UCLA Architecture and Urban Design (UCLA AUD) is pleased to celebrate the start of the 2023-2024 academic year and to announce its program of Fall 2023 public events. The Department cherishes its role as convener of design research and dialogue, and is proud to present a series of globally... View full entry »
The Department of Architecture and Urban Design (AUD) at UCLA’s School of the Arts and Architecture (UCLA Arts) is pleased to announce its spring 2022 public program of talks and lectures. AUD’s spring program represents the department’s interest in global contexts and practices... View full entry »
To float is to be still. To float is to displace. To float is to decontextualize. To float is to voyage. To float is to survive. To float is to escape. To float is to relinquish a desire. To float is to exist apart from, to be outside of. To float is to venture the possibility of a thought. To... View full entry »
Mark your calendars! cityLAB's upcoming exhibition, "Demo Demo" (Demolition, Demonstration), features new work on housing, open space, resilience, material transformations, and more from their initiatives and the projects of UCLA AUD faculty. Join us for the public opening Monday, October 25: 6 PM... View full entry »
The Kuwait pavilion responds to the theme How will we live together? through the discovery, interpretation, and projection of the hinterland. Surrounding the city and seemingly unoccupied, the hinterland serves as the nation’s functional staging ground through resource extraction, agricultural... View full entry »
Congratulations to all of the UCLA AUD faculty and alumni-founded / alumni-led firms recognized in the 2021 AIA LA Residential Architecture Awards! We recognize that every project takes a team of people and that there are likely many other alumni that contributed behind the scenes. Well done to... View full entry »
POOL: PLANT To sow and to growIs to care and then repair.To tend we befriend. The floor that containscycles that come and go—Operation complete. Gleaning conceptionsThe cultivation of whichwill show us the way. We invite you to examine plant with an eye towards all or any of its associated... View full entry »
POOL Issue No. 5: SIMULATION - Call for SubmissionsUCLA Architecture and Urban Design Student Magazine Today we dwell in the world of simulation. We experience it in the home, the park, the street, a torrent from hand-held gadgets transmitting the daily news and gizmos prophesying interplanetary... View full entry »
Nostalgia confers a lens to look backwards and forwards, to reminisce and project. But, are we really nostalgic for the past? How much of our nostalgia is for the possibility of a future we can no longer have? Let us prod nostalgia, pitting its longings, fears, and speculations against one... View full entry »
UCLA Architecture and Urban Design (UCLA AUD) and the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) are proud to announce a pioneering collaboration that will enable twenty 11th grade LAUSD students from design-focused STEM high schools to attend UCLA AUD's Teen ArchStudio Summer Institute on full... View full entry »
Pool Issue No.2: RULESUCLA Architecture and Urban Design Student Magazinehttp://www.pool-la.com/home-4/Is it a rule if it’s not written down somewhere? Of course, it could be, but rules do require some currency in order to be effective. This question suggests the importance of documentation... View full entry »
POOL is looking for contributions that engage with the ubiquitous and overlooked table, as an allegory to framing the culture of architecture at large. We welcome essays and other content endemic to academic publishing, but also encourage unconventional media such as comics, experimental films... View full entry »
Registration will open on March 1, 2016July 11 - July 22, 2016 2-Unit Track [2 quarter units]July 11 - July 29, 2016 3-Unit Track [3 quarter unitsFeel free to contact us with your questions by email teenarchstudio@aud.ucla.edu OVERVIEW AND GENERAL INFORMATIONPROGRAM OVERVIEWThe Teen... View full entry »
UCLA Architecture and Urban Design is pleased to present our 2016 Summer offerings that continue to engage students in rigorous and innovative design. Programs provide unique opportunities for college students and high school students to explore architecture and design with cutting-edge designers... View full entry »
The UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture (UCLA Arts) Announces A.UD @ 50 Gala Celebrating the 50thAnniversary of UCLA Architecture and Urban Design (UCLA A.UD)The event, held Saturday, March 19, honors legendary architect Denise Scott Brown, visionary designer Yves Béhar, and a key... View full entry »
