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Oversized Model Location Los Angeles, CA 
Status Built - Temporary

Full Resolution Studies (FRS) are too big to be a model but small enough to fit in a room. Unlike a mockup, the FRS is not a small chunk of a larger piece. The study is the project.

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Architecture for the Commons

Book: Architecture for the Commons: Participatory Systems in the Age of Platforms

Author: Jose Sanchez
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2020

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3-Ways Exhibition

A+D Museum
Los Angeles, California

Curation & Exhibition Design
June 30, 2018 – August 18, 2018

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Volkan Alkanoglu 


Client
Volkan Alkanoglu Studio

Website Design
Architectural Photography
Short Film

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Core Samples
USC Architecture

Select work from the Master of Architecture first year Core 1 Studios from 2022 - 2025.

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Lectures, Interviews, Exhibitions
Wedge Gallery

Exhibiition
Woodbury University

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Games Symposium

Harvard Graduate School of Design
April 18, 2016

Colloquium 
Poster Design

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Construction, Abstracted

Art Omi Residency 

Construction, Abstracted: Painting Graphic RCPs is a representation project that examines the role of reflective ceiling plans (RCPs) as a tool to discover emerging questions of plan organization and abstraction in contemporary architecture.

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Woodbury School of Architecture Public Programing

A curated list of lectures, exhibitions, and workshops for the 2018 - 2019 academic year at Woodbury School of Architecture. 

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Big Picture
SCI-Arc

A graduate Visual Studies seminar exploring computational design through Processing, ZBrush, and Autodesk Maya, culminating in collaborative digital landscapes that synthesize data, form, surface, and architectural representation.

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Portraits of Shape and Form

SCI-Arc & BSSA

A graduate workshop that reimagines the traditional still life through digital modeling and representation, using Rhino, Autodesk Maya, Adobe Illustrator, and Photoshop to investigate shape, surface, texture, and composition.

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Still Life House
Graphic Gardens & Object Oriented Rooms

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Figure Studies
Work in progress...

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FRS - Two Week Design-Built Charrette


USC School of Architecture

A three-week collaborative design-build assignment in which students construct site-specific, 1:1 material assemblies to explore form, tectonics, detailing, graphics, and the relationship between architectural representation and construction.

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Building Drawings
Building Drawings, an exhibition featuring the work of Bryan Cantley of Form:uLA, an experimental design studio based in Los Angeles. 

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A One-Night Stand for Art & Architecture
An event and publication project from 2015 - 2018 by a group of emerging architects and artists exploring different forms of media, but also new possibilities for strategies of subversion

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Mass Timber
Client: Harvard University Graduate School of Design

Event: Mass Timber: Beyond Instrumentality and Technology

Organizers: Jennifer Bonner & Hanif Kara

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Grounded Visionaries
Client: Harvard University Graduate School of Design

Art direction, bumper design, sound design, editing, interviews, and films for the Grounded Visionaries project. 

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Full Resolution Studies

Woodbury School of Architecture

Full Resolution Studies is a design-build studio in which students use architectural drawing, graphic standards, and light wood-frame construction to design and fabricate room-scale prototypes that blur the boundaries between models, representations, and buildings.

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Digital Mark Marking
Work in progress...




Axonometric Plan

Axonometric Plan is a series of drawings that explores the boundary between plan and axonometric projection.

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architecture, Architectural, Architecture
An exhibition focused on perception, positions, and the conventions of the discipline.

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Movie Posters

Drawings focused on shape, composition, and framing.

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Fake Facades & Manifesto
SCI-Arc

Visual Studies courses explored how architecture could be constructed and communicated through graphic illusion and moving images.

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Graduate Projects
USC School of Architecture 

Graduate Projects presented student and alumni work across USC Architecture’s graduate programs, highlighting emerging approaches to design, technology, research, preservation, and the built environment.

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MOCA International Guest House

Woodbury School of Architecture

MOCA International Guest House was a graduate design studio that used ambiguity, representation, and facade design to develop culturally responsive housing proposals for international residences to the Museum of Contemporary Art in downtown Los Angeles.

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Breadcrumbs
Graduate Thesis Project

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Paintings & Assemblages


Untitled (Blue with bent frame)
Mixed media on canvas

20" x 24.75” (50.8 × 62.9 cm)
2024




Still Shapes
Acrylic, ink, marker on canvas

72”x48” (182cm x 121.9cm)
2022






Untitled (Mark Making)
Ink, paper, cardboard, flashe, sewn canvas

56.75” x 72.75” (144.1 x 190.5 cm)
2022







Untitled (No.56)
Acrylic, alcohol-based ink on canvas

60” x 60” inches (152.4 x 152.4 cm)
2021






X,Y,Z
Ink, cardstock, paper, cardboard, flashe, acrylic, oil on sewn canvas

48” x 60” (121.9 x 152.4 cm)
2022





Hair Architecture
Acrylic, oil, ink, paper, velcro on sewn fabric

15” x 15” (38.1cm x 38.1cm)
2022






Signage
Flashe, oil, ink, paper, aluminium, plastic, tape, velcro, sewn fabric strip on sewn canvas

