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Perloff Hall houses our MArch and BA students, as well as a range of AUD events and programming. Join Riley Hammond (@riley_hammmmond) for a stroll through Perloff, starting in our sunny courtyard and heading up to the MArch homebase: our Perloff Studio. Admitted students considering Fall 2023 matriculation at AUD can contact admissions (mailto:[email protected]) to arrange for a campus visit. And for those in the LA area, we’ve got some exciting opportunities to visit in the coming days! This Friday evening, we host an alumni conversation, “Ideas After IDEAS,” at our IDEAS Campus, and next Monday evening, we welcome Billie Tsien back to Perloff Hall for this year’s Distinguished Alumni Lecture.
Registration is now open for AUD’s Summer Programs (link in bio). Led by AUD Summer Programs Director Julia Koerner, both the JumpStart program and TeenArch Studio engage students in a wide range of activities, from intensive design exercises, individual feedback sessions, and small group discussions, to studio-wide presentations, and reviews. Structured around the experience of a design studio typically offered within the curriculum of a college-level architecture program, students focus on developing and advancing their design skills through space, form-making, and related 2-D and 3-D representation techniques. Students will be introduced to the conceptual and technical facilities essential to the study of architecture as a discipline and its practice as a profession. To supplement studio activities, weekly lectures from UCLA faculty and notable guest designers will explore the many facets of idea-driven design, as well as urban and design culture in Los Angeles. This year, JumpStart and TeenArch will be offered in a hybrid format, with both in-person and remote capabilities.
Technology Seminar: Bitscape, Spring 2021 Showreel
The spring 2021 tech seminar, Bitscape with Nathan Su, delivered a series of contemporary mythologies through the design of virtual worlds that seek to expose and exaggerate technological fears, desires, and promises within contemporary media culture. Working in Unreal Engine, students worked in teams to articulate spatial allegories for emerging technological phenomena, in which they composed and shot short speculative films.
CURRENTS: Post-Climate Re-Regulations — A NAFTA for People
Featured work from the 2020-21 M.Arch. research studio, Climate Caravan, with Heather Roberge.
The studio accepted the inevitability of migration as a form of climate adaptation and imagined a future populated with climate caravans. In order to decouple home and land from its associated notions of permanence, this studio proposed prefabricated housing systems designed for future mobility and new organizations of community afforded by unit aggregation.
"Our mobile aggregates function as a post-urban nomadism within a revised NAFTA model, allowing for residents to migrate across North-Central America. The project’s urban effects are supported by visual connections across modules and their breezeways. Visual bisections through the spine produce private domain and public benefit concurrently."
- Jourdon Miller and Artin Sahakian, M.Arch., '21
2020-21 IDEAS Mobility Studio - Featured Work
Featured work from the 2020-21 M.S.AUD IDEAS Mobility Studio, Health Density: Mobility of People and Air.
The studio responded to contemporary issues of ventilation and social distancing using both agent based game engine tools and computational fluid dynamics tools. The students spent the year critically rethinking existing building precedents and then designing new building typologies for working and mixed-use without recourse to cabins, shaft ways, cores, or corridors for movement, and with the maximum equitable distribution of fresh air.
Instructors: Greg Lynn and Yara Feghali
Student work by: Yaxu Zheng
Tech Seminar: The Map is Not the Territory, Fall 2020
A student project developed as part of the fall 2020 tech seminar, The Map is Not the Territory with David Jimenez Iniesta.
The course is an introduction to cartography as a design tool. The map is an abstracted reality that implies that the description of the thing is not the thing itself. The model is not reality. The map is not the territory. The course provides a critical approach to sciences like History, Cartography, or Archeology as narratives in the study of a particular controversy: Fire.
Project Synopsis:
The complexity of fire organizations is not merely about cleaning the floors. As what we leant from the operation failures in one of the most destructive fires-Mendocino complex fire in 2017, a more dynamic and precise method is needed. . The proposal generates an fire management plan based on real time fire tracking. Local, State and Federal Agencies take each of their actions step by step strategically rather than bureaucratically.
Project: Fires Don't Stop at Jurisdictional Boundaries Tasha Kuo, Yejin Choi, and Yenchun Lai
Tech Seminar: Adapting to the Next Normal, Winter 2021 Showreel
How can we occupy shared public spaces safely in our COVID-19 era? We will study through simulation and quantifiable feedback five different public typologies to adapt them to our life during the pandemic in terms of clean airflow and visitor flow. We will work with State machines and Unity visual effect graphs. This tech seminar is directly linked to IDEAS Mobility studio and requires preliminary knowledge in Unity and C# language.
IDEAS Technology Studio: Virtual Presence, Winter 2021 Showreel
The goal of the IDEAS Technology Studio is to investigate the relationship between architecture and contemporary technological paradigms on artificial intelligence, robotics and Extended Reality (XR). This year's “Virtual Presence” studio will explore the intersection of the physical and digital worlds as a synthesized environment that enhances communication among people, where methods and consequences of virtualization of architectural environments will be the main focus.
CURRENTS: Introductory Design Studio 2
The M.Arch. first-year Introductory Design Studio addressed gender diversity and social status in the framework of a public bath facility at a beachfront, which serves different users. The studio's ambition was to formulate a heterogeneous discourse around these topics. Throughout reading sessions, visual study workshops, and joint studio section digital pin-ups, the studio set up rigorous discussions and conversations about the various approaches students take on.
Project: Sheet as a Wrapper by Hannah Blake
Section: Julia Koerner, Winter 2021