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Welcome


Chair's Statement


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



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Dean's Statement


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



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History


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.



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



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Directions To UCLA (Driving)


UCLA Architecture and Urban Design is located in Perloff Hall, Portola Plaza on the northeast portion of the Westwood campus. Directions to UCLA (Driving) Locate UCLA by Zip code (90095) or by street address (405 Hilgard Avenue). Call 310-825-4321 for recorded directions. The closest major airport to UCLA is the Los Angeles International Airport, LAX. From LAX, take the 405 Freeway north to the Wilshire Blvd. East exit. Continue east on Wilshire for several blocks, moving into the left lane. Make a left turn on Westwood Blvd. and follow it into campus. UCLA's main campus is bounded by Sunset Blvd. on the north and Le Conte Ave. on the south; the east border is Hilgard Ave. and the west border is Gayley Ave. To visit Perloff Hall where we are located we suggest you enter the campus at Westholme Drive and Hilgard Avenue and proceed to the Parking Info kiosk to purchase parking for lot 3. The attendant can also provide a map of the campus. For more information, call the Department of Architecture at 310.825.7857 External Web Sites: External Web Sites: -Google Maps -Mapquest 3. Alternatives to Driving -MTA Bus MTA Lines 2, 21,302,305 and 761 serve campus, or transfer from other MTA lines. -Santa Monica Big Blue Bus Lines 1,2,3,8 and 12 bring you to campus, or transfer from other lines. -Culver City Bus Line 6 brings you directly to campus, or transfer from Lines 1-5
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Contact


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



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Administrative Staff


Caroline Blackburn Director of Special Projects 310.267.4704 Caroline.Blackburn@aud.ucla.edu Nayla Huq Administrative Assistant 310.825.7857 Nayla.Huq@aud.ucla.edu Jim Kies Student Advisor 310.825.0525 Jim.Kies@aud.ucla.edu Ryan Hamilton Academic Services Administrator 310.825.8950 Ryan.Hamilton@aud.ucla.edu Nancy Valencia Management Services Officer 310.267.5155 Nancy.Valencia@aud.ucla.edu
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Technical Staff


Philip Soderlind Shop Supervisor 310.825.1626 Philip.Soderlind@aud.ucla.edu Anthony Caldwell Director of Technology 310.825.6492 Anthony.Caldwell@aud.ucla.edu
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Degrees & Programs


Degree Programs


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.



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Design


Our unsurpassed faculty in design has developed a curriculum that focuses on formal research and experimentation and insists that architecture and urban design respond proactively to the always-shifting contemporary world. During the past few decades, profound social change, significant technological innovations, and a new global environment have radically challenged traditional models for the profession. Design is not only the primary activity of the professional architect or urbanist—it is also the intellectual and methodological foundation of the discipline of architecture. Rather than promote design as willful self-expression in the tradition of heroic modernism, the Department seeks to engage students in the thoughtful investigation of form as socially, politically, and technically determined. Students are encouraged to develop design expertise as well as to understand architecture and urban design in relation to their widest cultural implications. This view permits students to investigate fully their field and to deploy its potential with the greatest strategic effect. The Department emphasizes the relationships between form, technique, manufacture, environment, and context, and seeks to discern in them underlying principles of organization. Courses in new types of building construction, computational design, theories of architectural and urban form are all brought to bear on studio work. Advanced studios explore special topics in digital design, contemporary urban form, emerging technologies, and other issues. Problems range from small houses developed for local communities to extra large extensions of infrastructure and establish links between buildings and cities, between interiors and landscapes, between regions and the global context. New developments in computer-aided design, modeling, and visualization techniques are particularly emphasized. Through a progressive curriculum that enables students to navigate the complex and interdisciplinary demands of architecture and urbanism, the Department prepares students to be leaders in the professions and discipline of design.
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Critical Studies


Critical Studies explores the history, theory, and criticism of architecture and urbanism. Drawing on significant transformations in academic scholarship in recent years, the program is fundamentally interdisciplinary. Developments in visual culture, cultural studies, intellectual history, urban studies, and critical theory have all been incorporated into the program, creating a dynamic and evolving curriculum. A broad range of courses stress the relationship of architecture and urbanism to their cultural, social, political, and technological milieus. Students can concentrate in many areas, including the history of the profession, issues in representation, the history of discourses on architecture and the city, gender analyses, problems in modernization, and contemporary theory. The program has strong affiliations with other departments, including history, art history, art, film, comparative literature, and urban planning, enabling students to develop comprehensive approaches to the study of the field. Of equal importance to Critical Studies in Architectural Culture is its location within a highly active professional program in architecture. Students are encouraged to understand their historical and theoretical work in relation to the current professional, technological, and social concerns of architecture as well as to contemporary design debates. The constant interaction between critical research and new developments in the practice of architecture and urbanism lends the program a distinctive vitality and gives students work an exciting urgency. The M.A./Ph.D. program offers a particular focus in Critical Studies. The M.A./Ph.D. program aims to guide students toward original research in the critical studies of architectural culture. The program encourages students to investigate through historical, theoretical, and cultural interrogation issues of importance to the contemporary architectural discipline. Although the primary focus of the curriculum is in modern architecture of the Western world, historical interdisciplinary and cross-cultural subjects are also explored. The core of the program is a four-course sequence that trains students in the techniques and territories of architectural studies and their historiographies. An initial three seminars -- Critical Studies 1, Critical Studies 2, and Critical Studies 3 -- introduce students to key issues in the field and are offered during the first year of study. A yearlong course taught collectively by the Critical Studies faculty is advised for the second year of study. This Critical Studies Seminar is conceived as a mini-colloquium in which students offer their own research for debate and discussion. While enrolled in this core program, students take other electives in the Department and across the University. The program culminates in a thesis or dissertation that contributes to the discourse on architecture and demonstrates an understanding of architectures structural and ideological role in the production of culture. This document is written under the close supervision of a faculty advisor. The program is distinguished by its frank engagement with current architectural debate and practices and by its commitment to rigorous scholarship. Students interested in visualization, VR modeling, historical reconstructions, and related areas may apply for internships, jobs, and training at the Experiential Technology Center directed by AUD Professor Diane Favro. ETC encourages interdisciplinary research through technology-mediated collaboration focusing on visualization, sound, temporalization, spatialization, and other sensorial factors. In addition, the center investigates and promotes educational applications, grant acquisition, and distribution of production-quality applications and software.
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Technology


Technology continues to be one of the most transformative influences in the contemporary world and UCLA gives students of Architecture and Urban Design the opportunity to explore this constantly changing field at the highest level. The impact of the computer on Architecture is an especially exciting development and our students leave UCLA well prepared to exploit and benefit from the age of information. Though we train students in the traditional types of building technologies necessary for professional competence, such as structures, construction, environmental technologies, and mechanical systems, we also seek to advance the state of architectural knowledge by undertaking research in emerging technologies. Capitalizing on the rich professional context of Los Angeles, the program asks leading engineers and architectural technologists to take time out from their practices to teach about innovative developments in their fields. UCLA is unique in providing both the intellectual and the technical resources needed to explore fully a wide range of issues in design and computation. The impact of the computer on the manufacturing process, on environmental and sustainable design, and on new techniques of visualization, from CAD to virtual reality, is our focus. Advanced courses explore special topics in computer-aided design, software development, new modes of manufacture, the use of CNC (computer numerically controlled) milling in the development of building elements, and rapid prototyping. Our expertise in emerging digital technologies and our commitment to understanding these developments in relation to design has permitted UCLA to taking a leading role in defining the next phase of architectures technological evolution. The Department is not currently accepting doctoral applications in the area of Technology.
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M.Arch I Degree


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/.



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Admission Requirements


The M.Arch.I program accepts applications from those holding a bachelors degree (or its equivalent) comparable in standards and content to a bachelors degree from the University of California. Applications are accepted from students with diverse backgrounds. Although no formal training in architecture is required, first-year classes assume some familiarity with the history and culture of architecture, possession of basic graphic skills, and the understanding of fundamental concepts of mathematics and physics. Applicants are strongly advised to become familiar with basic works in the history and theory of architecture before entering the program. Entry into the program is therefore conditional on having taken at least one college-level course in each of the following areas: - Newtonian physics - Mathematics (covering algebra plus geometry or trigonometry) - A survey in the History of Architecture (minimum 1 semester or 2 quarters) that covers Antiquity to the present - Drawing or Basic Design. For further information on these prerequisites, contact the admissions officer. The Admissions Committee will consider applications from those who, at the time of application, do not have these prerequisites. If applicants do not have the prerequisites, they must specify in their application how they plan to complete the prerequisites before entry into the program. The graduate adviser can provide guidance on how to do so. Some applicants may be required to take a summer studio course at UCLA as a condition of admission. Admission will only be offered on the condition that the applicants provide the graduate adviser with satisfactory evidence of having completed the prerequisites before commencing classes. Instructors may test students backgrounds in these areas before admitting them to certain courses. If students lack the necessary proficiency, they may need to spend an additional year fulfilling curricular requirements. In addition, the Department of Architecture and Urban Design requires that applicants submit the material outlined under Admissions located in the back of this brochure. International students should carefully review the English-language proficiency requirements. The M.Arch.I program is a full-time program and does not accept part-time students. All new students must enter in the Fall Quarter.
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Typical Study Program


First Year Fall 411 Introductory Design Studio 6 units 220 Introduction to Computers 2 units 436 Introduction to Building Construction 2 units 431 Structures I 4 units Winter 412 Building Design Studio 6 units 201 Theories of Architecture 4 units 432 Structures II 4 units Spring 413 Building Design with Landscape Studio 6 units 442 Building Climatology 4 units 433 Structures III 4 units Second Year Fall 414 Major Building Design 6 units 291 Theory of Architectural Programming 4 units 000 Elective 4 units Winter 415 Comprehensive Studio 6 units 437 Building Construction 4 units 000 Elective 4 units Spring 401 Advanced Topics Studio 6 units 441 Environmental Controls 4 units 461 Professional Practice 4 units Third Year Fall 401 Advanced Topics Studio 6 units 000 Elective 4 units 000 Elective 4 units 403A Research Studio Seminar 2 units Winter 401 Advanced Topics Studio 6 units 000 Elective 4 units 403B Research Studio Seminar 2 units Spring 000 Elective 4 units 000 Elective 4 units 403C Research Studio 6 units Students are required to take the above courses, in the sequence indicated.
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M.Arch II Degree


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



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Admission Requirement


The M.Arch.II program emphasizes advanced studies in architecture and urban design and requires that applicants hold a five-year Bachelor of Architecture degree or equivalent. In addition, the Department of Architecture and Urban Design requires that applicants submit the material outlined under Admissions located on the website. Particular emphasis is placed on evidence of professional quality and creative ability in design and research as evidenced in the portfolio, focused statement of purpose, letters of recommendation, previous academic accomplishments, and future potential.
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Typical Study Program


Summer401 Advanced Topics Studio 6 units000 Elective in Technology 4 units000 Elective in Critical Studies 4 unitsFall403A Research Studio 2 units401 Advanced Topics Studio 6 units000 Elective* 4 units000 Elective* 4 unitsWinter403 BResearch Studio 2 units401 Advanced Topics Studio 6 units000 Elective* 4 units000 Elective* 4 unitsSpring403C Research Studio 6 units000 Elective* 4 units*Required are 2 additional courses in the area of technology or 2 additional courses in the area of critical studies in architectural culture.
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PhD and MA in Architecture


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.



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MA/PhD Admission Requirements


Applicants must hold a bachelors degree from an accredited college or university. Students with degrees in other fields are also encouraged to apply but may be required to complete specific coursework in the Department of Architecture and Urban Design as a condition of admission at the discretion of the Ph.D. Program Committee. Applicants must fulfill the requirements of the Graduate Division and of the Architecture and Urban Design Program. MA/PhD Application Dossier Must include: 01 A short biographical resume 02 Academic transcripts 03 Examples of research work 04 Three letters of recommendation 05 A statement of purpose and a proposed program of studies 06 Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores 07 Examples of creative work (optional) Note: Where feasible, the Ph.D. Program Committee may require an interview. Applicants whose native language is other than English are required to pass the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) before entering. MA/PhD Criteria Considered for Admission include: 01 Evidence of capacity for original scholarship and research in architecture and ability to achieve eminence in the field 02 An outstanding academic record, including grades (3.5 minimum GPA), GRE scores, and letters of recommendation 03 Demonstration in the work submitted of adequate communication skills, particularly writing skills 04 Presentation of a clear and realistic statement of purpose
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Typical Study Program


PhD Typical Study Plan FIRST YEAR FALL 290 Colloquium and Means and Objects Seminar 000 Elective in Critical Studies 000 General Elective WINTER 290 Colloquium - Means and Objects Seminar 000 Elective in Critical Studies 000 General Elective SPRING 290 Colloquium - Means and Objects Seminar 000 Elective in Critical Studies 000 General Elective SECOND YEAR FALL 290 Colloquium - Means and Objects Seminar 000 Elective in Critical Studies/Elective in Minor Field 000 General Elective/Language WINTER 290 Colloquium - Means and Objects Seminar 000 Elective in Critical Studies/Elective in Minor Field* 000 General Elective/Language SPRING 290 Colloquium - Means and Objects Seminar 000 Elective in Critical Studies/Elective in Minor Field 000 General Elective/Language 000 Preparation for Comprehensive Exam THIRD YEAR FALL 597 Preparation for Qualifying Exam WINTER 597 Preparation for Qualifying Exam SPRING 597 Preparation for Qualifying Exam MA Typical Study Plan FIRST YEAR FALL 290 Colloquium - Means and Objects Seminar 000 Elective in Critical Studies 000 General Elective WINTER 290 Colloquium - Means and Objects Seminar 000 Elective in Critical Studies 000 General Elective SPRING 290 Colloquium - Means and Objects Seminar 000 Elective in Critical Studies 000 General Elective SECOND YEAR FALL 290 Colloquium - Means and Objects Seminar 000 Elective in Critical Studies 000 General Elective WINTER 290 Colloquium - Means and Objects Seminar 000 Elective in Critical Studies 000 General Elective SPRING 290 Colloquium - Means and Objects Seminar 598 Preparation for MA Thesis
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Recent Ph.D Dissertations

Recent Dissertation Topics and Student Appointments Dean Abernathy, "Computer Visualization and Simulation as a Medium for Architectural and Urban History Pedagogy," Assistant Professor, Architecture Department, University of Virginia Abdul Al-Balam, "An Advanced Digital Solution for Representing Continuity in Urban Architectural Change: A Virtual Urban Architectural Evolution," Assistant Professor, Architecture Department, University of Kuwait Tulay Atak, "Byzantine Modern: Displacements of Modernism in Istanbul," Instructor, SCI-Arc Ewan Branda, "Virtual Machines: Culture, telematique, and the architecture of information at Centre Beaubourg, 1968-1977," Teaching Fellow, UCLA Penelope Dean, "Delivery without Discipline: Architecture in the Age of Design," Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, University of Illinois at Chicago Dora Epstein-Jones, "Architecture on the Move: Modernism and Mobility in the Postwar," Cultural Studies Coordinator, SCI-Arc Jose Gamez, "Contested Terrains: Space, Place, and Identity in Postcolonial Los Angeles, Associate Professor, Architecture, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Todd Gannon, "Dissipations, Accumulations, and Intermediations: Architecture, Media and the Archigrams, 1961-1974," Critical Studies Faculty, SCI-Arc; Senior Lecturer, Otis College Tamara Morgenstern, "Early Baroque Urban Planning at the Water's Edge in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies" Eran Neuman, "Oblique Discourses: Claude Parent and Paul Virilio's Oblique Function Theory and Postwar Architectural Modernity," Assistant Professor, Tel Aviv University Alexander Ortenberg, "Drawing Practices: The Art and Craft of Architectural Representation," Assistant Professor, Cal Poly Pomona David Salomon, "One Thing or Another: The World Trade Center and the Implosion of Modernism," Cornell University Ari Seligmann, "Architectural Publicity in the Age of Globalization," Adjunct Professor, Woodbury University; Senior Lecturer, Otis College; Lecturer, UCLA Lisa Snyder, "The Design and Use of Experiential Instructional Technology for the Teaching of Architectural History in American Undergraduate Architecture Programs," Associate Director, ETC, UCLA Rebeka Vital, "Incorporation of Cultural Elements Into Architectural Historical Reconstructions Through Virtual Reality," Assistant Professor, Department of Design, Shenkar University, Israel Jon Yoder, "Sight Design: The Immersive Visuality of John Lautner," Assistant Professor, Architecture, Syracuse University
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Concurrent Degree Programs
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.



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Admission Requirements

Students interested in the concurrent Architecture and Urban Design Department and Urban Planning Department degree program must apply independently to, and be accepted by, both Departments, based on existing admission requirements. Once admitted, students will follow a four-year cycle for the concurrent program and receive their degrees after successfully completing the requirements of both programs. If a student wishes to embark on the concurrent program after being previously admitted to either Architecture and Urban Design or Urban Planning, he/she must apply independently to the second program and, if admitted, complete the requirements of both programs, including the separate thesis/comprehensive exams for each degree.
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Areas of Concentration


Along with the basic required training in both Architecture and Urban Design and Urban Planning, students will select one of the following areas of concentration for specialization: - Housing and Community Development - Ecology and Environmental Planning Issues - Urban Policy and Design - Urban Transportation and Built Form - Theory and Methods in Planning and Design In consultation with faculty advisers from both Urban Planning and Architecture, concurrent degree students will select one of these fields by the end of the first year so as to provide a coherent focus for their elective coursework. Among the many courses offered in the various fields of emphasis, a student must enroll in at least six courses—at least two from Architecture and Urban Design and at least two from Urban Planning.
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B.A. in Architectural Studies
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.



