Changing global realities are causing paradigm shifts that redefine the interaction between culture, politics, economics, and the environment. These changes constantly alter the boundaries between disciplines, creating new perimeters of knowledge that will define the conditions of future inquiries into architecture and urban design. At UCLA, we are deeply immersed in a research environment that anticipates change and can move from the realm of ideas to their application, from present situations to emerging new realities. Architecture now faces fundamental issues of practice that will alter this ancient discipline. Our senior design faculty are among the most progressive in understanding and exemplifying these transformations: Thom Mayne, Greg Lynn, Neil Denari, Craig Hodgetts, Mark Mack, and Dagmar Richter. In analyzing history and theory as they impact architecture and urban design and contribute to the understanding of visual culture, we are further strengthened by the internationally recognized contributions of Sylvia Lavin, Dana Cuff and Diane Favro. Redefining architectural education in a major research university, we emphasize interaction among the components of our program, design, technology, and critical studies (history and theory), between our department and others in the School of the Arts and Architecture, and the larger University. We are especially strong in examining the theory and impact of the computer on design, and related developments in robotics, as well as the fabrication of building components. We regard critical studies as making a crucial contribution to the evaluation of new directions in design and issues of contemporary practice, including pressing environmental concerns. We are increasing our interest in cross cultural studies, and exchange programs, which are central at UCLA. We now offer an undergraduate major, allowing us to further expand and enrich our faculty. Los Angeles is a prototype of the 21st century city, embodying the cultural, social, economic, and political issues, which will be at the center of architectural and urban debates. It also represents a new edge between the West and the East, an intersection of increasing importance where diverse cultures interact, transform, and generate new developments. Los Angeles also provides an infinite resource for the study of architecture and urban design, the direction of high technology and media innovations, and as such, is a prime indicator of our global future. The Department of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA is at the intersection of a new kind of city with an intense diversity of culture, the growing influence of Asia, and a creative milieu influenced both by high technology and entertainment media. We attract designers and thinkers from around the world who come to share their work and ideas through lectures, exhibitions, and teaching. As a tandem force, the city and the university, with their constant flows of inexhaustible energy, provides a dynamic platform for the study of architecture and urban design today. Hitoshi Abe, Chair

School of Art and Architecture "From the lofty achievements of virtuosos to the aesthetics of everyday life in communities worldwide, the arts are the most powerful symbol of our shared human heritage, the truest mirror of our cultural diversity, and a primary bellwether of our future. We believe that practical and critical knowledge of the arts is an indispensable foundation for enlightened citizenship in an increasingly complex and challenging world." Christopher Waterman, Dean, UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, School of the Arts and Architecture The School of the Arts and Architecture at UCLA (UCLA Arts) is dedicated to training exceptional artists, performers, architects and scholars who are enriched by a global view of the arts and prepared to serve as cultural leaders of the 21st century. Graduate degree programs are offered in the Departments of Architecture and Urban Design, Art, Design | Media Arts, Ethnomusicology, Music, and World Arts and Cultures. The Schools unique curriculum interweaves work in performance, studio and research studies, providing students with a solid creative, artistic and intellectual foundation. World-class faculty provides a depth of expertise and achievement that supports the most ambitious vision a student can bring to the campus. To enrich their coursework students have access to outstanding art collections, exhibitions and performing arts presentations through the Schools internationally acclaimed public arts institutions. The Hammer Museum presents art ranging from Impressionism to Contemporary and the Fowler Museum at UCLA features material culture and art from Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas. UCLA Live, one of the nation’s premiere arts presenters, brings more than 100 leading performers to the campus each year featuring programs of dance, jazz, world music, blues, international theater, spoken word, classical and popular music. We invite you to join the growing community of UCLA Arts. Please visit our Web site at www.arts.ucla.edu The University One of Americas leading public research universities, UCLA is also the most multicultural campus in the nation. Situated five miles from the Pacific Ocean and ten miles from downtown Los Angeles, the campus is within a short drive of mountains, beaches, lakes and deserts. The 419-acre campus is a self-contained community replete with restaurants, medical facilities, gyms, botanical and sculpture gardens, movie theaters and concert halls. Students also have access to a wide range of campus services including a career planning center, a nationally recognized library system and a host of professional, social and cultural organizations. Please visit the Web site at www.ucla.edu

