UCLA Architecture and Urban Design is a champion of ideas and their articulate expression. Our exceptional faculty — from Pritzker Prize winners to future leaders of the field — teach students to engage the world around them, to see ideas as opportunities for reflection and imagination, 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 our discipline, 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.
UCLA Architecture and Urban Design offers five graduate programs and an undergraduate program. We are located at Perloff Hall, on UCLA’s Westwood campus and a satellite facility – the IDEAS campus – near Culver City. The IDEAS campus is an incubator for cross-disciplinary design research and the exclusive home for our post-professional program. Students and faculty work with industry and nonprofit partners across entertainment, media, technology and urbanism to consider how emerging developments in these industries might impact the built environment. By engaging with experts from other fields, we have the opportunity to expand architecture’s field of influence and leverage design to propose alternative, more intelligent futures.
We offer four distinct graduate degrees, two professional and two academic. The Master of Architecture (M.Arch.I) is a three-year, NAAB accredited program that prepares students for professional practice. M.Arch.I students may also pursue a concurrent degree in Urban Planning (M.Arch.I / M.U.R.P.). The one-year Master of Architecture (M.Arch.II) is a post-professional degree that combines theory and practical applications in collaboration with industry partners. M.Arch.II students hold a profession five-year undergraduate degree in architecture or the foreign equivalent. Academic degrees include the two-year Master of Arts (M.A.), which prepares students for research and teaching in fields related to architecture and urban design. The Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) is an advanced research degree organized around current scholarly debates. The length of time for completion averages six years. We also offer an undergraduate B.A. in Architectural Studies, a two-year liberal arts degree that begins in the junior year of residence.
Through our public programs and events, there are many opportunities to engage with the creative community at UCLA Architecture and Urban Design. Visit aud.ucla.edu to learn more.
1317 Perloff Hall
Los Angeles , 90095-1467
3691 Lenawee Avenue
Los Angeles, CA, US , 90016
