Join Career Services on September 14 at 11:30am for a discussion and overview of portfolios and work samples + learn how to the formats differ! Following the presentation, our staff will also be providing formatting tips for your portfolio as well as providing examples. This event will be held in the Career Services office, Sutton Hall 3.128.*
On Friday, September 9, in WMB 5.102, the Center for American Architecture and Design hosts Assistant Professor Daniel Koehler for his presentation, "From Artificial to Synthetic: Architecture as a work of massive co-authorship and other implications of AI-design."
Join Career Services on September 8 at 11am for a discussion on writing resumes! Learn how to write and format a more effective resume and stand out from the crowd! This event will be held in the Career Services’ office, Sutton Hall 3.128.*
Mauricio Rocha studied architecture at the Max Cetto Workshop of the Architecture Faculty, UNAM, and founded Taller Mauricio Rocha in 1991. Throughout thirty years of professional practice, he has developed public and private projects, as well as museum work, temporal architecture, art, and ephemeral interventions. Mauricio works with the aim to develop contemporary architecture that is sensitive to its context and to the environment, combining local materials with technology available.
Tekena's research focuses on how aesthetic devices move between the discursive spaces of arts and architecture. He is the founder of TEKENA KOKO OFFICE, a design practice that works on projects that vary between arts, architecture, and landscape architecture. He has previously taught at USC and runs a transient gallery called HOTEL.
The Materials Lab concluded the ‘Materializing Design’ series for 2021-2022 as students to participated in a two-part workshop. This two-part workshop consisted of a Creative Formwork Demonstration followed by a Casting Party!
In Part One on the workshop, Materials Lab staff led an in-person demonstration covering formwork construction for cast objects at the model scale. Participants were able to using a variety of common materials in creative ways to construct formwork to cast objects in Part Two of the workshop.
This series, held roughly every other Friday during the fall and spring semesters, brings faculty, staff, and students together for an informal and inquisitive discussion about ideas relating to architecture and its history, theory, practice, and future.
This two-day symposium will bring together some of the most prominent Mexican names in adaptive reuse projects presenting and discussing the rescue of cultural heritage in Mexico with a contemporary approach. The goal is to open the discussion and generate new questions from different perspectives. The participants will center their questions around how Mexican built heritage can be revitalized addressing the needs of the twenty-first century without losing its integrity and cultural value.