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Get Lectured: Woodbury University, Fall '23

2023-09-08T12:42:00-04:00

As schools of architecture come back into session, Archinect's Get Lectured series continues with a look at the public programs taking place this Fall semester at Woodbury University's School of Architecture.

Events begin on Friday, September 15, in the school’s Wedge Gallery with a lecture from ceramicists Claudia V. Solórzano and Courtney Cho. On September 19, UCLA doctoral candidate Alexa Vaughn will deliver the lecture ‘DeafScape / Design with Disabled People Now’ at 6pm in the Ahmanson Main Space. She will be followed by Kevin Sherrod’s ‘Color Commentary’ lecture at 7 p.m on October 20. Sherrod will be joined by DeMar Matthews and Sean Joyner on the same day for a discussion that takes place in Ahmanson an hour before.

GINAA founding principal Regina Teng and filmmaker/architect Sara Suarez of Day/Dream will present their lecture ‘Atmospheric Optics’ on Friday, November 17, preceded by a discussion with Woodbury faculty member Erin Wright. Joshua Stein will end the semester wi...

Heather Flood appointed Dean of Woodbury’s School of Architecture

2022-12-16T11:22:00-05:00

Heather Flood has been appointed Dean of the School of Architecture at Woodbury University. Described by the institution as an “inspiring leader and designer, as well as a passionate advocate of design education,” Flood’s appointment is effective as of December 1, 2022.

“I’m grateful to be part of a School that embraces change, difference, and choice,” Flood said regarding her appointment. “The exceptional faculty, administrators, and staff at Woodbury School of Architecture instill excellence while cultivating independence empowering students to think and make the world as it should be.”

Flood has served as the Interim Dean of Woodbury's School of Architecture since the Fall of 2021. According to the institution, Flood developed a “strong workplace culture” during her time as Interim Dean, bringing a “positive attitude, unparalleled professionalism, clear commun...

Woodbury University's Interior Design program receives prestigious $75,000 Donghia Foundation grant

2022-08-17T11:45:00-04:00

The Interior Design program at Woodbury University's School of Architecture has been awarded a $75,000 grant from the Angelo Donghia Foundation.

The Angelo Donghia Foundation is part of the renowned home furnishings company Donghia Inc., founded by the late American interior designer Angelo Donghia. The award will be used over the course of three years for a Senior Studio program for Interior Design students and help fund "fieldwork study expenses," allowing students to gain hands-on experience during their final year of study.

Materiality of Things. Student work by Woodbury University Interior Design student Anna Grubinski Ossyra.

"One of the promises of fieldwork is the potential to expand learning beyond the academic environment, synthesizing many types and modalities of education, and providing an active relationship between knowledge acquisition and knowledge content," shared Professor Heather Peterson, who will lead the grant and was also the writer of the grant proposal.

The...

Get Lectured: Woodbury University, Spring '22

2022-02-15T23:41:00-05:00

Architecture schools continue to showcase upcoming lecture and event programming for the 2022 Spring season. For this iteration of Archinect's Get Lectured Spring 2022 focus, Woodbury University School of Architecture has an exciting line-up of guest lecturers. Woodbury explains, "for the past several years, we have chosen an annual social justice-focused topic. Two years ago, the theme was Housing. Last year, we investigated the theme of Climate Justice. This year, the theme is Intelligence."

See the Pen WSOA Spring 22 by WSOA (@otis_web) on CodePen.

"The 'poster' was designed by Masato and Karen Nakada of Tokyo- and Los Angeles-based Happening Studio, who also designed our Fall poster. It was created utilizing basic web coding (HTML & CSS) as a design tool to generate a series of posters. The series poster, along with a series of individual event posters, is hosted by an open-source web editing platform as a way to share and be re-designed by anyone, capturing the ethos ...

Woodbury School of Architecture to launch three new programs in Fall 2022

2021-11-12T17:26:00-05:00

This post is brought to you by Woodbury School of Architecture

Woodbury School of Architecture is accepting applications for three new degree programs set to launch in Fall 2022: Bachelor of Science in Construction Management, Bachelor of Arts in Sustainable Practices, and Bachelor of Science in Design Computation.

The Bachelor of Science in Construction Management program teaches students to transform the built environment by building sustainably. Students will integrate design, technology, and business analytics with sustainability and the liberal arts, using hands-on, studio-based learning. Coursework will explore human-centered design principles; how to apply business models, ranging from organizational management to strategic thinking to construction management; and investigations in Building Information Modeling (BIM) coupled with other construction-related technologies.

The Bachelor of Arts in Sustainable Practices program takes an interdisciplinary approach, combining knowle...