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Transfer Students


Admission Requirements

Students are admitted for fall quarter only. Admission is highly competitive and only a limited number of students will be admitted each fall. UCLA students are required to complete the lower division preparation for the major courses with grades of B or better, before applying for admission to the program. Transfer students will be expected to complete the lower division preparation courses during their first year of residency. Applications are available to regularly enrolled UCLA students during fall quarter in the Department office located in 1317 Perloff Hall. Transfer students should apply during the regular UC application period (November 1-30). Transfer students will be required to enroll in the full 2-year major sequence regardless of the number of years already spent in undergraduate studies prior to admission as an architectural studies major.
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Typical Study Program

Year 1 Fall ARCH&UD 30 Introduction to Architectural Studies ARCH&UD 141: Technology I: Projections Winter ARCH&UD 10A History of Architecture and Urban Design ARCH&UD 121 Studio I Spring ARCH&UD 10B History of Architecture and Urban Design ARCH&UD 143 Technology III: Digital Technology Year 2 Fall ARCH&UD 122 Studio II ARCH&UD 131 Issues in Contemporary Design Winter ARCH&UD 142 Technology II: Building Materials and Methods ARCH&UD 132 Domestic Architecture: A Critical History Spring ARCH&UD 123 Studio III ARCH&UD 133 Modernism and Metropolis
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Application

The Universitys Online Application for Undergraduate Admission can be found at: http://www.ucop.edu/pathways Admissions Requirement Applicants must have a minimum 3.0 GPA, which should include no less than a B in any of the introductory lecture courses in architecture.
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Supplemental


01 A statement of interest detailing the students reasons for wishing to pursue a major in architectural studies.02 Submission of exactly three 8 x 10 inch images of creative work. 03 Transcript (official or unofficial) of undergraduate coursework04 Departmental ApplicationThese supplemental materials must be submitted by January 15 to:Department of Architecture and Urban Design Admissions OfficeUCLA School of the Arts and Architecture1317 Perloff HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1467
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UCLA Students


Admission Requirements


Students are admitted for fall quarter only. Admission is highly competitive and only a limited number of students will be admitted each fall. UCLA students are required to complete the lower division preparation for the major courses with grades of B or better, before applying for admission to the program. Transfer students will be expected to complete the lower division preparation courses during their first year of residency. Applications are available to regularly enrolled UCLA students during fall quarter in the Department office located in 1317 Perloff Hall. The B.A. program accepts applicants from UCLA with a minimum 3.0 cumulative grade point average at the time of application, typically during their second year of study. Students must take all three lower division courses in architecture (the Introduction to Architecture sequence: AUD 30, 10A, 10B) by the end of their second (sophomore) year, and must apply at that time for admission to the major. Students should apply to the program during the fall quarter of their second year, and will be notified of their acceptance by the end of that academic year. Acceptance, however, will be contingent upon their continuing to meet the minimum grade point average at the end of spring quarter.
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Typical Study Program


Years 1 and 2: Prep for Major Fall ARCH&UD 30 Introduction to Architectural Studies Winter ARCH&UD 10A History of Architecture and Urban Design Spring ARCH&UD 10B History of Architecture and Urban Design Year 3 Fall ARCH&UD 141 Technology I: Projections Winter ARCH&UD 121 Studio I Spring ARCH&UD 143 Technology III: Digital Technology Year 4 Fall ARCH&UD 122 Studio II ARCH&UD 131 Issues in Contemporary Design Winter ARCH&UD 142 Technology II: Building Materials and Methods ARCH&UD 132 Domestic Architecture: A Critical History Spring ARCH&UD 123 Studio III ARCH&UD 133 Modernism and Metropolis
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Application

The Change of Major application can be picked up in the Department office located in 1317 Perloff Hall.
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Supplemental

01 A statement of interest detailing the student’s reasons for wishing to pursue a major in architectural studies. 02 Submission of exactly three 8 X 10 inch images of creative work. 03 Transcript (Official or unofficial) of undergraduate coursework 04 Departmental Application These supplemental materials must be submitted by January 15 to: Department of Architecture and Urban Design Admissions Office UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture 1317 Perloff Hall Los Angeles, CA 90095-1467
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Current Courses


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



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Graduate Courses

M201 Theories of Architecture Lecture, 90 minutes. Exploration of the conceptual and historical structures that shape current issues in architectural theory. Readings in primary texts serve as a framework for understanding the nature of speculative inquiry in an architectural context. 220 Introduction to Computers Laboratory, one and one-half hours. Introduces students to basic concepts, skills, theoretical aspects of Computer- Aided Architectural Design, microcomputer skills. Applications selected are commonly found in professional offices. The course will cover 2 and 3 dimensional representation, i.e., painting, drafting, multimedia, hypermedia, and modeling. M227A Programming Computer Applications in Architecture and Urban Design Lecture, three hours. Introductory course in the logic of computing through experiments in computer graphics programming. The course will investigate both procedural and object-oriented approaches to programming. CM247A Introduction to Sustainable Architecture and Community Planning (Formerly numbered 247A) Lecture, three hours. Energy and alternative resource-conscious design integration into architectural and urban design: passive, active, and photovoltaic building materials at scale of buildings and communities. Concurrently scheduled with course C191. M271 Elements of Urban Design Lecture, three hours. Introduction of basic knowledge of elements and methods of urban design. Multidisciplinary approach leading to understanding of political, socioeconomic, and technological framework of urban systems and its dynamic interrelations. M272 Real Estate Development and Finance Introduction to real estate development process specifically geared to students in planning, urban design, and architecture. Financial decision model, market studies, designs, loan package, development plan, and feasibility study. Lectures and projects integrate development process with proposed design solutions, which are iteratively modified to meet economic feasibility tests. 286 Roman Architecture and Urbanism Lecture, three hours. Examination of architectural and urban developments during Roman period, from archaic age to late Empire. Built environments of ancient world investigated from various perspectives, with consideration to programming, symbolism, and viewing, as well as to technological, aesthetic, and political factors. S/U or letter grading. 288 Renaissance Architecture and Urbanism Lecture, three hours. Examination of architectural developments from the 15th to 17th century. Primary focus on Italian peninsula, and extending to entire Mediterranean basin. Analysis of individual structures, cities, and landscape designs to reveal changing cultural and theoretical values, as well as specific aesthetic and iconographic content. S/U or letter grading. 289 Special Topics in Architecture and Urban Design (2 to 4 units) Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Selected academic topics initiated by students, student teams, or faculty and directed by a faculty member. May be repeated for credit. 290 Special Topics in Critical Studies in Architectural Culture Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour; outside study, 11 hours. Designed for graduate students. Exploration of how architecture operates in relation to wider cultural, historical, and theoretical issues. May be repeated for a maximum of 30 units. Letter grading. 291 Theory of Architectural Programming Lecture, three hours. Exploration of concepts and methods of architectural programming and its interrelation to design process; planning of design process; various techniques for determination of program contents, basic conditions, resources, and constraints; identification of solution types for given situations. M293 Politics, Ideology and Design Seminar, three hours. An exploration of the cultural, political context of architecture and planning work. Theory and practice will be examined from a variety of perspectives applied to a set of varied physical environments and to a set of current spatialized concepts. The seminar will alternate between considerations of theoretical propositions that are shaping present urban and architectural debate and concrete case studies where politics and ideology shape the design process. 294A-294B Environmental Psychology Lecture, three hours. Introduction to models, concepts, and theories concerning impact of the environment on human behavior, perception, and thought. Review of research results concerning space perception, cognitive mapping, preferences and attitudes toward the environment, effects of crowding and stress, personal space and territoriality. 375 Teaching Apprentice Practicum Prerequisite: apprentice personnel employment as a teaching assistant, associate, or fellow. Teaching apprenticeship under active guidance and supervision of a regular faculty member responsible for curriculum and instruction at the University. May be repeated for credit. S/U grading. 401 Advanced Topics Studio Studio, 12 hours. Prerequisite: intermediate level studios (412, 413, 414) or M.Arch.II standing. A number of different projects focusing on special topics in architectural design will be offered by members of the faculty from which the students may choose. May be repeated for credit. 403A-403C Research Studio Lecture (F&W, IP), Studio, 12 hours (S). Prerequisite: satisfactory completion of courses 411, 412, 413, 414, and 415 for M.Arch.I, or M.Arch.II standing. eginning with an indepth research phase (403A, B) and resulting in an advanced studio project (403C), this research studio focuses on a number of different special topics in architecture and urban design. M404 Joint Planning/Architecture Studio Lecture, one hour; discussion, one hour; studio, four hours. Opportunity to work on joint planning/ architecture project for a client. Outside speakers; field trips. Examples of past projects include Third Street Housing, Santa Monica; New American House for nontraditional households; guide to setting up shelters for homeless in Los Angeles County; working with resident leaders at Los Angeles City public housing development. 411 Introductory Design Studio Studio, 12 hours. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. This course introduces sketching, drawing, perspectives, CAD. Architectural completion is initially studied in terms of its separate elements. Each is studied by means of manipulative exercise, which allows for experimentation of its intrinsic possibilities. Students undertake a series of closely controlled exercises dealing with combining the elements, then designing small buildings. 412 Building Design Studio Studio, 12 hours. Prerequisite: course 411 or consent of instructor. This course concentrates on basic skills and then leads to projects exploring the architectural program in relation to design process and, particularly, implications of program on architectural forms and concepts. In the second phase, structural elements are introduced to fulfill program requirements and to support and further develop intended forms and concepts. 413 Building Design with Landscape Studio Studio, 12 hours. Prerequisite: course 412 or consent of instructor. This course introduces theoretical and technical issues such as site planning, urban design, landscape design, building typology, etc; building design and site planning in relation to water, landforms, and plants in natural light, heat, and ventilation. 414 Major Building Design Studio Studio, 12 hours. Prerequisite: course 413 and/or consent of instructor. Introduce issues such as programming and program manipulation, site planning, urban design, and integration of technical systems and architectural expression. The emphasis is on treatment in breadth of large-scale projects, or in the exploration in depth and detail of smaller scale projects. Students will learn to integrate structure, environmental control, etc. and present their ideas in graphic or model form. 415 Comprehensive Studio Studio, 12 hours. Prerequisite: course 414 and/or consent of instructor. This studio, the culmination of the core sequence (411–414), focuses on the development phase of a project. Technical concerns such as lighting, material innovations, sustainability, construction documents, and building envelopes will be considered critical to the generation of architectural form, integrated in the design of a single building project. 431 Structures I Lecture, three hours. Prerequisites: basic algebra, geometry, trigonometry, consent of instructor. Introduction to structural behavior and structural statics. Operations with forces and factors, both algebraically and graphically. Equilibrium of force systems, polygon of forces, and funicular polygon. Internal actions; axial force and bending moment. Reactions, stability, and statical determinacy. Determinate frames. Plane trusses; analysis and design. 432 Structures II Lecture, three hours. Prerequisites: course 431, consent of instructor. Mechanics of structures and structural elements. Elastic materials: stress, strain, and stress-strain relations. Theory of bending curvature, stress and strain distributions, centroid, moments of inertia, resisting and plastic moments. Design of beams for bending, shear, and deflections. Torsion members. Instability and design of columns. Design for combined bending and compression. Tensile structures; cables, pneumatic structures. Slabs and plates; shells and folded plates. 433 Structures III Lecture, three hours. Prerequisites: course 432, consent of instructor. Introduction to statically indeterminate analysis. Structural materials and loads. Wind loads: distribution with height, design for comfort, structure behavior under lateral loads. Steel construction and concepts for high–rise structures. Structural case studies in timber and steel. Introduction to earthquakes; seismology, magnitude, intensity, history. Seismic instrumentation. Case studies of recent earthquakes and damage. Earthquake design concepts and seismic code requirements. 436 Introduction to Building Construction Laboratory, two hours. An introduction to construction techniques. The physical principles and materials for making architecture will be studied through a series of exercises and field trips. 437 Building Construction Laboratory, four hours. Principles of structure, and enclosure focusing on production and materials research. Building elements are explored for formal and functional properties; design development of project in previous studio may be developed in detail with the integration of a range of technical systems. 441 Environmental Control System Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Design of mechanical systems necessary for functioning of large buildings: air handling, fire and life safety, plumbing, vertical and horizontal circulation, communication and electrical power distribution, analysis of interaction of these systems and their integrated effects on architectural form of a building. 442 Building Climatology Prerequisite: basic physics. Design of buildings which specifically respond to local climate; utilization of natural energies, human thermal comfort; sun motion and sun control devices; use of plant materials and landform to modifying microclimate. 461 Architectural Practice Seminar, three hours. Historical development of the profession; role of architect in contemporary society, current forms of practice and emerging trends, contractual relationships, ethical responsibility, office management, and promotion. Case studies of practical process. 496 Special Projects in Architecture Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Projects initiated either by individual students or student teams and directed by a faculty member. May be repeated for credit. 497 Special Projects in Urban Design Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Structural investigation of relationship between verbal description and architectural design. S/U grading. 498 Comprehensive Examination Seminar Seminar, three hours; outside study, nine hours. Seminar intended to begin process of developing independent proposal with related research and documentation that moves toward production of final document or book for each project. S/U grading. 501 Cooperative Program Prerequisite: consent of UCLA graduate adviser and graduate dean and host campus instructor, department chair, and graduate dean. Used to record enrollment of UCLA students in courses taken under cooperative arrangement with USC. 596 Directed Individual Research and Study in Architecture and Urban Design May be repeated for credit. S/U grading. 597 Preparation for Comprehensive Examination or Ph.D. Qualifiying Examinations Prerequisite: consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit. S/U grading. 598 Preparation in Architecture and Urban Design for Masters Thesis Prerequisite: consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit. S/U grading. 599 Ph.D. Dissertation Research in Architecture Prerequisite: doctoral standing. May be repeated for credit. S/U grading.
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Undergraduate Courses

10A. History of Architecture and Urban Design Lecture, 3 hours. Introduction to history of architecture and urban design from prehistory to age of mannerism. Discussion of world at large, analyzing synchronic architectural and urban solutions. Develops a vocabulary specific to the discipline of architecture; teaches critical thinking through the application of theoretical concepts to drawn and built work. P/NP or letter grading. Majors will be required to take this course for a letter grade. 10B. History of Architecture and Urban Design Lecture, 3 hours. Introduction to history of architecture, urbanism and theory produced from 1600 to the present. P/NP or letter grading. Majors will be required to take this course for a letter grade. 30. Introduction to Architectural Studies Lecture, 3 hours. Explores the role of the built environment in social, cultural and political life: how buildings are constructed, what they mean, the effects they have on the world, and the ways they imagine new futures, and shape private and public life. Focuses on a series of contemporary case studies for what each reveals about new possibilities for shaping the world in which we live; emphasis on how architecture extends to cities, roads, books, films, etc. Consideration of the historical context and cultural genealogy of particular buildings and environments, the material and economic conditions of building, etc. P/NP or letter grading. Majors will be required to take this course for a letter grade. 121. STUDIO I. Architectural Design: Intro to Basic Principles Studio, 4 hours. Introduction to basic architectural design principles and problem solving: how to control point, line, surface, and volume to shape spaces for human use. Visual analysis as tool for discussing and understanding organization. Techniques of repetition, variation, order, scale, and rhythm. Use of case-study analysis to uncover disciplinary issues within design problems as well as to produce individual solutions to those problems. Letter grading. 122. STUDIO II. Architectural Design: Program and Interiors Studio, 4 hours. Focuses on issues of inhabitation, domesticity, and program. Promotes an understanding of architectural precedents and principles of spatial organization. Studies the relationship of architectural form to the human body, and the role of architectural space in the choreography of human activity. Hones understanding and applies knowledge of architectural tectonics, structure, and measurement. Letter grading. 123. STUDIO III. Architectural Design: Landscape and City Studio, 4 hours. Introduces the disciplinary issues, techniques & organizations of landscape, and looks how those can influence the design of a building and site. Develops the material and temporal characteristics of architecture relative to the role those play in landscape. Introduces issues of accessibility and egress as systems of movement. Looks at structure as a serial component that relates to site, construction, topography, climatology, accessibility and their mutual interaction. Letter grading. 131. Issues in Contemporary Design Lecture, 3 hours. Aimed at understanding how global design culture today operates as a part of a set of spatial, economic, political, and social discourses. From the development of cities to new formal languages in architecture, it looks at the consequences of the fact that a great percentage of our lives are spent in controlled, designed environments. This includes the role that research and interdisciplinarity play today in influencing design ideas and processes, as well as how design is influenced by technology and new urban conditions. Letter grading. 132. Domestic Architecture: A Critical History Lecture, 3 hours. Investigates the relationship between culture and design through the medium of domestic architecture, from the communal living arrangements of antiquity to the functional and automated ideals of the Modern Movement. Explores how the design of the domestic interior has evolved to express and accommodate corresponding developments in lifestyle and taste. 133. Modernism and the Metropolis Lecture, 3 hours. The objective of this course is to introduce students to the emergence of the contemporary metropolis through a series of comparative urban explorations that begin in Los Angeles, and extends to engage a range of cities, including key examples from Asia to South America. The modern project can be seen in myriad forms across the globe, so that city and suburb, taken together, exist in the complex co-mingling of aesthetic, political, spatial, economic, technological, and social issues. Letter grading. 141. TECH 1. Projections Lecture, 2 hours; Lab, 2 hours. Introduction to techniques of spatial representation as they relate to architectural design. How to communicate using two- and three-dimensional drawing and modelling. Analogue and digital techniques and opportunity afforded by moving between both. Analog techniques include orthographic and axonometric projection. Digital techniques focus on computer graphics fundamentals, including bit map and vector graphic imaging using Adobe suite and modeling using Rhinoceros. Letter grading. 142.TECH 2. Building Materials and Methods Lecture, 2 hours; Field Trips/Work, 2 hours. Introduction to construction systems and materials in relation to design, i.e. framed, bearing wall, or hybrid systems. Teaches graphic conventions and organization of construction documents. Letter grading. 143.TECH 3. Digital Technology Lecture, 2 hours; Lab, 2 hours. An overview of 3D computer-aided visualization concepts, teaching the applications of AutoCAD and Maya, and their use relative to the process of design and visual communication. Builds familiarity with basic representation methods and tools; also introduces additional concepts required to dynamically interact with the computer and to explore and understand the communicative capacities of different methods of representation. Explains bitmap vs. vector graphics, typography basics, and color output and integration for print and web, and introduces 3D digital modeling and fabrication. Letter grading.
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JumpStart Summer Institute


