Center of Performative Environments (CoPE)
The School of Architecture at the University of Southern California is committed to engaging, inspiring and leading those who create and study the built environment!
Vision
The Center for Architecture and Responsible Building (CARB) is dedicated to the study of the impact of buildings on the environment, the impact of the environment on buildings, and the environment created within buildings. This includes the larger issues of landscape architecture and the stewardship of the built and natural environments. 
It is the vision of the Faculty and the Dean to become the center of the Pacific Rim, South America and Europe, bringing together those influences, culture and thought to engage current issues of great impact and immediacy as well as producing work and scholarship which will be recognized and cited long after current fads have faded. That purpose is not a form of exclusion, but a basis from which to include a completely global outlook on the built environment.
To that end, the School will issue manifestos which define purposes and plans for engaging those issues and directing the trajectory of the discussion. The School will address those issues from a range of viewpoints including Architecture and Urban Design, Technology and Building Science, History and Historic Preservation and Landscape Architecture.