Brett Steele, the director of London's Architectural Association School of Architecture, one of the world’s oldest and most influential schools of architecture, has been appointed dean of the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture.
The diverse array of performances, exhibitions and lectures by esteemed professionals, UCLA students and faculty will showcase the depth of UCLA Arts activities and creative programming.
UCLA alumna Billie Tsien and her husband, Tod Williams, will lead the design and engineering work needed to build the first presidential library that will be located in a predominantly African-American urban setting.
UCLA campus planners are using a digital tool developed by the now-defunct Urban Simulation Team to do bird’s-eye and ground-level simulations to help architects fit buildings into available spaces.
For the last 18 years, UCLA’s Lisa Snyder has been bringing to life the bygone glory of a true architectural, social and cultural wonder — the Chicago World’s Fair.
UCLA Byzantine art history and archaeology professor Sharon Gerstel has devoted much of the last year to studying how architectural changes in Byzantine churches enhanced the performance of religious music.
UCLA faculty, staff and students, with guidance from a Santa Monica architect, are building a prototype dwelling that they designed to shelter people as well as edible plants, bees, birds, lizards and even bats.
Intrigued by the question of whether Augustus Caesar transformed Rome from a city of bricks into a city of marble, as legend has it, UCLA professor Diane Favro decided to use advanced modeling software to reconstruct Rome at the time of his reign.
UCLA’s Hitoshi Abe is among those whose work is featured in an exhibit detailing nontraditional ways architects have helped rebuild the coast of Eastern Japan following the devastating tsunami of 2011.
At a “Thinking L.A.” event copresented by UCLA and Zocalo Public Square, a panel that included two UCLA professors discuss the transformation of downtown L.A. and whether it lives up to the current hype.
A huge, historic off-campus facility gives UCLA architecture grad students the opportunity to explore how robotic technology can help design intelligent buildings.
UCLA Architecture and Urban Design has announced it will work with Hyperloop Transportation Technologies Inc. for its 2014–15 master of architecture II program known as SUPRASTUDIO.
Installation view of "A New Sculpturalism: Contemporary Architecture from Southern California," on view June 16–Sept. 16 at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Exhibit photos by Brian Forrest.
From a public housing project in Madrid, Spain,...