Featuring student work from:

Cal Poly Pomona Department of Architecture
Otis Architecture/Landscape/Interiors
SCI-Arc
UCLA Architecture & Urban Design
USC School of Architecture
Woodbury School of Architecture

Curators: Ingalill Wahlroos-Ritter and Molly Hunker

The architectural drawing as an end work can function in any of three ways: as an innovative design tool, as the articulation of a new direction, or as a creation of consummate artistic merit. Put simply, a perfect act of architecture achieves all three at once.
—Jeffrey Kipnis, Perfect Acts of Architecture

Drawing in architecture plays a multivalent role, alternatively representing, visualizing, reconfiguring, slicing, measuring, fabricating, patterning, envisioning, designing, discovering, questioning, positioning, or some combination thereof. 2D3D is a comprehensive annual exhibition of architectural drawings. Presented at WUHO Gallery in Los Angeles (a city that’s the epicenter of innovative drawing technologies from aerospace to automotive to animation), 2D3D-4: Quick and Dirty examines the status of architectural drawing in the post-digital age. The exhibition showcases student work from Southern California schools of architecture and design.

WUHO Gallery
6518 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028

Gallery Hours: Thursday, 1 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Friday–Sunday, 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.
www.wuho.org

Jordan Geiger
WUHO Gallery
Reception: Monday, April 15, 7:00 p.m
April 6–28, 2013

Woodbury School of Architecture and the Woodbury University Hollywood (WUHO) Gallery present the exhibition Very Large Organizations by Jordan Geiger. The show opens Monday, April 6 at WUHO Gallery.

Geiger tracks a contemporary phenomenon: the convergence of multiple infrastructures and global networks in the built environment. He ascribes the term Very Large Organizations (VLOs) to this confluence of technological, legal, economic, material, and cultural forces. It is through this identification that Geiger makes visible the impact of large-scale systems such as global communications and supranational legal and financial constructs on the construction and inhabitation of space. By identifying these systems, Geiger also finds an embedded field of inquiry rich with opportunities for architectural engagement and action.

VLOs operate on multiple scales from the nano to the human to the extraplanetary. VLOs take the shape of handheld devices, satellite networks, and the built landscapes we inhabit in between. Their planning and infrastructure demand logistics, capital, and computational might with increasing adaptability todeal with unprecedented orders of population magnitude and new technical, cultural, social and ecological challenges. In Southern California these VLOs may manifest as RFID-supported border controls, biometrics within immigration and refugee tracking, and radiation controls for public safety within telcom industry. Indeed, Los Angeles has long been a site of VLO activity due to its long history of aerospace, film, and telecommunicationsindustries.

This exhibition collects an overview of several VLOs and displays them on individual flags, creating a “hall of VLOs”. Each VLO is researched and explained diagrammatically; and each explored as a potential new field of design. Underlying this design research is not the desire to be expert in any one techno-legal-architectural cluster, but rather to identify each such cluster as an area for architects to engage.

ABOUT JORDAN GEIGER
Jordan Geiger is an architect and educator whose work crosses architecture and interaction design. Considering the implications of human computer interaction for social and environmental issues, Geiger lectures, exhibits, and publishes internationally on theoretical research and on his projects—these range in scale and type from installation and gallery design to agricultural land use proposals urban design. He is an Assistant Professor in Architecture, and a faculty researcher at the Center for Architecture and Situated Technologies (CAST), at the University at Buffalo (SUNY).

Ga-Ga, Geiger’s previous California-based practice, was published and exhibited internationally. Prior to that, Geiger worked in the architectural offices of Michael Sorkin Studio and Dominique Perrault.

In addition to his current post in Buffalo, Geiger has taught architecture, urban design, and advanced interdisciplinary studios and seminars at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, at UC Berkeley, and at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. He holds a Master of Architecture from ColumbiaUniversity and a Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley.

February 16–March 24, 2013
Reception and award presentation: March 2, 6–8 p.m.

For over twenty-five years, Opie has photographed people, places, and buildings in and around Los Angeles. Her lens captures Bel Air facades decorated with intricate iron gates, West Adams shopkeepers with direct gazes, and undersides of overpasses. Taken as a whole, these works create a portrait of Los Angeles as a singular built environment.

Catherine Opie: In & Around L.A. features work from five distinct series that highlight Opie’s engagement with the city: Freeways (1994-95), Houses (1995-96), Landscapes (1996), In and Around Home (2004-05), and Shopkeepers (2011).

Opie is the 2013 recipient Julius Shulman Institute Excellence in Photography Award. Each year the prestigious award is given to an early or mid-career artist who honors Shulman’s legacy and our mission by challenging the way we look at physical space. Past awardees include Iwan Baan (2010), Richard Barnes (2011), and Pedro E. Guerrero (2012).

architecture.woodbury.edu/jsi

Unseen
WUHO Gallery
Opening: January 19
January 16—February 8

Unseen seeks images that celebrate the photographer’s eye, discovering beauty, banality, and the everyday; images that make the unseen visible through light, exposure and the photographic frame are desired.

The exhibition features student, amateur and professional photographers working in all mediums and styles. School of Architecture students Andre Gharakhanian and Jesse Cabildo built an interactive installation inspired by the exhibition, incorporating the aperture of multiple lenses in one space.

This exhibition is a joint collaboration between Woodbury University’s School of Architecture and School of Media, Culture & Design, and is supported by student participation.

Special thanks to Devin Gharakhanian for envisioning the event, Zone V photography organization, and Zone V co-presidents Kristine Edinchikyan and Brian Hardy, as well as Logan Miller, Britney Asao, Matthew Johnson, Martin Sanchez, Selin Polat, MohamedBensasi, and Kenneth Zapata.

To RSVP, click link below:
https://www.facebook.com/events/416333288445622/

Optional Features: Selections from Woodbury San Diego
WUHO Gallery
Opening: November 4, 4-8 p.m.
November 4-25

Optional Features includes Woodbury San Diego faculty and student work that captures the dynamic relationship between architecture, sculpture, and craftsmanship routinely explored on our San Diego campus.

Faculty projects include: the Mata Nui Throne by Jose Parral, Puffy Curtain by Marcel Sanchez-Prieto + Adriana Cuéllar of the Tijuana-based practice CRO, Stag Fern by Sideyard Projects’ Shawn Benson, Bbox by Philipp Bosshart, Truss Light by Miki Iwasaki, an intricate steel screen from Chris Puzio, and Andrew Wagner’s Monochromatic Tables.

Work produced by School of Architecture undergraduates include: Friction by Peter Wales, Seat-stay Chair by Scott Shaver, and a moving screen collectively designed and built by students in the Woodbury San Diego Fabrication Studio: Ahmad Al Haji, Sulaiman Al Hammadi, Abdalla Almulla, Michael Dulberg, Ian Heacox, John Herman, Joshua Karst, Christian Linney, Miguel Reyes, Ashley Sadler and Peter Wales.

WUHO Gallery
6518 Hollywood Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90028
Gallery hours: Thursday 1-8 p.m., Friday-Sunday 1-6 p.m.