2016 October
Joy Han
2016 Fellow
Joy Han recently graduated from the University of Southern California with a Bachelors of Architecture. Joy was born and raised in Texas and is currently based in Los Angeles. The CAD chair was a project that was designed during her fifth year at USC through the furniture design class taught by Scott Mitchell. The CAD chair was one of the two final projects chosen and sponsored by the MADWORKSHOP foundation to be further designed for commercial production.
Sofia Borges Appointed New Acting Director of MADWORKSHOP
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….
+October 6, 2016
The Furniture Studio
MADWORKSHOP x USC School of Architecture
Conceived by David Martin over a decade ago, the Furniture Studio at USC School of Architecture has become a key staple of the undergraduate curriculum. The popular class now has two sections each semester taught by Board Member R. Scott Mitchell and Program Coordinator John Uniack. The Furniture Studio teaches students how to build and weld. The Furniture Studio culminates with each student fabricating a full-scale furniture piece. Students with extraordinary designs can go on to become fellows of MADWORKSHOP and continue to develop their projects and bring them to market.
+October 6, 2016
The Homeless Studio
2016
MADWORKSHOP | USC
MADWORKSHOP has collaborated with the University of Southern California School of Architecture (USC) to establish the MADWORKSHOP Homeless Studio.
The coursework explores the architect’s role in helping to solve the Los Angeles homeless crisis.
Driven by the need to address Los Angeles’ rapidly accelerating homelessness crisis, the concept of the Studio was conceived in 2015 by Mary Klaus Martin, Co-Founder of MADWORKSHOP, and developed in partnership with USC and USC faculty members R. Scott Mitchell and Sofia Borges.
+October 6, 2016
Joy Ride by David Martin
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)
+October 6, 2016
Diana Yan
2016 Fellow
Diana is a designer, fabricator, and programmer from Los Angeles. She began working with MADWORKSHOP as an undergraduate student at the Arroyo Bridge Studio at the University of Southern California Architecture School, a project sponsored by the Foundation. She joined the MADWORKSHOP team full time after graduating with a Bachelors of Architecture where she performed several construction activities involving concrete, wood and glass detailing; designed and constructed a small folly; and worked on the SIX Chair. She also helped edit and design Joy Ride, which documents MADWORKSHOP Founder David C. Martin’s journey to Mexico’s ancient and colonial sites. She is currently pursuing her Masters of Design Studies in Technology at the Harvard Graduate School of Design with a focus on exploring the implementations and implications of interactive digital fabrication methods.