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Assistant Professor Anders Carlson is the Director of the Chase L. Leavitt Graduate Building Science Program at the USC School of Architecture. He ...
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Assistant Professor Anders Carlson is the Director of the Chase L. Leavitt Graduate Building Science Program at the USC School of Architecture. He has a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Caltech researching damage to tall steel moment frame buildings due to the Northridge Earthquake. Anders is also a licensed structural engineer and Staff Consultant at Simpson Gumpertz & Heger with over 17 years experience in design of steel, concrete, composite, and light framed wood structures. His work has encompassed a broad range of project types including civic, educational, healthcare, office, retail, government, and residential. Project sizes have ranged from sculptures to highrises. He has worked on notable projects such as Koolhaas' Seattle Public Library, Libeskind's Hamilton Building of the Denver Art Museum, the investigation of the collapse of WTC-7 and the first buckling restrained braced frame building in the United States.
Prof. Carlson's pedagogical focus is to integrate building science studies of the natural and manmade forces affecting the built environment with design, current practice and new tools and technologies to make the USC School of Architecture a paradigm of holistic architectural design. He is helping to develop new tools for students to quickly assess structural and environmental impacts to their designs using the software and technologies they are already familiar with so that they can make informed design decisions.
Anders' research focus is on seismic sustainability of all components of buildings. Current approaches to certification of buildings for sustainable design do not take seismic hazard and associated life cycle cost analysis into consideration and he intends to change this.
Anders lecture will focus on the importance of structures in design and three main influences of structures: seismicity, sustainability and synergy.
Lectures are free and open to the public. They are located in the Gin D. Wong, FAIA Conference Center, Harris Hall, on the University Park campus. No reservations are required. Parking is available on campus at Gate 1 off Exposition Blvd.
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"The language of design, architecture and urbanism in Los Angeles is the language of movement." -- Rayner Banham
Architecture today rolls...
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"The language of design, architecture and urbanism in Los Angeles is the language of movement." -- Rayner Banham
Architecture today rolls, flows, inflates, breathes, expands, multiplies and contracts, and searches for its next user. And yet, such architecture is not merely building or product design, but rather recognition of the fluidity of circumstances - the mobility of demographics and information. As the discipline of architecture maintains an increasing capacity to respond to this fluidity, the one-day symposium will enable USC students to engage with real world practitioners and multi-disciplinary scholars who are crafting experiments to prepare for a future continuously on the move. Motopia: A New Age for Modular Construction, organized by local architect and USC visiting professor Jennifer Siegal, will bring together a range of creative forces behind mobile architecture including architects, educators, theorists, museum curators and writers.
As an active practitioner, Jennifer Siegal is constantly engaged in the design of non-permanently sited structures. This conference will serve as both a continuation of her own research as well as advance the design education of USC students. It will examine solutions to current economic, social and environmental concerns in the housing industry, identify emerging technologies and trends, and synthesize recent advancements in design, manufacturing, materials, processes and systems. We will host five eminent practitioners who will discuss strategies that can be adopted or adapted into our own larger communities and lives. Participants include: Allison Arieff, Editor at Large, GOOD and Contributing Columnist, The New York Times; Barry Bergdoll, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design The Museum of Modern Art; Stephen Kieran, Partner, KieranTimberlake; Robert Kronenburg, Architect, Author and Roscoe Chair of Architecture, University of Liverpool; and Michael Webb, Founding Member, Archigram and Professor at Cooper Union.
USC serves as the ideal location for such an event. Los Angeles comprises a widely varied series of cultural, geographic and topographic conditions; flexible structures that mimic, depend upon, and take advantage of these conditions hold an atypical authenticity within the context of Southern California. The responsibility of the University to the larger environment and surrounding communities is manifested already in the great investment into the USC's "Sustainable Cities," program, Provost Nikias' "Future Fuels and Energy Initiative," "Urban Issues Initiative," University-subsidized public transportation as well as through other waste-reduction programs.
Visions and Voices is a university-wide arts and humanities initiative unparalleled in higher education. The initiative was established by Provost C. L. Max Nikias in order to fulfill the goals set forth in USC's strategic plan; to communicate USC's core values to students; and to affirm the human spirit. Highlighting USC's excellence in the arts and humanities, the initiative provides a unique, inspiring and provocative experience for all USC students, regardless of discipline, and challenges them to become world-class citizens who will eagerly make a positive impact throughout the world.
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USC Assistant Professor Greg Otto founded Buro Happold's Los Angeles office in 2006 and functioned as Office Director through 2008. In 2009, Greg t...
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USC Assistant Professor Greg Otto founded Buro Happold's Los Angeles office in 2006 and functioned as Office Director through 2008. In 2009, Greg turned his focus to digital modeling and collaboration technologies, and their application within the practice as Director.
Having been educated as an architect and engineer and engaged in the practice of both, Greg's focus has been on multi-disciplinary, collaboration between the architect and engineer, and the potential for innovation that this brings.
Since joining the practice in 2001, Greg has worked on a diversity of projects such as the Genzyme headquarters, Smithsonian Patent Office Building Courtyard Enclosure, Brian Lara Cricket Academy, and Harvard Allston Science Complex.
In addition to commercial work Greg has been an Adjunct Professor at Parsons School of Design and Stevens Institute of Technology. He presently is an Adjunct Professor at USC and lectures at SCIArch regularly, both in Southern California. In addition to these faculty positions, Greg has been a visiting lecturer at MIT, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, Yale, University of California -- Berkeley and University of Texas covering both subjects of architecture and engineering. Greg joined the Board of Directors of SCIArch in 2009.