Ingalill Wahlroos-Ritter announces her leave as Woodbury School of Architecture Dean

2021-10-18T15:06:00-04:00

Editor's Note: Details of this article have been updated as of October 20, 2021

After five years as the Dean of Woodbury School of Architecture, architect and academic Ingalill Wahlroos-Ritter announced this Monday morning that she will leave her position. Wahlroos-Ritter's appointment as Dean began on June 1, 2017. Since then, she has acted as a force in elevating the program and carry on with its mission to prepare students for careers in architecture.

Along with her experience as a practicing architect and facades specialist, she has also taught at other architecture institutions like SCI-Arc, Yale, Cornell, and the Bartlett. Wahlroos-Ritter joined Woodbury's faculty in 2005. Before her appointment as Dean, she has held several teaching and administrative roles, including Undergraduate and Graduate Architecture Chair and Associate Dean. In addition, Wahlroos-Ritter is the creator and director of the WUHO gallery in Hollywood, has launched graduate programs in architecture and la...

WUHO's new video exhibition explores recent work of Studio Fuksas

2017-09-30T13:46:00-04:00

Next Saturday, October 7 Woodbury University Hollywood Outpost will launch its second show of the Fall 2017 series. In line with the gallery's ambition to "demystify the discipline of architecture", the exhibition will present five videos that document the most recent and iconic projects of Studio Fuksas, a dynamic duo Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas based in Rome, Italy.

Studio Fuksas will stay on view through Sunday, October 29, 2017. Gallery hours: Thursdays 1:00–8:00 p.m.; Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays 1:00–6:00 p.m.

Get Lectured: Woodbury University, Fall '17

2017-09-14T14:16:00-04:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Fall 2017

Ready or not, it's the start of a new school year. Back for Fall 2017 is Archinect's Get Lectured, an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back regularly to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

The Woodbury University School of Architecture's Fall '17 lecture series is “Emerging Practices”, which brings together rising practitioners, theorist, venture incubators, and strategic designers who explore “divergent ideas to reorient the profession to more integral and interdisciplinary roles”.

LOS ANGELES - BURBANK CAMPUS: 7500 N Glenoaks Blvd, Burbank, CA 91504

Sept 5
Kevin Bethune & Lamer Walker / BCG Digital Ventures

Sept 26
Ana Herruzo / Woodbury School of Media, Culture & Design

Oct 3
Edwin Chan / EC3 Archit...

Ingalill Wahlroos-Ritter appointed as Dean of Woodbury University's School of Architecture

2017-05-31T13:46:00-04:00

Woodbury University has named Ingalill Wahlroos-Ritter, AIA, Dean of the School of Architecture. Her appointment is effective June 1st, 2017. [...] Prior to Woodbury, Wahlroos-Ritter taught at Yale University, Cornell University, UCL Bartlett School of Architecture, and SCI-Arc. Wahlroos-Ritter is also Director of WUHO, a venue for exhibitions, installations, and public dialogue. She [...] is now serving as Director on the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design Advisory Board

“Our school is a role model for the direction in which the profession is heading – improving economic, gender, and ethnic diversity among its members, and reaffirming the importance of ethical conduct and social responsibility,” Wahlroos-Ritter said in a statement, “and I am inspired every day by our students, by my colleagues who are a splendid collection of critical thinkers and distinguished practitioners, by the optimism that infuses our School, and by our shared belief in the power of design to address urgent, contemporary issues. I look forward to working with faculty to cultivate and strengthen our student’s unique design voice that is equally committed to professional practice, theoretical discourse, social equity, and to formal and technological inquiry.”

Architecture students at 17 schools will get licensed quicker with help from NCARB's new licensure program, IPAL

2016-12-13T19:36:00-05:00

The recently introduced IPAL, or Integrated Path to Architectural Licensure, promises to streamline the architectural licensure process for students at 17 universities and colleges by incorporating the Architectural Experience Program into the curriculum. Licensure, which is required by a majority of the fifty states and governing agencies in Canada, usually takes a few years of intense study and rigorous examinations after one's initial formal education is complete to attain. Initiated by NCARB, the in-school program will enable students to also take the ARE. Here's a full transcript of the press release:

Friends,The road to licensure for architects is getting shorter and shorter, thanks to a recent initiative spearheaded by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB).

The Integrated Path to Architectural Licensure (IPAL) provides students the opportunity to complete requirements for licensure while they are still earning their degree. Through the initiative, sc...

