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The Architecture Program at USD is embedded in the liberal arts education that constitutes the core of the College of Arts and Sciences. As such, all courses in the Architecture Program, be they studios, lectures, or seminars, teach our undergraduate students the skills of critical thinking and argumentative reasoning based on evidence, and encourage curiosity and free inquiry.
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â  Beyond the Basement: Art History Alumni Panel is coming up on Tuesday, October 23 at 12:15PM, and lunch from Urbane Cafe will be provided. The event is funded by the Career Development Center and Compass Program. Our second featured alum is Dylan Murphy.â  â  Dylan is currently living in Los Angeles and is a guest lecturer at the University of San Diego where he co-teaches the senior thesis studio for architecture majors with Dr. Can Bilsel. Titled, âResilience-by-Design: Infrastructure Space / Emergency Powers,â the course encourages students to develop a hypothesis responding to the changing role of the architect in face of a global and generic production of infrastructure space. â  â  Dylan received a Master of Architecture degree in 2018 from the University of California, Los Angeles. His graduate work reflects an interest in infrastructure, morphology, and iteration. His research studio project, working with Heather Roberge, embraces the tactility of water infrastructure in the design of a High School. Dylan was president of the AIAS UCLA chapter, received the Alpha Rho Chi Medal at graduation, and was the 2018 UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture Graduate Commencement Speaker. â  â  Dylan completed his Bachelor of Arts from the University of San Diego in the Spring of 2015, where he graduated magna cum laude with a double major in Architecture and Art History. In architecture, he researched the global cruise tourism economy and its negative affects on historic European cities, and then redesigned the cruise port in Istanbul, Turkey. His other thesis, an interdisciplinary paper, investigated the similarities between the Dutch Structuralist architectural movement and the French structural philosophy in linguistics and anthropology.â  â  image: https://www.drmarchdesign.com/â 
Mimi Zeiger Art + Architecture Lecture Series Monday, October 22 @ 6pm P5 Architecture Pavilion #daaahsgoood #usd_daaah #usdcas #usdarchitecture
Come join us for a talk by DAA+AH Faculty Juliana Maxim and Can Bilsel on âArchitecture and the Housing Question: A Book in Progressâ Friends of San Diego Architecture will host the talk October 20, 2019 @ 9:30 AM at the NewSchool of Architecture & Design located at 1249 F Street, San Diego 92101 @usd_daaah @usdcas #daaahsgoood #usd_daaah #usdcas #usdarchitecture
Beyond the Basement: Art History Alumni Panel is coming up! On Tuesday, Oct. 23, four panelists will speak on their experiences researching, applying to, and attending graduate school. A light lunch will be served - join us at the French Parlor in Founders Hall. Our first feature for this panel is Michelle Wintersteen! Since graduating USD with double majors in visual arts and art history, Michelle has gone full time with her freelance brand design business, MKW Graphics - check out mkwgraphics.com. Her experiences and connections from USD have helped her design brands for new entrepreneurs in the San Diego area and beyond. In 2017, she set out as a 'digital nomad' working and growing her business remotely, from locations like Costa Rica, Portugal, South Africa, and Croatia. She is also a co-author of the Small Biz Start Up Guide, an entrepreneurship ebook geared towards helping newbie business owners with small business planning, legal and branding. Image: mkwgraphics.com #usdcas #arthistory #sandiegographicdesigner #mkwgraphics #daaahsgoood
Happy mistakes in Andy Cross's Intro to Photo! #daaah #daaahsgoood #usdartdepartment
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Remember to join us for pizza at todayâs Beyond the Basement: Visual Arts Alumni Panel at 2:30PM! Located in Camino 07. Our third and final guest is Ivy Guild (â16 Visual Arts and Art History, current MFA student in Studio Arts at UC Irvine). She has worked at DAAAH, the New Childrenâs Museum, and Lux Art Institute. In 2018, she has participated in residencies at Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT and ACRE in Steuben, WI. Guild has shown at the Museum of Fine Arts at Florida State University, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, the William D. Cannon Art Gallery, SDAI, and Sebastopol Center for the Arts. She also runs a business - @kittenbombcreations. More info about her work can be found at ivyguildart.com. Image: âChroma Key Quilt,â wip, 2018 is the first in a series of three-dimensional works that blend Guildâs fiber practice with chroma key technology to explore axes and planes in real life and on the screen.
Join us for Beyond the Basement: Visual Arts Alumni Panel! Itâs tomorrow (Friday) at 2:30PM in Camino Hall 07. Our second featured artist is Remi Dalton (â14 Visual Arts and Chemistry, MFA candidate in Paining at SDSU). Daltonâs work explores the romance, loneliness, and desperation of the social media landscape. Drawing from her suburban upbringing, she researches what success, failure, and fun mean to a community in which needs are few and desires are many. She has resided in San Diego for nine years and is originally from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. More information about her work can be found at remidalton.com. Image: âDead Climber #1,â 3ft x 5ft, oil on panel, 2018
Beyond the Basement: Visual Arts Alumni Panel is this Friday at 2:30PM in Camino Hall 07! Our first of three featured artists is Adam Belt (â97 Visual Arts; MFA â01 Claremont Graduate University). Belt lives in Carlsbad, California. His work has been exhibited at a variety of museums and galleries locally and nationally including the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; the La Jolla Athenaeum Music and Arts Library; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville Arkansas; Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York; and Wonderspaces, a traveling exhibition. More information about his work can be found at adambelt.com. Image: âSojourner,â 17ft x 17ft x 12ft (Temporary Public Installation: Box Trusses, Mirrors, Tarps, Light, Water, Wood, Rocks) 2018. photo credit: Philipp Scholz Rittermann. #usd_daaah #usdcas #daaahsgoood #adambelt #sandiegoartist
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