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



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Faculty


This program is taught by UCLA faculty members and invited guest artists and lecturers. 2008 Faculty Included: Program Director: Georgina Huljich Introduction to Representation: Instructors: Andrew Holder and Narineh Mirzaeian Teaching assistants: Alex Chew, C Derinbogaz, Andrew Benson and Timo Carl. Introduction to Architectural Design: Instructors: Kelly Bair, Jason Herriven, Courtenay Bauer, Roland Snooks, Tim Paulson, Michael Ben-Meir and Georgina Huljich Assistant teacher: Rosalio Arellanes Teaching Assistants: Alan Noah-Navarro, Reza Aghabada and Haila Adamo History of Architecture and Urban Design Instructor: Linda Hart Teaching assistants: Per-Johan Dahl, Gustavo LeClerc and Whitney Moon
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Study Program


A sample program study schedule from the JumpStart 2008 summer is provided below. Weeks 1-2 Weeks 3-4 Weeks 5-6
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Gallery


Examples of student work from the 2008 JumpStart summer session are located in the galleries section. Click below to view this gallery.
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Curriculum Overview


AUD 10B: A History of Architecture This course is a survey of architectural and urban history from Baroque to the contemporary moment that covers significant buildings, spaces, artifacts, and theories of modernism. Architecture performs as a reflection of cultural, sociopolitical, philosophical, and technological transformations in world history. Stylistic genres, applied terminology, seminal texts, and alternative historiographies that apply to design of built domain that ranges in scale from details to cities. While the canon of Western tradition remains the overall focus, weekly thematic categories provide variety of conduits for addressing architecture and urban design in a global context. P/NP or letter grading. AUD 102: Introduction to Representation This course will introduce students to techniques of spatial representation as it relates to architectural design. Students will learn how to communicate using two and three dimensional drawing and modeling. Both hand-drawn "analog" and software-driven "digital" techniques will be explored as well as the opportunities afforded by moving between the two modes. Analog techniques will include orthographic and axonometric projection. Digital techniques will focus on Rhinoceros as a tool for two dimensional drafting with curves on a flat plane as well as three dimensional modeling using surfaces and solids. Additional digital work will focus on the manipulation of imagery in both raster and vector graphic forms using the Adobe suite. Typically, design students are given a seminal work of architecture or "case study" to use as a source of material for completing introductory work in architetural representation. In this course, students will instead be given a "reference object" that places a unique set of demands on the practice of architectural drawing without resorting to the conventions and geometries peculiar to an historical work. A thorough understanding of the object will be fundamental to the completion of weekly assignments and to the completion of the portfolio assignment at the conclusion of the course. AUD 103: Introduction to Architectural Design This course will introduce students to basic architectural design principles and problem solving. Students will learn to control point, line, surface and volume to shape spaces for human use. Visual analysis will be introduced as a tool for discussing and understanding organization. Students will learn techniques of repetition, variation, order, scale and rhythm. Students will use case study analysis to uncover disciplinary issues within a design problem and then produce an individual solution to the problem. The coursework will consist of two exercises. The design problems will grow in complexity and include the design of a seating element and a roof structure for an existing courtyard. The first assignment will focus on the material morphology and the transformation from analog material to a tectonic organization of an object, the second exercise on the spatial morphology, leading from conceptual diagrams to a spatial organization. Students will learn to address conceptual concerns with material solutions documented in two and three dimensions. Emphasis will be placed on physical modeling and measured orthographic and axonometric drawings.

Lectures


A variety of lectures by local architects and critics take place throughout the JumpStart summer session. Click here to see a list of lectures that took place during the JumpStart 2008 session.
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Demonstrations


Demonstrations by faculty and exhibitions of student work take place throughout the JumpStart summer session. Click here to see examples from the JumpStart 2008 session.
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Field Trips


Fields trips visiting various architectural works in the Los Angeles area are also included in the program. The Downtown Walking Tour is one of the fields trips that was included in the JumpStart 2008 summer session.
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Summer Design Seminar/Workshops


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.



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Course Descriptions


Course Descriptions SEMINARS Architects Reaching Out Instructor: Michael Webb Effective communication--with potential clients, the media and the public--is a key to survival for architects. Two three-hour interactive presentations with seasoned professionals, moderated by architectural writer Michael Webb, will provide expert advice on establishing your identity, in print and on-line, writing and talking about your work, getting published and exhibited, and the value of exemplary photography. The course will be shaped to meet the practical needs of post-graduates and of licensed professionals who are thinking of opening their own offices or have already done so. Putting Ideas Into Words and Images Saturday August 8; 9:30am-1pm Guests: Frances Anderton, formerly managing editor of The Architectural Review and editor of LA Architect; currently producer/moderator of DnA at KCRW; Lorcan O'Herlihy, architect; Benny Chan, architectural photographer. Explaining your ideas to the public and to potential clients - the most important skill after design itself. Writing and speaking plain English. Models to follow, jargon to avoid. Composing a media release/project description that will excite interest. Documenting your work for different media, lectures, exhibitions. Creating seductive project renderings. Choosing a photographer. Costs, terms of use. Virtual tour of building from wide exterior to interior details. Securing the killer shot. One shoot to serve different needs—architectural and shelter publications, with and without furnishings and people. Promoting Your Work Saturday, August 15; 9:30am-1pm Guests: Christine Anderson, public relations executive; Shannon Vincent-Brown, web-page designer; Sam Lubell, former news editor at Architectural Record, currently California Editor of Architects Newspaper How do you get noticed before you’ve built very much? Designing exhibits. Installations that embody vision. Participating in symposia. Starting a buzz and getting talked about. The critical importance of a web-site that projects an image of the firm and contains a persuasive mix of up-to-date information and images in an accessible format. Getting published. Which publications should you approach and in what sequence? What are editors and correspondents looking for? What is the ideal format in which to show them what you’ve done? Packaging the text and visuals. Possibilities for book publishing. WORKSHOPS Basic Maya Workshop Session 2: August 3 - August 14; Monday, 2pm - 5pm; Wednesday and Friday: 9am - 12pm Session 4: September 7 - September 18; Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 9am - 12pm As an introduction to MAYA software, this class will meet six times over two weeks to deliver technical expertise in using this complex digital modeling platform as an architectural tool. Students will emerge from the course with a strong understanding of the possibilities offered by both modeling and animation in design and how to handle it with precision and control. Skills for representing complex geometry will be honed to make each individual’s interests read clearly through drawings. Limited enrollment; This is a non-credit course. Open to students and professionals Advance Maya Workshop Session 4: September 7 - September 18; Monday, Tuesday, Thursday: 6pm - 9pm This class will expand on the possibilities offered by MAYA as a dynamic digital design tool. Students will emerge from the course with a critical attitude toward the techniques offered by the software as well as learn how to further their research by learning its power at various scales of design. Basic proficiency in Maya required. Limited enrollment; This is a non-credit course. Open to students and professionals Digita Modeling and Representation Session 3: August 31 - September 18; Tuesday, Thursday and Friday: 9am - 12pm This workshop will provide the knowledge and skills in using various modes of architectural communication through advanced digital environments; Rhinoceros will be taught as the primary software platform. Students will be introduced to the fundamentals of three-dimensional modeling and associated computer-aided design for the generating and representing complex form. This workshop is exclusively for Incoming AUD M.Aarch. I Students. As an introduction to the March I Program at UCLA, all incoming students are encouraged to attend. This workshop will introduce new ways of thinking about form and geometry and consequently develop techniques that will undoubtedly improve future design studio projects. Jump-Start students receive a 50% discount if they choose to participate in this digital modeling workshop. This is a non-credit course. Open to incoming UCLA / AUD March I students Rhino + Grasshopper Workshop Session 2: August 3 - August 14; Monday, Tuesday, Thursday: 6pm - 9pm This workshop will provide the knowledge ands skills to develop proficiency in various modes of architectural communication offered by advanced digital environments, using Rhinoceros as the primary software platform. Limited enrollment; This is a non-credit course. Open to students and professionals. Portfolio + Workshop Session 2: August 3 - August 14; Monday, Tuesday, Thursday: 9am to 12pm This two-week workshop is designed to instruct students in skills for portfolio layout, the central component in graduate school applications for architecture, landscape architecture and related design fields. Students will also write and edit their statements of purpose. The workshop will present examples of successful portfolios and introduce techniques for graphic communication including image-work, line-work and diagrams. Students will be given direct feedback through one-on-one critiques as well as pin-up reviews based on the layouts they produce of their own work. The workshop will also include close editing of texts for the portfolio and dedicate individual time to both conceiving and writing a successful statement of purpose. Limited enrollment; This is a non-credit course. Open to students and professionals Tech Prep Digital Fabrication Workshop Session 3: August 31 - September 18; Monday, Tuesday, Thursday: 9am - 12pm This workshop provides in-depth emersion for students interested in exploring the possibilities offered by emerging digital technology in fabricating architectural components. Beginning with basic techniques for output, students will quickly refine their fabrication skills through a variety of techniques to attain expertise and control over the extensive facilities available at UCLA and work through experimenting in materials of varying thickness, translucency and stiffness. The aim of the final project will be to define parameters for working with these machines on a project and find their limits and strengths in a variety of media. Limited enrollment; Open to students and professionals. [credit course] x 4 credits 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.
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Laboratories and Centers


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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Cross Cultural Studies Laboratory

Los Angeles is one of the most culturally diverse cities in the world, placing the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design in a unique position to explore international architectural and urban design developments and understand them in the context of different cultures and traditions. In our current globalized conditions of hyper-connectivity and with urban models being repeated as universal templates, uniqueness in the traditional sense has been lost. We are creating a Laboratory to develop descriptive vocabularies and frameworks to identify constructive local distinctions within increasingly generic cities. Since our current perspectives conceal valuable differences, the Laboratory seeks to expand urban studies by developing new analytical approaches to detect distinct local phenomenon and convert them into productive design devices. It examines dynamic hybrid metropolises aiming to discover their emerging characteristics, extract their essence, and generate new tools for advancing a broader range of urban environments. We want to establish a feedback loop whereby multi-dimensional urban analyses illuminate valuable local structures that can be formulated as strategies and injected back into urban milieu. This process will both raise the complexity within and increase our understanding of global urban conditions. Overall, the Laboratory will create an engine to promote research, collaboration, and exchange. The first project of the Laboratory, Tokyo Now, began in the fall of 2007, as a two-year cycle focusing on Japan, conducting intensive analyses of Tokyo and leading to a publication. Hitoshi Abe is directing the Tokyo Now project through a series of courses and workshops led by faculty from UCLA and Japanese institutions. This past year the department offered three advanced topics studios, each sending students to Japan, and held an interdisciplinary seminar course on Tokyo. This sequence will be repeated. As a culmination of this two-year project, the department is seeking funding to present the ongoing research findings by hosting an international symposium to discuss historical developments, present conditions and speculate on the future evolution of Tokyo. Top architects, critics and educators from Japan as well as those conducting research on Tokyo from elsewhere will be brought together for this event. The publication of the Laboratories work, involving critical essays and innovative graphic design will be distributed internationally. This and future publications constitute a vital professional learning experience for students, and augment their understanding of the how the designer contributes to contemporary culture through a variety of media. In addition, the Laboratory for Cross-Cultural Studies in partnership with Tokyo University, will sponsor an international conference on architectural education in Tokyo in July 2009, funded with $80,000 by the Japan Foundation-Center for Global Partnership. UCLA professors Hitoshi Abe and Dana Cuff of Architecture and Urban Design, Helmut Anheier of Public Policy, and Tokyo University professor Kazuhiko Namba will take leading roles in the conference.
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Design and Technology Initiative


The Department of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA defined the way graduate education embraced digital research in relation to design and construction. It was the first school to acquire a large-scale CNC router table and integrate new methods of fabrication, documentation, prototyping and construction with what was a new design medium using digital design software. In the process of developing a curriculum, research and pedagogy it trained and recruited some of the best and brightest teachers in the world to its faculty. Through the technology seminars, design studios and research studios this process deepens and continues. If three principles were to be identified in the past success of this vein of pedagogy it would be (1) supporting faculty research through teaching labs and shops; (2) adopting new technology from other industries with an attitude of experimentation and new uses relevant to the scale and complexity of building assembly; and (3) leveraging the geographic location of Southern California and the intersection of automobile design studios, aerospace manufacturing and entertainment industries. In order to build on these successes and leverage the intellectual capital and legacy of the last decade the Department is founding the Laboratory for Design Technology. The Laboratory will focus on these three principles with a Laboratory and with Seed projects for Design and Construction Research. The Laboratory will involve collaboration with industry partners. Finally, there is no more poignant issue or tropical concern today than energy. Building and their construction, demolition and operation pose a huge opportunity for innovative thinking about energy and material use. Each and every activity of the Laboratory will be posed against concerns for weight, transportation, encapsulated energy, recycling, energy use, adaptation, re-use and high performance. The next generation of robotic construction, digital design and performance analysis should harness state-of-the-art-tools and media with the most creative and innovative minds at the university and in the region’s industries to bear on building scale construction and design.
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cityLAB


cityLABs mandate is to bring together design and research to forge experimental proposals for architecture in the emerging metropolis. Born of the urban disasters of 9-11 and Hurricane Katrina, cityLAB is a project-oriented center dedicated to the advancement of innovative urban architecture, infrastructure, policy, and theory. It responds to the need for new planning strategies in the wake of the failure of traditional methods that those catastrophes exposed. Several operating principles guide cityLAB projects: architecture will be instrumental in reinventing the next generation of cities; the master plan will be replaced by agile practices; architectural theory and practice are inextricable; disciplinary boundaries will erode to solve intractable urban problems; and the next generation of design innovation will emanate from postsuburban conditions like those of Los Angeles. In the coming years, cityLAB will focus on rethinking green design strategies, the postsuburban condition, urban sensing, and megacities. cityLAB works on projects that could not be funded through traditional professional channels. It capitalizes upon its university status to engage rigorous scholarly investigation alongside innovative professional expertise. Situated as it is within the School of the Arts and Architecture, the Department of Architecture and Urban Design forms the ideal base for creative scholarship-in-the-making. Each project involves faculty and students from Architecture and Urban Design, expanding from that core to a wide range of collaborators. cityLAB responds to several departmental initiatives: to develop innovative professional practices, to enhance Los Angeles global role as a design leader and AUD within that context, and to give new priority to community interests. cityLAB is a bridge between the university, the professions, citizens, and policy makers, welcoming participation from across the city as it extends its reach far beyond the region. cityLAB also serves as a melting pot for the School of the Arts and Architecture and the wider university community, engaging faculty from Design | Media Arts, Theater, Film and Television, Computer Science, Law, Statistics, the Anderson School, and Planning. Dana Cuff is the Director of cityLAB Roger Sherman is its Co-Director www.cityLAB.aud.ucla.edu

WPA 2.0 Competition


cityLAB, an urban think tank at UCLA's Department of Architecture and Urban Design, announces a call for entries to "WPA 2.0: Working Public Architecture." www.wpa2.aud.ucla.edu JULY 24, 2009: REGISTRATION CLOSES WPA 2.0 is an open competition that seeks innovative, implementable proposals to place infrastructure at the heart of rebuilding our cities during this next era of metropolitan recovery. WPA 2.0 recalls the Depression-era Works Projects Administration (1935-43), which built public buildings, parks, bridges, and roads across the nation as an investment in the future—one that has, in turn, become a lasting legacy. We encourage projects that explore the value of infrastructure not only as an engineering endeavor, but as a robust design opportunity to strengthen communities and revitalize cities. Unlike the previous era, the next generation of such projects will require surgical integration into the existing urban fabric, and will work by intentionally linking systems of points, lines and landscapes; hybridizing economies with ecologies; and overlapping architecture with planning. This notion of infrastructural systems is intentionally broad, including but not limited to parks, schools, open space, vehicle storage, sewers, roads, transportation, storm water, waste, food systems, recreation, local economies, 'green' infrastructure, fire prevention, markets, landfills, energy-generating facilities, cemeteries, and smart utilities.
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The UCLA Experiential Technologies Center


The UCLA Experiential Technologies Center (ETC) promotes cross-disciplinary collaborative research by UCLA faculty and students, develops new learning environments, and runs a robust outreach program. Recently team-members have received over $1,000,000 in grants for transformative digital projects in the arts, architecture, humanities and social sciences. The innovative Hypercities Project was awarded a prestigious HASTAC/MacArthur grant to support a geo-temporal human web irrevocably linked to physical environments. A preliminary pilot on Los Angeles integrates the work of community groups into a complex semantic network. The ETC is known world-wide for historical research exploiting real-time simulations. The NEH-funded Karnak project integrates a temporalized digital model of the Egyptian temple of Amon over 1000 years with extensive research and teaching resources. The Digital Roman Forum Project was recently included on the prestigious NEH EDSITEment list of the best online resources for education in the humanities. Working with the BWAF, the ETC created the Dynamic National Archive of American Women of Architecture, a wiki-style aggregating platform documenting women’s contributions to the field. The ETC regularly co-hosts events such as the HASTAC II: Techno Travels conference and the EXP lecture series. The ETC trains dozens of students in new technologies and sends representatives to archaeological excavations worldwide with support from the Steinmetz foundation. The center also holds workshops for faculty and staff on such topics as GIS, and manages the technology sandbox which operates as a laboratory for humanists. In addition, the ETC has a robust outreach program introducing K-12 students to architecture, urbanism, and new technologies. In summer 2008 the W.M. Keck Foundation awarded an interdisicplinary ETC collaboratory team $500,000 to establish a campus-wide program in geo-temporal digital cultural mapping at UCLA. www.etc.ucla.edu www.hypercities.com
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Request Catalog