Woodbury Dean Norman Millar has passed away

2016-04-21T13:11:00-04:00

School of Architecture Dean Norman Millar, who previously taught at SCI-Arc, UCLA, Pasadena Art Center and was active on both the San Diego and Los Angeles campuses of Woodbury, succumbed to pancreatic cancer on April 14. He was 62 years old. Named "Educator of the Year" in 2014 by the AIA|LA and elected as President of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) in 2012, Millar's legacy extended not only to his pragmatic pedagogy, but his dedication to fostering a culture of warmth and joy among his students. According to a statement released by Woodbury, he once said that “I exited architecture school with the intention of making good buildings, and discovered that teaching expanded my passion by fostering it in students."

The head of the Woodbury architecture program since 1999, Dean Millar saw enrollment in the program triple during his watch. According to a 2013 discussion with Scott Johnson, as a child Millar initially wanted to become an orthopedic surgeon, ...

Get Lectured: Woodbury University, Spring '16

2016-01-05T13:49:00-05:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Winter/Spring 2016

Archinect's Get Lectured is back in session. Get Lectured is an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back frequently to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

The next featured poster comes from the Woodbury University, School of Architecture with their eye-popping poster for Spring 2016.

Listed below are upcoming events. Free and open to the public.

LOS ANGELES/BURBANK CAMPUS - All lectures start at 6:30 p.m. in the Ahmanson Main Space.

Jan 12
Kiel Moe / Harvard Graduate School of Design

Jan 26
T. Kelly Wilson / Indiana University, Bloomington

Feb 16
The Drawing Symposium: Heather Peterson, Gerard Smulevich, Heather Flood, Mark Ericson

March 22
Cathrine Veikos / California College of the Arts

April 5
David Giss...

Woodbury University launches new Masters of Landscape Architecture program in San Diego

2015-10-28T18:01:00-04:00

Woodbury University is expanding its architecture masters programs by adding a new MLA at its Barrio Logan campus in San Diego, beginning fall of 2016. The MLA will begin alongside another new program on the campus, a Masters of Interior Architecture.

With locations in San Diego, Los Angeles and Burbank, Woodbury is fully embedded within naturally dry (and currently drought-suffering) landscapes. Within this context, the final year of the MLA program will have students working with the Arid Lands Institute, a design-centered research organization associated with Woodbury that's devoted to developing sustainable solutions to the unreliable future of water as wrought by climate change. (ALI co-founders Charles and Hadley Arnold also served as jurors in Archinect's Dry Futures competition.)

"With a landscape architecture program at the graduate level," says Jose Parral, Associate Professor at Woodbury in San Diego, "we can bring a unique community together within the Southern California/...

Get Lectured: Woodbury University, Fall '15

2015-09-25T14:00:00-04:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Fall 2015

Archinect's Get Lectured is ready for another school year. Get Lectured is an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back frequently to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Our next featured poster comes from the Woodbury University, School of Architecture.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Listed below are upcoming events. Free and open to the public.

Los Angeles campus - All lectures start at 6:30 p.m. in the Ahmanson Main Space.

Sept 29
Patricia Rhee / Partner, Ehrlich Architects

Nov 10
Lois Weinthal / Chair, Ryerson School of Interior Design

San Diego campus - All lectures start at 6:30 p.m. in the Main Lecture Space.

Sept 29
Minsuk Cho / Mass Studies

Oct 16
James Timberlake / Partner at KieranTimberlake

Nov 3
Jimenez Lai / Bureau Spectacular

EXHIBITION...

Work-life balance: how one architect collaborates with his teenage son

2015-07-17T08:12:00-04:00

Sometimes, the inspiration for a single design element can be hard to pin down. Other times, it’s coming straight out of your hammy fourteen year-old kid. This is something of a regular occurrence for Hector M. Perez, a San Diego-based architect who often collaborates with his son Adrian on projects for his own firm, De-Arc.

For a small mix-use project in downtown San Diego, La Esquina (pictured above), Perez had planned identical entryways for seven lofts, until his son intervened. Worrying that tenants might come home discombobulated from a night on the town and try to enter the wrong doorway, Adrian suggested marking each entryway with its own distinct color. Hector happily accepted the critique, and adapted it into the design. A short film made by Breadtruck Films captures Adrian's sage delivery to his father, "You're not doing it right!":

Hector M. Perez // Designer from BREADTRUCK FILMS on Vimeo.

Hector himself comments in the film on the very conscious involvement of his son in ...

Hélène Binet celebrates first U.S. exhibit at WUHO with the 2015 Julius Shulman Institute Photography Award

2015-03-03T14:14:00-05:00

The WUHO Gallery in Hollywood was abuzz on the opening night of “Hélène Binet: Fragments of Light” this past Saturday, in celebration of Binet as the 2015 recipient of the Julius Shulman Institute Excellence in Photography Award. Co-curated by JSI Managing Director Emily Bills and Binet, “Fragments of Light” is the photographer’s first U.S. exhibition featuring around 20 photos out of her vast body of work from 25 years of working in the field.

