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USC Schoolhouse of Architecture

Type	Individual
Established	1914[1]
Parent institution	University of Southern California
Academic affiliation	NAAB
Dean	Milton S. F. Curry
Associate Dean	Joon-Ho Choi, Douglas E. Noble
Bookish staff	112[1]
Undergraduates	500[1]
Postgraduates	200[one]
Location	Los Angeles , California , Usa
Campus	Urban
Colors	Cardinal and Aureate
Website	arch.usc.edu

The USC School of Architecture (USCArchitecture) is the architecture schoolhouse at the University of Southern California. Located in Los Angeles, California, it is 1 of the university'due south 20-ii professional person schools, offering both undergraduate and graduate degrees in the fields of architecture, building scientific discipline, landscape architecture and heritage conservation.^[2]

The USC School of Architecture has enrolled over 6,500 alumni and is consistently ranked among the most prestigious architecture schools in the United States. For 2018, the undergraduate program in compages was ranked fifth, and the graduate program in architecture was ranked 9th in the nation by DesignIntelligence.^[three] Since its founding as a department in 1914, the schoolhouse has produced some of the world'south leading architects, including Frank Gehry, Paul R. Williams, Pierre Koenig and Thom Mayne, among others.^[4] The current dean of the school is Milton S. F. Curry and faculty comprises notable architects including Alvin Huang, Wes Jones, Lorcan O'Herlihy and Lawrence Scarpa.^[five]

History [edit]

The program at USC began as an architecture section in 1914. Shortly afterwards, with the assistance of the Allied Architects of Los Angeles, a carve up Schoolhouse of Architecture was established in 1925.^[6] Past 1928, majors and caste-granting programs were provided to students. One of the primeval undergraduate programs was the five-year professional Available of Architecture programme. Over the years, the school grew and expanded its influence into ane of the premier compages programs in the country. The schoolhouse now offers 3 undergraduate degrees, 3 undergraduate minors, 4 master's degrees and 1 Ph.D.

The electric current main buildings are Watt Hall & Harris Hall. Watt Hall was built in 1974 and designed past alumnus Edward Killingsworth ('twoscore).^[7]

USC Compages took over maintenance of the Gamble Firm,^[8] the Craftsman masterpiece in Pasadena designed past Greene and Greene in 1966 in a joint deed with the city of Pasadena, which took over responsibility for the grounds.^[seven] The school also owns the Samuel Freeman Firm, a Frank Lloyd Wright designed business firm in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles built in 1923.^[9] The Freeman firm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.^[ten] The house has too been listed as a California Historical Landmark #1011,^[xi] and equally Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #247 in 1981.^[12] The Freeman house is undergoing long-term stabilization and rehabilitation.

Fields of Study [edit]

Watt Hall houses the Schoolhouse of Architecture too as the Roski School of Fine art and Design

Undergraduate Architecture [edit]

Director: Doris Sung
The undergraduate "B. Arch" is accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board.^[13] The "NAAB" is the sole authority for granting accreditation for professional compages degree programs.

Graduate Compages [edit]

Director: Alvin Huang
The graduate "One thousand. Arch" is accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board.^[14] Equally an accredited professional degree, the M.Curvation provides firm grounding knowledge in history, technology, professional do and theory. The studio is the core setting for students to learn to synthesize the cultural, environmental and tectonic thinking through informed design practice. The separate Master of Advanced Architecture Studies (MAAS) is a mail service-professional caste for those who already have a Bachelor of Architecture caste.

Graduate Heritage Conservation [edit]

Director: Trudi Sandmeier
The graduate heritage conservation curriculum is designed to betrayal students to the full breadth of the profession, including "...materials conservation, policy and planning, conservation theory, global conservation efforts, architectural and landscape history, all-time-practices in resources documentation and evaluation, sustainability, and historic site management."^[fifteen]

Graduate Landscape Architecture + Urbanism [edit]

Director: Alison Hirsch
Mural architecture at USC is a design-centered program centered on a trans-disciplinary arroyo. The Principal of Landscape Compages is accredited by the Mural Architectural Accreditation Board (LAAB).^[16]

Graduate Building Science [edit]

Manager: Kyle Konis, Ph.D., AIA
The Master of Edifice Science (MBS) caste plan was recognized as a "summit-notch plan" by ARCHITECT: Journal of the American Institute of Architects, in 2009.^[17] Edifice science focuses on the human relationship of the man condition and to natural forces. The USC Hunt L. Leavitt Graduate Building Science program emphasizes the breadth of technology in architecture, including structures, building systems, belittling calculating and BIM, building envelopes, pattern theories and methods, human comfort, sustainability, acoustics, lighting and daylighting.

