Bourne out of a collective desire to bring the work outside the walls of the USC School of Architecture Cabinet is a show that engages the importance of precedence in architecture.
Staged at the A+D Museum the exhibition displays the collective work of the USC Graduate Thesis Class of 2018 during their thesis year. It catalogs a documentation of architectural history, manifesting in the exhibition of selected thesis works responding to their architectural precedent.
Like the forerunner to the modern museum, the Renaissance Era Cabinet of Curiosities, which collected and cataloged historical artifacts from around the world, Cabinet collects architectural history and theory.
As opposed to many other programs which focus primarily on novelty and originality, the work produced by the Graduate Thesis Class aims to embrace the existing narrative of architectural theory, elevate and then challenge the status quo.
Cabinet departs from other student exhibitions and graduate shows in that it’s inception and fabrication was driven by students. Under advisor Anthony Morey, it was designed, built, curated and coordinated by a student collective from within the USC Graduate Class of 2018.