Treating light as if it were a building material, Binet’s signature style renders the buildings of architects like Peter Zumthor, Zaha Hadid, and Le Corbusier into black and white atmospheric compositions of light, shadow, and sharp details that Binet masterfully captures all through a film camera.

The crowd slowly trickled into the narrow but long gallery space, which was soon full of friends, associates, Woodbury architecture students and alumni, and photography and arts enthusiasts chattering away over light refreshments.

Notable attendees in...

Get Lectured: Woodbury, Fall '14

2014-10-09T13:20:00-04:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Fall 2014

Say hello to another edition of Archinect's Get Lectured, where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. If you're not doing so already, be sure to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Today's poster comes from the Woodbury University School of Architecture in Burbank and San Diego, CA.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

All events free and open to the public. Unless noted, Burbank/Los Angeles events take place at the Ahmanson Main Space, and San Diego events take place in The Showroom on campus. Below are upcoming events and select special events only.

LOS ANGELES

Oct. 14
7 p.m.
Felipe Mesa / Plan B
"Permeability"

Oct. 21
6:30 p.m.
Joe Day / Deegan Day Design
"Corrections and Collections"

Nov. 18
6:30 p.m.
Dan Wood / Work Architecture Company
"Diplomatic Immunity"

WUHO Gallery:

Oct. 5 - ...

Grant Mudford to receive 2014 Julius Shulman Institute Excellence in Photography Award

2014-03-18T21:51:00-04:00

Grant Mudford has been named the 2014 recipient of the Julius Shulman Institute Excellence in Photography Award. The award highlights an early or mid-career artist who embodies the legacy of architectural photographer Julius Shulman and the Institute's mission to challenge the perception of physical space.

Mudford will receive the award on April 3 at the WUHO Gallery from 6-8 pm. Accompanying the award reception will be the opening of the Grant Mudford: Building exhibition, running from April 3-27.

"Since the mid-1960s, Grant Mudford has investigated the urban landscape in photographs known for their clarity, conceptual acumen and sly humor. After studying architecture at the University of New South Wales, the Australian-born artist established himself as a cogent observer of Sydney and London's social and architectural scenes. With his move to Los Angeles in the mid-1970s, he found his ideal subject in a city founded on quirky details, anxious expediency and stylistic incongruence."

Find out more on Bustler

Worlds of Cityvision coming to Los Angeles this March

2014-02-05T15:50:00-05:00

Most readers may be very familiar with Italian architecture lab Cityvision for its thought-provoking architectural ideas competitions [...]. Now Cityvision goes traveling and pitches its tent in Los Angeles this March. For the first time abroad, the exhibition Worlds of Cityvision will be on display at Woodbury University's WUHO Gallery from March 6-23.

Worlds of Cityvisions will also see the launch of the new international competition Evolution: the architecture of future mankind, about the future of Beijing featuring a special jury panel comprised of Sou Fujimoto, Greg Lynn, Sanford Kwinter, Eric de Broche des Combes and Ai Weiwei.

Get Lectured: Woodbury, Spring '14

2014-02-03T15:43:00-05:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Winter/Spring 2014

Archinect's Get Lectured is up and running again for the Winter/Spring '14 term! As a refresher from our Fall 2013 guide, every week we'll feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current season. Be sure to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Today's featured poster is from the Woodbury University School of Architecture. Woodbury Architecture will be hosting events throughout the Spring semester in their Burbank (Los Angeles) and San Diego campuses.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

All lectures and openings are free and open to the public. All lectures begin at 6:30 pm unless noted. Listed below are upcoming lectures only. Note each event's location.
Woodbury University, Los Angeles-Burbank:
Fletcher Jones Auditorium, Ahmanson Main Space,
7500 Glenoaks Boulevard Burbank, CA 91504

Wo...

WUHO Gallery Kickstarts fund for the first Deborah Sussman retrospective

2013-11-07T13:23:00-05:00

Love Deborah Sussman? Woodbury University's WUHO Gallery in Los Angeles began the "Deborah Sussman Loves LA!" Kickstarter on Oct. 25 with a goal to host the first retrospective dedicated to the iconic graphic designer this December. Funding will mainly support installation of the exhibition as well as the creation of a poster and a panel discussion.