Working At The Cutting Edge of Architecture The Department of Architecture and Urban Design (AUD) at UCLA is now widely recognized as among the most progressive in the nation — one could even say the most progressive -- combining a preeminent faculty with an interest in the computer as a creative tool and its critical impact on contemporary culture. Each year, applicants from around the world compete to earn a slot in UCLAs Master of Architecture I program. The department vies with Columbia, Harvard, Yale and Princeton for top students. Upon graduation, alumni work for the world’s most innovative architects, among them Frank Gehry, faculty member Thom Mayne, and Zaha Hadid -- all of whom are Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureates, the highest honor in the field. The department has a rich history. In 1964, the Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning (GSAUP) was established at UCLA, comprising two programs: architecture and urban design; and urban planning. In 1968, Harvey S. Perloff was appointed dean of GSAUP. Perloff had been a United States representative to a Committee of Nine established by the Alliance for Progress under President Kennedy in the 1960s. Later known as the dean of American urban planners, Perloff wrote 17 books on the subject and in 1983, he was awarded the first distinguished service citation for planning education from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. At UCLA, Perloff developed a vision of a new relationship between physical planning and urban planning and the role that this hybrid discipline could play in the future of cities. To implement these ideas, he formed the Urban Innovations Group. This practice served for years as a clinical training arm primarily for architectural students. During the 1970s and 1980s architect Charles Moore was a professor and, at one time, chair of the Department of Architecture and Urban Design. A founding partner of the Los Angeles firm Moore, Ruble, Yudell Architects & Planners, he received the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal in 1991. Along with Perloff, Moore was key to the success of the Urban Innovations Group. This practice wing in the school created new opportunities for students and faculty to become actively engaged in real projects. The M.Arch. I program was begun in 1970, led by Tim Vreeland, the first chair of architecture and urban design. In 1974, Vreeland organized an historic conference, The Whites and the Grays, which has come to symbolize the beginning of the post-modern movement in architecture. The Whites were five New York architects -- Richard Meier, Peter Eisenman, Michael Graves, Charles Gwathmey and John Hejduk -- who shared an interest in the work of Le Corbusier. The Grays -- Charles Moore, Richard Weinstein and Jaquelin Robertson -- with an interest in history, aligned themselves against the international style. In a desire to be also recognized, the Silvers were formed from the UCLA architecture faculty by Cesar Pelli and Craig Hodgetts, whose work focused on high technology. In 1985, Richard Weinstein became dean of GSAUP. As director of Mayor John Lindsays Office of Lower Manhattan Planning and Development in New York City, Weinstein played a major role in the creation of incentive zoning, urban design guidelines and historic preservation. During his tenure as dean, he established the Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies with a $5 million gift; the S. Charles Lee Chair, the Charles Moore Endowment for the Study of Place; and the Harvey S. Perloff Chair. Weinstein initiated the transformation of the Department of Architecture and Urban Design by recruiting Thom Mayne, Sylvia Lavin, Craig Hodgetts, Mark Mack and Dana Cuff to the faculty. In 1994, the UCLA Professional Schools Restructuring Initiative resulted in the administrative relocation of GSAUPs programs. Urban planning became a department within the new School of Public Policy and Social Research (now the School of Public Affairs). The architecture and urban design program merged with the School of the Arts, which became the School of the Arts and Architecture (UCLA Arts). Daniel Neuman was appointed dean of the School in 1994 and named Sylvia Lavin as chair of AUD in 1996. In her new capacity, Lavin viewed the restructuring as an opportunity to refocus the program on advanced design, with special focus on technology and critical studies. Within this context, she created an award-winning department by attracting world-renowned faculty and initiating programs that change the way students and faculty think about architecture, technology and culture. As part of this effort to integrate emerging digital technologies into the curriculum, Greg Lynn, a leading architect and thinker in the field of computer-aided design, and later Neil Denari, joined the faculty and have had a significant impact on the department. Technologically sophisticated machinery and methods were introduced including a computer controlled milling machine in 1998. The mill revolutionized production of work in the studios, enabling students to output three-dimensional work. Promising younger faculty, including Jason Payne and David Erdman, spurred research and inventive teaching programs, some of which integrated advanced digital technologies and multi-dimensional media with the building construction and design process. Faculty and students currently employ 3-D design and manufacturing technologies to explore key conceptual problems relevant for construction of the future. The department was among the first in equipping a digital studio for student use. Lavin and the faculty also created a research studio requirement, which stretches over a year and trains students to find and express their own voices within the context of a project with constrains -- a model that parallels experience in the profession. Thought Matters I and II, a series of books and a DVD documenting AUD students work from the 2004-2005 and 2006-07 research studios, have been published and are sold in bookstores worldwide. Thom Maynes research studio earned the department the 2005 Progressive Architecture Award from Architecture magazine for L.A. Now: Volume Three, a massive research and urban design project that critically examines the future of Los Angeles. The award was unprecedented because this was the first time it was given exclusively to a university and to only one recipient rather than to several. L.A. Now: Volume Three and Four was published in May 2006. L.A. Now was featured as an educational seminar and exhibition at the 2006 American Institute of Architecture national convention in Los Angeles. In addition to the Progressive Architecture award, UCLA architecture students and alumni have been widely recognized for their achievements. AUD students represented the United States in the First International Architecture Biennale in Rotterdam in 2003 and in the Venice International Architecture Biennale in 2000. The latter was the first time the United States Pavilion was organized as a summer academy to exhibit student work and new methodologies in teaching. In 2003, Ramiro Diaz Granados (M.Arch. II 03) won the Skidmore, Owings & Merill (SOM) Prize, and Tom Wiscombe (M.Arch. II 99) won the P.S. 1/Museum of Modern Art young architects competition. In 2005 the Department was awarded the P/A Award for L.A. Now: Volume Three under the direction of Thom Mayne and his UCLA students. This is the first time a university has been awarded this honor. The department continues to augment its curriculum with new programs. The Charles Moore Traveling Studio has taken students -- under the leadership of faculty members David Erdman, Jason Payne, Thom Mayne, Ben Refuerzo, Dagmar Richter and Heather Roberge -- to Mexico City, Istanbul, Kauai, Tokyo, Madrid, Great Britain and Germany. The program was inaugurated in 2004 to exemplify the educational leadership Moore established through his commitment to teaching and the practice of architecture during his years at UCLA. The UCLA Experiential Technologies Center -- established within the department in 2005 by professor Diane Favro, an architectural historian -- supports cross-disciplinary collaborative research and educational work by faculty and students; fosters partnerships between UCLA and other colleges and universities; develops educational products and new learning environments; and provides a robust K-12 outreach program. CityLAB directed by professor Dana Cuff was initiated in 2006 with a generous gift to UCLA to support a series of projects concerned with contemporary urban issues, urban design, and the architecture of the city. CityLAB aims its investigations to comprise rigorous scholarship as well as practical implication, design and theory, and formal exploration of cultural and political consequence. While cityLAB begins at UCLA, it extends outside Los Angeles and beyond the university. Building on the legacy established by Harvey Perloff and Richard Weinstein, the department has a faculty of internationally-recognized architectural designers, historians and theorists, including Dana Cuff, Neil Denari, Diane Favro, Craig Hodgetts, Robin Liggett, Greg Lynn, Mark Mack, Thom Mayne, Barton Myers, Jason Payne, Ben Refuerzo, Dagmar Richter, Heather Roberge, and Richard Weinstein. AUD invites architects and critics from around the world to participate in the department’s long-standing lecture series, creating a dialogue between the students, alumni and the Los Angeles community. Tadao Ando, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Toyo Ito, Rem Koolhaas and Jean Nouvel have been among recent speakers. The department’s exhibition program has featured work by Atelier Bow Wow, Bollinger+Grohmann, Jean Prouve, Thom Maynes Morphosis, MVRDV, Taira Nishizawa, Mutsuro Sasaki, Kivi Sotamaa, Jean-Philippe Vassal. Student works are exhibited in the quarterly Currents series. Test In June 2008 guests were invited to Rumble with UCLA’s architecture and urban design faculty and students and engage in the shifting edge of contemporary critical thinking and design innovation at UCLA. 6,500 square feet of year-end studio and program installations as part of final reviews redefined the provocative opportunities confronting the next generation of architects. Initiated by department chair Hitoshi Abe and organized by vice chair Richard Weinstein and visiting assistant professor Kivi Sotamaa, the departments full-student exhibition extravaganza of studio work was recieved by 600 guests on opening night. Forty four years after it began, the Department of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA has become an internationally recognized program where experimental thought, theory and innovative design reformulates the way in which architecture and technology interact and influence contemporary culture.

UCLA Architecture and Urban Design is located in Perloff Hall, Portola Plaza on the Northeast portion of the Westwood campus.

Mailing addressUCLA Department of Architecture and Urban DesignBox 951467Los Angeles, California 90095-1467Physical and Overnight Express addressUCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design1317 Perloff HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1467Telephone: 310.825.7857Fax: 310.825.8959Email: admissions@aud.ucla.edu

The UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design offers four distinct graduate degrees, two professional and two academic. The Master of Architecture (M.Arch. I) degree is a three-year professional program that provides a comprehensive education in architecture. The M.Arch. I program is accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB). The one-year Master of Architecture (M.Arch. II) degree provides a second, advanced professional degree combining theoretical studies and practical applications in specialized areas. Students enrolling in the M.Arch. II program should hold a professional five-year undergraduate degree in architecture or the equivalent. (M.Arch. I students may also complete a concurrent degree with Urban Planning.) Academic degrees offered by the Department include the two-year Master of Arts (M.A.) degree, which prepares students for research and teaching in fields related to architecture and urban design. The Ph.D. is an advanced research degree organized around the interests of the faculty. The length of time to completion averages six years of study. The area of concentration is critical studies in architectural culture. The Master of Arts and Ph.D. degrees best accommodate specialization in academic aspects of the architectural discipline. UCLA now offers an undergraduate degree (BA in Architectural Studies). The B.A. in Architectural Studies is a two-year major that begins in the junior year of residence. The sequence of courses designed for this degree meets two objectives. The first provides an understanding of Architecture and Urban Design as a humanist discipline, which engages cultural and social studies, and the history of architecture and cities. The second provides preparation for accelerated graduate professional studies for students who are interested in pursing a professional degree at the Masters level.

