CCA Architecture Division

Join us tomorrow eveninig to celebrate our architecture students who are exhibiting in and competing in @aiala2x8: Domum, the AIALA student exhibition and scholarship program. The opening reception will be held tomorrow, Thursday, November 5, at 5PM PST. To RSVP, go to: 2x8.org! Participating @cca_arch_div students include Navya Sharad (BArch 2021), Ireny Abrahim (BArch 2021), Michelle Boyd (MArch 2021), Amy Spanos (March 2022) and Mahshid Tabatabaei (MArch 2021). AIALA's Dom...um exhibition showcases exemplary student work from 16 Architecture and Design Universities throughout California to celebrate the diversity of architectural philosophy and encourage conversation around a central theme. This year’s theme reflects on the dialogue surrounding housing in Los Angeles and other urban centers across the country. Architecture will be experienced virtually as students of the top California architecture programs will be exhibited at ""2X8: Domum,"" for its first year as an entirely virtual event. The exhibition will open with a scholarship award ceremony for the winning projects and will feature an immersive virtual environment where attendees are invited to explore the student work. #AIA #architecture #architectureschool #architecturestudent #designcompetition #studentdesigncompetition #aiala2x8 #2x8domum #archinect #archpaper #archrecord #aiala #ccarts #californiacollegeofthearts #ccarchitecture #architecture #interiordesign #studio #sanfrancisco #artschool #imadethat #architectureschool #ccainteriordesign #architecturestudent #architecturestudentblog #Chimeramade #bayarea

Today is the day! Get out there and vote! #vote #vote2020 DROP OFF YOUR BALLOT at @cacollegeofarts' Student Center Lounge (CCA’s official polling place) if you’re on the SF campus or at any polling location in California. VOTE IN PERSON at your designated polling place between 7 am and 8 pm. Look up your polling location in advance so you can plan how to get there or text Vote to GOVOTE (468683). And be sure to wear a mask!... IT’S NOT TOO LATE IF YOU HAVEN’T REGISTERED YET. You can still conditionally register and vote on the same day at any polling location near you. You may be asked to provide a form of photo or residence identification so please bring that with you. DROP YOUR BALLOT INTO ANY USPS MAIL BOX. This should be considered a last-resort option due to current USPS delivery delays. NOTE: The pickup time on the mailbox must be early enough to be postmarked by USPS the same day. Every vote counts! Vote posters by @cca_illustration Assistant Chair, Michael Wertz (@wertzateria).

Join us this Monday, November 2nd, for an election-eve conversation about anti-racist design education and practice with Dark Matter University members Tya Winn, Bryan Lee Jr., Preeti Sodhi. Moderated by faculty members Shalini Agrawal and Jia Gu. Dark Matter University is a democratic network of architects, designers, and scholars founded to work inside and outside of existing systems to challenge, inform, and reshape our present world toward a better future. Streaming live on Zoom. Link in bio!

Another #tbt from last spring's BArch Studio II: Context. Work by BArch student Andrea Brun. Taught by @Clarkthenhaus, Craig Scott (@cs_sf), and Dylan Kreuger (@dylan.things). BArch Studio II is a second semester core studio that considers architecture in relation to its physical and cultural contexts. While reinforcing and building upon the already introduced ideas of context and intention, the semester begins in earnest a comprehensive navigation through the architectural... design process of focused-objective design projects that articulate coherent sets of architectural intentions and develop the spatial, structural and organizational tools of the beginning designer. Analysis continues to broaden the students' awareness of formal/spatial principles in architectural design. #ccarts #californiacollegeofthearts #ccarchitecture #architecture #interiordesign #studio #sanfrancisco #artschool #imadethat #architectureschool #ccainteriordesign #architecturestudent #architecturestudentblog #Chimeramade #bayarea

Highlights from last spring's Design Media II: Fidelity, Contingency, Indifference course, led by instructor Adam Marcus (@radadam). Featuring work by MArch students Cole Ryder, Peter Jew, Yating Bai, RJ Hafiz, and Ki Schmidt. "MArch Design Media II" emphasizes architectural communication, representation and design methodology through the use of visualization techniques with a focus on graphic representation, 2D drawing, 3D modeling, digital fabrication, animation, and graphi...c design for portfolio development. Students are introduced to 3D digital media concepts and techniques with a focus on the fundamental aspects of computer aided design and fabrication processes. Framed by a general introduction to digital media theory, students gain fluency in a variety of software applications for the purpose of developing technical and visual proficiencies to be integrated into the architectural design process. #ccarts #californiacollegeofthearts #ccarchitecture #architecture #interiordesign #studio #sanfrancisco #artschool #imadethat #architectureschool #ccainteriordesign #architecturestudent #architecturestudentblog #Chimeramade #bayarea

