Archinect - Features 2024-05-06T08:05:22-04:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/149998432/deans-list-qingyun-ma-of-the-university-of-southern-california Deans List: Qingyun Ma of the University of Southern California Nicholas Korody 2017-03-21T12:08:00-04:00 >2022-03-16T09:16:08-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/uf/ufq31xwsdn20sgpo.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p><a href="http://archinect.com/features/article/68561/qingyun-ma-part-i-the-idea-behind-s-p-a-m" target="_blank">Qingyun Ma</a>, Dean of <a href="http://archinect.com/uscarchitecture" target="_blank">the School of Architecture at the University of Southern California</a>, cares more about preserving what&rsquo;s right with the school, now celebrating its 100th year, than his own signature.</p> https://archinect.com/features/article/68561/qingyun-ma-part-i-the-idea-behind-s-p-a-m Qingyun Ma: Part I The Idea Behind s.p.a.m. Ali Jeevanjee 2007-12-10T11:11:00-05:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/a1/a19udj6xbmttqk63.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>At the end of this past July, as we were wrapping up the Summer Exploration program at the&nbsp;<a href="http://arch.usc.edu/" target="_blank">USC School of Architecture</a>&nbsp;, myself and the other faculty had our students bring all of their final models down into the Watt courtyard to photograph them in the sunlight. It was a wonderful conclusion to the four week program as the students could see the work of the other sections and the sum of the final production of the program was out for all to see by the light of day. As we were instructing our students on model photography techniques, Dean Ma arrived and was inquisitively surveying the student&rsquo;s output.</p>