The Master of Architecture (M.Arch.I), accredited by the NAAB, is the basic professional degree in architecture at UCLA. It is offered to students who want to acquire the skills and knowledge needed to practice architecture professionally. It consists of three years of study, including design studios, required course work, and electives. From the NAAB: In the United States, most state registration boards require a degree from an accredited professional degree program as a prerequisite for licensure. The National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB), which is the sole agency authorized to accredit U.S. professional degree programs in architecture, recognizes three types of degrees: the Bachelor of Architecture, the Master of Architecture, and the Doctor of Architecture. A program may be granted a six-year, three-year, or two-year term of accreditation, depending on its degree of conformance with established standards. Master's degree programs may consist of a preprofessional undergraduate degree and a professional graduate degree that, when earned sequentially, constitute an accredited professional education. However, the preprofessional degree is not, by itself, recognized as an accredited degree. To read more about the NAAB Conditions of Accrediation, please visit http://www.naab.org/accreditation/.

UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design, known for its powerful blend of avant-garde thinking and innovative design practice, launches Suprastudio, a new model for architectural education. A higher order of design education, Suprastudio elevates the academic experience of future leaders in architectural design to a level unique among post-professional M.Arch. II programs. Suprastudio is an intensive combination of five elements vital to advanced design practice: - Close, extended studio work with a major architect - Intensive collaboration with outside consultants - In-depth study of contemporary architectural and urban issues using cutting-edge research, modeling, and visualization techniques - A team of faculty and visitors offering critical studies and technical seminars related to the studio project - Direct experience working with a private or institutional client Suprastudio is a series of four studios and associated research to be carried out over a 39-week period leading to the post-professional degree. Suprastudio investigates architecture's experimental deployment at the city scale, the building and its fabrication. A team of faculty and visitors offer critical studies and technical seminars related to the studio project. Advanced students from across the globe undertake projects with internationally recognized faculty in collaboration with expert consultants, visitors, and client leaders from industry, government, and the civic community. The year's focused, four-studio sequence, anchored by emerging design technologies and current theory, takes a fresh look at architecture in the contemporary post urban condition. There is no better site than Los Angeles to uses a springboard into the provocative opportunities confronting the next generation of architects. Suprastudio has been conceived as an experimental post-professional program dedicated to the research of urgent global issues that intersect across the diverse landscapes of Southern California. Motivated by questions currently unanswered, as well as by those that can be manufactured from speculative thinking, Suprastudio demands a connection to people whose organizations are concerned with the future of Los Angeles, a city whose expansive horizontal structure distorts, in the most dramatic fashion, the frames of our basic urban reference systems: time, space, and distance. SUPRASTUDIO 2010-2011 Combinatory Urbanism Thom Mayne, winner of the Pritzker Prize in 2005, will lead a one-year studio that investigates the complex behavior of collective form through historical precedent, research and design. It is increasingly difficult to experience the city as a linear process or to pre-determine outcomes that so whimsically stray without warning. It is precisely the instability caused by flexible economic accumulation coupled with the increasing pace of change that today calls into question traditional city-making strategies and brings variable conditions of new urban structures to light. The studio will explore an alternative urban paradigm, one that more closely aligns with the dynamics of contemporary life. Deeply contextual, highly associative and radically elastic, it engages in the premise of continuous process over static form and, in so doing, presents fresh ways to activate the city. Through the collaboration and contention of contextual forces – arguably the two drivers of urban production – along with the ecology of values we confer onto them, we will ultimately create new and integrative places of urban value. The studio will collaborate with professional consultants, taking full advantage of external resources to develop pragmatic solutions with real-world applicability. The project will be at the urban scale with the potential for its realization. Thom Mayne biography Thom Mayne has been at the forefront of architectural innovation since founding Morphosis in 1972. Over the past 37 years, Mayne has made major contributions to the built environment, the profession of architecture, and architectural education and discourse. Committed to the practice of architecture as a collective enterprise, Mayne's practice engages contemporary society and culture through architectural design, and education. Mayne has consistently sought new and different design problems to solve and has resisted becoming specialized in any particular building type. As a result of this interest and commitment, Mayne's work encompasses a wide range of project types and scales including residential, institutional, cultural and civic buildings as well as innovative urban design and planning schemes that reshape entire cities A professor at UCLA since 1992, his distinguished recent honors include the 2009 Centennial Medal awarded by the American Academy in Rome, the 2008-2009 MacDowell Medal, 2006 National Design Award for Architecture, and the 2005 Pritzker Prize laureate among others. His works are published extensively in prominent architectural publications worldwide and have been the subject of over 20 monographs. Under Mayne's direction his UCLA students received the 2005 Progressive Architecture award for L.A. Now: Volume Three. Click here for Combinatory Urbanism poster SUPRASTUDIO 2009-2010 Technology Transfer Professor Greg Lynn will lead a studio in collaboration with Walt Disney Imagineering exploring the impact of new manufacturing and digital technologies from aerospace, naval, automotive, defense and entertainment industries on architectural form. California has the highest concentration of high technology industries in the world and is the center for entertainment and animation software whose, applications for architecture were first deployed by Professor Lynn. SUPRASTUDIO 2008-2009 MegaVoids The studio led by Professor Neil Denari engaged with the Toyota Motor Corporation and its Advanced Product Strategies (APS) group located in Torrance, California as collaborative client/partner. The research focused on future urban scenarios played out across superlarge open sites that were classified as MEGAVOIDS, those sites that for one reason or another, remain undeveloped. Funding for the SUPRASTUDIO 2008 has been generously provided by: Herta and Paul Amir Joyce and Aubrey Chernick Ralph and Shirley Shapiro Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. In-kind support provided by EDAW

