sounds about right... i know that roland (who teaches at upenn, where i am) has been flying back-and-forth from coast to coast every week...

Sounds cool. I was at USC for the conference they had in Dec featuring these guys. It was mind blowing...not sure about Ghery, but these dudes will put USC on the map...I bet...then USC will actually rival us here at UCLA . hehe

there is a lot of interesting and exciting things happening at the graduate level, new dean, new building, critically acclaimed lecture and conference series, new blood from penn, columbia and AA making their debut in LA at USC....so it seems...yet it remains to be seen whether they are actually going to establish anything, the student work has been lagging...are they just paying a bunch of dudes good money to come out to LA to surf and show up at the school or are these recent developments going to establish rigorous design research that would alongside other schools, put LA on the map as the mecca for architecture students...

well, to zinkplus's point about whether the student work will catch up or not, I'd point out that this is clearly only the first step in the process of that. By getting these people in, they get more notice on the national level, and attract a better quality applicant, cull a better quality class who is actually capable of stepping the work up and justifies having these big guys there. This doesn't happen overnight, but over the course of several application seasons. But they've taken a really good first step, or second if you count the scholarship $$$ they've been dishing out over the past few years as the first.

sounds like upenn circa 2005

this whole parametric thing is getting really boring.

this whole parametric thing is getting really boring.

economically speaking I also suspect as a private school the USC Grad Architecture has been able to make progress and advance forward with their big name agenda while other state schools in the california area had to at least experience and come in to grips with budget deficits. the schools overall endowment in superior to that of the california state universities combined. there are also rich resources within the cinematic arts and engineering departments which I think create strong collab potential for visiting faculty.

c.k.

people like de landa and kokkugia I believe attend upenn but are also mobile within a circle of couple more schools - other faculty are comprised of people like roche who is farmed out of columbia plus some local talent out here in LA such as Michael Maltzan.

p.s. anybody knows Adriaan Geuze from West 8 - also on the USC graduate bill

.._.

say that to patrik schumacher and he will slap you in the face ... although I personally subscribe to a more generalist and pragmatic approach a.k.a bobby stern/ysoa approach - I do feel that progressive studios should be available to students where they will be exposed to emerging transgressions in architectural theory so that they are better prepared to practice a decade or two down the line when avant-garde becomes mainstream - not left out of the game.

roche taught at upenn before columbia where he invited khoshnevis to present his building robot (roche is not so much into parametrics as he is into shitting robots) I think he always wanted to go to usc to play with the robot.

You guys are getting me pretty excited about attending USC this year.

haha, should i be worried that i've never heard of any of these guys?

Never heard of Gehry?

I can vouch for Roland Snooks. He and I shared a semester together [with a lot of others] at SIAL/RMIT in 2002 where we did a class called Digital Mockups that involved Gehry Partners.

He is extremely smart and its no surprise that he is doing what he is doing today.

ff33º USC might just have won the rivalry and they bearly entered the competition. The reason is cause of UCLA's financies are beat up and USC has too much doe. They can choose to go from being like Rural studio to GSAPP in a few months if they decide on it, (and they just have). I was enthralled in USC after they unleashed the Intensive Fields seminar, and Snooks Lecture was amazing!

Does he teach at USC?

texxeen,

take it your going to be attending USC as well?

FuzzyWuzzy,

Get back to work.

Yeah Fuzz it was between USC and some often mentioned school at the other end of the pond. But who wouldn't want to be a Trojan, especially with whats going on there now, (the decision came down to which place had better weather).

texx

sorryy - dont mean to be nosy but can you be a little more specific as to what you are sayin no to for the Trojans? are you talkin about the DRL?