LACHSA is located on California State University Los Angeles’s campus. The high school stresses the importance and value of the arts and as a school that relies on donations to provide art education, visibility and identity free of the university is an integral part of the school’s message to the community. The design of the…

Law Quad I am the keeper of all that is just and fair. If power is knowledge than I bare the weight of it all. Not many have what I have and so I stand alone. I strive for balance; what is good must be rewarded and what is bad must suffer the consequences. However,…

Charles H. Wright Museum (Detroit, MI) Fields of study: Spatial analysis African American History Museum Studies Safe infrastructure practices Sociology Psychology Urban Planning Organizational leadership History preservation ARCH 521: Structures and Social Justice The preservation of history is essential to humanity’s progress but perhaps just as important is the design of a proper structure to…

Griffith Observatory Detailing to the inside of the building adding the grandness that the observatory represented for the city.  Line weights and dot densities give texture and a sense of how each space flows into another including the compactness of each room.  The planetarium becomes the focal point through the use of darker and thicker…

Comfort Corner Domain Lavine describes the importance of domain as “Domain begins with a sense of our own bodies and distance around them that we consider to be our own domain,” (Lavine, p.1). This is to say that a domain is one that gives us not just a sense of the environment and space but…