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Woodbury University is pleased to announce the appointment of Branka Olson as Chair of Interior Design in the School of Architecture, effective January 1, 2022. Branka is a practitioner-scholar with a focus on people-centered built environments. As a licensed architect and certified interior... View full entry »
Woodbury School of Architecture congratulates Jesse Santiago (B.Arch '14) on his recent appointment as the 2022 AIA San Fernando Valley President. Jesse has a background in landscape architecture, construction management, multi-family, and hospitality. He is currently an Associate at Jerry Sherman... View full entry »
Woodbury University is pleased to announce that Aaron Gensler has been appointed Chair of Architecture in Los Angeles. Aaron joined Woodbury in 2018 as Adjunct Faculty and was quickly promoted to Assistant Chair of Architecture. Along with her new role as Chair, Aaron is an Assistant Professor at... View full entry »
On September 11, 2021, the Board of Trustees of Woodbury University voted to consolidate the operations of the institution's San Diego campus into its main campus in Burbank. It was determined that the continued operation of the San Diego facility would no longer be economically tenable. This vote... View full entry »
Woodbury University is pleased to welcome Heather Flood into the position of Interim Dean of the School of Architecture. After receiving nominations and an election held by the faculty and staff in the School of Architecture, Heather was chosen to lead the SOA as Interim Dean. This appointment... View full entry »
Woodbury School of Architecture (WSoA) students Josue Alvarez Perez & Jose Montano with the guidance of Professor Gerard Smulevich, have received an honorable mention in the 2021 Steel Design Competition organized by the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) and the Association of... View full entry »
Woodbury School of Architecture (WSoA) was pleased to welcome Echo Theohar to its full-time faculty line-up this semester. Echo will be teaching in the school's Applied Computer Science-Media Arts department. WSoA is also excited to share the recent publication of voidLab 2015-2017, an archive... View full entry »
This summer, as part of WSOA's Summer Design Lab, 16 high school students were tasked to design a neighborhood park in a site of their choosing. Through a series of exercises introducing geometric primitives and abstraction, students used typological elements of ground, object, and sky to assemble... View full entry »
Woodbury San Diego architecture student Arturo Vilchis (B.Arch '22) has recently launched a new business. Based in San Diego, Picnic Voyage offers customers boat picnic services where two people can enjoy a boat ride and picnic through the Otay Lake Reservoir in San Diego. Within days of... View full entry »
This Spring, 6 undergraduate students, 2 master’s students, 2 professors, and 1 graphic designer in the Interior Design department have been working with 7 small business owners on Washington Blvd in LA in an exciting community-focused studio called INSIDE/OUT. The group partnered with... View full entry »
The Barr Ferree Foundation Fund for Publications at Princeton University has awarded Professor Anthony Fontenot a $15,000 grant to support the publication of his forthcoming book by MIT Press titled Gregory Ain and the Construction of a Social Landscape, scheduled to be released in spring... View full entry »
Woodbury Faculty and Assistant Chair of Architecture Aaron Gensler has been appointed to the Board of Trustees at California College of the Arts (CCA) along with CCA alum Carina Wong. “Aaron and Carina bring a wealth of experience and expertise to CCA’s Board of Trustees,” said CCA President... View full entry »
(Los Angeles, CA – May 17, 2021) - The Julius Shulman Institute (JSI) at Woodbury University is pleased to announce Lee Bey as the 2021 recipient of the Julius Shulman Institute Excellence in Photography Award. Bey is a photographer, writer, lecturer, and consultant who documents and interprets... View full entry »
Woodbury alum Germane Barnes (MArch '12) has been announced the winner of the 2021 Wheelwright Prize by Harvard's Graduate School of Design. Germane will receive a $100,000 fellowship fund to finance his two-year research project Anatomical Transformations in Classical Architecture. "The past year... View full entry »
Woodbury School of Architecture is excited to announce the relaunching of our San Diego-based Master of Science in Architecture in Real Estate Development (MSArch RED). The program is uniquely designed with architects in mind, empowering graduates to tangibly give back to their communities and... View full entry »