81.5” x 62” (207.1cm x 157.4cm)
2022





Corner Problems
Mixed media on canvas

27" x 33.5" (68.6 × 85.1 cm)
2024






Blue Still Life with Oranges
Pigment on archival acid free paper sewn to canvas, cardboard, velcro, pigment stick, acrylic, oil on canvas

33.8” x 41.2” (85.8cm x 104.6cm)
2023






Xerox Jacket
Cardstock, paper, ink, on sewn canvas

13.5” x 11.25”, (34.3 x 28.5 cm)
2022





Pair of Posters
Ink, acrylic, oil, ink, velcro, on sewn canvas

31” x 40” (78.7cm x 101.6)
2022





Painter’s Tools 2
Rubber cutting mat, acrylic, sewn canvas

19.75” x 13.5”, (50.1 x 34.3 cm)
2022






Untitled (orange with purple mark)
Mixed media on canvas

20" x 24.75” (50.8 × 62.9 cm)
2024






New York Picnic
Ink, cardstock, paper, cardboard, flashe, oil, oil stick on sewn canvas

36.5” x 40.5”, (92.7 x 102.8 cm)
2022





Untitled (bent frame with leg)
Mixed media on canvas

31" x 36.5” (78.7 × 92.7 cm)
2024





Painter’s Tools #3
Mixed media on canvas

19.75" x 15.75” (50.2 × 40.0 cm)
2024





Untitled (Paint Fragments on Green and Pink Sewn Canvas)

Mixed media on canvas

22.5” x 22.5” (57.2 × 57.2 cm)
2025





Untitled (Paint Fragments on Blue Canvas)

Mixed media on canvas

21.75” x 10.5” (55.2 × 26.7 cm)
2025





Cut, Copy, Paste
Ink, card stock, metallic paper, cardboard, acrylic, flashe on sewn canvas

26” x 38” in (66 x 96.5 cm)
2022

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Baggy Pants
Ink, paper, cardboard, acrylic, sewn canvas

47” x 59” (119.3 x 149.8 cm)
2022





Pinstripe Suit
Ink, cardstock, paper, cardboard, plastic, flashe on sewn canvas

42” x 32”, (106.7 x 181.3 cm), 
2022





Oversized Painting
Ink, paper, acrylic, sewn canvas

84” x 68.5” (213.3 x 172.7 cm)
2022





Untitled (Paint Fragments on Orange Canvas)
Mixed media on canvas

19.75” x 16.75” (50.2 × 42.5 cm)
2025





Dirty Laundry
acrylic, alcohol-based ink on canvas

72” x 60” inches (182.9 cm x 152.4 cm)
2020






Domestic tools, Domestic furniture
Ink, pencil, card stock, cardboard, flashe, on sewn canvas

34” x 42.75” (86.4 x 108.6 cm)
2022





Symphony of Peachiness
Pigment on archival acid free paper sewn to canvas, cardboard, velcro, acrylic, oil on canvas

48” x 48” (121.9cm x 121.9cm)
2023





Untitled (No.55)
Acrylic, alcohol-based ink on canvas

60” x 72” inches (152.4 x 182.9 cm)
2021






Untitled (Yellow Square)
Acrylic, oil, ink, paper, cardboard, Velcro on sewn fabric

27” x 35”, (68.5 x 88.9 cm)
2022





One of Two Paintings
Acrylic, ink, velcro, sewn fabric strips on sewn fabric

72” x 60” (182cm x152.4cm)
2022





Playground Fight
Mixed media on canvas

21.75" x 23” (55.2 × 58.4 cm)
2024





Untitled (No.52)
Acrylic, alcohol-based ink on canvas

60” x 60” inches (152.4 cm x 152.4 cm)
2020






Untitled (white mark on black)
Mixed media on canvas

9.25" x 11.75” (23.5 × 29.8 cm)
2024






Untitled (Paint Fragments on Pink Canvas)
Mixed media on canvas,

11.75” x 15” (29.8 × 38.1 cm)
2025





Line Tornado #3
Mixed media on canvas

8.5" x 8.75” (21.6 × 22.2 cm)
2024





5-27-21
Acrylic, ink, marker, sewn fabric and textiles on sewn canvas

65” x 57” (165.1 x 144.78 cm)
2021





Marked
Mixed media on canvas

48” x 60” (121.9 × 152.4 cm)
2024





Fungible Flower 1
Oil, oil stick, ink, card stock,
cardboard on sewn canvas

61.5” x 75.5” (154.9 x 191.7 cm)
2022





Blue Still Life with Lemons
Pigment on archival acid free paper sewn to canvas, cardboard, velcro, pigment stick, acrylic, oil on canvas