Join us on Monday, October 27th at 6pm PDT for our next Architecture Lecture Series event. Ron Rael, Principal of Rael San Fratello and Professor at UC Berkeley, will give the closing keynote lecture for Make. Act. Resist: A Teach-in on Borders and Migration. Streaming live on Zoom (link in bio!). Ron Rael is a design activist, author, and thought leader within the topics of additive manufacturing, borderwall studies, and earthen architecture. His research interests connect ...indigenous and traditional material practices to contemporary technologies and issues. Professor Rael holds the Eva Li Memorial Chair in Architecture at the University of California at Berkeley where he directs the printFARM Laboratory (print Facility for Architecture, Research and Materials). He is the co-founder (with Virginia San Fratello) and principal of Rael San Fratello, which in 2014 was named an Emerging Voice by The Architectural League of New Yorkone of the most coveted awards in North American architecture. In 2017, he published "Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto for the U.S.-Mexico Boundary." Over the last four years, artists and designers have deployed their skills to oppose Trump’s anti-immigrant and nationalist rhetoric through critical artistic projects that build cross-border alliances and give voice to migrant experiences. This virtual teach-in will focus on art and design practices that address the politics of borders and migration. The aim of the "teach-in" is to simultaneously mobilize the CCA community while making scholarship and art public and outward facing. Make. Act. Resist is made possible by generous support from Creative Citizens in Action, the Architecture Division, the President’s Diversity Steering Group, the Film Program, and the CCA Libraries. #ccarts #californiacollegeofthearts #ccarchitecture #architecture #interiordesign #studio #sanfrancisco #artschool #imadethat #architectureschool #ccainteriordesign #architecturestudent #architecturestudentblog #Chimeramade #bayarea #architecturelectureseries #publicprograms #virtualevent #makeactresist #creativecitizensinaction

Throwback #tbt to student Ahmad Alajmi's (@ahmadalajmi.jpg) "Beach House" from last spring's BArch Studio II: Context. Taught by @Clarkthenhaus, Craig Scott (@cs_sf), and Dylan Kreuger (@dylan.things). BArch Studio II is a second semester core studio that considers architecture in relation to its physical and cultural contexts. While reinforcing and building upon the already introduced ideas of context and intention, the semester begins in earnest a comprehensive navigation... through the architectural design process of focused-objective design projects that articulate coherent sets of architectural intentions and develop the spatial, structural and organizational tools of the beginning designer. Analysis continues to broaden the students' awareness of formal/spatial principles in architectural design. #ccarts #californiacollegeofthearts #ccarchitecture #architecture #interiordesign #studio #sanfrancisco #artschool #imadethat #architectureschool #ccainteriordesign #architecturestudent #architecturestudentblog #Chimeramade #bayarea #beachhouse #domesticspaces #throwback #throwbackthursday

Tomorrow, Oct. 22nd, join us for Tech+'s "Rising Complexity" virtual conference. Esteemed faculty and co-chair for the conference, Dr. Negar Kalantar (@negarkalantar), will be leading the conference's Keynote presentations alongside a number of other architects and designers in the field. Tech+'s "Rising Complexity" virtual conference will showcase the latest in architecture, engineering and construction technological innovation: from smart-building systems to the use of grap...hics engines to navigate and render projects. This is a great opportunity for students/faculty to participate in architecture demos, workshops, lectures, etc. The CCA community will receive a 20% discount on registration. Register to attend at techplus.co/events! #ccarts #californiacollegeofthearts #ccarchitecture #architecture #interiordesign #studio #sanfrancisco #artschool #imadethat #architectureschool #ccainteriordesign #architecturestudent #architecturestudentblog #Chimeramade #bayarea #architecturelectureseries #publicprograms #virtualevents

