven years ago… and I’ve been hooked on it ever since! Looking forward to creating many more USC/LA memories once I finally arrive on campus later this year.

Dubai, UAE

S TU DENT ORG ANI ZAT I O N S + ST UDE N T L E A DE RS

FACULTY

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BLUEPRIN T

FIRST SEMESTER CLASSES

FACULTY + FIRST

SEMESTER CLASSES**

M. ARCH — M. AAS

DIRECTOR.............................................................. ALVIN HUANG, AIA, NOMA ASSOC. DIRECTOR................................................... SELWYN TING

M.ARCH +3 COURSE #

COURSE TITLE

FACULTY

409* DESIGN FOUNDATION.............................................. Alvin Huang, AIA, NOMA

Wes Jones, FAAR

410* COMPUTER TRANSFORMATIONS................................ Brendan Shea 505a GRADUATE ARCHITECTURE

DESIGN I — PRINCIPLES.......................................... Eric Haas, FAIA*

Emily Mohr 514a

GLOBAL HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE.......................... Vittoria Di Palma, Ph.D.

562

ARCHITECTURE THEMES AND CASE STUDIES............... Faiza Moatasim, Ph.D.

564

DESCRIPTIVE AND COMPUTATIONAL ARCHITECTURAL GEOMETRY..................................... Vinayak Bharne

M.ARCH +2 410*

COMPUTER TRANSFORMATIONS................................ Erin Cuevas

511

BUILDING SYSTEMS: MATERIALS AND CONSTRUCTION.............................. Tigran Ayrapetyan

562

ARCHITECTURE THEMES AND CASE STUDIES............... Faiza Moatasim, Ph.D.

564

DESCRIPTIVE AND COMPUTATIONAL ARCHITECTURAL GEOMETRY..................................... Yaohua Wang

605aL GRADUATE ARCHITECTURE

DESIGN II — INTEGRATION....................................... Wes Jones, FAAR*

Mary Casper

Victoria Coaloa

John Mutlow, FAIA

Selwyn Ting

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M.AAS PP COURSE #

COURSE TITLE

606

ADVANCED ARCHITECTURAL THEORY......................... Alex Maymind

607

ADVANCED COMPUTATION....................................... Brendan Shea

608

URBAN THEORY: LOS ANGELES CASE STUDY....................................... Gary Paige

609

ADVANCED FABRICATION......................................... Scott Mitchell

702L

ADVANCED GRADUATE ARCHITECTURE DESIGN- THEMES.............................. Wes Jones, FAAR

* Coordinator ** Curricula for the 2020–2021 academic year

FAC ULT Y + FI RST SEM E ST E R C L A SSE S

FACULTY

FACULTY + FIRST

SEMESTER CLASSES** CONT’D

MLA+U

DIRECTOR.............................................................. ALISON HIRSCH, PH.D., FAAR ASST DIRECTOR...................................................... ESTHER MARGULIES, ASLA

MLA +3 COURSE #

COURSE TITLE

FACULTY

439

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MEDIA WORKSHOP.......... Aroussiak Gabrielian, Ph.D

531

THE NATURAL LANDSCAPE....................................... Isaac Brown

539L

MEDIA FOR LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE..................... Aroussiak Gabrielian, Ph.D

541aL

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE DESIGN.......................... Alex Robinson, FAAR

565

GLOBAL HISTORY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE........ Alison Hirsch, Ph.D., FAAR

MLA ADVANCED PLACEMENT 439

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MEDIA WORKSHOP.......... Aroussiak Gabrielian, Ph.D.

531

THE NATURAL LANDSCAPE....................................... Isaac Brown

542aL

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE DESIGN.......................... Jessica Henson

565

GLOBAL HISTORY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE..................................... Alison Hirsch, Ph.D., FAAR

SSCI 572

GIS AND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE......................... Lei Lei Duan

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MBS

DIRECTOR.............................................................. DOUG NOBLE, PH.D., FAIA MBS COURSE #

COURSE TITLE

FACULTY

511L

BUILDING SYSTEMS: MATERIALS & CONSTRUCTION................................... Tigran Ayrapetyan

513L

SEMINAR: ADVANCED STRUCTURES........................... TBD

515L

SEMINAR: ADVANCED ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS....................................... Joon-Ho Choi, PH.D.

596

BUILDING SCIENCE THESIS PREPARATION................... Karen Kensek

MHC DIRECTOR.............................................................. TRUDI SANDMEIER MHC 549

FUNDAMENTALS OF HERITAGE CONSERVATION........... Jay Platt

552

INTRODUCTION TO HISTORIC SITE DOCUMENTATION............................................. Kathryn Horak

553

HISTORY OF AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE & URBANISM.................................... Ken Breisch, Ph.D.

556

READINGS IN HERITAGE CONSERVATION THEORY........ Trudi Sandmeier

557

SUSTAINABLE CONSERVATION OF THE HISTORIC BUILT ENVIRONMENT.......................... John D. Lesak

558

FUNDAMENTALS OF PLACE-MAKING.......................... Vinayak Bharne

* Coordinator ** Curricula for the 2020–2021 academic year

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DIGITAL FABRICATION

MACHINES LASER CUT TER

PLS 6150 Material Dimensions 18 x 32" Materials Paper, Plastic, Wood

QTY: 3 3D PRINTERS

UPRINT SE PLUS Bed Dimensions 8 x 8 x 6” Compatible Materials ABS

QTY: 4 POJET 660 PRO Bed Dimensions 15 x 10 x 8" Compatible Materials Powder

OBJET3P0 RIME Bed Dimensions 11.57 x 7.55 x 5.85" Compatible Materials PolyJet

SOLIDSCAPE MAX2 Bed Dimensions: 6" x 6" x 4" Compatible Materials: Wax

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CNC ROUTERS

TECHNO LC Bed Dimensions 4 x 8' Materials Wood, Plastic , Foam

HAAS DM-1 Compatible Materials Metal

ROBOTICS

KR 6 R900 SIXX (KR AGILUS)

KUKA KR120

MAKERBOT DIGITIZER

MICROSCRIBE G2

MISC.

DIWIRE R ES O URCES

USC AFA

LIBRARY

STACY R. WILLIAMS Head Helen Topping Architecture & Fine Arts Library (AFA) 213.740.8646 stacyw@usc.edu

AFA CIRCULATION DESK: 213.740.1956

FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE AFA LIBRARY AT: https://libraries.usc.edu/locations/architecture-and-fine-arts-library

@uscafalibrary

LIST OF ARCHITECTURE DATABASES: http://libguides.usc.edu/az.php?t=12140 A good place to start for finding relevant articles from a variety of academic sources, as well as images from ArtStor: https://library-artstor-org.libproxy2.usc.edu/#/ and the USC Digital Library: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu.

AVERY INDEX TO ARCHITECTURAL PERIODICALS: http://libguides.usc.edu/go.php?c=9232384 A comprehensive American index to the literature of architecture and architectural design. It covers international scholarly, popular periodical literature, publications of professional associations, and major serial publications in the architecture and design of Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Australia.

BuildingGreen provides reliable content on sustainable design strategies, green building materials, and case studies of high performance buildings. It is It includes a searchable green building product database, as well as news articles and updates on sustainable design. http://libguides.usc.edu/go.php?c=9233797

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BLUE PRINT SP.21

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ADMITTED GRADUATE STUDENTS OPEN HOUSE

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