Ph.D and M.A. in Architecture We are pleased to announce a new curriculum for our MA/PhD program. Some of the details may change, so please check back for updates. MA/PHD Program Description The MA/PhD in Critical Studies program prepares students to conduct original scholarly and critical research in topics of importance to the field of architecture and urbanism today. Students work in a variety of intellectual and programmatic milieus including new forms of historical research, cultural studies, and interdisciplinary studies with particular emphasis on connections with geography, design, art history, archaeology and literary studies as well as studio and design based research. In addition to their course work and individual research, students participate in collective project based activities, including publications, symposia and exhibitions. The program is distinguished by its engagement with contemporary design and historical techniques as well by the unusual balance it offers between fostering in students great independence and freedom in their courses of study and providing fundamental training in the various aspects of architectural scholarship. Most M.A/Ph.D students have the opportunity to enrich their education by participatin in specialized faculty led, project based activities. Hi-C, a collaborative group of doctoral and design students focusing on scholarly research and critical approaches to contemporary design, is currently specializing in extending seminar topics into public exhibitions. Hi-C, led by Sylvia Lavin, is currently preparing two exhibitions "Craig Hodgetts's: Play Maker" for the ACE Gallery in Los Angeles on view in the fall 2009, and "Take Note" on view at the CCA in Montreal in the winter 2010. The Experiential TEchnologies Center (ETC) directed by Diane Favro conducts interdisciplinary reseaerch focusing on 3D simulation modeling and other types of digital experiential anlyses. Students created real-time models of hisotircal environments in UCLA's cutting-edge Technology Sandbox and Visualization Portal, and Have the opportunity to participate in archaeological excavations worldwide. Models proced include simulations of ancient Rome and the Amon temple at Karnak. The ETC also particpates in UCLA's dynamic Hypercities Project and the Keck Digital Mapping Program. For more information, please visit www.etc.ucla.edu cityLAB is a think tank that focuses on experimental urban architecture. Its director, Dana Cuff, and co-director, Roger Sherman, initiate projects that engage research and design related to cityLAB's three initiatives: the posturban city, urban sensing, and rethinking green. Advanced research sudents from architecture as well as related departments particpate in all cityLAB undertakings. Recent projects include symposia, design competitions, funded research grants, design-technology installations, and publications on topics ranging from design after disaster, to innovative housing neighborhood infrastructure, to high-speed rail's implications for the city. For more informaion, visit www.cityLAB.aud.ucla.edu. CORE SEQUENCE MA/PHD Requirement The MA/PhD in Critical Studies is organized around a 2-year sequence of 6 required courses: students take one each quarter during their first two years of residency in the program. Each year, the courses focus on either Objects of Study; three distinct explorations of the way historical knowledge and theoretical questions are shaped today, or Means of Study, three distinct investigations into scholarly methods and modes of production. Depending on when students enter the program, they will begin their core sequence with either Objects or Means, but all students will have a shared foundation for subsequent scholarly work after completing the sequence. COURSE WORK PHD Requirement In conjunction with the core sequence, students will take a series of approved additional courses both within the department and across campus and will select these courses in relation to their own research interests and in consultation with their primary advisor. The selection should balance breadth of knowledge and interdisciplinary experience (Minor Field) with enough focus to enable the student to build up an area of expertise (Major Field). The Minor Field requirement is generally fulfilled by satisfactorily completing three courses given by another department and the Major Field by five courses offered within the AUD. M.A. Requirement In addition to the 2-year core sequence of required courses, students in the MA program will take a series of approved additional courses both within the department and across campus and will select these courses in relation to their own research interests and in consultation with their primary advisor. In order to successfully complete the program, each student will complete a Thesis by further developing one paper written for either a core or elective class. The choice of paper will be determined in consultation with and approved by the standing MA committee, which includes Sylvia Lavin, Diane Favro and Dana Cuff. Other members of the AUD faculty may also serve on the committee and one member may be on the faculty of another department. Students are expected to complete the thesis by the end of the spring quarter concluding their second year of residency. Comprehensive Exams (PhD) Students are expected to take the comprehensive exams by the end of the summer term following their second year of residency. (Every year, the standing PhD committee preselects a series of dates during which exams are generally given. This assures students and faculty alike of limited schedule conflicts.) The oral component will focus on a discussion of three papers written by the student over the 6-course sequence of Means and Objects seminars. The written component of the exam will define the Major and Minor Fields of the student by focusing on the work done by each student in his or her elective course work and in his or her chosen field of research. Under most circumstances, for this portion of the exam students will prepare and submit to the committee three original syllabi for courses that will cover 1; their Major field as most broadly defined, 2; a specific aspect of their Major field and 3; their Minor Field. Acceptance by the committee of these syllabi will constitute successful completion of the exam. If a student and his or her advisor receive approval from the PhD committee, an alternative exam format may be substituted for the written portion. A set time each Fall will be identified when these exams will be offered and students who are unable to take the exam at that time may compromise their status in the program. Qualifying Exam (PhD) Students are expected to take the qualifying exam by the end of their third year. All requirements must be satisfied before an exam date is confirmed. The exam will focus on a dissertation prospectus that will have a student develops with their primary advisor and in consultation with their PhD committee. The prospectus must include a clear argument with broad implications, demonstrate that the dissertation will make a contribution of knowledge and ideas to the field, demonstrate mastery of existing literature and discourses, and must include a plan and schedule for completion. Advisor Members of the standing PhD committee include Sylvia Lavin, Diane Favro and Dana Cuff. Other members of the AUD faculty may also serve as committee members. At the end of the first year, each student will prepare a brief statement about their research interests and progress in the program. The PhD committee will use this document as part of the first year evaluation and as one of the criteria used to determine who will serve as the student's primary advisor. This decision must be confirmed by mutual agreement between student and advisor by the end of the first year. The student must identify an additional committee member from outside the department, who is a member of the academic senate, no later than the end of the Winter quarter of the second year. First Year Review Students will be asked to prepare a 2-3 page document at the end of the Spring quarter of their first year for review by the standing MA/PhD Committee. The goal of this review is to identify primary advisors and monitor progress. Language Requirements Students must satisfactorily complete three quarters of language study before they may take the qualifying exam. The particular language will be determined in consultation with the PhD committee. Funding: The department seeks to secure funding for all PhD students for the first two years of study. TAships and GSRs are the most common form of support although scholarship funding is occasionally available to students based on merit. Continuing funding is dependent on students making adequate progress towards their degree. CORE SEQUENCE DESCRIPTION Means of Study LAVIN: Forms and Contents The purpose of this seminar is to engage students with the methods of scholarly inquiry, research and creativity and to investigate contemporary forms of intellectual production in the historical criticism of architecture. The course will examine printed matter in detail because it has been the primary vehicle and the only common denominator for what has since the 1970s been variously called history or theory or criticism in architecture. CUFF: Design Practices and Cultural Studies This seminar focuses on practices, and more specifically, on a cultural studies approach to research in architecture and urbanism. Case study methods in relation to design are emphasized, which rely upon a range of contextual investigations that include ethnography, textual analysis, field work, interviews, and diagrams/visual analysis. The production of work is an important facet of the seminar, considering differing notions of architectural practice, structures of argumentation, forms of evidence, and theoretical grounding within cultural studies. Readings will include theorists Foucault, Bourdieu, Jameson, Lefebvre, Deleuze and Guattari; along with architectural/urban scholars such as Wigley, Evans, Martin, and Kwinter. FAVRO: Digital Cultural Mapping The disciplinary silos that once defined and shaped research on historical built environments are dwindling in height. Architectural history, archaeology, art history, and architectural criticism are being redefined not only by post-modern theoretical positions, but also by new technologies. This seminar explores the burgeoning field of digital cultural mapping that challenges traditional methods of humanistic inquiry through the integration of complex informatics, GIS, spatial modeling, and time-space visualizations. The class will consider the technological means employed in digital cultural mapping as well as how expanding types and scales of data, interactivity in knowledge formation, pan-sensory presentation modes, instantaneous accessibility, and collaborative work production inform contemporary research questions and products. CORE SEQUENCE DESCRIPTION Objects of Study LAVIN: What is an Object? The intellectual and political engagements of every scholar demand that she carefully select her object of study in order to raise questions of the broadest possible concern. For contemporary historians and theorists of architecture, the 1960s and 1970s has become the most important historical pretext for speculations on the current shape of the field. As a result, this course focuses on that period not merely to produce new knowledge about an historical era, but to use that knowledge to establish for architecture, whether built of concrete, words or bits, new forms of cultural importance. CUFF: Incidents and Accidents The object for investigation in this seminar is a particular subset of contemporary architectural urbanism, or architecture within the urban context. The seminar begins with two assumptions: that crisis increasingly frames the circumstances of architectural intervention in cities, and that normative practices are inevitably revealed through interruptions or accidents. We will focus our readings and research on disasters, natural and man-made, that have created interruptions into which architectural experimentation has found a footing. Students will conduct a series of short investigations, shared with the class via visual, diagrammatic, and textual analysis. Each student will select one of these projects for extended research and development, which will be included in a class book produced at the end of the term. FAVRO: The Historical City as Subject The past is a living entity that redefines itself through the eyes of each era. Since the fall of ancient Rome, architects and urban designers from Alberti to Rem Koolhaas have studied and exploited the city's impressive ancient remains and dramatic history to enrich and legitimize their own work. This class follows the evidentiary trail, exploring how and what practitioners in different ages knew about the classical city, considering archaeological evidence, secondary pictorial and textual imagery, and intangible (but forceful) memories. The verifiable data will be compared with architects' and urban designers' negotiated interpretations. The interrogation of this dynamic exchange leads directly to larger questions about the formation of history and the contentious relationship between practitioners, design creation, and the past.