31.5” x 44.5” (80cm x 113.1cm)
2023





Ginger Beer
Acrylic, alcohol-based ink on canvas

60” x 72” (152.4 x 182.9 cm)
2021






Wall File Holder
Ink, cardstock, cardboard, acrylic on sewn canvas

13.75” x 19.75”, (34.9 x 50.1 cm)
2022






Blackjack
Acrylic - alcohol-based ink on canvas

60” x 60”  (152.4 cm x 152.4 cm)
2020





Untitled (Black Marks on Black Canvas)
Mixed media on canvas

11.75” x12.75” (29.8 × 32.4 cm)
2025





Poster Pillow
Ink, cardstock, cardboard,flashe on sewn canvas

35.5” x 24.5” (90.1 x 62.2 cm)
2022





Untitled (No.59)
Acrylic, alcohol-based ink on canvas

48” x 48” inches (121.9 cm x 121.9 cm)
2021






Untitled (Paint Fragments on Blue and Yellow Sewn Canvas)
Mixed media on canvas,

14.75” x 18.75” (37.5 × 47.6 cm)
2025





Line Tornado
Ink on paper, velcro on sewn black, white and gray canvas

10” x 13” (24.4cm x 33cm)
2022






Untitled (No.60)
Acrylic, alcohol-based ink on canvas

48” x 48”  (121.9 cm x 121.9 cm)
2021






Untitled (No.49)
Acrylic, alcohol-based ink on canvas

72” x 60”  (182.9 cm x 152.4 cm)
2020





Big BlueAcrylic, alcohol-based ink on canvas

72” x 60”  (182.9 cm x 152.4 cm)
2020





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Ryan Tyler Martinez is a Los Angeles-based designer, curator, painter, and educator. His work explores topics around authorship, form, and scale across architecture, painting, and exhibitions. He is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at USC School of Architecture and a partner at MA-LT.    

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Before MA-LT, Martinez worked for Gehry Partners, LLP. He has taught internationally in India, China, and the United States and has held faculty appointments at UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design, SCI-Arc, and Woodbury School of Architecture.        

He was Director of the Wedge Gallery from 2018–2021, participated in the Guest Curator Program at the A+D Museum, and has curated exhibitions at WUHO Gallery and USC School of Architecture, where he curated the “Graduate Projects” exhibitions from 2022–2025. His writing, design, and curatorial work have been published and discussed in Pidgin Magazine, Archinect, and Architect Magazine. He was a 2024 MacDowell Fellow and a 2022 Art Omi Architecture Resident, and his painting work has been exhibited in solo and group shows at MacDowell, Modest Common, the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, the A+D Museum, and Art Omi.      


Education
The Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) Master of Architecture, with Distinction

University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Bachelor of Arts in Art Studio,  Bachelor of Arts in Architecture, Minor in Art History


Academic Appointments
2021 – present
University of Southern California
School of Architecture
 

2018 - 2021
Woodbury University
School of Architecture

2017 - 2018
The Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc)

2014
UC Berkeley
College of Environmental Design


Professional Experience
2021 – present
MA-LT 
Principal and Co-Founder

2013 – present
Freelance Designer

2018 – 2021
Wedge Gallery
Director

2017 – 2018
A+D Museum
Curator

2015 –  2017
Gehry Partners, LLP
Architectural Designer

2014 –  2018
A One-Night Stand for Art & Architecture
Co-Founder & Chief Curator

2014 –  2015
Harvard Graduate School of Design Freelance Film Director


Awards/Fellowships
2025
ACSA Design Build Education Award
Full Resolution Studies

2024
Barbara and Thomas Putnan Fellowship Peterborough, NH 

2024
MacDowell, Fellowship
Peterborough, NH 

2022
Art Omi, Architecture Residency
Ghent, NY


Exhibitions
2024
Putnam Graphics, Solo, MacDowell, Peterborough, NH

2023
Apophenia, Group, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2022
Xerox Jacket, Solo, Modest Common, Los Angeles, CA

2022
HOLY CRAP, Group, Modest Common, Los Angeles, CA

2020
FORWARD, Group, Maple St. Construct, Omaha, NE 

2020
House Party, Group, Binder Projects, Memphis, TN

2017
DOPIUM LA, Group, Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA

2015
UNENCUMBERED, Group, Collective Arts Incubator, LA, CA

2015
A One-Night Stand for Art & Architecture, Group, Los Angeles, CA


Press
#117 / The Midnight Charette Podcast
Interview, Listen Here


Under 35 / www.gooood.cn
Interview, Online Here


Profiles of Millennials: Ryan Tyler Martinez
Architect Magazine, Interview, Online Here    






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