Greg is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Concrete Institute, American Institute of Architects, American Institute of Steel Construction and the California Society of Professional Engineers.
Lectures are free and open to the public. They are located in the Gin D. Wong, FAIA Conference Center, Harris Hall, on the University Park campus. No reservations are required. Parking is available on campus at Gate 1 off Exposition Blvd.
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Dan Meis, FAIA, senior principal at the firm Populous in Los Angeles will hold endowed position of Nancy M. and Edward D. Fox Urban Design Critic; ...
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Dan Meis, FAIA, senior principal at the firm Populous in Los Angeles will hold endowed position of Nancy M. and Edward D. Fox Urban Design Critic; a faculty endowment honoring Nancy and Edward Fox, members of a three-generation Trojan family. This endowment provides funds for the annual appointment of a visiting urban design critic at the School. The critic is responsible for teaching and research in the area of urban design and the role of the business community in the development of cities. The critic incorporates the complimentary roles of architects, urban designers and financial partners in city building.
Most recognized as the designer of Los Angeles' Staples Center, Dan Meis, FAIA, is a Senior Principal of Populous and leads the LA office with over 25 years of experience. Meis began a very diverse career in large-scale civic and commercial architecture after graduating from the University of Illinois in 1985. As a young designer in the Chicago office of Murphy/Jahn Architects, he worked on award winning office towers in Chicago, New York, Germany, and South Africa. In 1992, he became a Design Principal at the LA office of Ellerbe Becket, where he designed Europe's largest indoor arena - Nynex Arena in Manchester, England. In 1995, he won an international design competition for the $750 million Saitama Arena in Japan. This mixed-use structure is capable of mechanically transforming a 10,000-seat arena to a 35,000-seat stadium which hosts NFL exhibition games and Japan League Soccer. Later, as a Design Partner for NBBJ, Dan designed sports, entertainment, and convention facilities that were well acclaimed including Dodge Theater in Phoenix, Miller Park in Milwaukee, Safeco Field in Seattle, Lincoln Financial in Philadelphia and Paul Brown Stadium in Cincinnati. Paul Brown Stadium was the first NFL facility to ever win an AIA design award.
Meis' design for Los Angeles' Staples Center has been heralded as the "greatest arena ever built," and in 2001 he was featured in Time Magazine as one of their "100 Innovators in the World of Sports." His work has twice been awarded the prestigious Business Week/Architectural Record Award, recognizing the value of design to a client's business. Meis has been recognized twice as one of Sports Business Journal's "40 under 40" executives who have made the greatest impact in the sports industry and the only architect to ever win more than once. In 2006, he was elevated to the prestigious College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects. In 2010, Dan joined Populous, the world's only design practice dedicated exclusively to sports and entertainment venues, establishing a new office in Venice, California.
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Lawrence Scarpa, Principal of Broooks + Scarpa has been selected as the Jon Adams Jerde, FAIA Chair in Architecture which honors Los Angeles archit...
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Lawrence Scarpa, Principal of Broooks + Scarpa has been selected as the Jon Adams Jerde, FAIA Chair in Architecture which honors Los Angeles architect Jon Jerde as an internationally renowned architect, urban designer, and distinguished USC School of Architecture alumnus. In addition to lecturing Scarpa will teach an undergraduate studio course during the fall semester.
The work of Lawrence Scarpa has redefined the role of the architect to produce some of the most remarkable and exploratory work today. He does this, not by escaping the restrictions of practice, but by looking, questioning and reworking the very process of design and building. Each project appears as an opportunity to rethink typical processes and applications -- with material, form, construction, even financing -- and to subsequently redefine it to cull out its latent potentials -- as Scarpa aptly describes: making the "ordinary extraordinary." This produces entirely inventive work: it is environmentally sustainable, but not "sustainable design;" it employs new materials, digital practices and technologies, but is not "tech" or "digital;" it is socially and community conscious, but not politically correct. Rather, it is deeply rooted in conditions of the everyday, and works with our perception and preconceptions to allow us to see things in new ways.
Over the last ten years, Mr. Scarpa's firm BROOKS + SCARPA received more than 50 major design awards, notably 18 National AIA Awards, including the 2010 Architecture Firm Award, the 2011, 2006 and 2003 AIA Committee on the Environment "Top Ten Green Project" awards, 2005 Record Houses, 2003 Rudy Bruner Prize, and finalist for the World Habitat Award. In 2004 The Architectural League of New York selected him as an "Emerging Voice" in architecture and in 2009 he received The Lifetime Achie¬vement Award from Interior Design Magazine.
He has taught and lectured at the university level at numerous schools including UCLA, University of Florida, Mississippi State University and SCI-arc. He was the 2009 E. Fay Jones Distinguished Professor, the 2008 Ruth and Norman Moore Visiting Professor at Washington University, the 2007 Eliel Saarinen Visiting Professor at the Alfred Taubman College of Architecture at the University of Michigan, 2005 University of Michigan Max Fisher Visiting Fellow, and 2004 Freidman Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley.
Lectures are free and open to the public. They are located in the Gin D. Wong, FAIA Conference Center, Harris Hall, on the University Park campus. No reservations are required. Parking is available on campus at Gate 1 off Exposition Blvd.
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