M.Arch I Program / Urban Planning The concurrent degree program aims at integrating the knowledge and skills provided in the Architecture and Urban Design Department and the Urban Planning Department. It is intended to serve the growing needs in public and private sectors for architects who are competent in dealing with social, economic, and environmental policy issues, and for urban planners who can integrate architecture and urban design into policy and planning practice. On successfully completing all requirements, students will receive, respectively, the Master of Architecture Degree (M.Arch.I) and the Master of Arts Degree (M.A.) in Urban Planning.

The UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design offers a Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies. The B.A. in Architectural Studies is a two-year major that begins in the junior year of residence. The sequence of courses designed for this degree meets two objectives. - The first provides an understanding of architecture and urban design as a humanist discipline, which engages cultural and social studies, and the history of architecture and cities. - The second provides -- at the same time for those interested students -- a preparation for accelerated graduate professional studies. Students will experience the design process in a studio setting where projects engage the issues raised by the academic coursework. In studio students will develop the ability to think critically about their ideas, and explore the creative process in architecture and urban design in relation to these ideas. The direct experience of design is crucial to an understanding of architecture and urban design and their relation to contemporary social, political, and cultural events.

The Department offers a selection of courses focusing on design, technology, critical studies in architectural culture, architecture history, and general courses.

The Department of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA offers a six-week program exploring architectural education for students contemplating careers in architecture. The JumpStart Program is open to undergraduate students, incoming graduate students, and working professionals. Courses include: - architectural design studio - graphic and digital representation - history of contemporary architecture. Studio activities include: - demonstrations - group discussions - individual project critiques Outside activities will include field trips and lectures by important local architects and critics who will explore the central significance of Los Angeles for the future of American architecture and urbanism. Students in the program earn 13 units of academic credit. UCLA Summer Institute: Jump Start program

Summer Design Seminar / Workshops UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design is offering a series of seminars workshops for beginning, intermediate, and advanced designers in four different sessions in Summer 2009. These workshops are ideal for designers who want to further develop their skills in architecture and other related fields as well as those who have only recently been exposed to studio experiences. Open to anyone interested. Access to UCLA's well-known digital and fabrication facilities and instruction through rigorous and effective teaching techniques make these workshops both unique and rare. They will cover topics in marketing, advanced software, portfolio preparation and fabrication machinery that is essential for materializing the complex forms found in many digital projects. Click here to see program flyer. OVERALL SCHEDULE Session 1: June 22nd to July 31st Session 2: August 3rd to August 14th Session 3: August 31st to September 18th Session 4: September 7th to September 18th Click here to see more information on the schedule. Enrollment Deadline: June 30th 2009 Registration Click here to register. Please contact Nayla Huq at nayla.huq@aud.ucla.edu for more information. Courses and workshops require a minimum enrollment to take place.

The Department offers a variety of Laboratories and Centers that engage students in the opportunity to conduct research and explore project based learning.

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An application for admission to the Department of Architecture and Urban Design consists of four basic components that present a candidate's academic background, interests, achievements, and potential. See "Admission Requirements" under each degree program in the Degrees and Programs section of the site. Visit www.gradadmissions.ucla.edu for the UCLA Application for Graduate Amssion (AGA). (online only)

Estimated Annual Fees for 2009 - 2010 Resident Total Resident Mandatory Fees $10,656.50 Non-Resident Non-resident Tuition* $14,694 Total Non-resident Mandatory Fees $25,692.50

Marvin Adelson Ph.D. and M.A., Psychology (University of Illinois); B.S., Electrical Engineering (Virginia Polytechnic Institute). Marvin Adelson’s research is concerned with the management and thought processes that result in excellent architecture, including collaboration to enhance creativity and effectiveness. Samuel Aroni Ph.D., Structural Engineering, and M.S., Engineering (UC Berkeley); B.C.E. (Honors) (university of Melbourne). Samuel Aroni publishes widely in the fields of structures, concrete materials, statistical methods, building systems, housing, and earthquakes, and was awarded the J. James R. Croes Gold Medal for 1981 of the American Society of Civil Engineers. In June 1999 he was awarded the Medal of the City of Paris for his work with INRUDA (International Network on the Role of Universities in Developing Areas). Baruch Givoni Ph.D., Public Health (university of Jerusalem); M.Sc., Hygiene (Pittsburgh); B.Sc., Architecture (Technion, Israel). Baruch Givoni’s teaching and research focuses on passive cooling and solar heating of buildings and on climatic aspects of urban design. He has developed a series of computer models predicting the performance of several passive heating and cooling systems and has written a guideline for urban design in different climates at the invitation of the World Meteorological Organization. He received the PLEA Award for his research in Passive and Low Energy Architecture. Eugene Kupper M.Arch. (Yale), B.Arch. (UC Berkeley). Eugene Kupper’s research focuses on architecture and urban design, architectural representation, and architectural education. Jurg Lang Diploma, Architect (ETH, Zurich); MUP (Graduate School of Ekistics Ins., Athens, Greece). Before coming to the U.S. Jurg Lang worked with Henning Larsen in Denmark, C. A. Doxiadis in Greece, and was a research fellow at the Planning Institute of the ETH in Zrich. As a practicing architect and urban designer, his built work includes residences, commercial and institutional buildings, and a city center in the Middle East. His research interests are in urban design, building technology, and computer applications in urban design and architecture. George RandAssociate Professor; Ph.D./M.A., Psychology (Clark); B.S., Psychology (City College NY).George Rand is an environmental and clinical psychologist who is concerned with the application of social and behavioral sciences to design. He teaches “Architectural Programming,” which is concerned with planning design processes and techniques for determining program contents, and “Environmental Psychology,” which explores basic concepts of human-environment relations including territoriality, the effects of crowding, and environmental stress. Rand also teaches about contemporary professional practice, a subject of his research and writing. Thomas R. Vreeland F.A.I.A., M.Arch., and B.A. (Yale). Thomas Vreeland apprenticed first with Philip Johnson, then with Louis Kahn, working for the latter for five years. In 1968 he was the first head of the Architecture and Urban Design Department program at UCLA. He taught architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, was 1974–1975 Resident Architect at the American Academy in Rome, and was later Chair of Architecture at the University of New Mexico. Richard Weinstein M.A., Architecture (University of Pennsylvania); M.A., Clinical Psychology (Columbia); A.B., Experimental Psychology (BROWN). Dean of the Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning. (1985-1994). Richard Weinstein has been the recipient of the Rome Prize awarded by the American Academy in Rome and a Progressive Architecture first prize in Urban Design. From 1968 to 1974 he was director of the Mayor’s Office of Planning and Development for Lower Manhattan. His projects include the concept, schematic design, and administration of the Museum of Modern Art’s first expansion in New York; new and adaptive reuse of facilities for the National Trust for Historic Preservation; the redevelopment of 42nd Street; design and completion of Temple Kehillath Israel, Pacific Palisades; design of the Westside Children’s Center; and project design for Gorky Park, Moscow.

