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Dozens of students flocked to the Art Gallery for PCC Architecture, an exhibition of work produced by architecture students on Thursday.  The visitors were discussing the works, taking pictures and video, interacting with the different pieces, and enjoying the exhibit.

Some of the works are abstract creations and many are different structures, such as a design for the Westfield Mall in Century City. Some of the works had pictures of the inspiration and their process of coming up with the final product.

Thao Trinh was in charge of putting together the exhibit. This was her first experience being in charge; she seemed to be happy with the results.

Trinh said the most difficult obstacle in putting together the exhibit was figuring out how to organize the entire room. She said the most fun thing was getting to work with everyone involved. “We had our frustrating sides. Like [something didn’t] look right so we had to remove it and put it back again,” Trinh said.

Griffith’s class was there checking out the work and seemed to be learning from the “field trip” to the exhibit.

Zenan Guo, architecture, stood looking at some of the works on the wall. His favorite piece was UCLA School of Journalism and New Media. “[I like the piece because] I think it’s very creative. Also, I think it looks good compared with the others,” Guo said.

Christian Landaverde, architecture, walked with a few of his classmates and discusses the different aspects of each piece. His favorite piece was Untitled but he described it as an “amoeba-like structure.” “The composition is really well put [together] and the source pictures that were used to create the actual piece actually transition really well,” said Landaverde.

Another piece he was interested in was Fom by Greg Morgan, Steven Valdez, Storm Campo and Chris Marsudidjaja. “Foam is always fun. Using new materials in architecture is always one of the greatest challenges,” said Ladaverde.

Morgan watched students check out his group’s foam chair, encouraging them to sit on it. “We spent a couple months just researching the material itself,” Morgan said. “We started with a random assortment of household objects and a couple of us came with different spongy materials. Mine was a grouting sponge and another had a kitchen sponge,” he said.

Morgan explained that the group decided on furniture foam because they found that they could buy large quantities of the foam from a manufacturer.

He said the foam was unique and gave an emotional quality. “Every time someone would touch it, they would keep doing it. It made people happy so we knew there had to be some form of human interaction,” said Morgan.

 

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