To request a catalog please click on the link below



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Admissions


Graduate Application Details



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Deadlines


The official deadline for filing an application for Fall Quarter enrollment with the Department of Architecture and Urban Design for all programs is December 15. The Department of Architecture and Urban Design Admissions Office must receive all materials by the deadline. Incomplete applications cannot be reviewed, and review of applications that are not complete by the deadline cannot be guaranteed. Admission to the program is for Fall Quarter only (M.Arch.II students begin the program in the Summer term, in August). Students who are admitted but do not enroll may reapply, but are not guaranteed admission at a later date.
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Statement of Purpose

In addition to filling out Part C of the AGA, applicants should submit a detached written statement of purpose, which gives applicants the opportunity to explain to the Admissions Committee how they selected architecture as a career and why they consider UCLA the best place to pursue this goal. Be explicit in stating reasons for application to graduate study, particular area of specialization within the major field, plans for future occupation or profession, and any additional information that may aid the selection committee in evaluating your preparation and aptitude for study. A brief resume would also be helpful. In addition, all M.A. and Ph.D. applicants must specify their intended area of concentration, and Ph.D. applicants must discuss specific research interests and possible plans for dissertation.
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Academic Records GRE


Two official copies of transcripts from each college or university attended in the U.S. and abroad must be submitted to the departmental Admissions Office directly from each institution. Alternatively, you can submit the transcripts to us directly as long as they remain in the official signed, sealed envelopes from your university. Use Part E Cross Reference Sheet of the AGA if applicable. The Graduate Division of the University of California at Los Angeles sets a minimum grade-point requirement of 3.0 (B) or its equivalent for the last two years of undergraduate and any post-baccalaureate study. Applicants to all programs are required to submit scores from the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) as part of their application. These scores must be received by the department by the deadline, officiallay from the Eduational Testing Service (ETS); therefore schedule your exam at least three weeks prior to the deadline. UCLA Architecture & Urban Design ETS Codes for GRE Institution code: 4837 Department code: 4401
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Letters of Recommendation


Three letters of recommendation are required. These letters should be from individuals who are able to judge your academic and professional abilities as they would relate to graduate study in the Department of Architecture and Urban Design. Use Part D Letters of Recommendation of the AGA. Fill in the top section of the forms and send them directly to the persons from whom you are requesting statements. They in turn should mail the completed forms directly to the Department's Admissions Office. Alternatively, you can mail the letters to us yourself as long as they are sent in envelopes that are signed and sealed by the recommender.
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Overview


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. Obtain the UCLA Application for Graduate Admission (AGA) online at www.gradadmissions.ucla.edu. The following must be completed: 01 The Universitys Online Application for Graduate Admission, which can be found at www.gradadmissions.ucla.edu 02 The Application fee — payment information can be found within the Online Application for Graduate Admission. 03 Fellowship Application for Entering Graduate Students. This is optional, and can be found within the Online Application for Graduate Admission. The following materials must be submitted to: Admissions Office UCLA Architecture & Urban Design 1317 Perloff Hall Box 951467 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1467 FedEx address: Admissions Office UCLA Architecture & Urban Design 1317 Perloff Hall Los Angeles, CA 90095-1467 01 Part B Supplementary Information of the AGA (Application for Graduate Admission). 02 Part C Statement of Purpose of the AGA plus a detached written Statement of Purpose. 03 Three letters of recommendation (Part D of the AGA). 04 Two official transcripts from each institution attended, plus Part E of the AGA if applicable. 05 Portfolio of creative work (with self-addressed, stamped return envelope) (M.Arch. applicants only). 06 Written samples of research and/or creative work (M.A. and Ph.D. applicants only). 07 The completed Departmental Supplement. 08 Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores. 09 Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) scores (international students only). 10 Course Prerequisite Sheet (M.Arch.I applicants only). 11 Financial Statement for Students Seeking Non-immigrant Visas (international students only).
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International Applicants


Students whose native language is not English are required, for admission, to score at least 580 (paper and pencil test) or 237 (computer-based test) or 92 (internet-based test) on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or a 7 on the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) exam. Because processing, sending, and receiving TOEFL and IELTS scores often takes several weeks, international students must schedule the TOEFL examination no later than October in order to meet the Departmental deadlines. TOEFL scores should be sent directly to the Department's Admissions Office by the Educational Testing Service. (ETS codes are below). In addition, students whose native language is not English must take the English as a Second Language Placement Examination (ESLPE) on arrival at UCLA and, beginning in their first term in residence, take any English as a Second Language courses needed, as determined by the results of the ESLPE. Because such courses may not be applied toward the minimum course requirement, students who are required to take them should expect to spend additional time in residence. UCLA Architecture & Urban Design ETS codes Insttitution code: 4837 Department code: 12
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Online Application


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)



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Undergraduate Admissions



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Overview B.A. in Architecture

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.
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Admissions Requirements

Students are admitted for fall quarter only. Admission is highly competitive and only a limited number of students will be admitted each fall. UCLA students are required to complete the lower division preparation for the major courses with grades of B or better, before applying for admission to the program. Transfer students will be expected to complete the lower division preparation courses during their first year of residency. Applications are available to regularly enrolled UCLA students during fall quarter in the Department office located in 1317 Perloff Hall. UCLA Students The B.A. program accepts applicants from UCLA with a minimum 3.0 cumulative grade point average at the time of application, typically during their second year of study. Students must take all three lower division courses in architecture (the Introduction to Architecture sequence: AUD 30, 10A, 10B) by the end of their second (sophomore) year, and must apply at that time for admission to the major. Students should apply to the program during the fall quarter of their second year, and will be notified of their acceptance by the end of that academic year. Acceptance, however, will be contingent upon their continuing to meet the minimum grade point average at the end of spring quarter. Transfer Students Transfer students should apply during the regular UC application period (November 1-30). Transfer students will be required to enroll in the full 2nd year major sequence regardless of the number of years already spent in undergraduate studies prior to admission as an architectural studies major.
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Application


Current UCLA Students The Change of Major application can be picked up in the Department office located in 1317 Perloff Hall. Transfer Students The Universitys Online Application for Undergraduate Admission can be found at: http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/catalog/updates/archstba.htm http://www.ucop.edu/pathways/ Admissions Requirement Applicants must have a minimum 3.0 GPA, which should include no less than a B in any of the introductory lecture courses in architecture. Supplemental Materials for all Applicants must include: 01 A statement of interest detailing the student’s reasons for wishing to pursue a major in architectural studies. 02 Submission of exactly three 8X10 inch images of creative work. 03 Transcripts (official or unofficial) of undergraduate coursework. 04 Departmental Application To access the application please click here. These supplemental materials must be submitted by January 15 to: Undergraduate Admissions UCLA Architecture and Urban Design 1317 Perloff Hall Box 951467 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1467
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Financial Support


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



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In-House Awards


These awards include: - Student Support Committee funding - Work-study positions - Graduate student researcher appointments and readerships Student Support Committee funding criteria is need-based and monies allocated are normally in exchange for services rendered to the Department. Work-study positions are made available to those architecture and urban design students awarded UCLA Financial Aid and who wish to work in the Department as assistants in the computer lab, archive, shop, or gallery. Department'sl work-study job applications are available from the Graduate Advisor. Graduate Student Researcher appointments are available depending on extramural or Academic Senate grants secured each year by individual faculty members. Interested students should contact the Departmental office for information about available positions. Readerships are available depending on funding received.
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Named Fellowships


Named Fellowships are available annually to students through the generosity of private individuals, firms, or foundations. The prestigious named awards have ranges between $1,000 and $10,000 annually. Continuing students compete each spring in an anonymous competition for these funds. Some examples are: Alumni Fellowship Anne Greenwald Traveling Fellowship Carlin Glucksman Endowed Fellowship in Architecture Chao-Di Su Fellowship Clifton Webb Fine Arts Scholarship Deans Fellowship Dini Ostrov Architecture Fellowship Edgardo Contini Fellowship Edna and Yu-Shan Han Fellowship Elaine Krown Klein Fine Arts Council Fellowships Franklin D. Israel Memorial Fellowship Harvey S. Perloff Fellowship James Pettit Memorial Fellowship Jeffrey Skip Hintz Memorial Fellowship King Gift Mimi Perloff Fellowship UCLA Affiliates Fellowships Wendell Fellowship
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California Residency


As indicated in the schedule above, students who are not legal residents of California (out-of-state and international students) pay a nonresident tuition fee each term. The Appendix in the UCLA General Catalog provides information concerning determination of residence for tuition purposes. For further information regarding California Residency, please visit www.registrar.ucla.edu/faq/res.htm Note: Fees are subject to change without notice. In addition to the above fees, students should be prepared to pay living expenses for the nine-month academic period.
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Financial Support

There are essentially four sources of support funds for graduate students at UCLA: 01 Fellowships 02 Readerships 03 Graduate student researcher positions 04 Financial aid funding. Extramural fellowships are also made available by many off-campus agencies and foundations. In addition, the Department of Architecture and Urban Design provides a significant number of in-house student support awards. An overview of the sources of UCLA support is provided in the UCLA Application for Graduate Admissions, along with a fellowship application, which should be completed by all applicants who wish to be considered for merit-based awards. The Financial Aid Office at UCLA administers financial support based solely on need. Awards include long-term low-interest loans and work-study funds and are available only for graduate students who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents. These students may also apply through the Financial Aid Office for Federal Stafford Student Loans, which are long-term loans made by private lending organizations. To be considered for extramural funding, apply directly to the funding organization. Most college libraries or financial support offices keep listings of available grants or fellowships. The UCLA Graduate Student Support office maintains extensive notebooks of the many types of extramural awards available. Among these, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and other architecture associations make awards annually.
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Faculty


Faculty





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Sou Fujimoto


Sou Fujimoto, a lecturer at Kyoto University since 2007, founded Sou Fujimoto Architects in Tokyo in 1995. The work of Sou Fujimoto has been published internationally and received numerous awards in Japan, including 2007 Kenneth F. Brown Architecture Design Award Honorable Mention and 2006 AR Award "Grand Prize" both for the Treatment Center for Mentally Disturbed Children, and 2006 AR Award for 7/2 House. His work has been included in the Museum of Modern Art, Saitama-Shi's exhibition "45 Under 45 Young Architecture". Some of his key projects located in Japan include the Tokyo Apartment in Tokyo, the House O in Chiba, and the Treatment Center for Mentally Disturbed Children in Hokkaido.
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Peter Ebner


Visiting Assistant Professor, Architect (Technical University of Graz)Since 2003 he has been Chair and Professor for Housing and Housing Economics at the Technische University in Munich, Germany. Ebner has previously taught at the University of Roma Tre in Rome, Italy; the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg, Vienna; and the Graduate School of Design at Harvard in Boston. He has led workshops at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan; UCLA Architecture and Urban Design in Los Angeles; and the University de los Andes in Bogota, Columbia . Ebner collaborates with a variety of changing team partners in the poetic perspective in every assignment, for the imaginary aspect that exceeds a mere performance of services. The post-modern era has brought a return to fictional dimensions in the field of architecture, split into opposing concepts of postfunctionalism. Peter Ebner and friends belongs to a generation searching for individual choices, far removed from fashionable trends.
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John May


John MayLecturer; PhD, Geography (UCLA); M.Arch I (Harvard); B.A., Philosophy (The College of William and Mary) John May holds appointments in the Departments of Architecture and Geography at UCLA. His essays and interviews on the history of technology and the environment have been published in various journals, including Perspecta, Thresholds, New Geographies and Verb: Crisis. His materials research and digital fabrication experiments have appeared in Architectural Record, Interiors and Immaterial/Ultramaterial. In the Fall of 2009 he will give a series of invited lectures--entitled Architecture After Nature--at the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design. May was recently appointed an Assistant Researcher in the UCLA Institute of the Environment, where he is completing a book on the history of electronic imaging and environmental perception. Office: Bunche Hall 1127Bjmay15@ucla.edu
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Hitoshi Abe


Chair, Professor; Ph.D., (Tohoku University); M.Arch. (Sci-Arc); M.Eng. (Tohoku University); B.S. Engineering (Tohoku University). Since 1992, when Dr. Hitoshi Abe won first prize in the Miyagi Stadium Competition, he has maintained an active international design practice based in Sendai, Japan, and Los Angeles as well as a schedule of lecturing and publishing, which place him among the leaders in his field. Known for architecture that is spatially complex and structurally innovative, the work of Atelier Hitoshi Abe has been published internationally and received numerous awards in Japan and internationally, including the 2008 SIA-Getz Prize for Emergent Architecture in Asia, 2009 Contractworld Award for Aoba-tei, 2009 Architectural Institute of Japan Award for the K-Museum, 2009 the Architectural Institute of Japan Education Award, the 2007 World Architecture Award for M/Kanno Museum, the 2005 Good Design Award for Sasaki Office Factory for Prosthetics, the 2003 Architectural Institute of Japan Award for Reihoku Community Hall, 2003 Business Week and Architectural Record Award for Sekii Ladies Clinic, 2001 Building Contractors Society Award for Miyagi Stadium, and 1999 Yoshioka Award for Yomiuri Media Miyagi Guest House. Principal of his own firm, he worked with Coop Himmelblau in Los Angeles from 1988 -1992 before founding Atelier Hitoshi Abe in 1993 in Sendai, Japan. He recently opened a second office in Los Angeles, to work on a series of projects outside of Japan including invited competitions and an exhibition installation. Some of his key projects located in Japan include the Aoba-tei restaurant, the Sasaki Office Factory for Prosthetics, F-town, which is an eat-and-drink building filled with bars and restaurants in Sendai, the Miyagi Stadium in Rifu, SSM/Kanno Museum in Shiogama, the 9-tsubo House "Tall" in Kanagawa, and the Reihoku Community Hall in Kumamoto. A monograph Hitoshi Abe Flicker (TOTO) accompanied an exhibition of his work at the Gallery MA in Tokyo in 2005. He is the subject of Phaidon Press’s new monograph Hitoshi Abe to be released in winter 2009. Dr. Abe has a decade-long distinguished career as a leader in education, which began at the Tohoku Institute of Technology (Sendai, Japan) where he taught from 1994 to 2007. He was the Friedman Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. At Tohoku University, Dr. Abe served as Professor in charge of the Architecture and Urban Design Laboratory and Director of the Architectural Design Education Committee, where he established an international network of architectural training, offering workshops and exchange programs with several foreign universities. Dr. Abe earned his M.Arch. from SCI-ARC in Los Angeles in 1988 and his Ph.D. from Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan in 1993. In 2007, he was appointed professor and chair of the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design. Hitoshi.Abe@aud.ucla.edu www.a-slash.jp/
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Dana Cuff


Professor; Ph.D., Architecture (UC Berkeley); B.A., Psychology And Design (UC Santa Cruz). Dana Cuff's work focuses on the cultural production of architecture and the city. She has published and lectured widely on issues of modern urbanism, the architectural profession, affordable housing, digital design practices, and the politics of place. Along with numerous articles, she is author of The Provisional City and Architecture: The Story of Practice (both MIT Press); Cuff's current research explores interdisciplinary issues in architecture, including emergent pervasive computing technologies and their impact on the public sphere. In recent years, she has received numerous awards: she became a Fellow of the Ziman Center for Real Estate at UCLA; she received a fellowship at the Humanities Research Institute Fellowship at the University of California, Irvine; she was on the winning team for the Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence, for Camino Nuevo Charter Academy (with Daly, Genik Architects); and she was awarded the Lise Meitner Endowed Chair at Lund University in Sweden. In 2006 she founded cityLAB, an institute formed to explore the challenges facing the contemporary metropolis through research and design. In 2009 Architect Magazine named cityLAB one of the top four urban think tanks in America. Among their projects is PropX, a competition for young architects and developers to invent new policy and urban form to increase housing affordability in Los Angeles and WPA 2.0, a competition that seeks innovative, implementable proposals to place infrastructure at the heart of rebuilding our cities during this next era of metropolitan recovery. CityLAB also engages in funded research, most recently from the Haynes Foundation, "Tracks of Change: Urban Design for California's High Speed Rail," and "Backyard Homes," from the Center for Community Partnerships. Dana.Cuff@aud.ucla.edu
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Neil Denari


Professor in Residence, M.Arch. (Harvard); B.A. (University of Houston). Former Director of SCI-ARC from 1997-2001 and recipient of the Ralph Recchia award and the Samuel F. B. Morse Medal for architecture in 2002 from the National Academy of Design in New York for distinguished work in the field, Neil Denari is principal of NMDA, Neil M. Denari Architects Inc. He is also the recipient of the 2005 National American Institute of Architecture Award, 2005 Progressive Architecture citation, 2004 and 2006 American Institute of Architecture/Los Angeles Honor award, among others. His work has been included in the exhibitions "Glamour" at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2004, and "Skin and Bones", at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles in 2006. Current projects include High Line 23, New York; Alan residence, Los Angeles; Neucity housing, Nashville; and a series of branches for Mitsubishi Bank of Tokyo, among others. He lectures worldwide and is the author of Interrupted Projections (Toto), and Gyroscopic Horizons (Princeton). neil.denari@aud.ucla.edu www.Nmda-inc.Com
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Stephen Deters


Lecturer, M.Arch. I (UCLA); B.Sc., Architectural Studies (University of Ilinois). Stephen Deters has practiced architecture in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. His experience covers a broad scope of building typologies through all stages of design and construction, from furniture to skyscrapers to urban design. He has worked in the offices of Eric Owen Moss (LA), Kohn Pedersen Fox (NY), Pei Cobb Fried (NY), Beyer Blinder Belle (NY) and Fujikawa Johnson Gobel (CHI). He holds a Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a Master of Architecture from the University of California Los Angeles, where he now teaches. He has also studied at the Ecole d'Architecture de Versailles (FR) and the Universitat fur Angewandte Kunst, Vienna (AU) under Zaha Hadid. He has been a licensed architect since 2003, and is founding principal of Deterfabrik. stephen.deters@aud.ucla.edu
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Diane Favro