Each year distinguished lectures, critics, designers, and architects visit the Department to give a lecture, workshop or participate in reviews. Those who have visited and taught in recent years include: A- Jose Acebillo Stan Allen Doug Aitken Tadao Ando B- Benjamin Ball Michael Bell Ben van Berkel, S. Charles Lee Chair Barbara Bestor Marlon Blackwell Petra Blaisse, Harvey S. Perloff Chair Jackilin Bloom Klaus Bollinger Caroline Bos, S. Charles Lee Chair Eli Broad Tom Buresh C- Cristiano Ceccato Hussein Chalayan Edwin Chan Preston Scott Cohen, Harvey S. Perloff Chair Beatriz Colomina Roddy Creedon Teddy Cruz D- Hernan Diaz Alonso Elizabeth Diller Winka Dubbeldam E-F- Keller Easterling Peter Eisenman, Harvey S. Perloff Chair Julie Eizenberg Garret Finney Peter Frankfurt Andreas Froech Sou Fujimoto Ming Fung G- Frank O. Gehry, Regents' Professor Chris Genik Joseph Giovannini David Grahame Shane Nu Guo Danelle Guthrie H-I- Zaha Hadid, Harvey S. Perloff Chair Bob Hale Dave Hickey Greg Hoffman Brooke Hodge Steven Holl Christopher Hawthorne Jeffrey Inaba Toyo Ito, S. Charles Lee Chair J- K- Zhao Jin Song Wes Jones John Kaliski Jeffrey Kipnis Waro kishi Rem Koolhaas Richard Koshalek Rosalind Krauss Sanford Kwinter L- Clover Lee Lars Lerup Thomas Levin Meaghan Lloyd Ross Lovegrove Andrew Lyon M- Winny Maas Michael Maltzan Glen Mann Tatsuya Matsui Bruce Mau Richard Meier, Regents' Professor Rafael Moneo Toshiko Mori Kaichiro Morikawa Eric O. Moss Farshid Moussavi, S. Charles Lee Chair Glenn Murcutt, S. Charles Lee Chair Herbert Muschamp N-O- Bruce Nichol Taira Nishizawa Jean Nouvell Erik Olson Roy Oskamp Nicolai Ouroussoff P- Kyong Park Barton Phelps Florencia Pita Linda Pollari Monica Ponce de Leon Wolf Prix, S. Charles Lee Chair R- Philippe Rahm Hani Rashid Jesse Reiser Deborah Richmond Terrence Riley Alexis Rochas Dan Rosenfeld David Ross S- Jurij Sadar Mutsuro Sasaki Stanley Saitowitz Larry Scarpa Craig Scott Mohammed Sharif Kivi Sotamaa Roland Snooks Michael Speaks Marcello Spina Lars Spuybroek Thomas Snyder T- Nader Tehrani Olivier Touraine Bernard Tschumi, Harvey S. Perloff Chair Billie Tsien, Harvey S. Perloff Chair Yoshiharu Tsukamoto U-V- Masamichi Udagawa Jean-Philippe Vassal W- Mark Wamble Nonchi Wang Craig Webb Mark Wigley Mabel Wilson Tom Wiscombe Ron Witte Hoi Wy Wong Jun Jun Wu Y- Shunji Yamanaka Makoto Yokomizo J. Meejin Yoon Yasutaka Yoshimura George Yu Buzz Yudell Z- Alejandro Zaera-Polo, S. Charles Lee Visiting Professor Andrew Zago Mirko Zardini Peter Zellner Xu Zhen

The Architecture and Urban Design department is not accepting applications for faculty positions at this time.

The Department has three spaces that are fundamental to its vitality and culture: the Perloff Gallery, the Visual Resource Room, and the Decafe. These areas provide critical sites in which new ideas and work from within and beyond the Department can be presented and displayed, reviewed and debated. The Perloff Gallery As the Department's primary exhibition space, the gallery exhibits work by students, faculty, and invited local and national architects, artists, and designers. Recent exhibitions include: Christine Tarkowski: Forts and Fortifications Effervescence translu-city: panelite in architecture and design MVRDV 3D City: Studies in Density GNUFORM: Hairstyle Past Present Future Ambiguity of Space: Petra Blaisse Notes on Micromultiplicity Frank O. Gehry: Millennium Bridge Fresh Morphosis: The work of Thom Mayne Jean Prouve: A Tropical House Kumamoto Artpolis: Architecture Through Communication Extreme Porosity Manifold Destiny II Chaos or Control Kristine Larsen: Before and After Toward Substantial Surfaces Uncontested: An Alumni Exhibition Body: Hitoshi Abe Superficial Superglow Double Edge: Atelier Bow-Wow and Kivi Sotamaa High Density, High Service, High Design Housing Madrid Now Intersection Tokyo Double Edge: Klaus Bollinger and Matsuro Sasaki Double Edge: Taira Nishizawa and Jean-Philippe Vassal realities: united! Enric Ruiz Geli: A Green New Deal…Cloud 9 A/cute Tokyo RUMBLE

Faculty and students engage in the shifting edge of contemporary critical thinking and design innovation through an all school exposition presented to the community and to jurors in June of each year. "RUMBLE features final projects completed by students in conjunction with faculty. The exposition includes 6,500 square feet of year-end studio and program installations that redefine the provocative opportunities confronting the next generation of architects. Initiated by department chair Hitoshi Abe and organized by Kivi Sotamaa, the exposition utilizes all of Perloff Hall's spaces: studios, hallways, classrooms, galleries, and more. During the exposition's opening night, students are on site to discuss the ideas and aspirations behind their projects with visitors.

Thought Matters II (UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design, 2008) Exploring the territory of investigation, research, and design, Thought Matters II documents the work produced in the 2006-2007 UCLA Architecture and Urban Design 30-week long Research Studios led by world-renowned architects and UCLA professors Neil Denari, Greg Lynn, Thom Mayne, and Dagmar Richter. Creating a forum through research, fieldwork, site investigation, and meetings with city officials, curators, architects, developers, and other prominent experts, students are immersed into a real world setting where they can take into account the comprehensive and integrative nature of architectural design and urban development. Essays by each faculty outline their studio aspirations and goals, with an introduction by Chair Hitoshi Abe, including commentary by Ph.D. candidates that place each studio in a broader context. Thought Matters II won an ID Design Award for Graphics in 2009. Directed by David Fenster, winner of the Jury Prize for Best Documentary Short at the 2007 Los Angeles Film Festival, the DVD demonstrates that UCLA Architecture and Urban Design is a leader in applied research framing a compelling and engaging narrative of the design and architecture culture in the school through interviews that engage students discussing and demonstrating their creative process including interviews with each of the Research Studio faculty through witnessing the studio critique. L.A. Now: Volume Three and Four (UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design, 2006) Los Angeles -- where 845 acres of total beach surface equals approximately the area of Central Park in New York City --has become a post urban landscape to which 780 people move daily. Population growth, inadequate infrastructure, environmental concerns, densification, lack of public space, and lack of housing for urban poor and the middle class are all issues facing the growing Los Angeles metropolis. This massive research and design study -- winner of the Progressive Architecture Award -- was led by UCLA professor and 2005 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate Thom Mayne and his students in the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design. The project engages civic and business leaders in the process, presenting a compelling and realistic vision of a future Los Angeles through impressive graphics that translate abstract statistical data into accessible graphics, helping readers understand the current situation. The third and fourth volumes in the L.A. Now series introduces several proposals through findings and solutions for housing 35,000 - 100,000 residents on a neglected 228-acre site in the last cornerstone of downtown Los Angeles. Thought Matters I (UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design, 2006) Exploring student work produced in the 2004-2005 Research Studios led by Kevin Daly, Neil Denari, Greg Lynn, Mark Lee, Dagmar Richter, and R.E. Somol. The Research Studio project, a series of yearlong courses mixing a studio with a booster composed of material/technical additives or intellectual enhancements, was borne of an anachronism and in the spirit of a thought experiment. Crib Sheets (Monacelli Press, 2005) Architectural discourse today is characterized by an overlapping conversation between architects and academics, teachers and students, theorists and practitioners. Autonomy, Extreme Form, and Matter among others are terms that capture a moment in architecture in definition and operation. Crib Sheets is a guide -- a crib to twenty-two buzzwords, framing contemporary currents and trajectories. To order a publication, please contact us at bookorders@aud.ucla.edu