Facilities [edit]

Harris Hall, USC School of Compages

The School of Architecture is located in the Harris Hall and Watt Hall Complex, at the southern end of the USC University Park Campus. The school comprises over l,000 square anxiety (4,600 g^two) of design studios, classrooms, galleries, workshops and labs. Students in the USC School of Compages have their own 24-7 personal workstations. Students have access to their projects at all times. Watt Hall contains i of the best regional architecture libraries, and is home to extensive woodshop and fabrication facilities. The complex also houses several gallery review spaces and, adjacent door, the "USC Fisher Museum of Art".

Kinesthesia [edit]

Many of the kinesthesia members at the School of Architecture are practicing professionals and researchers. The majority of the faculty are active members of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) or the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) and 14 are Fellows of AIA (FAIA).

Notable Faculty:^[eighteen]

• Kim Coleman
• Milton S. F. Back-scratch
• Dion McCarthy
• Manuel De Landa (adjunct)
• Frank Dimster
• Vittoria Di Palma - Ph.D.
• Steven Ehrlich - FAIA
• Diane Ghirardo - Ph.D.
• Alvin Huang - AIA
• Wes Jones - RA, FAAR
• Karen M. Kensek
• Alice Kimm - FAIA
• Qingyun Ma - AIA
• Ralph Mechur
• Amy Murphy - Ph.D.
• Douglas East. Noble - FAIA, Ph.D.
• Lorcan O'Herlihy - FAIA
• Hadrian Predock
• Victor A. Regnier FAIA
• Alexander Robinson - FAAR
• Jose Sanchez
• Trudi Sandmeier
• Lawrence Scarpa - FAIA
• G G Schierle, PhD, FAIA
• Marc Eugene Schiler - FASES, LC
• James Steele - Ph.D.
• Doris Sung
• Paul Tang
• Patrick Tighe - FAIA
• Olivier Touraine
• Wolfgang Wagner
• Ed Woll

Notable Onetime Faculty:

• Gregory Own - Best known for bringing elements of modern architecture to lower and medium-cost housing.
• Joe Osae-Addo
• Reyner Banham
• Craig Ellwood
• A. Quincy Jones - Professor and subsequently Dean of the Schoolhouse of Architecture from 1951-1967. Designed the building which houses the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.
• Mark Rios
• Calvin C. Straub - Professor & Dean, Considered the father of California Post & Beam architecture. Early inventor of Mid-Century modernism with other USC faculty-Case Study Builder.
• Pierre Koenig
• Robert S. Harris - Professor and Dean of the School of Architecture from 1981-1992.
• Ralph Lewis Knowles
• Raymond Loewy - internationally acclaimed industrial designer.
• Richard Neutra - Considered among the about important modernist architects.
• William L. Pereira - Joined kinesthesia in 1949. Notable works include the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco and Geisel Library at UC San Diego. Designed the campus plans of USC, UC Irvine, and Pepperdine University.
• Robert Timme - Professor and Dean of the Schoolhouse of Architecture from 1996-2005.

Notable Former Visiting Faculty:^[19]

• Stan Allen
• Tadao Ando
• Volition Bruder
• Peter Cook
• Steven Ehrelich
• Frank Gehry
• Rem Koolhaas
• Mia Lehrer
• Tony Lumsden
• Michael Maltzan
• Cesar Pelli
• Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa
• Roland Snooks
• Julie Snow
• Ma Yansong

Alumni [edit]

Many of the students that have graduated from the USC School of Architecture have moved on to be leading figures in the architectural community.

