The School of Architecture

Please check out this wonderful article by Fellow Nora Burba Trulsson in the current Phoenix Home & Garden magazine.
https://www.phgmag.com/preservation-dedication/
And we hope that you can join us at the special OA+D Archives event on November 6th at the Chandler Museum.

Today is National Nonprofit Day, and we're taking a moment to reflect on what nonprofit status really means for The School of Architecture.

As a 501(c)(3), we're driven by purpose: training students who think critically, design responsibly, and give back to the communities they'll serve. None of that happens without the support of donors, partners, and advocates like you.

If you'd like to be part of that story, we'd love to have you: https://www.tsoa.edu/donate

Image: Shelter Thesis "Grow House" by Michelle Yeeles

The Integrated Design Studio with Landscape (IDS) is the platform upon which students evidence the ability to produce an architectural project informed by a complex and comprehensive program that is advanced from schematic design through detailed development of programmatic spaces, structural and environmental systems, life-safety provisions, wall sections and models, and building material assemblies.

Students presented their proposals for a Community Grief and Bereavement Center as an expansion of the Maggie's Centres Model.

“While each Maggie’s centre is unique, the shared environment each one creates is no accident, but rather a response to a carefully considered and demanding architectural brief. Every architect we work with is given the same architectural brief, which is very close to the original blueprint created by Maggie herself. The brief covers the functional needs of the buildings, but also allows each architect to express their interpretation of what a calming and welcoming space means to them.”

Thank you to our guest jurors John Sather, Nick Mancusi, Jay Atherton, Douglas Sydnor, Pablo Moncayo, Eddie Jones, Marlene Imirzian, Marc J Neveu,

Featured Students: Rogelio Botello, Benjamin Grant, ethan lasalle-nguyen, Cameron Lu, Aya Meqdad, Daisy Pacheco, Brockton Winkler

Studio 2 began with the prototypical home, challenging students to explore conception and design at a larger scale. Through rigorous architectural research, students designed multi-family dwellings paired with community, commercial (office, retail, etc.), or assembly functions — tackling issues of equity, accessibility, and density along the way. The studio centered on the relationship between architecture and its surrounding context, introducing urban site design as a new constraint, and pushed students to build on foundational skills toward more complex spatial compositions.

For this particular studio, TSOA partnered with The Design School at ASU and included 3 fourth-year undergraduate architecture students to its Master of Architecture cohort.

Featured students are: Bao Nguyen, Jadyn Lackershire, Kelly Vigil and Katie Le.

Learn more about TSOA studio topics at https://www.tsoa.edu/programs/courses

Join us for The School of Architecture Fall Immersion program!

The program offers the opportunity to participate in an experience that elevates your architectural design skills and conceptual thinking through our school’s ethos of learning-by-doing.

Geared to college-level participants and adults interested in deepening their understanding of the architectural discipline, the program provides an opportunity to learn about architecture side-by-side with faculty and students at TSOA.

We welcome participants of all backgrounds to join our small community.

Register and learn more at https://www.tsoa.edu/apply/immersion

In 2017, The School of Architecture students immersed themselves in the studio of master woodworker Edward Wohl (of Edward Wohl Woodworking & Design), whose home and workshop sit just a few miles from Taliesin in a home built by one of Frank Lloyd Wright's own stonemasons.

The workshop gave students a direct, physical extension of the pedagogy Wright established nearly a century ago: architecture learned through material, craft, and the discipline of making.

The School of Architecture is a NAAB-accredited graduate school, offering two and three-year Master of Architecture programs. Students come from across the U.S. and around the world — from Berlin to Palestine to Ghana — drawn to the school’s unique approach to architectural education. Unlike traditional programs, TSOA offers a cooperative, hands-on learning environment rooted in community life and design-build experimentation.

Learn more about us at tsoa.edu

The School of Architecture Dean Stephanie Lin joined the The Pantheon Institute in Rome for end of summer studio reviews as a guest juror! In the cohort is our very own, Kelly Vigil, who is joined by students from SCI-Arc and Carnegie Mellon University.