The SF Chronicle featured a story on CCA's Architectural Ecologies Lab oyster habitat restoration work at Quartermaster Reach in San Francisco’s Presidio. AEL directors Margaret Ikeda and Evan Jones have been leading the design and fabrication of ecologically optimized substrates to help support the revitalization of native oyster habitats. Congratulations to the AEL team! "A team of architects from the California College of the Arts created three dozen undulating fiberglass... forms that will be affixed to the walls of two short culverts carrying creek water under the parkway through Quartermaster Reach to Crissy Marsh. The team prototyped around 15 versions of the placemat-size, 3-D printed panels before settling on a series of designs that attracted the most oysters during trial runs. Ideas that succeed at the Presidio could be applied to larger infrastructure projects around the bay, such as the proposed $5 billion rebuilding of the Embarcadero seawall, said Evan Jones, an architect and leader of the Architectural Ecologies Lab at the California College of the Arts. 'There are no flat planes in nature, so you typically get a single invasive species on engineered surfaces,' Jones said. 'When you have hills and valleys, that creates pockets of variation' and attracts oysters and other sessile creatures that would otherwise drift out to sea without spawning." Check out their full write-up at @sfchronicle / sfchronicle.com! #ccarts #californiacollegeofthearts #ccarchitecture #architecture #interiordesign #studio #sanfrancisco #artschool #imadethat #architectureschool #ccainteriordesign #architecturestudent #architecturestudentblog #Chimeramade #bayarea #architecturalecologieslab #ecology #oysters #habitat #presidio #sfchronicle"

We are thrilled to announce that several @cca_arch_div students have been nominated to participate in this year's 2X8 AIA LA @aiala2x8 virtual exhibition. An opening reception will be held on November 5th from 6pm -7pm PST. The exhibition is free and open to the public. RSVP now at www.aialosangeles.org! Participating students: Navya Sharad (BArch 2021), Ireny Abrahim (BArch 2021), Michelle Boyd (MArch 2021), Amy Spanos (March 2022) and Mahshid Tabatabaei (MArch 2021). Congr...atulations to you all! AIA|LA is proud to host "2X8: Domum" in its 14th iteration of the Annual Student Exhibition. The exhibition showcases exemplary student work from 16 Architecture and Design Universities throughout California to celebrate the diversity of architectural philosophy and encourage conversation around a central theme. This year’s theme reflects on the dialogue surrounding housing in Los Angeles and other urban centers across the country. Architecture will be experienced virtually as students of the top California architecture programs will be exhibited at "2X8: Domum,"for its first year as an entirely virtual event. The exhibition will open with a scholarship award ceremony for the winning projects and will feature an immersive virtual environment where attendees are invited to explore the student work. #ccarts #californiacollegeofthearts #ccarchitecture #architecture #interiordesign #studio #sanfrancisco #artschool #imadethat #architectureschool #ccainteriordesign #architecturestudent #architecturestudentblog #Chimeramade #bayarea #architecturelectureseries #publicprograms #virtualevent #aias #aiasla #2x8 #architectureexhibition #openingreception

Join us on Monday, October 19th at 6pm PDT for our next Architecture Lecture Series event. Sarah Lopez, Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, will give the opening keynote lecture for Make. Act. Resist: A Teach-in on Borders and Migration. Streaming live on Zoom (link in bio!). Sarah Lopez is a built environment historian, as well as a migration scholar. Lopez' research focuses on the impact of migrant remittancesdollars earned in the U.S. and sent to fa...milies and communities in Mexicoon the architecture and landscape of rural Mexico and urban USA. By approaching architectural history within the context of migration, Lopez examines multiple sites across international borders, arguing that we must examine the spatial and built environment histories of discrete places simultaneously. Her book entitled, ""The Remittance Landscape: The Spaces of Migration in Rural Mexico and Urban USA,"" was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2015 and won the 2017 Kostof Book Award from the Society of Architectural Historians. Over the last four years, artists and designers have deployed their skills to oppose Trump’s anti-immigrant and nationalist rhetoric through critical artistic projects that build cross-border alliances and give voice to migrant experiences. This virtual teach-in will focus on art and design practices that address the politics of borders and migration. The aim of the ""teach-in"" is to simultaneously mobilize the CCA community while making scholarship and art public and outward facing. Make. Act. Resist is made possible by generous support from Creative Citizens in Action, the Architecture Division, the President’s Diversity Steering Group, the Film Program, and the CCA Libraries. #ccarts #californiacollegeofthearts #ccarchitecture #architecture #interiordesign #studio #sanfrancisco #artschool #imadethat #architectureschool #ccainteriordesign #architecturestudent #architecturestudentblog #Chimeramade #bayarea #architecturelectureseries #publicprograms #virtualevent

