Starting off my first catalog in this site, I had to wake up very early and come to school around 7:00am to shoot.
I was a bit dismayed because of the kind of weather that covered the skies. When I got to the campus, specifically the Arts building, the clouds from the east had slowly moved uncovering the sun’s ray enough for me to get a really good shot on the building. I was lucky enough to get this kind of lighting that doesn’t usually show up – a mix of dark clouds and sunny rays.
The building in featured in this post is known as A.S. building, mainly because; it’s the building’s original name and all courses catered here are for the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) students. The college having 10 departments, only 3 departments in this building (Department of Languages and Literature, Department of Psychology, Department of Anthropology, Sociology and History), consisting only of 5 floors, classrooms are on the first to the third floor, DASH being the sole department on the fourth floor (used to have 5 departments) and the CAS Dean’s Office at the fifth floor.
Having its original name Arts and Sciences building, it was later change to Philip van Engelen building (PE), its construction dates back ….. idk, but I guess the building isn’t that old, though it has cosmetic problems with the wall paint due to weathering, it had gone some major and minor renovations, some of it were: the transfer of a biological museum and an IT department to give space to the departments residing in at present, a creation of a stage, bleachers, and a new AV room (one that could replace the old AV room which barely fits a whole class in it) and the conversion of some classrooms to speech labs.
The architecture and design is simple, but it’s something built to appreciate the kind of beauty USC-TC has to offer: the green trees, the hills, the open sky, the neighboring buildings and the city view. I dedicate this post to those who has eyes, but are too busy to see.
Enjoy :D
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| Name is what the sign says. |
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| I was very fortunate to take the building with these clouds. |
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| Dept of Psychology |
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| Side rear view of the building |
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| bleachers at back with people working on a floor mural which i am going to take a picture of soon, it just finished |
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| Where Psyc majors hang out waiting for classes |
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| The building has a really unique structure, the ramp was made in a way that people can enjoy the nature the school has to offer even inside the building. |
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| The science building (green roof) and the University Church (far back) |
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| Building's lobby |
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| It's curvature with the holes reminds me of the Colosseum, haha |
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| The newly constructed AVR with the new stage above it |
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| Going down |
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| Just beautiful! |
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| Going up |
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| One of the simple things in life that makes me smile :) |
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| front side view of the building |
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| A very awesome perspective of the building |
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| rear view fronting the stage |
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| found a small puddle of water on the stage, so took out my camera and found art |
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| Just below the front part of the building |
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| Colosseum yeah! |
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| one of the basic meansof transportation around the campus - USC Shuttle |
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| Who knew this was interesting, I guess people really don't see much in simple things, my lens got wet doing this, so some of my pictures in this catalog has a blur / spec on the bottom right of the picture |
