UCLA Architecture and Urban Design is a champion of ideas and their articulate expression. Our exceptional faculty teach students to engage the world around them, to see ideas as productive forms of response, and to leverage design and writing as expressions of newly curated perspectives. These ideas are grounded in a critical engagement with the history and theory of architecture and the future contingencies of contemporary culture. Through rigorous inquiry, we interrogate contemporary urban issues and propose possible futures with equal measures of expertise, optimism, and vision.
We offer four distinct graduate degrees: two professional and two academic. The Master of Architecture (MArch) is a three-year, NAAB-accredited program that prepares students for professional practice. MArch students may also pursue a concurrent degree in Urban Planning (MArch/MURP). The one-year Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design (MSAUD) is a post-professional degree that combines theory and practical applications in collaboration with industry partners. MSAUD offers students who hold a professional degree in architecture the opportunity to specialize their skills and apply architectural design thinking and capabilities to real-world challenges outside the field. AUD's academic degrees include the two-year Master of Arts in Architecture (MA), which prepares students for research and teaching in fields related to architecture and urban design, and the Doctor of Philosophy in Architecture (PhD), an advanced research degree organized around current scholarly debates.
AUD is also home to UCLA's undergraduate BA in Architectural Studies, a two-year liberal arts degree that begins in the junior year of standard undergraduate studies.
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Los Angeles, CA, US , 90095-1467
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Los Angeles, CA, US , 90016
