In June 2020, two WORKHOUSE Research Studio students, Jacob Sertich and David Vasquez received the Chao-Di Su Award for the Best Project in Graduating class 2019-2020.
The 2019-2020 WORKHOUSE Latent Futures Research Studio is the final of the WORKHOUSE Trilogy. Starting in 2017, the WORKHOUSE Research studio has built on previous xLAB research initiatives to explore the gray zone between domestic and workspaces and activities. With the support of Mitsui Fudosan—a leading real estate company in Japan, xLAB’s ongoing research examines the relationship between architecture and broad shifts of technology, economy, and lifestyle. The final WORKHOUSE Studio focused on creating architecture as a platform for actively producing the future.
WORKHOUSE 3 Latent Futures is the last in the WORKHOUSE Research Studio Essay Series Trilogy. It concludes a three-year study of the grey zone between domestic and workspaces and activities by UCLA students.
While it seems that technology, community, and aesthetics are unrelated to each other, architectural aesthetics of each era has developed as representations of technologies of the eras.