UCLA A.UD SUPRASTUDIO 2016-17 LED BY INNOVATORS IN ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGNSTUDIO CRAIG HODGETTSSTUDIO MARK MACKSTUDIO THOM MAYNE/NOW INSTITUTESTUDIO GUVENC OZELAPPLY NOW!SUPRASTUDIO is a research platform in architecture education that advances experimentation and cross-discipline... View full entry »
IDEAS is a platform for cross-disciplinary research and collaborations among students, faculty, and industry partners that questions, challenges and expands the current parameters of architectural practice. Removed from the constraints of a traditional university context at a new satellite campus... View full entry »
UCLA ANNOUNCES A.UD LECTURE SERIES + EVENTSThe A.UD Lecture Series this year celebrates 50 years of advancing design, technology, and culture and presents two mini-lecture series within the series. In the fall of 2014, A.UD shifts its focus to thinking about new school environments for... View full entry »
UCLA Architecture & Urban Design is pleased to present our 2015 Summer offerings that will continue to engage students in rigorous and innovative design. UCLA A.UD Summer Programs will provide unique opportunities for college students and high school students to explore architecture and design... View full entry »
TEEN ARCHSTUDIOJuly 20 - July 31, 2015Open to current high school studentsRegistration is now openhttps://www.summer.ucla.edu/institutes/Register/institutes_register.cfmUCLA Architecture & Urban Design is pleased to present our 2015 Summer offerings that will continue to engage students... View full entry »
UCLA A.UD ANNOUNCES LAUNCH OF IDEAS LECTURE SERIES The IDEAS Lecture Series charts a dynamic new future for architecture by engaging speakers from a broad range of disciplines. The series looks beyond the field's traditional boundaries and explores topics arising from unexpected... View full entry »
For Immediate Use Oct. 31, 2013 UCLA Architecture and Urban Design partners with Hyperloop to study tube transit system JumpStartFund-backed Hyperloop will conduct research with UCLA SUPRASTUDIO Caroline Blackburn, Caroline.Blackburn@aud.ucla.edu 310-267-4704 Shilo Munk, smunk@arts.ucla.edu... View full entry »
Monday, September 30, 2013 Kengo Kuma Principal, Kengo Kuma & Associates, Tokyo Saturday, October 26, 2013* Bernard Stiegler Philosopher; Director of the Department of Cultural Development, Georges Pompidou Center in Paris; Professor, University of... View full entry »
UCLA Architecture & Urban Design is pleased to present our 2013 Summer offerings that will continue to engage students in rigorous and innovative design. UCLA A.UD Summer Programs will provide unique opportunities for college students, professionals, and high school students to explore... View full entry »
UCLA Architecture and Urban Design distinguished professor, Thom Mayne, has received the 2013 American Institute of Architects (AIA) Gold Medal, considered to be among the profession’s highest honors an individual architect can receive. Mayne will be honored in March 2013 at a special event... View full entry »
UCLA Architecture's new IDEAS platform to encourage research collaboration with industry Frank Gehry, Greg Lynn and Thom Mayne to lead expanded UCLA Architecture and Urban Design master's program at new satellite location Shilo Munk, smunk@arts.ucla.edu 310-825-4140 UCLA Architecture and... View full entry »
A.UD’s RUMBLE: A film, directed by David Fenster is selected to be included in the 2012 Architecture & Design Film Festival in New York City. Festival features more than twenty-five films from eleven countries including public programs. October 18–21, 2012, Tribeca Cinemas. Watch... View full entry »
Pritzker prize-winner and UCLA distinguished professor Thom Mayne has labored since 2010 on his massive research and design study, the Culture Now Project. The project seeks to answer the questions surrounding how we approach complex urban problems in a time of great economic and cultural... View full entry »
UCLA Architecture & Urban Design is pleased to present some exciting new components to our Summer offerings that will continue to engage students in rigorous and innovative design. UCLA A.UD Summer Programs will provide unique opportunities for college students, professionals, and high school... View full entry »
RUMBLE: A Film RUMBLE, our annual end-of-year exposition, is a major event that crystallizes our passionate commitment to sharing idea-driven work beyond UCLA. During two days in June, RUMBLE brings together critics, alumni, faculty, and friends to grapple with a broad range of rigorous research... View full entry »