Professor; Ph.D., Architectural History (UC Berkeley); M.A., Art History (UC Santa Barbara); B.A., Art (San Jose State). Diane Favro's research focuses on Roman architecture and urbanism, and new applications of digital technologies for research and education in the arts and humanities. She directs the UCLA Experiential Technologies Center, which recently received over $500,000 in funding with grants from the NEH (2), HASTAC/MacArthur, Graham Foundation, and the Steinmetz Foundation, among others. Favro is the co-director of the Rome Reborn Project at UCLA, a digital model of the ancient city presented to the world by the Mayor of Rome in 2007, receiving worldwide recognition and praise. She is co-PI on the new Hypercities Project, a revolutionary aggregation platform that integrates the space and time of the physical world with the information web. Recent publications include chapters on Roman visuality and ritual, Augustan Rome, and architectural history methodologies, as well as articles in The Journal of Roman Archaeology, and Urban History. Favro is at the forefront of web-based publications such as "The Digital Roman Forum Project," "Urban History," "Women of American Architecture Timeline" and a new Mellon Foundation supported born-digital article using virtual reality models for the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. She lectures extensively at major institutions worldwide. Favro is also past President of the Society of Architectural Historians and serves on several international boards. dfavro@ucla.edu
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Craig Hodgetts


Craig Hodgetts, FAIA Professor; M. Arch. (Yale); B.A. Architecture (University of California); B.F.A. (Oberlin). Craig Hodgetts, a member of the faculty since 1972, worked for Sir James Stirling and formed StudioWorks before opening a firm with his partner, Hsinming Fung, in 1984. The work of Hodgetts + Fung Design and Architecture has been published extensively and has received numerous awards, including First Design Awards from Progressive Architecture, an AIA Library Buildings Award for UCLA Towell Library, the National Trust for Historic Preservation Honor Award for the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, and the Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design. Current projects include a chapel for the Jesuit Order, Port of Los Angeles Fire Boat Museum, and a mobile theater for Pink Floyd. In 2005 the Los Angeles Architectural Forum honored Hodgetts and his partner for career contributions to the architectural culture of Los Angeles and he is the recipient of the Los Angeles American Institute of Architecture teacher of the year award in recognition of his continuing influence of his teaching upon students. Hodgetts is also the recipient in 2006 of the Los Angeles American Institute of Architecture Gold Medal Award and in 2008 received the AIACC Firm of the Year Award. A monograph of his firm's work Hodgetts + Fung (United Asia Art and Design Corporation) was published in 2005. craig.hodgetts@aud.ucla.edu www.hplusf.com
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Andrew Holder


Lecturer; M.Arch. I (University of California, Los Angeles); BA Political Science (Lewis and Clark College). Andrew Holder, a new faculty member at UCLA, has held teaching appointments at Sci-Arc and Otis College of Art and Design. He is the principal of The LADG, a practice with completed projects in California, Hawaii, Oregon, Colorado, New York and the UK. The firm adopts a supra-physicalist approach to design problems, exploiting the properties of materials and fabrication processes to generate environments and objects saturated with specific sensory qualities. Often, this approach utilizes digital modeling software and computer-controlled fabrication to allow the emergence of novel surface treatments, form, and complex detailing at the scale of scale of human interaction. He is the recipient of a Truman Fellowship, the Barbara Hirschi-Neely Fellowship, and the AIA certificate.
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Sylvia Lavin


Professor; PH.D. AND M.A (Columbia); B.A. (Barnard). Sylvia Lavin, who was chair of the Department from 1996-2006, is a leading figure in contemporary architectural history, theory, and criticism. A fellow at the Getty Research Institute in 2004-05 she has taught or lectured at most of the major programs of architecture around the world, including Columbia, the Berlage, Harvard, Princeton, the Hochschule fur Angewandte Kunst, Yale, and the Architectural Association. Her writings have been published in Assemblage, Domus, Daidalos, Progressive Architecture, Grey Room, Perspecta, and A+U. She frequently serves as a jury member for international competitions and consults with institutions such as the Canadian Center for Architecture, the Getty Center, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Society of Architectural Historians. Lavin is the author of Quatremere de Quincy and the Invention of a Modern Language of Architecture (MIT), Form Follows Libido: Architecture and Richard Neutra in a Psychoanalytic Culture, (MIT Press), Crib Sheets, (Monacelli), and is working on a new book A Flash in the Pan and other Forms of Architectural Contemporaneity. Sylvia.Lavin@aud.ucla.edu
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Georgina Huljich


Lecturer; M.Arch. (UC los Angeles); Diploma (National University of Rosario). Georgina Huljich is co-principal of patterns, a design research architectural practice known for its inventive approach to architecture, that fuses advanced digital techniques with an extended material understanding of form and tectonics. The work aims at creating artificially singular environments that operate in full proximity with the systems and forces that influence and rhythm material life. Huljich has previously worked for the guggenheim museum, the architectural firm dean/wolf architects in new york, as a project designer at morphosis in los angeles, and as the co-principal of fl-oz in los angeles. Fl-oz was awarded one of the six winning entries for the graham foundation 21st century park competition in 2003 and designed the usc school of cinema and television exhibition ‘pass through’ in 2005.  huljich’s video fairy_tails in collaboration with video artist gaby hamburg was included in the exhibition “beyond media ’05 script” in florence, italy. She was the 2005-2006 maybeck fellow at UC Berkeley. Georgina.Huljich@aud.ucla.edu
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Robin Liggett


Professor (Distinguished Teaching Award); PH.D. AND M.S., Operations Research (UCLA); B.A., Mathematics (Pomona College). Robin Liggett teaches courses in quantitative methods, computer graphics, and computer applications in architecture, urban design, and urban planning (she holds a joint appointment with the Department of Urban Planning). Her research emphasis on the development of interactive computer graphic aides for design and decision making has focused on algorithms for optimal space allocation in the facilities management field and on methods of parametric design. More recently she has been developing statistical models for investigating the effects of the built environment on transit crime. In 2001 her writings were published in Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, Transportation Research Record, and Planning Support Systems. Robin.Liggett@aud.ucla.edu
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Jeffrey Inaba


Visiting Assistant Professor, Ph.D. candidate (Harvard University); M.Arch. I (Harvard-GSD); MA (Harvard-GSD); B.A. (UC Berkeley). Jeffrey Inaba is an architect, urban designer, and the founder of INABA. Previously, principal of AMO in New York, he is the Director of C-Lab, a think-tank at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. From 1997-2003, Rem Koolhaas and he published The Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping, and Great Leap Forward (Taschen Verlag 2002). INABA has worked on concept development commissions for Microsoft, Coca Cola, the Public Art Fund, Nissan Infiniti, Samsung, Axe Body Spray, Bartle Bogle Hegarty, WPP Berlin Cameron, TBWA / Chiat Day, and MCCANN Worldwide. His work has been featured in exhibitions including the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Walker Art Center, Rotterdam Architecture Biennale, and the Shenzhen- Hong Kong Architecture Biennale, and has been published in Artforum Domus, and Frame.
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Alan Locke


Adjunct Professor; B.SC., Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (Napier University of Commerce and Technology, Edinburgh, Scotland); M.SC., Fuel Technology (Middlesex University, London). Alan locke has previously taught at Sci-Arc and the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He founded Ideas for the Built Environment (IBE) Consulting Engineers in 1999. He has completed more than 100 projects, from conceptual design through construction and commissioning. In addition, he has been involved in numerous engineering feasibility studies, value engineering sessions, and master-planning projects. His current projects that encompass the principles of sustainable design include the Los Angeles Children's Museum, the Pittsburgh Children's Museum, and the Reno Museum of Art. Alan.Locke@aud.ucla.edu
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Greg Lynn


Professor; M.Arch. (Princeton); B.Phil. And B.E.D. (Miami University of Ohio). Greg Lynn, the 2008 Venice Biennale Golden Lion recipient has been a faculty member since 1996. He is principal of Greg Lynn FORM, a design team combining specialization in exotic form and creative ease with cutting edge design, manufacturing and construction techniques germane to the aeronautic, automobile and film industries of Southern California. Forbes magazine named Lynn one of the top ten trend- setters in Architecture in 2005. In 2002 he led a group of UCLA students to participate in the Venice Biennale of Architecture. His work has been exhibited extensively throughout the world with recent exhibitions in 2008 including "Out There: Architecture Beyond Building", Venice Biennale, "Performalism: Form, Function and Performance in Digital Architecture", Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel; and "Greg Lynn, Blob Wall" at SCI-ARC, Los Angeles. He is the recipient of a 2004 Progressive Architecture Award, and American Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award in 2003. Current projects include two homes in Los Angeles, the design of two public housing projects in Europe. His work with United Architects includes finalist competition schemes for the World Trade Center Site Design Competition and the new headquarters for the European Central Bank. Lynn is the Davenport Visiting Professor at Yale University and Master Professor at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. He writes and lectures widely on architectural design and theory and is the author of Intricacy (ICA, Philadelphia), Architectural Laboratories (NAI, Rotterdam), Folds, Bodies and Blobs: Collected Essays (La Lettre Volee), Animate Form (Princeton Architectural Press), Embryological House (Princeton Architectural Press), Predator (Wexner Center) and Greg Lynn Form (Rizzoli). Greg.Lynn@aud.ucla.edu www.glform.com
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Mark Mack


Professor; Magister Architecture (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria). In 1976 Mark Mack founded Western Addition, an organization devoted to fine architecture. He was also co-founder and editor of Archetype Magazine. Since 1984, he leads Mack Architect(s) in Venice, CA. A UCLA faculty member since 1993, Mack was previously a professor of architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. Marks interest is in housing as an architectural discipline and has completed highly published projects in Fukouka, Japan and Judenburg, Austria. Current projects range from housing, museum and institutional buildings in the States, hospitality and mixed use complexes in the Middle East and housing projects in Austria and Korea. Most recently, Mack Architect(s) was awarded the Korea National Housing Competition to develop a new model of low-density residential and sustainable community living near Seoul, Korea. Mark.Mack@aud.ucla.edu www.markmack.com
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Thom Mayne


Professor; M.Arch. (Harvard-gsd); B.Arch. (USC). Thom Mayne is one of the worlds leading architects. A professor at UCLA since 1992, his distinguished honors include the 2008 MacDowel Medal, 2006 National Design Award for Architecture, the 2005 Pritzker Prize Laureate, the Rome Prize awarded by the American Academy in Rome in 1987, the Alumni of the Year award from USC in 1992, member elect in 1992 from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2000 the American Institute of Architects/Los angeles gold medal. Mayne cofounded Morphosis in 1972 as an interdisciplinary practice involved in rigorous design and research that yields innovative, iconic buildings and urban environments. Morphosis is a dynamic and evolving practice that responds to the shifting social, cultural, political, and technological conditions of modern life. With projects worldwide, the firms work ranges in scale from residential, institutional, and civic buildings to large urban planning projects. His firms work has been the subject of extensive publications and exhibitions worldwide including "Continuities of the Incomplete" organized by the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2006. The studio has been the subject of 20 monographs, including four published by Rizzoli and a 2003 monograph from Phaidon. With Morphosis, Thom Mayne has been the recipient of 25 Progressive Architecture Awards, 69 American Institute of Architects Awards and numerous other design recognitions. Under Maynes direction his UCLA students received the 2005 Progressive Architecture Award for L.A. Now: Volume Three. Morphosis has three buildings in construction and nearing completion: the Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics is due to complete before the end of the year and the Giant Group Campus in Shanghai, China and the new academic building for the Cooper Union in NYC will both complete in early 2009. Thom.Mayne@aud.ucla.edu www.Morphosis.Net
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David Montalba


Lecturer, M.Arch. II (UCLA), B. A. (SCI-ARC). As founder and principal of Montalba Architects, Inc., David Montalba is acting design principal on each project. Believing that architecture can improve quality of life, he is directed toward a humanistic approach, which often leads to solutions that are contextual, yet conceptual and visionary in their intent, affect and appeal. He has participated as a guest juror at the California College of the Arts, UCLA, University of Michigan and Cal Poly Pomona. He is treasurer of the Los Angeles chapter of the American Institute of Architects, served as co-chair of the AIA’s Academic Outreach Committee and 2x8 Exhibition Committee and has served as a board member of the Architecture and Design Museum in Los Angeles. Montalba is the recipient in 2008 of an AIA/Young Architects Award, AIA San Francisco Design Award, IDC and AIA San Francisco Design Award Karas Ghirardelli, and in 2007 received AIA/LA Restaurant Design Award and AIA/LA People's Choice Award Finalist, Kara's Cupcakes. David.Montalba@aud.ucla.edu
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Judith K. Mussel


Judith K. Mussel Lecturer, MA (University of Applied Arts, Vienna), B.A. (Technical University, Berlin) Judith K. Mussel is principal of XP&, an architectural practice dedicated to performance driven morpho- ecological design. Phenomena in nature serve as precedence for XP&¹s approach with form and function as equal partners. Design emerges as a product of complex relationships between form, material, structure and the environment. Advanced computer software is vital in the design process for form finding as well as implementing constraints of construction. Judith is a licensed architect in Germany with 15 years of design experience in the renowned offices of Gehry Partners, NBBJ Sports & Entertainment, and Coop Himmel(b)lau Architects. She has taught at Woodbury University and the University of Southern California and is the recipient of the 2007 USC Stevens ³Innovation Inside² Grand USC, winner of the NBBJ Oregano Award and the Rudolf Schindler scholarship as well as a finalist in the TKTS 2k competition. Publications include the book "Structures Gone Wild" and "Automation in Construction, a parametric strategy for free-form glass structures". Her work has been exhibited in the Aedes Gallery Berlin, the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles and the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna.
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Barton Myers


F.A.I.A., F.R.A.I.C., Professor; M.Arch. (University of Pennsylvania); B.S. (U.S. Naval Academy). Barton Myers, a faculty member since 1980, is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects, former member of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada where he received the 1994 gold medal from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, and is the 2002 recipient of the prestigious American Institute of Architecture / Los Angeles Gold Medal. He has won numerous design awards, including several American Institute of Architects and Progressive Architecture Awards. The recipient of the 2003 American Institute of Architecture / California merit award, in 2002 he received the American Institute of Architecture / PIA housing Award for Innovation in Housing Design and the California Preservation Foundations Rehabilitation & Adaptive re-use award, among others. Current commissions include Tempe Center for the Arts, Tempe, Arizona; Orlando Performing Arts Center, Orlando, Florida; single family residences (4): in Southern California, and American Society of Cinematographers expansion, Hollywood, California. He lectures widely and his work has been included in numerous exhibitions. Myers work is the subject of the recent monograph Three Steel Houses, (Images Publishing Group). Barton.Myers@aud.ucla.edu www.bartonmyers.com
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Marty Paull


Lecturer, B.S., Electrical Engineering (COLUMBIA); B.A. (SCI-ARC). Martin Paull is principal of Martin Paull Design and teaches at SCI-Arc. He has designed exhibitions for the Los Angeles Holocaust Museum, California Institute of Technology, and the Los Angeles Children’s Museum.
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Michael Osman


Assistant Professor, Ph.D. in History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture (MIT), M.Arch I (Yale), A.B. (University of Chicago). Michael Osman is an architectural historian whose work centers on the technological, environmental and economic aspects of architecture in the 20th century. Previously, he has taught at the Yale School of Architecture and has received numerous grants and fellowships including a National Science Foundation Doctoral Research Grant and a Fulbright Fellowship. His writings have been published in Grey Room and Thresholds. Recently, Osman presented "Preserved Assets: Becoming Imperishable" at Oberlin College as part of a public working conference for a book tentatively titled Governing by Design: Architecture and Crisis from Modernization to Sustainability; and "Nature's Economy: Architecture, Environmental Regulation and the Science of Ecology" at the Van Alen Institute as part of the event Public Ecologies: On the Intersection of Ecological Theory and Design Practice.
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Jason Payne


Assistant Professor, MSAAD (Columbia);Bb.Arch. (Sci-arc). Jason Payne, a faculty member since 2002, has taught at Rice University, Pratt Institute, Bennington College, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He has worked as project designer for Reiser + Umemoto Architects and Daniel Libeskind Studio and formerly co-partnered the award winning office Gnuform, best known for the NGTV bar (2006 aia design award) and the 2006 PS1/MOMA Young Architects program entry "Purple Haze." With his new office, Hirsuta, Payne continues to promote a new materialism with a distinctly sensate bias. Informed by intensive research and an experimental approach, his work engages material dynamics in the production of form to create a direct appeal to the senses. Payne teaches option studios, core studios, and technology seminars. His research and teaching is characterized by unusual couplings of intrinsic architectural values, with such exotic extrinsic influences as botany, hairstyling, and pharmacology. The work produced in his courses establishes credibility for these strange hybrids and is distinguished by its extreme specificity, technical complexity, commitment to materialization, and the frequent use of rich colors and textures. Jason.Payne@aud.ucla.edu
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Hadrian Predock


M.A. (Harvard-GSD); B.Arch. (University of New Mexico). Hadrian Predock established Predock_Frane Architects in 2000 with John Frane as a collaborative research and development design studio. The work of their practice ranges from small-scale installations to large public venues. Seeking to open new territories for locality and specificity, they utilize a process of "generative repetition" - a methodology that focuses on mapping specific existing morphologies, actions, systems, and material conditions, then generating and forecasting new architectural results based upon their findings. Predock_Frane was named one of ten emerging international architects in 2002 by Architectural Record, and in 2005, as one of six emerging firms by the Architectural League in New York. They were selected to represent the United States in the US Pavilion during the 2004 Venice Biennale, and were recently invited to participate in the 2006 Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial. Hadrian Predock has held invited teaching positions recently Tulane and Berkeley. Predock_Frane's work has won numerous awards including a national AIA Award for the Center of Gravity Foundation Hall. Their work has been published internationally, and they have lectured widely.
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Ben Refuerzo


Professor; M.Arch. And A.B. (UC Berkeley). Ben Refuerzo is principal architectural designer in the firm R-2Arch and has taught at the University of Texas. He has received numerous awards including an honor award from the Society of Architects, three National Progressive Architecture awards, an Architectural Design Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Award, and two American Institute of Architects Awards. His research activity focuses on social, cultural, and behavioral factors as design considerations with applied research focusing on the study of design user needs of oppressed or underrepresented populations. Ben.Refuerzo@aud.Ucla.Edu
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Dagmar Richter


