Lecture Series ends with well-known architect
Well-known Los Angeles based architect Barbra Bestor presented her list of projects she had worked on throughout the years.
Architecture
Multiple professors to retire after years of service
Retirement awaits a few prominent figures of East Los Angeles College including seven faculty members and two staff members.
Architecture students construct living environments for sleep over
Students slept under the stars during the East Los Angeles College Architecture Department Structure Sleepover in the quad Monday night.
Students construct life-size projects
Architecture students began constructing life-size cardboard cutouts of themselves at the E-7 building Monday for their Environmental Design 101 course at ELAC.
Architecture students exhibit biomimicry projects
By Jorge Aldaco The students of Environmental used their imagination and skills to compose structures. Outside of the E7 Technology Center Tuesday, large wooden structures made by Environmental Design 102 students were displayed and critiqued by a professional architect. Professor Orhan Ayyuce had his students do an assignment that incorporated the use of natural materials. He also had them make elaborate designs inspired by flora and fauna. These designs became…
Architecture club wins at Design Village
By Ivan Cazares and Stephanie Garibay For the first time, members of the East Los Angeles College Architecture Club were awarded the most habitable award at the 2015 Design Village. The winning team Circadian Rhythms included members Ivan Hu, Saul Navarro, Matthew Rivera, Eddie Ramirez and Thomas Gin. Circadian Rhythms was one of three ELAC teams included in the competition, but was the only team to win an award. The…
Shelter projects demonstrate survivor skills
By Diego Linares An ELAC Design 102 class of approximately 25 students took place last Friday afternoon to present their solution to the problem with the, “Emergency Shelter,” project professor Alexis Navarro assigned. The project stresses the familiarity students must have with the materials they are appointed and the awareness and reaction to conditions. The students were told to make a portable single-person structure meant to survive such conditions made…
Architecture students place in contest, awarded best overall
By Keyla Lopez For the first time since 1978, students from the Architecture Department were awarded best overall structure at the annual architectural competition Design Village 2012 last Sunday. The competition was held at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. The winning team consisted of Felipe Oros, Adam Martinez, Mario Arana and Roberto Rojas. Another team from ELAC, along with 50 other teams from schools like Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Woodburry University,…
Former architect professor pushed students to become productive in society
By Edward Singleton Robert Theodore Weiss former architecture professor who taught at East Los Angeles College for 31 years died on Jan. 26. Weiss, a former Korean War veteran, began teaching at ELAC in the fall of 1961 and retired in 1991. As a young man, Weiss attended ELAC where he earned a scholarship to the University of Southern California. He graduated from ELAC in 1944. While attending USC he became…