Monthly Archives: March 2010

Gehry and Roche for USC

By Neil Leach | Published 2010-03-20 | Posted in Uncategorized

    Frank Gehry and Francois Roche head up an all-star cast of visiting faculty in USC’s newly restructured Master of Architecture post-professional program from Fall 2010. Gehry, himself an alumnus of USC, will be leading a Gehry Partners studio looking at an urban project in Los Angeles, while Roche will be exploring concrete fabrication within [...]

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ENCODING MATTER STUDIO

By Roland Snooks | Published 2010-03-14 | Posted in design studio

Roland Snooks is directing a graduate studio at USC titled Encoding Matter. The studio posits a behavioral design methodology, re-conceptualizing design as the organization of matter. This behavioral understanding of design focusses on the dissolution of normative hierarchies that operate within architectural organization and tectonics. A non-linear algorithmic design methodology is proposed capable of displacing [...]

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Contour Crafting: A Revolution in Concrete Construction

By Neil Leach | Published 2010-03-03 | Posted in Uncategorized

         Contour Crafting is a digitally controlled construction process invented by USC Professor Behrokh Khoshnevis that fabricates components directly from computer models, using layered fabrication technology. By obviating the need for formwork used in traditional concrete construction, Contour Crafting can reduce construction times significantly (from several months to a few hours) and costs [...]

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