Professor; Diplom. (Royal Art Academy, Copenhagen); Vordiplom (University of Stuttgart). Dagmar Richter, a member of the faculty since 1989 has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, The Cooper Union, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Columbia University, and The Art Academy in Berlin. Principal of dr_d (design, research, development) a collaborative based in Los Angeles, Berlin, and The Art Academy in Stuttgart, Germany their work focuses on rethinking the methods of architectural design. Her firms work has been widely published and has won several international design competitions since its inception. Richters exhibitions include Non-Standard Architecture at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2004 among others. She also lecturers widely. Her work is the subject of two monographs XYZ: The Architecture of Dagmar Richter, (Princeton Architectural Press) and Armed Surfaces: Architecture and Urbanism 5 (Black Dog Press). Dagmar.Richter@aud.ucla.edu
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Heather Roberge


Assistant Professor, M.Arch., B.S. in Architecture (Ohio State). Heather Roberge, a faculty member since 2002, is a practicing architect and educator in Los Angeles. She is the director of the undergraduate program in Architectural Studies and teaches graduate courses in design and technology. Formerly co-principal of Gnuform, Ms. Roberge's design practice, murmur, specializes in the spatial, structural and atmospheric innovation made possible by emerging digital design and manufacturing techniques. Her current work includes several private residences in Southern California and Toledo, OH. Ms. Roberge's work has been included in The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, A+U, Architectural Record, Metropolis, Praxis, 306090, Space Design and Softspace. Her work was exhibited in the 2006 Architecture Beijing Fiennial "Emerging Talent, Emerging Technologies", "Temporalism" and "Gnuform: Hairstyle". In 2006 Gnuform received a Los Angeles AIA Design Award for the NGTV bar and was a finalist in the PSI/MOMA Young Architects' Program. Ms. Roberge's research focuses on the atmospheric implications of contemporary surfaces with particular interest in formal and material experimentation that engages the senses. Heather.Roberge@aud.ucla.edu www.murmur-la.com
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Roger Sherman


Adjunct Associate Professor, M.A. (Harvard University Graduate School of Design); B.A. (University of Pennsylvania). Roger sherman is director of Roger Sherman Architecture and Urban Design. He has taught at the SCI-ARC, where he was director of the postgraduate program Fresh Urbs, and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He is co-director, with colleague Dana Cuff, of cityLab, a think tank on contemporary urban issues. Sherman has received numerous American Institute of Architecture/Los Angeles design awards, including the 3-in-1 House in Santa Monica; Railyard Park in Santa Fe, New Mexico; Gateway Park in Toledo, Ohio; and Repark (Freshkills Landfill End Use Plan) on Staten Island in New York. The 3-in-1 House won a Home-of-the-Year award from Architect Magazine in 2006. His experimental Flex/Deck/Spec House in Gloucestershire, UK was exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in 2005, and the subject of a BBC documentary. Sherman has lectured widely and his projects and writings have been published extensively. He also edited and contributed a project to re american dream: six urban housing prototypes for Los Angeles (Princeton Architectural Press), and just recently finished writing Under the Influence: Negotiating the Complex Logic of Urban Property (forthcoming spring 2008, University Of Minnesota Press). Roger.Sherman@aud.ucla.edu
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Kivi Sotamaa


Visiting Assistant Professor, MA., (University of Art and Design Helsinki TAIK) Kivi Sotamaa, a faculty member since 2007 previously taught at Ohio State University and the University of Angewandte Kunst, Institut fur Architektur in Vienna. He is the principal of Sotamaa Design ltd. Until 2005 he was one of the founders and principals of Ocean North. "Sotamaa's work explores a formal vocabulary reflecting his fluid, less bounded, more organic way of working and communicating. His work focuses on a resurfacing of ideas that developed earlier in the 20th century by surrealist painters, filmmakers, and poets - having to do with the subconscious, having to do with dreams, water, fluidity, and the dissolution of the boundaries that reason applies to experience - with which reason tries to categorize experience. Sotamaa is developing a vocabulary, which draws on and expands surrealist ideas into architecture. His work is not only about the technology, the new, the digital - but the continuity with ideas that are integral to modern art". (Herbert Muschamp) His work has been exhibited by MOMA, the Wexner Center for the Arts, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Fondazione Trussardi and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa. Publications featuring his work include the New York Times, Phaidon's 10x10 Architects [1&2], New Scandinavian Design, Forum Sweden, AD, Praxis, Kenhiku Bunka, L'Arca and Domus. His most current projects are Saunalahti Public School and Orchid House and a permanent pavilion to be constructed in 2009 in Helsinki. In addition, he has studied at the Helsinki University of Technology and the Royal College of Art in London. ksotamaa@ucla.edu www.sotamaa.net
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Emeritus


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.



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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.
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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).
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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.
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F. Eugene Kupper

M.Arch. (Yale), B.Arch. (UC Berkeley). Eugene Kupper’s research focuses on architecture and urban design, architectural representation, and architectural education.
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Jurg Lang

Diploma, Architect (ETH, ZÜrich); MUP (Graduate School of Ekistics Inst., 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 Zurich. 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.
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Murray Milne

M.Arch. (UC Berkeley); B.S., Mechanical Engineering, and M.S., Industrial Engineering (University of Michigan). Murry Milne has received numerous awards and citations for his projects and research from the U.S. Department of Energy, Progressive Architecture, and the American Solar Energy Society. His current research work continues the development of energy design tools, all of which are available on www.Aud.Ucla.Edu/energy-design-tools.
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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.
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George Rand

Associate Professor; Ph.D./M.A., Psychology (clark); B.S., Psychology(City College NY). George Rand is an environmental and clinical psychologist whose research is concerned with the application of social and behavioral sciences to design.
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Richard Schoen

F.A.I.A., M.Arch. (Ucla); BA (UC Berkeley). Richard Schoen’s research, teaching, and professional work focus on a holistic approach to sustainable architecture and community planning with alternative energy, transportation, innovative materials and systems. He was founding co-chair of the aia/la committee on the environment, and co-authored new energy technology for buildings: institutional problems and solutions. His work in sustainable architecture has produced built projects that have won international prizes.
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Visiting Critics
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



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Open Positions


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



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News & Events


Obama appoints Thom Mayne


President Obama announces that he has appointed Thom Mayne to serve on the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities President Obama appoints 25 individuals to serve on the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities. Their names and bios are attached in the accompanying press release. President Obama said, "I am confident that these talented individuals will be valued additions to our administration and will offer wise counsel in their respective roles. I look forward to working with them in the coming months and years." A Distinguished Professor since 1992 and Pritzker Prize Winner, Thom Mayne has been a committed educator in architecture for over 40 years. His firm, Morphosis, is engaged in broader social, cultural, urban, political and ecological issues. Mayne's significant contributions to architectural education include the highly regarded L.A. Now and Madrid Now initiatives. Under Mayne's direction, UCLA Architecture and Urban Design students won the 2005 PA Award for L.A. Now: Volume Three. There has always been a symbiotic relationship between Mayne's teaching and practice, evidenced in his recent commitment to the sustainable, affordable Float House project completed with UCLA Architecture and Urban Design students connecting research to professional practice for the Make It Right Foundation in New Orleans. In 2010-2011 Thom Mayne will lead a one-year post-professional M.Arch. II studio entitled Suprastudio: Combinatory Urbanism. This Suprastudio will investigate the complex behavior of collective form through historical precedent, research, and design for UCLA Architecture and Urban Design.


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Thom Mayne wins Lafayette Medal


Thom Mayne wins the Lafayette Medal for his "outstanding contribution to city life" On Monday, November 2, 2009 at 6:30 p.m. at 7 World Trade Center, leaders from the art, architectural, science, and academic communities celebrated The Cooper Union For The Advancement of Science and Art's 150th anniversary at the college's seventh annual Urban Visionaries Award Dinner and Silent Art Auction. Urban Visionaries awards are bestowed upon distinguished individuals whose outstanding contributions to city life exemplify the spirit of innovation and creative and civic values championed by The Cooper Union. This year's honorees were: Yoko Ono, Visual Art; Terry J. Lundgren, Urban Citizenship; Cesar Pelli, Architecture; Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D., Engineering & Science; Leslie M. Hewitt, Emerging Talent; and Thom Mayne, The Lafayette Medal.


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Craig Hodgetts: Playmaker on Arbitare.it


Craig Hodgetts: Playmaker featured on Arbitare.it Professor Craig Hodgetts, Alumni Ming Fung (M.Arch. I ' 80), Professor Sylvia Lavin and Hi-C are featured in the article "Hodgetts+Fung Reloaded " on Arbitare.it posted by Fabrizio Gallanti.


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Greg Lynn + Alumni Elena Manferdin at LACMA


Professor Greg Lynn and Alumni Elena Manferdini (M.Arch. I '00) participate in From the Spoon to the City panel at LACMA on October 26 From the Spoon to the City: Architects Discuss Design at the Micro and the Macro Scale Elena Manferdini Greg Lynn Frances Anderton, Moderator October 26, 2009 Free Admission for DADC members and Students with ID | $15 LACMA members | $20 general admission 7pm | LACMA, Brown Auditorium, 5905 Wilshire Boulevard In conjunction with the exhibition "From the Spoon to the City": Objects by Architects from LACMA's Collection, architects Elena Manferdini and Greg Lynn will discuss their design process, how they translate design concepts and techniques when working between small and large scales and the impact of technology on their practice. The panel will be moderated by Frances Anderton, host of DnA: Design and Architecture on 89.9 KCRW and L.A. editor of Dwell magazine.


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Alumni Robert Hale receives award


Alumni Robert Hale, (M.Arch. I '81) National Design Museum Honors Rios Clementi Hale Studios For an extensive landscape architecture portfolio of beauty and public purpose, Rios Clementi Hale Studios was named one of two Finalists in the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum's 2009 National Design Awards, in the category of Landscape Design. The awards' one winner and two finalists per category will be presented during National Design Week, taking place October 18th-24th, in New York City. "We are especially honored to receive this award, as it recognizes not only graceful answers to landscape architecture opportunities, but the public purpose behind those solutions," said Mark Rios, FAIA, FASLA, founding principal. Rios Clementi Hale Studios' acclaimed portfolio of landscape architecture includes Chess Park in Glendale, CA; Los Angeles Civic Park, Grand Avenue Streetscape Improvements, The California Endowment headquarters, and Nokia Plaza at LA Live!, all in Downtown Los Angeles; Quincy Court for the U.S. General Services Administration in Chicago; Norton Simon Museum Garden in Pasadena; public parks for the City of Santa Monica; and numerous private gardens. In addition, Rios Clementi Hale Studios has provided master-planning services in Los Angeles for NBC Universal, First Street in Downtown, and Century City. Rios Clementi Hale Studios is currently one of two landscape architecture firms chosen nationwide to provide landscape architecture for federal buildings being renovated under the First Impressions Program of the U.S. General Services Administration. The prestigious Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards celebrate design as a vital humanistic tool in shaping the world. National Design Award nominations are solicited from more than 800 leading designers, educators, journalists, cultural figures, and corporate leaders from every state in the nation. Since their launch in 2000 under White House auspices, National Design Awards have become synonymous with the pinnacles of American design. Rios Clementi Hale Studios' four principals are Mark Rios, FAIA, FASLA, Julie Smith-Clementi, IDSA, Frank Clementi, AIA, AIGA, and Robert Hale, FAIA, who comprise a team involved in every aspect of design, from practice to education. Founded in 1985, the firm has developed an international reputation and award-winning tradition for its collaborative and multi-disciplinary approach. In 2007, the American Institute of Architects California Council gave Rios Clementi Hale Studios its Firm Award, the organization's highest honor.


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Float House is completed for Make It Right


Mayne, UCLA students create floating house for residents of New Orleans Thom Mayne, with his firm Morphosis Architects, and UCLA graduate students complete first permitted floating home in the United StatesWorld-renowned architect and UCLA Distinguished Professor Thom Mayne, led seven graduate students of the Department of Architecture and Urban Design and his team of Morphosis architects in the creation of the first floating house permitted in the United States. The FLOAT House, built for Brad Pitt's Make It Right Foundation in New Orleans, is a new model for flood-safe, affordable and sustainable housing designed to securely float with rising water levels. This innovative housing project is part of the Make It Right's initiative to help with the rebuilding of the Lower 9th Ward post-Hurricane Katrina. The concept of the FLOAT House emerged from a study of the flooding record, social and cultural history of the city, and the ecology of the Mississippi Delta. In the event of flooding, the base of the house - reconceived as a chassis - acts as a raft, allowing the house to rise vertically on guide posts, securely floating up to 12 feet as water levels rise. While not designed for occupants to remain in the home during a hurricane, this innovative structure aims to minimize catastrophic damage and preserve the homeowner's investment in their property. This approach also allows for the early return of occupants in the aftermath of a hurricane or flood. "The immense possibilities of the Make It Right initiative became immediately apparent to us: how to re-occupy the Lower 9th Ward given its precarious ecological condition? The reality of rising water levels presents a serious threat for coastal cities around the world. These environmental implications require radical solutions," Mayne said in a press release. "In response, we developed a highly performative, 1,000 square foot house that is technically innovative in terms of its safety factor - its ability to float - as well as its sustainability, mass production and method of assembly."University students were involved in every step of the process, making it unique among the projects by 13 local, national and international architects selected to participate in the first phase of the Make It Right initiative. After the acceptance of the prototype design, Mayne invited UCLA Architecture and Urban Design to partner with his architecture firm, Morphosis, in further development of the design and construction of a prototype on the UCLA Campus. The group researched, designed, developed and helped construct the FLOAT House prototype through a specialized design-build studio.The design-build studio spanned five academic quarters: beginning with research, design and development; followed by meetings with city officials, architects, developers and other prominent experts; and culminating in construction seminars focused on the building of the prototype on the UCLA campus. From researching the context in New Orleans, through the design and building process, to finally shipping the 46,000-pound concrete chassis from Los Angeles to New Orleans, the students have been involved in a real-world process that has generated innovations and social impact. The FLOAT House collaboration not only offered an immersive, real-world educational experience, but also advances cutting-edge research between the university and industry, contributing to regional and national economic growth and social advancement."Our students were thrilled to have the opportunity that this unique project afforded to apply their research and design to a real world problem – building affordable, sustainable housing for communities afflicted with flooding problems, said UCLA Architecture and Urban Design chair, Hitoshi Abe. "Our success demonstrates that the value of applied research can change the working methodologies of students and faculty who strive to develop and evaluate solutions that will have a positive impact. The close collaboration between student, faculty and outside experts generates a unique studio environment characterized by outstanding creativity and energy."The UCLA students involved include: Linda Fu (Cerritos, California), Saji Matuk (Merritt Island, Florida), Ian Ream (Lafayette, California), Monica Ream (Walnut Creek, California), Erin Smith (Traverse City, Michigan), Jeanne Stahl (New Orleans, Louisiana), and Ryan Whitacre (Bethel, Ohio).The FLOAT House DesignDesigned in response to 9th Ward residents' specific needs, the FLOAT House serves as a scalable prototype that can be mass-produced and adapted to the needs of communities world-wide facing similar challenges. On track for a LEED Platinum Rating, the state-of-the-art home uses high-performance systems, energy efficient appliances, and prefabrication methods to produce an affordable, sustainable house that generates its own power, minimizes resource consumption, and collects its own water."When Brad Pitt launched Make It Right, he promised the residents of the Lower 9th Ward that he would help them build back stronger, safer and better able to survive the next storm or flood. The FLOAT House is helping us deliver on that promise. For the first time, this house brings technology to Americans that was created to help save lives and homes from floods. It’s an approach and design that could and should be replicated all over the world now threatened with increased flooding caused by climate change," said Tom Darden, Executive Director of the Make It Right Foundation in a press release.Like the traditional New Orleans "shotgun" house, the FLOAT House sits on a raised four-foot base, preserving the community's vital front porch culture and facilitating accessibility for elderly and disabled residents. This high-performance chassis is a prefabricated module, made from polystyrene foam coated in glass fiber reinforced concrete, which hosts all of the essential equipment to supply power, water and fresh air. The chassis is engineered to support a range of home configurations. In July 2009 the chassis was transported to New Orleans where prefabricated modules designed by the group were assembled on-site. Construction services were donated by general contractor Clark Construction Group, Inc.While the FLOAT House is the first to be permitted in the United States, the technology was developed and is in use in the Netherlands where architects and developers are working to address an increased demand for housing in the face of rising sea levels associated with climate change.The FLOAT House supports Make It Right's mission to catalyze redevelopment of the Lower Ninth Ward by providing a displaced family with a flood-safe home, while preserving the community's culture.


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Sylvia Lavin receives Award


Professor Sylvia Lavin receives AIA/LA Excellence in Education Award UCLA Architecture and Urban Design Professor and former Chair Sylvia Lavin receives the AIA Los Angeles Excellence in Education Award.


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Alumni Tom Buresh


Alumni Tom Buresh (M.Arch. I ' 85) appointed as the Emil Lorch Collegiate Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning, at the Taubman College at the University of Michigan Tom Buresh has been appointed as the Emil Lorch Collegiate Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning, at the Taubman College at the University of Michigan commencing September 2009 for a three-year period. Dean Monica Ponce de Leon stated "His appointment recognizes the significant contributions he has made to the profession and recently in providing outstanding academic leadership to the Architecture Program. Last year, during his speech at commencement Tom Buresh uttered a single word: MATTER This story summarizes his brilliance. Tom's contributions to the field of architecture and American pedagogy have been extraordinary. His design work with Danelle Guthrie has left an indelible mark in the profession and his work as chair of the Architecture Program has been unparalleled. His nominators said: "Like Emil Lorch, Tom Buresh came to Michigan to lead the department of architecture. His untiring dedication to the program and his ability to unite the faculty have increased the national standing of our college." "Tom's work as an educator and administrator provokes us all to matter... in the discipline, in the profession, and, foremost, in the world at large." "He gently provoked critical questions that led me to imagine projects to best serve the students and the larger program." Under his watch: 1400 students have graduated from the Architecture Program 39 faculty new members were recruited 9 faculty members were promoted and tenured For these reasons the Executive Committee and I are very pleased to announce Tom Buresh as the 2009-12 Lorch Professor."