Each year distinguished critics, designers, and architects visit the Department to give a lecture, workshop or participate in reviews. Those who have visited and taught in recent years include: A Stan Allen Doug Aitken Tadao Ando B Ben Van Berkel, S. Charles Lee Chair Barbara Bestor Petra Blaisse, Harvey S. Perloff Chair Klaus Bollinger Caroline Bos, S. Charles Lee Chair Eli Broad Tom Buresh C Hussein Chalayan Edwin Chan Preston Scott Cohen, Harvey S. Perloff chair Beatriz Colomina Teddy Cruz D Hernan Diaz Alonso Elizabeth Diller Winka Dubbeldam E Keller Easterling Peter Eisenman, Harvey S. Perloff chair Julie Eizenberg F Peter Frankfurt Sou Fujimoto G Frank O. Gehry, Regents professor Chris Genik Joseph Giovannini David Grahame Shane Danelle Guthrie H Zaha Hadid, Harvey S. Perloff chair Dave Hickey Greg Hoffman Brooke hodge Steven Holl I Toyo Ito, S. Charles Lee chair K John Kaliski Jeffrey Kipnis Rem Koolhaas Richard Koshalek Rosalind Krauss Sanford Kwinter M Winy Maas Michael Maltzan Tatsuya Matsui Richard Meier, Regents professor Toshiko Mori Kaichiro Morikawa Eric O. Moss Farshid Moussavi, S. Charles Lee chair Glenn murcutt, S. Charles Lee chair Herbert Muschamp N Taira Nishizawa Jean Nouvell O Nicolai Ouroussoff P Kyong Park Linda Pollari Wolf Prix, S. Charles Lee chair R Philippe Rahm Hani Rashid Jesse Reiser S Mutsurou Sasaki Michael Speaks Marcello Spina Lars Spuybroek T Nader Tehrani Bernard Tschumi, Harvey S. Perloff chair Billie Tsien, Harvey S. Perloff chair Yoshiharu Tsukamoto U Masamichi Udagawa V Jean-Philippe Vassal W Mark Wigley Tom Wiscombe Ron Witte Y Shunji Yamanaka Makoto Yokomizo J. Meejin Yoon Yasutaka Yoshimura Z Alejandro Zaera-Polo, S. Charles Lee visiting professor Andrew Zago Mirko Zardini

Student Reps Students play an important role in the governance of the Department. Student representatives are nominated, and then voted upon by their classmates each Fall. These students (two representatives from each class/program) are encouraged to observe and participate in the discussion at those faculty meetings to which they can appropriately be invited. It is the responsibility of the student representatives to report back to, and get feedback from their colleagues.

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The Arts Library, 1400 Public Affairs Building, is an interdisciplinary research collection in the areas of architecture and history of architecture as well as art, art history, design, film and television, photography as a fine art, studio art, and theater comprised of more than 254,000 volumes. Holdings in architecture include approximately 51,000 books wholly or partially devoted to the field, 650 current serial subscriptions (including some 300 periodicals), extensive backfiles of periodicals with indexes, and a collection of Department of Architecture theses. The library receives the most important American, European, Japanese, and Australian architecture titles, and also gets many leading periodicals covering graphic, industrial, and furniture design. Its holdings, particularly in the areas of regional and contemporary architecture, are continuously expanding. Students and faculty also regularly use other nearby campus libraries. The Young Research Library Department of Special Collections actively collects drawings and papers of architects and landscape architects. Among the architects represented are Richard Neutra, A. Quincy Jones, S. Charles Lee, and Lloyd Wright. UCLA offers an abundant choice of digital resources for architecture students. ORION2, the University Library’s online information system, provides access to books, archives, audiovisuals, computer files, dissertations, government documents, and maps in all UCLA libraries. The California Digital Library’s (CDL) Melvyl Catalog provides computerized access to similar multimedia resources in the libraries of the nine UC campuses, the California State Library, the California Academy of Sciences, the California Historical Society, and the Center for Research Libraries. The Department maintains a photographic studio to document models.

The Visual Resource Room is equipped with three networked iMac computers, a scanner, Zip drives, TV with video and DVD players, and current issues of 20 national and international design magazines covering architecture, graphic design, product design, and interiors. This multipurpose room is used for individual study or relaxation as well as for meetings and discussion sections.

The Department of Architecture and Urban Design occupies its own building, Perloff Hall, at the north end of the UCLA campus. Most courses are held in the building, which contains studio spaces, electronic studios, computers, lecture halls, an exhibition gallery, classrooms, and faculty offices. Architecture students have their own drawing tables and storage areas. M.A. and Ph.D. students have their own designated study area in the building.

Emerging technologies for visualization and fabrication are vital to contemporary architectural practice. UCLA's Department of Architecture and Urban Design continues to set the scholastic standard for the integration of cutting-edge technologies into the overall academic curriculum. Our Technology Center grows in equipment and expertise each year and currently provides two large-format mills, two laser-cutters, two 3-D printers, and a large-scale vacuum former for student use. Complementing the equipment is an expanding database of expertise on emerging technology and its application that allows new users immediate access to established techniques and methods of production. AUD students have early and continual access to this equipment and knowledge base and are vital to the continual growth of this aspect of our program. Technology is integrated into the curriculum in a variety of ways. Technology seminars and studios focus directly on applying emerging technologies to contemporary design problems using the equipment intensively throughout the quarter. Ideas and methods devised in these courses then move through the rest of the AUD atmosphere. Courses focused on history and theory also address the role and impact of these developments on practice. Ingrained within the larger culture of the Department, and easily accessible to students at all levels in the curriculum, emerging technology plays a central role in the work produced at UCLA.

The Decafe is the Department's intellectual and symbolic center. Primarily corporeal rather than conceptual, the renovated Decafe stimulates the visual, auditory and touch senses to create a synesthetic experience. An expansive and rhythmic felt landscape surrounds the audience while local surface features produce a tactile awareness of the suppleness of new interior. The project was designed and installed as part of a seminar in 2006 entitled "Synesthesia" taught by Heather Roberge and Jason Payne.

Computing Facilities The Architecture and Urban Design computing facilities are devoted to advanced design, education, and research. Encompassing electronic studios, a media ready multi-purpose room (Decafe), an electronic slide and digital media-library, and access to additional school-wide resources at the School of the Arts and Architecture, the Department provides a rich environment supporting professional use as well as specialized software development and design innovations. In the near future Perloff Hall will become a wireless environment. In addition to wired network access in the studios, wireless network access is currently being deployed throughout Perloff Hall. The Architecture and Urban Design infrastructure supports a networked, distributed computing environment that includes the ability for students to connect their personal systems. File and print services are available to users throughout Perloff Hall, which are provided primarily by several Linux servers. These are augmented by shared disks on the network to provide over two terabytes of disk storage. Output devices range from letter size black and white and color laser printers to 36 inch wide color plotters. Flatbed and 35mm slide scanners as well as digital video capture are available for input. Workstations are equipped with CD/DVD burners for file transfer and backup. The entire Architecture and Urban Design network is connected to the UCLA campus network, which provides the Department with high-speed access to the Internet. The facility supports software for a wide range of computer aided design, modeling, graphics, virtual reality, and real-time simulation. Real-time simulation and VR packages include uSim (developed internally by the Urban Simulation Team) and MultiGen. A variety of software (primarily in the fields of energy design and research) that has been developed internally over the years in the various technology and programming classes is also available. (All brand/product names or trademarks are the property of their respective holders.) Bruin On Line (BOL) is a UCLA service provided in addition to the services provided by the Department of Architecture and Urban Design. UCLA provides the Bruin Onl Line service to all faculty, staff, and students with centralized e-mail services, remote access to UCLA departmental networks, and to the Internet. It also provides digital access to many UCLA campus and library facilities (for example: the campus bookstore and the ORION and MELVYL databases).