Here's a description of the exhibition:

"This December 2013, Woodbury University’s WUHO Gallery will host an exhibition dedicated to the groundbreaking environmental graphic design of Deborah Sussman. This will be the first retrospective of her early work, including projects completed while she was at the Eames Office up to the 1984 Olympics. This will be a month-long celebration that will include a panel discussion, gallery exhibition, and poster publication. The exhibition is curated and organized by Catherine Gudis, Barbara Bestor, Thomas Kracauer, and Shannon Starkey."

"From her years with the Eames Studio in the 1950s and 1960s, her pa...

Get Lectured: Woodbury Fall '13

2013-10-09T18:32:00-04:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Fall 2013

Here on Archinect we recently launched "Get Lectured", where we'll feature a school's lecture series--along with their snazzy posters--for the current season. Check back regularly to stay up-to-date and mark your calendars for any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Our midweek lecture poster is from Woodbury University School of Architecture.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Below are lecture events only at the Los Angeles-Burbank and San Diego campuses. All events are free and open to the public. Note each lecture's location.

Woodbury Los Angeles-Burbank
Fletcher Jones Auditorium, Ahmanson Main Space: 7500 Glenoaks Blvd, Burbank, CA 91510

Woodbury San Diego
2212 Main Street, San Diego, CA 92113

SEPTEMBER

September 20
6:30 pm
Joseph Redwood-Martinez
Necessary Incompleteness Project - Collaborative lecture with U...

“Beyond the Assignment” public panel discussion and exhibition opening

2013-09-24T15:14:00-04:00

Make your way to the upcoming "Beyond the Assignment: Defining Photographs of Architecture and Design" panel discussion and exhibition opening on Saturday, Oct. 5 at the LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) and WUHO Gallery (Woodbury University Hollywood Gallery) in Los Angeles.

The Woodbury School of Architecture/Julius Shulman Institute will be presenting this free public panel discussing and exploring the relationship between photographer+architect as well as photographer+media in the past, present, and the future.

For a headstart on the topic, you can read the Archinect feature here. (Be on the lookout for Part 2 of the feature after the event!)

The Panelists: Bilyana Dimitrova - Moderator / Photographer, Curator of "Beyond the Assignment" exhibition; Sarah Amelar - Contributing Editor, Architectural Record magazine; Alan Karchmer - Photographer; John Ruble - Moore Ruble Yudell Architects; Paul Warchol - Photographer; and last but not least, Alexander Walter - Edi...

Join Archinect in Hollywood this Thursday for "Publish Or... bracket [GOES SOFT]"

2012-04-16T18:02:00-04:00

Archinect and Woodbury School of Architecture are proud to present:

Publish Or... bracket [GOES SOFT]
Thursday, April 19
6:00 p.m.

Sonic landscape by Health and Beauty.

WUHO Gallery
6518 Hollywood Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90028 (map)

Come say hello, mingle, and check out selected entries from bracket [goes soft]. Including work by Woodbury School of Architecture faculty member Ewan Branda.
Limited edition zine-syle [goes-soft] take-aways. First come, first serve.

Bracket [goes soft] examines the use and implications of soft today—from the scale of material innovation to territorial networks. While the projects in Bracket 2 are diverse in deployment and issues they engage, they share several key characteristics—proposing systems, networks and technologies that are responsive, adaptable, scalable, non-linear, and multivalent. Certain projects reveal how soft systems rely on engagement with their larger environment, collecting and sensingenvironmental atmospheric info...

Barbara Bestor: Blue Sky Curricula For the Next Century

2012-02-07T14:37:00-05:00

Architect and Woodbury School of Architecture professor Barbara Bestor presented an optimistic vision of architecture—one grounded in entrepreneurial practice and creating new opportunities—at the 2011 ACSA Administrators Conference: Old School/New School in November. (Co-chaired by Dean Norman Millar.)

WATERMARKS Photos

2011-09-13T00:11:52-04:00

The nice folks at Woodbury have sent along some photos of the recent exhibition WATERMARKS: Acqua Alta, Resiliency, and Precise Meanders. Enjoy.

WATERMARKS: Acqua Alta, Resiliency, and Precise Meanders
Exhibition | September 7th through September 11th, 2011 scenarios WUHO | 6518 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028

The Watermarks installation simulates Venice’s Acqua Alta, documents resiliency across the American landscape, and explores representational techniques for water fluctuation.

In Venice, Italy high tides annually flood San Marco’s Piazza throughout late fall and early winter. During this reoccurring phenomenon, the city deploys elevated walkways at common pedestrian routes allowing foot traffic to carry on regardless of thirty centimeters of standing water. Souvenir shops sell disposable plastic shoe covers allowing tourists to wade through the public water spectacle where new urban unfold within the inundated square.

By flooding the gallery floor in Hollywoo...