Professor Paulette Singley has a featured essay in Log 50 titled Dollhouses and Other Bad Objects. An excerpt from the piece reads: Seen through the artist, Sam Durant’s model houses and the toy-like architectural models that Jennifer Bonner of MALL and Jimenez Lai of Bureau Spectacular explore... View full entry »
We are excited to announce our Summer High School Academy. Two five-week courses will be offered within Woodbury’s School of Architecture to students entering the 11th and 12th grades. Priority registration deadline is March 31st, but we will be accepting applications up to the start of the... View full entry »
Architect Barbara Bestor, Executive Director of Woodbury’s Julius Shulman Institute (JSI) and founder of the eponymous Silver Lake studio, was featured in a recent Los Angeles Times roundup in celebration of International Women’s Day coming March 8th. The article, titled, Our list of over... View full entry »
Curated by Ryan Tyler Martinez and hosted by Woodbury School of Architecture’s Wedge Gallery, Lectures Interviews Exhibitions challenges the status quo of exhibiting physical objects by replacing them with podcasts, pre-recorded lectures, interactive architecture applications, and animations... View full entry »
In a multi-part celebration of Black History Month, Woodbury School of Architecture reflects on some of its past Alumni Spotlights. 2020 was a trying year, and as we look ahead, we are inspired and encouraged by the diligence, grit, and passion, of our alumni and collaborators. Each individual... View full entry »
Woodbury School of Architecture student, Khan Muhammad, has been awarded the 2020 Jean Roth Driskel Scholarship by AIA Pasadena & Foothill (AIAPF). The scholarship was established in 1971 to honor Jean Roth Driskel, the first female President of the AIAPF Chapter and the third woman to be... View full entry »
LOS ANGELES (January 29, 2018) ---- Woodbury University School of Architecture launches its first annual PLATFORM Community College Exhibition at Woodbury University Hollywood Outpost (WUHO) on Hollywood Boulevard. The opening of the exhibition will be held on Saturday, February 17 at 6:00pm... View full entry »
Each fall, members of the graduating class at Woodbury School of Architecture publicly present the work they have produced in their architectural education. They reflect on the meaning of that education, on larger implications for architectural education and architecture itself, and on their... View full entry »
Associate Professor Heather Flood was recently appointed Undergraduate Chair of the School of Architecture in Los Angeles. As Assistant Undergraduate Chair, she coordinated the first year studios to transform the BArch curriculum, and her work resulted in the 2017 Studio Prize from Architect... View full entry »
The Woodbury School of Architecture first year BArch studio Natural Tendencies has been honored with a 2017 Studio Prize by Architect Magazine. Coordinated by the chair of undergraduate architecture Heather Flood, and co-taught by Nate Imai and Yi-Hsiu Yeh, the prize acknowledges the most... View full entry »
IR Architects has recently announced its support of Woodbury School of Architecture and its first year studios through a $30,000 sponsorship. IR Architects was founded by Woodbury Architecture alumnus Ignacio Rodriguez, AIA. The purpose of the sponsorship is to contribute to student education... View full entry »
The Woodbury School of Architecture is pleased to announce the Fall 2017 Lecture Series Emerging Practices. All lectures and exhibitions are free and open to the public. As a reflection of culture, architecture continuously repositions itself and its extents. By questioning accepted boundaries... View full entry »
AIA Fellowship Program Recognizes ‘Significant Contributions to Profession of Architecture and Society’ by Award-Winning Architect and EducatorLOS ANGELES (Feb. 27, 2017) – Underscoring her “significant contribution to architecture and society,” Woodbury... View full entry »
Join us for our 2017 Spring Lecture Series at the School of Architecture. All lectures and exhibitions are open to the public and free.Download the Spring 2017 Lecture Series poster.Los AngelesBurbank Campus7500 N Glenoaks Blvd, Burbank, CA 915042/3 Womanhouse and WomEnhouse: A... View full entry »
The Norman R. Millar Scholarship Endowment, created last Spring as a living tribute to the award-winning architect, educator and global visionary whose leadership transformed Woodbury University’s School of Architecture into one of the nation’s premier programs, has surpassed... View full entry »