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Alumni Richard Best featured on UCLA Alumni.net


Architect Richard Best (M.Arch. I '82) Donates $100,000 to Help End World Hunger UCLA Alumni.net features M.Arch. '82 alumni Richard Best and his gift of $100,000 to Help End World Hunger.


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WPA 2.0 Winners


UCLA cityLAB announces finalists for WPA 2.0 competition Proposals focus on water, energy, borders, green infrastructure designs UCLA's cityLAB has announced the finalists for "WPA 2.0: Working Public Architecture," the urban think tank's open competition seeking innovative, implementable proposals that place infrastructure at the heart of rebuilding American cities during this next era of metropolitan recovery. Finalists' projects will be featured at a November exhibition in Washington, D.C. The six finalists selected from nearly 200 submissions by teams from 25 U.S. states and 13 countries represented some of the most original and workable plans for rethinking and transforming existing urban infrastructure, including proposals to use automobile emissions in tunnels for alternative-fuel production, to transform neglected city streets into neighborhood parks, to rethink U.S.–Mexico border infrastructure to address the energy crisis and other critical issues, and to creatively use water resources to help revitalize depopulated cities, undo ecological damage, and develop urban beaches and pools. The goal of the WPA 2.0 is to refocus the national discussion about, and encourage investment in, infrastructure as part of the big picture of urban — and architectural — renewal. The competition recalls the Depression-era Works Projects Administration, which built public buildings, parks, bridges and roads across the nation as an investment in the future. The organizers hope WPA 2.0 will help lead the way to a new legacy of federally supported infrastructure hybrids across America. Finalists were chosen by a blue-ribbon jury of world-renowned architects, landscape architects, engineers and educators. The jury, which included Pritzker Prize winner Thom Mayne, Stan Allen, Cecil Balmond, Elizabeth Diller, Walter Hood and Marilyn Jordan Taylor, evaluated proposals based on the participants' ability to explore the value of infrastructure not only as an engineering endeavor but as a robust design opportunity to strengthen communities, revitalize cities, and redirect urban and public works policy. The announcement of the finalists was made by Dana Cuff and Roger Sherman, co-directors of cityLAB, which is housed in the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design. The finalists will present their work Nov. 16 during a symposium and exhibition at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. The finalists are: Urban Algae: Speculation and Optimization PORT Architects Proposal: Use algae pontoons to capture mobile-source carbon-dioxide emissions along New York City's transportation arteries and employ them in bio-fuel production. Coupling Infrastructures: Water Economies | Ecologies Lateral Office | Infranet Lab Proposal: Address America's impending water-resource crisis while creating new economic opportunities and restoring the ecological balance of sites like California's Salton Sea. Border Wall as Infrastructure Rael San Fratello Architects Proposal: Physically, as well as philosophically, rethinking national security infrastructure along the U.S.–Mexico border. 1,000,000,000 Global Water Refugees UrbanLab Proposal: Reviving Rust Belt towns through new markets for water-related ecological services. Hydro-Genic City, 2020 Darina Zlateva and Takuma Ono Proposal: Transforming waterworks into active public architecture. Local Code: Healing the Interstitial Landscape Nicholas de Monchaux & Associates Proposal: Converting 1,600 unused, neglected San Francisco rights-of-way into locally responsive neighborhood parks through a technique of mass-customization. Finalists will attend an experts workshop Sept. 26 at UCLA to discuss policy and the logistics and economic impact of proposal realization with leaders in the areas of public works, civil engineering, land use and urban sustainability. The workshop will help finalists further refine the proposals’ potential architectural and policy impacts. UCLA's cityLAB is simultaneously sponsoring a competition on the same themes for design students. Registration for the student competition closes Oct. 16, with proposals due Nov. 2. Awards will be presented at the Nov. 16 symposium and exhibition in Washington. Sponsors of WPA 2.0 include the Graham Foundation for the Arts, the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, the Richard S. Ziman Center for Real Estate at UCLA, Sarah Jane Lind, The Architect's Newspaper and the National Building Museum. To learn more about the WPA 2.0 competition and related events, visit www.wpa2.aud.ucla.edu.


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Alumni Shane Acker's new film 9


Alumni Shane Acker's (M.Arch. I '98) new film 9 is featured in the Los Angeles Times.


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UCLA Today features WPA 2.0 Competition


WPA 2.0 Competition cityLAB's competition, WPA 2.0, is featured in UCLA Today in the article Competition asks: Who rules the sewers?


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Alumni Jonathan Massey


Alumni Jonathan Massey (M.Arch. I '93) publishes Crystal and Arabesque: Claude Bragdon, Ornament, and Modern Architecture Alumni Jonathan Massey Chair of the Undergraduate Programs at Syracuse University School of Architecture has published Crystal and Arabesque: Claude Bragdon, Ornament, and Modern Architecture with the University of Pittsburgh Press. By examining the architecture, art, and criticism of Claude Bragdon, a contemporary and rival of Frank Lloyd Wright, Crystal and Arabesque explores the central role that ornament played in American modern architecture and social reform. From the 1890s to the 1930s, Claude Bragdon enjoyed an international reputation as an architect, designer, and critic working in the progressive tradition associated with Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and the Prairie School. In 1915 Bragdon created "projective ornament," a system of geometric patterns designed to serve as a universal form-language integrating not only architecture, art, and design, but also a society divided by differences of class, gender, religion, culture, and national origin. Spreading across the surfaces of buildings, posters, books, and the settings Bragdon designed for massive community singing festivals, projective ornament came to symbolize the progressive potential of modernity for thousands of Americans. Bragdon disappeared from memory when midcentury histories promoted a narrow view of modern architecture that emphasized functional planning, industrial building technique, continuous space, and the suppression of ornament. But his work left an ongoing legacy when younger architects such as Buckminster Fuller found new ways of using geometric pattern to promote architectural and social integration. Now that architects and designers are once again generating innovative work based on geometry, ornament, and pattern, Crystal and Arabesque draws on a rich trove of previously unpublished work to show how American modernists committed to social reform used ornament in new ways to engage the media and audiences of mass society.


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Thought Matters II wins ID Award


Thought Matters II receives the 2009 I.D. Magazine Annual Design Review Award for Design Distinction in Graphics THOUGHT MATTERS II(UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design, 2006) 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. 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. Thought Matters II is available for $30 plus $5 for shipping and handling. To order a book please contact: bookorders@aud.ucla.edu.


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IAES Conference in Tokyo


The International Architectural Education Summit jointly organized by UCLA and the University of Tokyo will take place in Tokyo from July 17 - 19, 2009Following the theme "Negotiating Global Pressures on Professional and Educational Standards in Architecture," this event brings together internationally respected architects, educators, and scholars to address tensions between local practices and international standards for a globalized architectural profession. Like other professions, we face debates over establishing global standards to support international architectural practices. Though standards may help ensure quality and expand markets for practitioners, they threaten to reconfigure local practices. How architects work in a global context is also shaped by their education and inculcation into professional roles. Therefore, this event considers both architectural pedagogy and practices. Since institutions around the globe feel increasing pressure to conform to standardization, we will gather to address this situation and also to discover the most effective methods for training architects to face the global challenges of evolving 21st century urban conditions.Participants include:Hitoshi Abe, UCLA; Helmut Anheier, UCLA; N.H. Chhaya, Center for Environmental Planning and Technology; Preston Scott Cohen, Harvard University; Dana Cuff, UCLA; Odile Decq, Ecole Speciale d' Architecture; Nobuaki Furuya, Waseda University; Toyo Ito, Toyo Ito & Associates; Jong Kyu Kim, The Korean National University of Arts ; Kengo Kuma, Tokyo University; Ralph Lerner, Hong Kong University; Kazuhiko Namba, Tokyo University; Yasuaki Onoda, Tohoku University; Fernando Ramos, UIA; Brett Steele, Architectural Association; Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, Tokyo Institute of Technology; Mark Wigley, Columbia University; Weiguo Xu, Tsinghua University; Riken Yamamoto, Yokohama Graduate School of Architecture; Alejandro Zaera Polo, FOA The University of Tokyo in Tokyo, Japan will be the site of the conference. For complete details visit: www.iaes.aud.ucla.edu


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WPA 2.0 Competition


cityLAB, an urban think tank at UCLA's Department of Architecture and Urban Design, announces a call for entries to "WPA 2.0: Working Public Architecture." www.wpa2.aud.ucla.edu 24, 2009: REGISTRATION CLOSESWPA 2.0 is an open competition that seeks innovative, implementable proposals to place infrastructure at the heart of rebuilding our cities during this next era of metropolitan recovery. WPA 2.0 recalls the Depression-era Works Projects Administration (1935-43), which built public buildings, parks, bridges, and roads across the nation as an investment in the future—one that has, in turn, become a lasting legacy. We encourage projects that explore the value of infrastructure not only as an engineering endeavor, but as a robust design opportunity to strengthen communities and revitalize cities. Unlike the previous era, the next generation of such projects will require surgical integration into the existing urban fabric, and will work by intentionally linking systems of points, lines and landscapes; hybridizing economies with ecologies; and overlapping architecture with planning. This notion of infrastructural systems is intentionally broad, including but not limited to parks, schools, open space, vehicle storage, sewers, roads, transportation, storm water, waste, food systems, recreation, local economies, 'green' infrastructure, fire prevention, markets, landfills, energy-generating facilities, cemeteries, and smart utilities. Jury: Stan Allen, Cecil Balmond, Elizabeth Diller, Walter Hood, Thom Mayne, Marilyn Jordan TaylorWPA 2.0: an open design competition for working public architecture organized and sponsored by cityLAB.


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Alumni Salvador Ceja and Sergio Marquez win competition


Salvador Ceja and Sergio Marquez (M.Arch. II, 2008) win Pool Safety Design CompetitionIt is estimated that 350 children under age five die each year in swimming pools. Ceja and Marques's design focused on providing multiple layers of protection to create a robust safety system. Pool safety begins with adult supervision; the home was designed to maintain visibility from all rooms facing the pool. Smooth and continuous surfaces not only provided aesthetic continuity, but keep kids from climbing gates and fences. Safety and leisure features were connected to form one sinuous environment.The Drowning Prevention Foundation Pool Safety Design Contest ($5,000)A non-profit organization established in California, 1985Nadina Riggsbee, President/Founder


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Richard Best Wins Reality Show


American architect and alumni (M.Arch. II 1982) Richard Best, wins "The Hydra Executives," an Apprentice-style real-estate reality show that took place in the United Emirates. Best, spent five months in Abu Dhabi, where he first learned about IIMSAM while working with Dr. Sulaiman Al Fahim, the CEO of Hydra Properties and host of "The Hydra Executives," the show on which Best competed. "The Hydra Executives" pitted eight American against eight United Kingdom entrepreneurs to see which individual contestant had the best business mind, and business plan, to earn the $1 million cash prize, which would go toward a new busisness venture Dr. Fahim would partner with them on. Taking place in the captial city of Abu Dhabi, the contest was created as a way to introduce international entrepreneurial talent to the fast growing real estate market in the United Arab Emirates. Best donated $100,000 of his share of the $1 million cash prize to the United Nation's Intergovernmental Institution for the use of Microalgae Spirulina Against Malnutrition (IIMSAM). He received a Cerificate of Recognition for his donation at the Intergovernmental Renewanle Energy Organization's (IREO) event on June 11, where he also received an IREO Best Practices Renewable Energey Award at the United Nations headquartes in New York for his commitment to eco-friendly architectural and interior designs. The Prize is in the field of sustainable and renewable energy and recognizes those at the forefront of energy innovation.


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Greg Lynn featured in RIBA Journal


Professor Greg Lynn discusses the economy of Architecture Greg Lynn is featured in the RIBA Journal (June 2009) in the article "Direct Action" by Pamela Buxton.


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SupraStudio MegaVoids featured in Planetizen


Planetizen highlights Neil Denari's SupraStudio Megavoids 08-09 Neil Denari discussess the SupraStudio studio with Nate Berg online in the article "Materplanning the Architecture of the Near Future."


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Alumni Alexis Readinger recognized in hospitality design


Alexis Readinger (M.Arch I '99) Alexis Readinger of Preen, Inc. has been recognized for her newest achievement in hospitality design.


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Barton Myers 2009 Distinguished Achievement in Architecture Award


Theatre Technology (USITT) has honored architect Barton Myers, FAIA with a 2009 Distinguished Achievement in Architecture Award The award was presented at the USITT's Annual Conference March 18-21, 2009 in Cincinnati, Ohio where Barton Myers was only the third architect to be honored in this category. Barton Myers was present at the conference and presented a lecture to attendees. The mission of USITT is to actively promote the advancement of the knowledge and skills of those involved in the design, management, and technical areas of the performing arts and entertainment industry. The USITT began presenting Distinguished Achievement Awards in 1998 to recognize achievement by designers and technicians with established careers. Areas of achievement include, but are not limited to, theater architecture, scenic design, lighting design, technical direction, costume design, theatrical consulting, production management, sound design, arts management, and costume direction. This is the fifth USITT award received by Barton Myers and the firm. Previously, the USITT honored the Portland Center for the Performing Arts (OR), Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts (CA), New Jersey Performing Arts Center (Newark, NJ) and the Tempe Center for the Arts (AZ).


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Joshua Stein _ Aaron Whelton win competition


Alumni Joshua Stein (M.Arch. 1, 2000) and Aaron Whelton (M.Arch. II, 2002) An interdisciplinary team featuring Joshua G. Stein (M.Arch I, 00) and Aaron Whelton (M.Arch II, 02) took the first place prize in the international design competition A New Infrastructure: Innovative Transit Solutions for Los Angeles, sponsored by SCI-Arc's SCI-FI program and the Architects Newspaper. The open ideas competition was inspired by the $40 billion allotted to transit by the LA's Measure R. Winning selections were made by a jury which included architects Thom Mayne, Neil Denari, and Eric Owen Moss and planners including Gail Goldberg, Director of Planning, City of Los Angeles. The entry proposed masTransit, a regional high-speed rail for Los Angeles with a landscape to match. Promoting dense, organic development, it diversifies the communities in the built environment, making travel less necessary, easier and more predictable, and bypassing roadway congestion through a new raised infrastructure. Looping around the city, with connections to subways and buses, Mas links local and inter-regional commuting; providing frequent service that will also sync up with the California High Speed Rail network. San Diego via mas is less than an hour away, including transfer times; San Francisco is less than three hours away. Collaborating team members included Jacob M. Brostoff, City Planner for the City of Portland, and designer Jaclyn Thomforde. For more information visit: mastransit.net radical-craft.com aaw-studio.net archpaper.com


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Awards 09


Awards for Continuing and Graduating Students Department Continuing Student AwardsNamed Fellowships are aawarded annually to students through the generosity of private individuals, firms, or foundations. Our continuing students compete each spring in an anonymous competition for funds. This years awards were announced in conjunction with our end of the year RUMBLE festivities on June 9.Harvey S. Perloff ScholarshipChristopher HedgesFranklin D. Israel Memorial FellowshipDaniel PoeiThe Jeffrey "Skip" Hintz Memorial FundJames DiewaldEdgardo Contini FellowshipHarlen MillerMimi Perloff FellowshipMolly HunkerCarlin Glucksman Endowed Fellowship In ArchitectureGregory CorsoWendell ScholarshipJeeyea KimHyman Eugene Oxman AwardFirst Prize, Mohammad AghababaSecond Prize, Whitney MoonThird Prize, Jessica Dovletian and Todd GannonJames Pettit FellowshipJon FordMia HenryKing GiftSontaya BluangtookStark ScholarshipMina NishioTakaya IwamuraAnne Greenwald Traveling PrizeSara Knize Graduating Student Awards AIA Henry Adams MedalJonathon OelschigAIA CertificateDaniel CarperAlpha Rho ChiRyan WhitacreAIA/LA 2 x 8 ExhibitionSalvador Ceja, Andrew Holmgren and Stephen Nieto (Supra Studio, Neil Denari)Brendan Muha (Research Studio, Hitoshi Abe)Chao Di Su AwardSusan NwankpaBragin Prize:Patrick TierneyGraduated with Distinction: BA in Architectural Studies:Jonathan Crisman, Adham El-Sherif, Trisha McNamara, Patrick Tierney, Nickolas UranoM.Arch. I:Daniel Carper, Dustin Gramstad, Brendan Muha, Johathon Oelschig, Monica Ream, Ryan Whitacre M.Arch. II:Salvador Ceja, Stephen Nieto, Akira, Sogo


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Thomas Hines curates Neutra exhibit


Professor Emeriti Thomas Hines is quoted in the Los Angeles Times feature on Richard Neutra exhibition. Culture Monster in the Los Angele Times features Hines' exhibition "Richard Neutra, Architect: Sketches & Drawings " on view at the Central Library through Sept. 6 in the article "Neutra, beyond a blueprint" by David NG in the Sunday May 10, 2009 edition. RICHARD NEUTRA, ARCHITECT SKETCHES & DRAWINGS MAY 3, 2009 - SEPTEMBER 6, 2009 Richard J. Riordan Central Library Getty Gallery, 2nd Floor RICHARD NEUTRA, ARCHITECT: SKETCHES AND DRAWINGS consists of travel sketches, figure drawings, and building renderings from one of modernism's most important architects. Drawn from the Department of Special Collections at the Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA, the works illustrate Neutra's skill in traditional notions of composition combined with his innovative techniques of architectural representation.


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Thom Mayne recieves Rome's Centinnial Medal


The American Academy Honors Thom Mayne Professor, Thom Mayne was recognized and awarded Rome's Centennial Medal, which is given to individuals who contribute significantly to the arts and humanities to which the American Academy in Rome is dedicated.


