Archinect - Features 2024-12-25T12:16:50-05:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/150202016/ucla-thesis-students-investigate-la-s-iconic-bunker-hill UCLA Thesis Students Investigate LA's Iconic Bunker Hill Katherine Guimapang 2020-06-11T12:51:00-04:00 >2020-06-12T17:37:39-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/2c/2c544cbfd785e2781c0543860eb8daf4.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Gaurav Puri, Jingyi Wang, Ruchi Singhania, and Yuxuan He are students&nbsp;in UCLA Architecture and Urban Design&rsquo;s Master of Architecture II (M.Arch.II program). Archinect was able to connect with Puri, Wang, and Singhania to explore their final project within their <a href="https://archinect.com/features/article/150186740/developing-a-better-city-with-ucla-s-ideas-urban-strategy-studio" target="_blank">IDEAS - Urban Strategy program</a>. Recognized as an institution focused on its research-based approach and student-faculty collaborations, UCLA's IDEA's programming enables students to explore topics that focus on issues and solutions whose application can be actualized.</p> <p>Together, the team, under the instruction of <a href="https://archinect.com/features/article/150186740/developing-a-better-city-with-ucla-s-ideas-urban-strategy-studio" target="_blank">Associate Adjunct Professor Jeffrey Inaba, Gillian Shaffer and David Jimenez Iniesta</a>, explore Los Angeles's iconic Bunker Hill and its historical transitions with regards to land-use. By breaking down the area's topographic and land transformations, the group works together to explore new design methods to create a more substantial "foundation for post-disaster urban life." In addition to their exploration of land-use...</p> https://archinect.com/features/article/129351879/what-makes-an-artless-museum What makes an artless museum? Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2015-06-16T11:00:00-04:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/sr/srg53uh3sndxttmw.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Architectural criticism that begins with &ldquo;it looks like [insert Platonic object here]&rdquo; is suspect at best, but the temptation to gamble with semiotic stickiness is too great: if I see a contraceptive sponge when I look at the new Broad Museum, I want to say that.</p>