MArch students Sam Higgwe and Celdin Fajardo's, "The Pavillion," from this fall's intergrated building design studio, The Post-Carbon Museum. Taught by Ryan Keerns (@ryan.keerns) and Daniel Garcia (@_danielalexis_). "The Pavillion is designed to showcase emissive artworks at three lighting levels: daylight, medium light and low light. Each lighting level is achieved by conditions of the spaces below the grade level. With the daylit artworks exhibited along the ramps which l...ead to the medium-lit space on the right and low-lit space on the left. Some strategies for conditioning these spaces include: the louvred roof for shading, the polycarbonate skylight panel over the medium lit space and the strips of light wells that allow a minimum amount of light into the low-lit exhibition space. The representation technique takes a surreal approach to photo-realism, with photo-realistic materials and lighting, a background that appears to be an artist studio and a large reading lamp that emulates direction light from the sun." The Post-Carbon Museum is an intergrated studio aimed at moving beyond the neutrality of the white cube gallery. We are examining the relationship between a work of art, the environment in which it is displayed, and how meaning is conveyed. Through iterative prototyping, the students are speculating on how a comprehensive approach to building systems can shape the conceptual, formal, and experiential nature of a building. Shown here is a series of models that explore different daylighting strategies and organizational models to be employed and expanded upon in the coming weeks as students develop proposals for an art museum dedicated to time-based media utilizing mass timber construction. #ccarts #californiacollegeofthearts #ccarchitecture #architecture #interiordesign #studio #sanfrancisco #artschool #imadethat #architectureschool #ccainteriordesign #architecturestudent #architecturestudentblog #Chimeramade #bayarea #thepavillion #pavillion #postcarbonmuseum #museum

"The Screen" from this fall's Interior Design Studio I and Design Media I course. Taught by faculty members Negar Kalantar and Megan Werner. By using folded Post-It notes, students each designed their own tessellated spatial screen. Students had to consider the organization of a 2.5D system of patterns in a planar tessellated network (the composition of a continuous field).Through the use of underlying geometries and overlying patterns, students designed systems and subsystem...s of order, hierarchies, and shapes that together comprised proposed tessellations. Work by Mezz Deboo, Latifa Alghanim, Nancy Liu, Catherine Zhang, Violet Fu, Zorry Gao, and Larry Li. Interior Design Studio I introduces students to the principles and strategies essential to the creation and development of 3D built and virtual spaces, interior systems and spatial concepts. Particular emphasis is given to the development of robust conceptual ideas and how they further develop into 3D design and establish spatial relations within the built environment. Formulating an understanding and application of a formal design vocabulary is primary to this studio, as are skills of visual representation and languages used to identify spatial concepts. Focus is placed upon the advancement of a design process, on the quality of visual presentations, and techniques and skill-set associated with model-making. #ccarts #californiacollegeofthearts #ccarchitecture #architecture #interiordesign #studio #sanfrancisco #artschool #imadethat #architectureschool #ccainteriordesign #architecturestudent #architecturestudentblog #Chimeramade #bayarea

Today (and everyday), we honor #IndigenousPeoples. Here at CCA, we understand Land Acknowledgement as a transformative act meant to confront our place on Native Lands and to build mindfulness of our present participation in colonial legacies. As CCA faculty, staff, and students, we affirm our responsibility to amplify Indigenous voices, we stand in solidarity with local Indigenous communities, and we respect local Indigenous protocol. We practice Land Acknowledgement at CCA i...n order to teach and promote greater public consciousness of Native sovereignty and cultural rights. @Cacollegeofarts campuses are located in Huichin and Yelamu, also known as Oakland and San Francisco, respectively, on the unceded territories of Chochenyo and Ramaytush Ohlone peoples, who have continuously lived upon this land since time immemorial. We recognize the historic discrimination and violence inflicted upon Indigenous peoples in California and the Americas, including their forced removal from ancestral lands, and the deliberate and systematic destruction of their communities and culture. CCA honors Indigenous peoplespast, present, and futurehere and around the world, and we wish to pay respect to local elders.