The latest installment in Archinect's Studio Pin-Ups series presents graduate student work from one of UCLA Architecture and Urban Design (AUD)'s Research Studio Seminars. The studio, titled "Future [Hi]Stories of the City," is led by Kutan Ayata, AUD's Vice Chair, Associate Professor, and co-founder of Brooklyn-based architecture practice Young & Ayata.
This research-based studio encouraged M.Arch students to explore and document "speculative future histories of Los Angeles through the design of episodic instances. In pairs, students choose an issue that currently pressures and influences the development of LA; the task is to document the state and impact of these issues towards the Year 2062."
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Studio Summary: "This research studio will ask students to collectively document speculative future histories of Los Angeles through the design of episodic instances. We will focus on strategies of representation which orient our disciplinary production towards broader constituents. What are potential future documents to mediate architectural imagination?"
"The students, working as pairs through Fall, Winter and Spring Quarters, will be asked to choose an issue that currently pressures and influences the development of the city. The task is to document the state and impact of these issues towards the Year 2062, speculating on varying moments and outcomes. The site of implementation and transformation will be Los Angeles with all its possible ecologies and challenges."
"Our process through three quarters will deviate from a typical linear research sequence, where facts and histories typically establish the groundwork to validate the act of design to follow. Instead, our line of inquiries will constantly shift back and forth on the time scale between now and the future as we will simultaneously imagine, design, represent, and research."
Featured student work: Morgane Copp, Wei Qui, Akana Jayewardene, Sunay Rajbhandari, Morgan Jacobs, and Xavier Ramirez
Studio Instructor: Kutan Ayata
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