Architecture students design houses for L.A.’s homeless Trojans apply their skills to social ills, designing prototypes for temporary shelters that could work in the real world By: Joanna Clay | Categorized: Social Impact When architecture student Jayson Champlain set out to build his first house, he didn’t go to vendors or Home Depot. He went…
At USC’s ‘Homeless Studio’, Students Work Towards Real Solutions to the City’s Homeless Crisis By: Nicholas Korody Just a few miles from the University of Southern California campus, Skid Row contains a significant portion of the homeless population of Los Angeles, a city in the midst of a declared state of emergency with nearly 47,000 people in…
Architecture Students Imagine Housing Solutions for L.A.’s Homeless Tasked with devising shelters for those living on the street, University of Southern California students ask themselves: what is the architect’s role in solving homelessness? When Los Angeles voters cast their ballots on November 8 (predominantly for Clinton), they also ticked off their support for a local measure: to put…
The inaugural winner of the Fast Company 2016 Innovation By Design Linda Tischler Award is Behnaz Farahi, whose 3D-printed garment reacts to the human gaze with actuator-driven movements based on data about the person looking at it. Part garment and part interface, it reacts to its surroundings as if it were a living part of…
Wired.com | By: Sam Lubell IF YOU’VE RECENTLY driven the streets of Los Angeles, you’ve probably noticed a striking uptick in the city’s already huge homeless population. Encampments are still centered in downtown’s Skid Row, but many more tents, shopping carts, and makeshift shelters are popping up on sidewalks, in parks, near overpasses, and under…
On October 12th the MADWORKSHOP team flew to NYC in preparation for our Press Conference at The Storefront for Art and Architecture. MADWORKSHOP NYC press conference introduces the foundation to the east coast and has now become a partner with The Storefront for Art and Architecture. Our team at the press conference and from left to…
The LA Incubator Inspiring A New Generation of Maker-Designers Founded in 2015, MADWorkshop inspires young designers to just “make things”—be it homeless shelters or modular furniture—and make a difference. By: Avinash Rajagopal Museum hoppers in downtown Los Angeles can now find a bit of a respite in the public courtyard of the Museum of Contemporary Art…
Sofia Borges is a practicing writer, architect, designer, curator, and trend consultant. She is a faculty member at the USC School of Architecture, a regular contributor to Mark Magazine, and a contributing curator at viction:ary. Sofia has an extensive background in architecture, urbanism, and the arts. She studied photography at the California Institute of the…
Foundation Project, 2016
Joy Ride: An Architect’s Journey to Mexico’s Ancient and Colonial Places is a journal of travels through Mexico that uses a series of sketches, photographs, and observations recorded and gathered over an extensive sojourn across the country. David Martin, architect, as a native Californian and itinerant traveler through Mexico, had a fundamental sense of the country’s history, terrain, and culture. It wasn’t until this pivotal trip, with a bit of time and a sketchbook in hand, that David had an epiphany. (continued below)
