Architecture Program

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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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DAA+AH Art + Architecture Lectures John Torres March 17th at 5:30pm Zoom: 930 4586 9395 John Torres (b. 1975) is an independent filmmaker, musician, and writer. He co-runs Los Otros, a Manila-based space, film lab, and platform committed to the intersections of film and art, with a focus on process over product. He directed and produced five feature films, including Todo Todo Teros (Dragons & Tigers Award, Vancouver IFF 2006; NETPAC/FICRESCI awards, Singapore IFF 2006), Years When I was a Child Outside (Berlinale Forum Expanded 2008), and Lukas The Strange (Art of the Real, Film at Lincoln Center, 2013). He has made more than a dozen short films, including, We Still Have to Close Our Eyes (Wavelengths, Toronto IFF 2019). His work fictionalizes and reworks personal and found documentations of love, family relations, and memory in relation to current events, hearsays, myth, and folklore. He produced Shireen Seno’s Nervous Translation (NETPAC award, Tiger Competition, Rotterdam 2018), a project that was developed through Venice’s Biennale College Cinema, Bangkok Produire au Sud, IFP, and Cinemart. A special focus of his works was shown at the Viennale in 2013. #daaahsgoood
Aaron Fowler TODAY / February 2nd at 4pm   Zoom: 942 5216 6235 Aaron Fowler (b. 1988, St. Louis, MO) is an artist based in New York and Los Angeles. “Bigger Than Me” is the artist’s first solo museum presentation. Fowler creates elaborate assemblage paintings through intuitive layering of found objects and unconventional materials that illustrate imagined and concrete narratives from his personal experience. Recent solo exhibitions include Seattle Art Museum (2020); Diggs Gallery, Winston-Salem State University (2016); Beeler Gallery, Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH (2016); and Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles (2016). He will be in “Made in L.A. 2018” at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2018), opening in June, and has been in group exhibitions at Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art, Savannah, GA (2017); Saatchi Gallery, London (2017); Rubell Family Collection, Miami (2016); and the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2015). Fowler was a recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant in 2015 and an artist-in-residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2014. Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 942 5216 6235 #daaahsgoood
Zhaoye Mandy Chen, “To Vagrants of the World,” Thesis Exhibition for the major in visual arts in the Department of Art, Architecture + Art History at the University of San Diego. Chen's virtual exhibition of works on paper on the theme of home is visible at https://www.zhaoyemandychen.com and her thesis review is January 28th at 12:30pm. Please celebrate her accomplishments with us. #daaahsgoood
Trying to decide on one last course to add in Spring? ANIMATION 494 M/W 2:30-5:20pm with Josh Tonies! #daaahsgoood
Spring 2020 ARTH Alum Panel: A Conversation with Art History Alum Chelsea Behle Fralick Video link: tinyurl.com/2020Chelsea #daaahsgoood
Big congratulations to DAA+AH alum Auburn Reed, whose photography just won her a scholarship to the MFA program at TAI Centro Universitario de Artes en Madrid. Auburn moved to Spain with no contacts and little linguistic fluency after graduating from USD in 2019, but quickly became conversational and networked with other creatives. After her medium format film camera was stolen almost immediately on a detour to Morocco, she and her boyfriend bought a Pentax 6x7 camera to share, and she began alternating between fashion editorial and personal projects. Auburn's thesis project at USD explored the balance of power between the photographer and the subject, and the acuity and bravery with which she addressed this topic is no small part of the TAI jury's decision, which was unanimous in awarding her for her "ability and sensitivity in the use of contemporary languages in photography... the personality expressed in [her] images... and the coherence" of her project ¡Qué guay! Auburn. We're proud of you! Follow Auburn on Instagram at @sparkklebaby
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Congratulations Professor Daniel López-Pérez @transversalgroup ! • 2020 McNair Faculty Mentor of the Year! • And congratulations and good luck to Daniel Rodríguez - off to pursue an M.Arch at UCLA! #daaahsgoood #usdarchitecture
Repost from @mvdly Congratulations! We will miss you!! ❤️🎓💙 • Thanks for the most chaotic 4 years of my life, love you forever @uofsandiego
Repost from @elizabethrickey CONGRATULATIONS! We will miss you!! ❤️🎓💙 • Lots of sleepless nights, project mishaps, and stressful critiques over the years, but also some of the greatest professors, prideful work, and best friends made in this department. Thanks @usd_daaah for all the memories, skills, guidance, and opportunities, and proud to be an alum 🎓 didn’t get my diploma yet but holding one of my concrete blocks is more exemplary of my 4 years here anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