Since last year, every semester at USC School of Architecture ends with a public spectacle called BLUE TAPE. These two day marathon review sessions bring together nearly half of the architecture faculty from all five accredited architecture schools of Los Angeles and from other states.
Last year, on the top floors of a downtown hi-rise the "World was theirs", this year, students came down to Shrine Auditorium and got their Academy Awards before going into one long summer hopefully reading, writing, thinking about architecture and nurturing their ideals. I want to thank Stefano De Martino of M.Arch Program for inviting me. Once more, while critiquing projects and switching from one jury to the other, I pointed and shot these pictures for everybody to view and see what the students are producing in USC. All "hot" new styles were beautifully represented like other top schools in the world and commentary from the critics were often wise.
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Glad to see my project made the cut! :)
So did my community rendering!
Wished I could have been there. Next time, I'll have to shadow Orhan.
i apologize to rest of the students for leaving out hundreds of projects and the work from previous day!
these photos do not reflect the amount of student work that were there, but just a spontaneous cross section of what i saw walking around.
congratulations go to all, including the teachers of course.
Glad to see that the future of graphic design looks to have plenty of bright young talent.
Just seems to me like most architecture studios focus on producing "the image" or "the sculpture" to take the conversation away from how spaces are developed for human habitation and use. I graduated from USC with a Masters degree in 2006 and the only thing that has changed is the regularity at which students find pattern-making and shadow-rendering techniques capable of making them look like an underlying theory might just be there!
The photo you took of the extension chord piled up in a corner says it all....... fits right in with much of the sculptural and abstract graphic imagery seen throughout your typical studio review.
Long live the plan, and the designer who strives to create the intimate experience of the great room with the great window.
bulld0g96, i maintain it is more important to engage with them all and continue the discourse. this is what it is and if you are teaching it is your job to make it worthwhile for the students and make it critical. but not by rejection.
great room with a great window is pretty much a state of mind and state of circumstances. who wouldn't like a nice gr and gw? but is that all there is? no.
*ps; all the images in the article have architectural plans.;.)
If I'd known you were there, Orhan, I would've said hello!
next time citizen. i have grown to be a fan of blue tape. it is the best year end reviews anywhere..
Bravo Orhan. I'm sorry I missed it, but your pictures do it justice.
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