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USC Master of Building Sciences grad and current Arup employee, Joyce Hahn, accepted the award for the LAX/Metro Transit Center Station at Lumen West 2026. by @uscarchitecture

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Discover the legacy of one of America's most influential architects.Opening Tuesday, August 18 at the USC Fisher Museum of Art, "Paul R. Williams: An Architect Considered" is the first major exhibition to explore the groundbreaking architect's contributions to modern multifamily housing and urban Black communities.Featuring rarely seen archival drawings, photographs, and plans, along with newly commissioned works by leading contemporary artists, architects, and filmmakers, the exhibition reframes Williams's long-underrecognized work while engaging urgent conversations about race, equity, and the future of American cities.🖼️ On view August 18, 2026–March 13, 2027!IMAGE CREDITS:1) Paul R. Williams at Compton Imperial Housing Project site, ca. 1952. © Merge Studios.2) Paul R. Williams, Williams Apartment Building, ca. 1958. © Della M. Williams Trust.3) Paul R. Williams, Minimal Cost Dwelling for Excelsonite, Inc., 1959. © Della M. Williams Trust.4) Paul R. Williams, Proposed Long Beach Apartments, 1957. © Della M. Williams Trust.5) Basic Magnesium, Inc., Robert C. Williams family, the first residents of Carver Park, Henderson, 1943. Courtesy of Henderson Library Institution, Basic Magnesium, Inc. Photographs Collection. (Public Domain).Images 1-4 are owned jointly by the Getty Research Institute (2020.M.6) and the University of Southern California School of Architecture. Organized jointly by the USC School of Architecture and the USC Fisher Museum of Art, the exhibition is curated by professors Valery Augustin (USC), Milton S.F. Curry (Cornell); and Amy Murphy (USC). Augustin is the exhibition designer, with graphic design by Morcos Key. Significant funding for this exhibition has been provided by the Mellon Foundation. All exhibitions are underwritten by the USC Fisher Museum of Art Exhibition Fund. Annual leadership support is generously provided by Boris Dramov and Bonnie Fisher, and by Akieva and Martin Jacobs. Major support is provided by Dana Dramov McCollough and Brady McCollough. by @uscarchitecture

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"Forms, Lost and Found" by Suylen De La Rosa, M.Arch 2026Studying the effects of glass, this thesis reimagines the modern community greenhouse not as a simple enclosure, but as a dynamic, light-mediating architecture driven by the material intelligence of glass. Through the strategic layering of glass tubes, etched, fluted, and dichroic glass panels, overlapping translucencies generate shifting atmospheres of diffused light, shadow, and spectral phenomena that transforms glass from passive skin into an active ecological tool. These luminous conditions modulate plant growth, foster human comfort, and dissolve the boundary between built structure and living ecosystem. The community greenhouse becomes a civic and ecological commons, where each glass threshold negotiates between transparency and enclosure, public and private, cultivated and wild. Architecture, here, does not merely shelter growth, it becomes the condition through which growth is made possible. #usc #uscarchitecture #uscarchitecturestudentwork by @uscarchitecture

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Continuing with our architecture students and their summer internships, we are proud to introduce our next student. Mia Alonso is interning at Vertebral! 📍Mexico City#USCArchitecture #USCArchitectureStudents #Architecture #ArchitectureInternship by @uscarchitecture

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"Soft Thresholds of the Familiar" by Morgan Lewis. This project explores how textile techniques like smocking, pleating, and quilting can shape architectural surfaces. Translating these soft, craft-based processes into cast materials and façade systems, the project investigates how memory, pattern, and material can inform structure and enclosure at multiple scales. Morgan also spoke at the 2026 School of Architecture Commencement!Read more in our news: https://buff.ly/7YReROd @morganlewiiss by @uscarchitecture

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High school students in our summer Exploration of Architecture program recently explored LACMA and the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, along with some final reviews in the architecture building. #usc #uscarchitecture by @uscarchitecture

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From occupational therapy to architecture, SuJin Kim is redefining how design can support health and community. Her graduate studio project explored a creative office space in San Francisco that integrates workplace design with community healthcare, demonstrating how architecture can foster healing and connection. Recognized among the top 1% of her class, SuJin's work reflects a unique blend of empathy, innovation, and technical excellence, highlighting the powerful role of thoughtful design in shaping healthier communities. #Architecture #uscarchitecture #usc by @uscarchitecture

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This summer we are proud to spotlight a few of our architecture students and their internships. First up is Mayda interning at Tina Hovsepian Consulting📍 Los Angeles #USCArchitecture #USCArchitectureStudents #Architecture #ArchitectureInternship by @uscarchitecture

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One shade structure. Three locations.First stop: Debuting at the @metrolosangeles Downtown-Inglewood Station to shade guests on their way to World Cup matches. Then it soaked up a month of sunshine (so you didn't have to!) outside the @caaminla in @expositionparkla. Now? It's on the move again. 👀See you soon on @uscedu's campus! And if you visit Watt Hall in the @uscarchitecture school, you might just see a familiar build. ✌We love a structure with a social life. 😎In the Shade Zones Design Competition, we challenged students to create temporary, modular designs that could fit a variety of spatial contexts. And this winning design knocked it out of the park! by @uscarchitecture

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"Up Over Out" by Ryan Li, M.Arch 2026This thesis proposes an architectural model that pulls the city “up” instead of “out,” challenging limitations to vertical city planning and urban development. Traditional infrastructure, such as roads and streets, becomes vertical circulation and structural systems that envelop and segment stacked “blocks”, each containing distinct programs and functions as typical blocks would. This vertical infrastructure, or “spine,” acts as the foundational framework, supporting everything from self-sustaining resource systems to residential neighborhoods while serving as the main space for transit. Pushing against the notion of urban sprawl, the project introduces a new form of navigation and spatial organization defined by density, proximity, and collapsed typological boundaries. The result is a vertically integrated urban environment that reconsiders how cities can function, circulate, and grow in limited land conditions. #usc #uscarchitecture #uscarchitecturestudentwork by @uscarchitecture

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"Trusses All the Way Down" Student work completed by Josh Hunsucker and Sofia Yu Josh is also a transfer student. You can read about his journey to USC in our news! by @uscarchitecture

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"Amphibious Futures" by Garett Lee, M.Arch 2026This thesis reimagines architecture’s role in a post-flood world where the city becomes both a cultural memory and ecological frontier. Moving beyond infrastructural strategies of resistance, it adopts speculative design as a method to envision how life, settlement, and ritual might evolve within an amphibious terrain. The project constructs a series of architectural components: buoyant structures, adaptable infrastructures, and collective habitats that explore how water, rather than serving as a boundary or threat, might become a connective medium through which new forms of living and belonging are articulated. #usc #uscarchitecture by @uscarchitecture

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