California Dreaming is a longing for freedom of action, a craving for community of independent spirits, and a thirst for pleasure in creativity. A place of abundance and beauty, of warmth and wealth. Economic opportunities, ripe for the taking, transformed social status from a fixed condition into an evolving reflection of effort over time. However, on the hardscrabble path to dreamland, other possibilities have emerged. California Dreaming measures quality of life by its style and suggests that the joy of working breeds success. To dream is to bring the subconscious into light - a hazy comprehension felt as much as understood. A mind at peace with ambiguity, recomposing fragments of the known into the unforeseen.The three practices highlighted here flourish in an unencumbered environment where architecture is defined in the making. One theorist, one designer and one artist - all three are professors at the Woodbury School of Architecture (WSOA). A small, private university, Woodbury is situated on a beautiful campus in the foothills of the Verdugo Mountains on the border of Los Angeles.
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