• Gregory Own - Attended the Schoolhouse from 1927-1928. Former professor at the USC School of Architecture and Dean of the school of architecture at Pennsylvania Land University.
• Barry Berkus - B. Curvation. Designed more than 600,000 houses.^[20]
• Conrad Buff Iii - Partner in architecture firm Buff, Smith and Hensman
• Boris Dramov - B. Arch, 1966. Notable works include Martin Luther Male monarch, Jr. Memorial and Third Street Promenade.
• Behnaz Farahi - One thousand. Curvation, 2012. Interactive designer and creative technologist.^[21]
• Frank O. Gehry - B. Arch, 1954. Notable works include the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Experience Music Projection, and Dancing Business firm. Pritzker Prize laureate.
• Donald C. Hensman - Partner in architecture firm Vitrify, Smith and Hensman
• Alvin Huang - B.Curvation 1998. Principle in compages business firm Synthesis Design + Architecture.^[22] Acquaintance Professor at the USC School of Architecture.^[23]
• Jon Jerde - B. Arch, 1966. Notable works include Canal City Hakata, Mall of America, Westfield Horton Plaza, and Universal CityWalk in Los Angeles.
• Edward Killingsworth - B. Arch. 1940. Participated in the Case Written report Houses experiment. Master planning architect for California State Academy, Long Beach for over 40 years. Designed Watt Hall and the University Religious Centre at USC.
• Pierre Koenig - B. Arch, 1952.
• William Krisel - B.Arch 1949. noted mid-century modern architect
• Mark Lee - B.Curvation 1991. Partner in compages firm JohnstonMarkLee. Appointed the chair of the section of architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Blueprint in 2018.
• Thom Mayne - B. Arch, 1968. Notable works include the Caltrans District 7 Headquarters and the San Francisco Federal Edifice. Pritzker Prize laureate.
• Albert Nozaki - B. Arch, 1933. Academy-Award nominated art manager for Paramount Pictures. Known for work on The State of war of the Worlds and The 10 Commandments. Career was disrupted when he was interned at Manzanar during World War 2.
• Raphael Soriano - B. Arch, 1934.
• Calvin C. Straub - B. Curvation, 1943.
• Paul Revere Williams - B. Arch, 1934. Designed homes for numerous celebrities including Frank Sinatra, Lucille Ball, and Desi Arnaz. Starting time African American member and Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. Recipient of the 2017 AIA Gold Medal.
• Zelma Wilson - B. Arch, 1947.

References [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b c d} "Architecture | Academics | USC". academics.usc.edu . Retrieved 2021-02-05 .
2. ^ "Academics". USC School of Compages . Retrieved 2021-04-23 .
3. ^ "DesignIntelligence Announces Top Architecture Schools for 2017–2018". ArchDaily . Retrieved 12 March 2018.
4. ^ "USC Architecture Celebrates 100 Years of Innovation & Touch on". USC School of Architecture . Retrieved 2021-04-23 .
5. ^ "Faculty". USC School of Architecture . Retrieved 2021-03-29 .
6. ^ A Split School of Architecture established
7. ^ ^{a b} Allison Engel, In memoriam: Samuel Hurst, 94, USC News, Apr 28, 2015, accessed February vii, 2017.
8. ^ Gamble House celebrates 50 years of the gift to USC and Pasadena
9. ^ Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation article about the Freeman House
10. ^ National Register #71000146
11. ^ California Historical Landmark #1011
12. ^ Los Angeles Celebrated-Cultural Landmark #247
13. ^ Total accreditation renewed for eight years
14. ^ USC Thou.Curvation program receives maximum term of accreditation
15. ^ Principal of Heritage Conservation, Academy of Southern California
16. ^ Master of Landscape Architecture, Academy of Southern California
17. ^ Acme=Notch Program: Master of Building Science, Academy of Southern California
18. ^ "People". USC School of Architecture . Retrieved 2019-01-21 .
19. ^ "Endowed Kinesthesia Positions". USC Schoolhouse of Compages . Retrieved 2019-01-21 .
20. ^ Woo, Elaine (Dec 9, 2012). "Barry Berkus dies at 77; architect of mass-market housing". The Los Angeles Times . Retrieved Oct 21, 2018.
21. ^ "Behnaz Farahi". Behnaz Farahi . Retrieved 2019-01-21 .
22. ^ "SDA | Synthesis Design". synthesis-dna.com . Retrieved 2019-01-xvi .
23. ^ "Alvin Huang". USC School of Architecture . Retrieved 2019-01-16 .

External links [edit]

• Official website

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