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Diane Favro in UCLA Today


Professor Diane Favro's Karnak project is featured in UCLA Today on April 21, 2009.UCLA Today discusses how modelers, archaeologists and historians created virtual tours of a new three-dimensional vitrual reality model of Karnak, a 4,000-year-old ancient Egyptian religious complex in Luxor, Egypt. Two years in the making, Digital Karnak allows visitors to trace the complicated evolution of the site from a two-acre temple in 1951 B.C. to a sprawling 69-acre complex in 31 B.C. with eight temples, 10 small chapels, 10 monumental gateways, 15 obelisks, 100 sphinxes and a ceremonial lake.


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Ben Ball "Elastic Plastic Sponge"


Benjamin Ball featured in the Los Angeles Times. UCLA faculty and principal of Ball Nogues Studio, Benjamin Ball was featured in the article "A Report from Coachella: temporary architecture notes on camp" in the Los Angeles Times by Christopher Hawthorne.


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Greg Lynn in New York Times Style mag


Lynn's new buit work is featured.Professor and principal of FORM, Greg Lynn was featured in the article "Ahead of the Curve" in The New York Times Style Magazine on April 19, 2009.


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Dana Cuff in Wall Street Journal


Professor and director of Citylab, Dana Cuff is quoted in the Wall Street Journal The Wall Street Journal's article "Artists vs. Blight" regarding artists and archiects purchasing forclosed homes quotes Dana Cuff in their April 17 edition.


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Greg Lynn "Love for Sail"


Professor and principal of FORM, Greg Lynn discusses his affinity for sailing.Lynn was featured in the article "Love for Sail" by Alix Browne in The New York Times Spring Style Magazine.


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Benjamin Ball at Coachella


Benjamin Ball's "Elastic Plastic Sponge" in the Los Angeles Times UCLA faculty and principal of Ball Nogues Studio, Benjamin Ball's large-scale sculpture "Elastic Plastic Sponge" for the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival was featured in the quick takes section of the Los Angeles Times on April 9, 2009.


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ALumni win prize at 2 x 8 exhibit


Aaron Forbes, Josh Howell and Laura Pedata UCLA alumni Aaron Forbes, Josh Howell, Laura Pedata won first prize in the "2 x 8 Shift" exhibition organized by the Los Angeles AIA for their work created in Visiting Professor Kivi Sotamaa's 2007-08 Research studio focusing on Helsinki.


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Kenchiku Note featured UCLA Architecture


Kenchiku Note featured UCLA Architecture on the cover of Issue No. 6. UCLA Architecture and Urban Design was featured on the cover and on 5 spreads in the latest edition of the Japanese architecture magazine Kenchiku Note focusing on schools and laboratories around the world. A big thank you to photographer and alumnus Adam Umber (M.Arch. I '08), who took most of the photos. There is no online link available to this edition.


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Diane Favro, Digital Karnak


Chronicle of Higher Education featured Digital Karnak website led by project director Diane Favro. The Chronicle of Higher Education in its January 20, 2009 post featured the Digital Karnak website in its article "Recreation of an Egyptian Temple Complex Merges Technology and Scholarship." For the past two years, a team of UCLA Egyptologists, digital modelers, web designers and other staff and students have been working on building a 3D digital Virtual Reality model of the Karnak temple complex (Karnak temple is the largest existing temple complex in the world, located in modern Luxor, Egypt) and a host of other digital resources to help university students and instructors learn more about this important ancient site. The Digital Karnak Project is directed by Diane Favro, UCLA Architecture and Urban Design Professor and UCLA Associate Professor of Egyptian Archaeology Wileke Wendrich.


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Sylvia Lavin + Alejandro Zaera-Polo


On The Cusp Lecture Series 2009-2010 Sylvia Lavin, Professor and Director of Critical Studies and M.A./Ph.D programs, UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban DesignIn conversation withAlejandro Zaero-Polo, Co-founder of Foreign Office Architects (FOA), London6:30 pm, Perloff Hall, Decafe, Free Sylvia Lavin is Professor and Director of Critical Studies and M.A./Ph.D programs at UCLA Architecture and Urban Design and has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Princeton, Columbia and elsewhere. Lavin's next books The Flash in the Pan and Other Forms of Architectural Contemporaneity and Kissing Architecture are forthcoming. Alejandro Zaera-Polo is a co-founding partner of Foreign Office Architects (FOA) in London. FOA has emerged as one of the most innovative practices of architecture and urban design in recent years, known for combining technical innovation and design with excellence. FOA’s award-winning projects include the Yokohama International Cruise Terminal in Japan, noted for its use for its use of dramatic form, innovative materials, and fascination with the interplay of architecture, landscape, and nature, credited by the Design Museum as a design sensation alive with bustling urbanity and seaside tranquility. .


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Symposium Kunsthaus Bregenz


SYMPOSIUM: at KUNSTHAUS BREGENZIn Colaboration with Peter Ebner and Future LabOctober 30-31, 2009Friday, October 30, 2009Hitoshi Abe, Atelier Hitoshi Abe and Chair UCLA Architecture and Urban Design Achim Menges, Institut fr Computational Design, StuttgartChris Bangle, Designer, MnchenBenjamin Aranda & Chris Lasch, Aranda/Lasch,Knstler, Architekten, New YorkSaturday, October 31, 2009Stefano Giovannoni, Diovannoni Design, MailandNeil Thomas, Atelier One, structural engineer, London Carl Pickering & Claudio Lazzarini, Lazzarini Pickering Architect, RomeUrs B. Roth, Knstler, Mathematiker, Architekt, ZurichKazuyo Sejima, Co Principal, SANAA, TokyoKunsthaus Bregenzwww.kunsthaus-bregenz.atKarl Tizian Platz 16900 Bregenz, AustriaInformation on the symposiumKristen Helfrich E: k.helfrich@kunsthaus-bregenz.atPhone: (+43-55 74) 48494-415


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Neil Denari + Thom Mayne


On The Cusp Lecture Series 2009-2010 Neil Denari, Professor, UCLA Architecture and Urban Design; Principal, NMDA, Los Angeles In conversation with Thom Mayne, Distinguished Professor, UCLA Architecture and Urban Design; Founder and Design Principal, Morphosis, Los Angeles Neil Denari's work is dedicated to exploring the worlds of architecture, design, urbanism, and global cultural phenomenon. At NMDA, the world is...expansive, ergonomic, communicative, deep, full yet economic, unique, and about life and beauty. NMDA thinks that architecture is capable of many things, not only for satisfying existing demands, but also for inspiring new desires. Since 1988, NMDA has worked across many continents at all scales. Their research is focused on the proximities and relationships between the body and the eye and the designed world. 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.


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Kazuyo Sejima


On the Cusp Lecture Series 2009 - 2010Kazuyo Sejima, Co Principal, SANAA, Tokyo, Japan6:30 pm, Perloff Hall, Decafe, Free Principal of the Tokyo-based architecture firm SANAA, Kazuyo Sejima has received accolades internationally for work that is luminous and deceptively simple in its aesthetics; sophisticated in its treatment of complex building detail and fluid, non-hierarchical space; and highly original in its use of exterior facades as permeable membranes that establish subtle but provocative relationships between interior and exterior, individual and community, and the realms of public and private experience.


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Craig Hodgetts, Playmaker


Hi-C EXHIBITION OUTSIDE UCLACraig Hodgetts, Playmaker Ace Gallery Institute of Contemporary Art@ The Wilshire TowerOctober 3 - October 31, 2009Opening Reception: Saturday, October 3 | 7:30pm - 9pmAce Gallery presents an exhibition exploring work done in the 1960s and 70s by one of LAs architectural radicals, Craig Hodgetts - a leading figure in the LA community of experimental design, curated by Sylvia Lavin, Director of Hi-C, a UCLA based group of young designers and scholars committed to advancing the public consideration of architectural culture. CRAIG HODGETTS, PLAYMAKER presents six innovative projects by Hodgetts and collaborators produced between 1965 and 1978. The range of objects in the exhibition includes vacuum-formed models, storyboards for environmentally themed movies and cardboard furniture. Together, these widely varied projects explore a set of issues that have become urgent for architecture once again, from new materials and technologies, prefabrication and housing, to mass media and entertainment. The exhibition dramatizes the playful excitement that drove one of the most inventive periods in Americanarchitectural and design history and brings to the fore the period’s many surprising resonances with contemporary architecture. Craig Hodgetts is the co-founder and Creative Director of Hodgetts + Fung Design and Architecture in Los Angeles. He has received numerous awards including the Architecture Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design, and the 2006 Gold Medal from the AIA Los Angeles. Hodgetts was a founding dean of the California Institute of the Arts and currently is a professor of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA.Sylvia Lavin is Professor and Director of Critical Studies and M.A./Ph.D. programs at UCLA's Department of Architecture and Urban Design. Lavin has recently launched Hi-C, a program in which UCLA doctoral and design students collaborate on exhibits, symposia, and publications that establish a forum for wide discussion of experimental work in architecture. Lavin's forthcoming books The Flash in the Pan and Other Forms of Architectural Contemporaneity (MIT Press) and Kissing Architecture (Princeton University Press) will be released in 2010. Ace Gallery Institute Of Contemporary Art@ The Wilshire Tower 5514 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036 Information: 323.935.4411 www.acegallery.net Gallery Hours: 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM Tuesday through Saturday. The gallery is located on the 2nd floor.


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Of Mathematics and Minigolf


SupraStudio/Technology Transfer: Of Mathematics and Minigolf Opening reception: Friday, September 25 | 6 - 8 pm September 25 - December 11, 2009 Perloff Gallery, Perloff Hall UCLA's M. Arch. II program, SUPRASTUDIO, launches its second studio connecting research to professional practice with an immersive investigation into the impact of: new social spaces for entertainment; new approaches to narrative spatial experience; contemporary manufacturing; and integrated digital technologies on architectural form. Professor Greg Lynn will lead UCLA graduate students in collaboration with Walt Disney Imagineering through a series of design explorations from August 2009 through June 2010 ranging in scale from parks to furniture with a special emphasis on the integration of digital technologies and moving robotic elements at the size of buildings. This exhibition of the summer studio work, "Of Mathematics and Minigolf", led by Jason Payne will focus on the fundamental activity of studio involving the coordination of surface topology with minigolf mechanics. Forging this relationship assumes both conceptual and technical agility as we move from the relative abstraction of topological diagrams to the more pragmatic concerns required of a working miniature golf course. This exhibition is made possible with support fromWalt Disney Imagineering Herta and Paul AmirJoyce and Aubrey ChernickRalph and Shirley Shapiro


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On The Cusp Lecture Series 2009-2010


LECTURES Fall Winter Spring 2009 - 2010 Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at 6:30pm Italian Cultural Institute Davide Rampello, President, La Triennale di Milano Design Museum This lecture is in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute at will take place at their location at 1023 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90024. Monday, October 12, 2009 at 6:30pm Peloff Hall, Decafe Kazuyo Sejima Co Principal, SANAA, Tokyo, Japan Monday, October 26, 2009 at 6:30pm Peloff Hall, Decafe Neil Denari Professor, UCLA Architecture and Urban Design; Principal, NMDA, Los Angeles In conversation with Thom Mayne Professor, UCLA Architecture and Urban Design; Design Director, Morphosis, Los Angeles Friday, November 20, 2009 at 6:30pm Peloff Hall, Decafe Sylvia Lavin Professor and Director of Critical Studies and MA/PhD program, UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design In conversation with Alejandro Zaero-Polo Co-founder of Foreign Office Architects, London Monday, January 11, 2010 at 6:30pm Peloff Hall, Decafe Distinguished Alumnus lecture* Hsinming Fung Director of Graduate Programs, SCI-Arc, Los Angeles; Co-director, Hodgetts+Fung, Los Angeles In conversation with Craig Hodgetts Professor, UCLA Architecture and Urban Design; Co-director, Hodgetts+Fung, Los Angeles Monday, February 1, 2010 at 6:30pm Peloff Hall, Decafe Adreas Ruby Architectural critic, editor, and publisher; Principal of both textbild and Ruby Press, Berlin Monday, April 5, 2010 at 6:30pm Peloff Hall, Decafe Martin Rein-Cano Principal, TOPOTEK 1, Berlin Monday, April 12, 2010 at 6:30pm Peloff Hall, Decafe Hernan Diaz-Alonso Principal, Xefirotarch, Los Angeles; Faculty, Sci-Arc, Los Angeles In conversation with Jason Payne Assistant Professor, UCLA Architecture and Urban Design; Assistant Professor, UCLA Architecture Monday, April 26 at 6:30pm Peloff Hall, Decafe Michael Meredith Associate Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Principal, MOS, Cambridge, Massachusetts In conversation with Hilary Sample Assistant Professor, Yale School of Architecture, New Haven, Connecticut; Principal, MOS, Cambridge, Massachusetts Monday, May 10, 2010 at 6:30pm Joe Kosinski Film director In conversation with Greg Lynn Professor, UCLA Architecture and Urban Design; Principal, Greg Lynn FORM, Los Angeles Monday, May 17, 2010 at 6:30pm Peloff Hall, Decafe Alfredo Brillembourg Director, Urban Think Tank - Architecture & Urban Design, Caracas/New York In conversation with Hubert Klumpner Director, Urban Think Tank - Architecture & Urban Design, Caracas/New York Monday, May 24, 2010 at 6:30pm Peloff Hall, Decafe Sou Fujimoto Principal, Sou Fujimoto Architects, Tokyo *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. Lectures take place at 6:30pm in Perloff Hall, Decafe Perloff Hall is located on the UCLA Campus. Perloff Hall, M-F, 9am - 5pm Parking is available in Lot 3 for $10 Check the website for confirmation of all programs at www.aud.ucla.edu Info: 310.267.4704 The campus map is available at http://www.aud.ucla.edu/map


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Davide Rampello


On The Cusp Lecture Series 2009-2010 Davide Rampello, President, Milan Trienniale Foundation, ItalyThis lecture will take place at the Italian Cultural InstituteThe Milan Triennaiale Foundation, Italy’s main think tank for emerging trends, showcases the artistic and architectural culture in Italy. President Davide Rampello will present its recent projects including “Frank O. Gehry dal 1997”. Since 2003, Rampello has been actively engaged in creating a new face for the important Milanese institution, aiming to promote a relationship among industry, research, industrial production, and art; endorsing not only major projects by celebrated artists, architects, and designers (Burri, Cucchi, Gehry), but also the work of enlightened entrepreneurs like Pessina and Alessi, who combine business with culture and creativity. This lecture is in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute and wil be in Italian and translated into English.Italian Cultural Institute1023 Hilgard AvenueLos Angeles, CA 90024T: 310- 443-3250www. iiclosangeles.esteri.it/IIC_Losangeles


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Redcat Theatre


Click here to see information about Yoshiharu Tsukamoto's exhibition opening at the REDCAT Theatre on Friday, January 30th.


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Los Angeles Events


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Art


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Art History


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Design | Media Arts


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Hammer Museum


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Television | Film | Theater


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A+D Museum


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Getty Museum


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Los Angeles Forum


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Los Angeles County Museum of Art


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MAK Center


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Museum of Contemporary Art


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Pop-Up Storefront for Art and Architecture


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Sci-Arc


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USC Architecture


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Exhibitions


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



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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.



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Publications


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



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Lecturers


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



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Student Life


Student Reps
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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Incoming Students





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Orientation Information

Orientation Orienation welcomes the incoming students to the Department on Wednesday before the first day of instruction for the Fall quarter. This informal gathering includes an introduction by the administration and faculty followed by an all school social event in the courtyard.
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Useful Links


B Bruin Card www.bruincard.ucla.edu Bruin On-Line www.bol.ucla.edu C Campus Recreation www.recreation.ucla.edu Career Center www.career.ucla.edu Catalog (General) www.registrar.ucla.edu/catalog/ F Financial Aid Office www.fao.ucla.edu G Graduate Division www.gdnet.ucla.edu H Housing Office www.housing.ucla.edu Community Housing Office www.cho.ucla.edu I International Students www.international center.ucla.edu M My UCLA www.my.ucla.edu O Ombuds Office www.ombuds.ucla.edu/ P Parking www.parking.ucla.edu R Registrar www.registrar.ucla.edu/ S Schedule of Classes www.registrar.ucla.edu/schedule Student Pscygological Services www.sps.ucla.edu Student Health Services www.studenthealth.ucla.edu T Transportation www.transportation.ucla.edu U UCLA AUD www.aud.ucla.edu UCLA www.ucla.edu URSA on-line www.ursa.ucla.edu



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Facilities


Library Facilities
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.



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Multipurpose Facilities
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.



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Intro: Facilities at UCLA
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.



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Fabrication Labs
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.



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Decafe
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.



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Computing Facilities
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).



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Alumni and Friends


Chair's Welcome


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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Alumni Work


Valery Augustin Richard Blumenberg Linda Brettler Curt Ginther Bernice Glenn Georgina Huljich Elena Manferdini David Montalba Kyle Moss Patrick Tighe Billie Tsien Rogerio Carvalheiro Michael Folonis If you are an alumnus please email us your name and studio website link to be included in this section to alumni@aud.ucla.edu



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Alumni News


It is easy to submit your news item to be posted on our website. Please email the news item or press release including an image as a jpg no larger than 480 in height at 72dpi to alumni@aud.ucla.edu. Feel free to provide websites links that feature your work to be included with the posting. Your news item will be posted within several days



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Events


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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The three primary missions of Alumni Relations and Development are to improve awareness of the professional accomplishments of our alumni by spotlighting their work on our website; to provide connections between UCLA Architecture and Urban Design programs, students and our alumni community; strengthen the support for our programs. Alumni and friends are our greatest ambassadors. As a part of the community of architects and urban designers, we invite you to re-connect with our internationally-recognized architects, designers, historians, theorists, and urban designers, by attending one of our public lectures, exhibition openings, reviews or our end- of the year Rumble exposition. While we are working very hard to continue to provide an exemplary education for talented students and a stronger sense of connection to the professional world, the current financial challenges are making it increasingly difficult to sustain support for our innovative programs. We hope that you will reflect on your UCLA education and its importance in your personal and professional life and consider making a gift in support of the next generation of artists and architects. If you would like to make a gift please click here. If you have any questions, please contact UCLA Arts External Affairs and Development Offices at 310-825-2512.



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