The MAA Research Trip to Los Angeles of the Emergent Territories Studio culminated with visits to some of the most important architectural projects in LA.

The students had the opportunity to visit important projects, such as the Eames House (Ray & Charles Eames), the Binocular Building, Indiana Avenue Houses and Walt Disney Concert Hall (Frank Gehry), Stahl House (Pierre Koening), Shindler House (Rudolf M. Schindler), Caltrans District 7 Headquarters (Morphosis),  Getty Center (Richard Meier & Partners Architects), The Blue Whale or Pacific Design Center (Cesar Pelli), Lacma Museum, etc.

The MAA Emergent Territories Studio workshop finalized with an Master Class titled “Monstrous Forms” delivered by Hernan Diaz Alonso at the C-HUB in Sciarc Kappe library. The lecture provided the framework for this studio, that “will explore the predominant effect of ‘isomorphism’ being the aggregation of diverse forms of design intelligence into an almost universal condition of image production”,  expecting “a full development of bridges, drawings, models, and animations.”

The Emergent Territories Studio will continue this collaboration with Sciarc during the development of the projects in Term 3 of the Master Program.