I am delighted to introduce myself and reconnect with you and the entire AUD Alumni Community. Since my appointment as Chair in Spring 2007, many exciting changes have occurred within the department. I’d like to take this opportunity to inform you of the current direction of the school and invite you to stay connected. Now is an exciting time at UCLA Architecture and Urban Design and the following months will be no exception. Our public lecture series Fuzzy Boundaries will feature Billie Tsien on Monday, March 4 at 6:30pm as a Distinguished Alumni Lecture honoring a graduate whose innovation and accomplishments have significantly impacted the fields of architecture and or urban design. Currently, we have 233 students enrolled in five programs. Last year we welcomed thirty juniors to our new undergraduate program in Architectural Studies. This year we’re launching Suprastudio, a new M.Arch II program focus. Four years ago, we began offering Jump-Start, a summer career discovery program from which we’ve recruited many talented students. The department is currently supporting three initiatives: cross-cultural studies, design and technology, and critical practice. These areas of study offer the opportunity to merge research and practice. I believe this approach to academic research is most vital as it is informed by pragmatism and directed toward solutions to contemporary problems. The strength of a program is reflected in its graduates. Our students have contributed to our strong record of achievement. In the Fall 2008 students from Greg Lynn, Neil Denari and Kivi Sotamaa’s 2007-2008 Research Studios were featured in the Beijing Biennale. UCLA professor Thom Mayne and his students are engaged in a design build project of a 1,200 square foot shotgun house that is part house, part boat, for a family in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward as part of Brad Pitt's Make It Right Foundation. With funds from the Charles Moore Traveling Studio program students will travel this academic year to Scandanavia and Central Europe with Mark Mack; to Dubai with Jason Payne; and China with Ben Refuerzo. A Center for Cross-Cultural Studies in Architecture and Urban Design initiative focusing on expanding design culture through the development of cross-cultural programs with support from the Japan Foundation - Center for Global Partnership will co-host a conference in Tokyo entitled "Negotiating Global Pressures on Professional & Educational Standards in Architecture" in July 2009 in partnership with Tokyo University. A/cute Tokyo - a culmination of this 2-year initiative brings together academics and professionals for a symposium to consider extreme conditions, mutated programs, new technologies, diverse lifestyles, and emerging urbanisms in Tokyo on Saturday, May 2 at the Hammer Museum. I hope you find these new department objectives as exciting as we do. We welcome your thoughts and participation. Please join us on June 8 and 9 for our all-school exhibit and public jury called RUMBLE. Last year’s inaugural event was a huge success with over 1000 outside visitors and 40 visiting critics on hand to view the work of 170 students. As always, our lecture series is free and open to the public. Christopher Bangle, Enric Ruiz-Geli, Peter Ebner, Jean-Louis Cohen, Winy Maas, Jun Aoki, and Benjamin Ball will provide lectures in the coming months in our public series. Initiative 1: A Center for Cross-Cultural Studies in Architecture and Urban Design To expand design culture through the development of cross-cultural programs Initiative 2: SUPRASTUDIO – a new focus for the M. Arch. II degree To promote critical practice emphasizing applied research on Los Angeles Initiative 3: A Laboratory for Design and Technology To explore the relationship between design, technology, and the environment through partnerships with industry Additional Initiatives Founded in 2006, cityLab supports projects examining contemporary urban issues, urban design, and the architecture of the city, through research and design. CityLab is directed by Dr. Dana Cuff, and Co-director adjunct Professor Roger Sherman. I Diane Favro is a project collaborator on the Hypercities Project at UCLA. Selected from a field of over 1000 applicants Hypercities is a web-based learning platform that connects geographical locations with stories of the people who live there and those who have lived there in the past. Through publication, symposia, conferences and the application of critical theory, we intend to provide valuable contributions to contemporary debates in architecture, urban design, cultural studies, and sustainability. The department is poised to become one of the most influential in the country, and these initiatives are a critical component of the plan to expand AUD’s sphere of influence. The initiatives will result in preparing students for international practice, for focused professional service to the community, and for research on building technology and design. Hitoshi Abe Chair

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Distinguished Alumni Lecture Billie Tsien, Partner, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, New York Wednesday, March 4, 6:30pm Perloff Hall, Decafe The UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design Distinguished Alumni Lecture series features renowned graduates whose innovation and accomplishments have significantly impacted the field of architecture and or urban design. "Architecture is never a single person’s stroke of brilliance. It is at once much less daunting and much more difficult than that romantic notion. Vision is balanced with the desires and capabilities of many people. Like a piece of Chinese embroidery, the form of a design may be clear but the richness of the pattern comes from many stitches. We see architecture as a profound act of optimism. Its foundation lies in believing that it is possible to make places on the earth that can give a sense of grace to life – and in believing that that matters. It is what we have to give, and it is what we have to leave behind." - Billie Tsien Tod Williams and Billie Tsien have worked together for more than 30 years. Their work pays careful attention to context, detail and the subtleties of materials. They both maintain active teaching careers parallel to their practice and have taught extensively at leading Institutions throughout the United States. Most recently, they held the Bishop Visiting Professorship of Architectural Design at Yale University. Billie Tsien and Tod Williams have received the Brunner Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Medal of Honor from the New York City AIA, and the Chrysler Award for Design Innovation. The partners have also been honored with The Cooper Hewitt's National Design Award in Architecture and the President’s Medal from the Architectural League of New York. In 2002 they won the Arup World Architecture Award for the Best Building in the World for the American Folk Art Museum, the first new museum built in New York City in over three decades. Current work with Tod Williams includes a new museum for the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, the Asia Society headquarters in Hong Kong, and an information technology campus in Mumbai, India. Please join us for a reception following the lecture in the Perloff Gallery. Perloff Hall is located on the UCLA Campus. Perloff Hall, M-F, 9am – 5pm Parking is available in Lot 3 for $9 Check the website for confirmation of all programs at www.aud.ucla.edu Info: 310.267.4704 The campus map is available at www.aud.ucla.edu/map/ RUMBLE June 8 - 13, 2009 Perloff Hall RUMBLE with UCLA's architecture and urban design faculty and students and engage in the shifting edge of contemporary critical thinking and design innovation at UCLA. 6,500 square feet of year-end studio and program installations redefine the provocative opportunities confronting the next generation of architects. Monday, June 8 | 6 - 9 pm Exposition Opening Perloff Hall Students will be at their work to discuss their ideas and aspirations with visitors. Tuesday, June 9 | 9am - 6pm Final reviews Perloff Hall, M-F, 9am - 5pm Parking is available in Lot 3 for $9 Check the website for confirmation of all programs at www.aud.ucla.edu Info: 310.267.4704 The campus map is available at www.aud.ucla.edu/map

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