IDEAS at UCLA Architecture Urban Design

12/16/2022

Applications to the MSAUD program for 2023 matriculation are due January 6, 2023.

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06/03/2022

Rumble is BACK! 💫 Now in its 14th installment, Rumble transforms AUD’s final reviews into an interactive installation and celebration–a stage and incubator for design dialogue and inquiry. The literal and intellectual juxtaposition of AUD’s creative output frames the Department’s broader interest in cross-pollination across disciplines, curiosities, and experiences. The show will be on view for UCLA students, staff, and faculty on Monday, June 6 and Tuesday, June 7, 2022, 9 am to 6 pm. 🚨 PLEASE NOTE: capacity for the general public is limited; please learn more + register via link in bio.⁠
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Tune in over the coming days for a look behind the scenes, and check out our Stories on June 6 and 7 to follow along 🎉⁠
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04/13/2022

Field trip: visiting Greg Lynn Form

04/07/2022

3D printing clay in the robotic lab. The exploration continues this spring! IDEAS Urban Strategy students will be using various design schemes to help rebuild cities after a fire by planning before the next burn.

04/05/2022

Our first Digital humans at IDEAS!

Nathan Su’s tech seminar
Winter 2022


Entertainment studio students:

Xiangyang Chen

03/29/2022

BETWEEN WORLDS
Exploring new methods to conceive, create and represent interactive environmental narratives through immersive 'gaming' technology, students created environments where multiple worlds coexist. Investigations during the course commenced with visions of urbanism and the history and methods of representation and gaming. Students were introduced to basic concepts of generative design through the creation and subsequent combination of complex environments, to weave together narratives that span space.

M.S.AUD Program
Technology Seminar, Winter, 2022

Instructor: Matt Conway

Student credits:
Sameeksha Sahani and Steve Wang13

03/24/2022

The technology seminar “Get Ready For Rush Hour” taught by Shaun McCallum, looks directly at the implication of
digital technologies, the metaverse and emergent animate form
on urban architectures. Learning from digital material studies
and phygital compositions, projects will speculate on new
visual languages for an architecture rooted in a mixed-reality.
These novel visual languages will embody an architecture which
is never stagnant, always moving, irrespective of historical
comparative formal languages and always above 50mph.

By investigating familiar physical architecture and its formal
traits with non-traditional digital design languages we will
design phygital urban architectures that are procedurally
controlled and never stationary. We are currently confronted
with an architecture that needs a moment of critical self
reflection, as it is faced with the unfathomable speed in which
data and cultural software disseminates through the world of
tweets, Reels and Tik Tok loops to Discord discussions.
Through procedural, formal, material and texturing tools we
will design urban architecture and communicate our designs
through composited, looping animations and 3D printed object
tracking mixed-reality prototypes.

M.S.AUD Program, Fall 2021, Technology Seminar
Instructor: Shaun McCallum
Students: Chhavi Goswami, Yuning Yang
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Project Title: Disjointed whole
This project is inspired by Ricardo Bofill’s La murala roja. Out of so many Architectural traits found in his building,  i.e., Space construction, Contrast with the surrounding environment, Continuity and Integrity, the three architectural trait_ Dynamism, Verticality and Movement + Levels are found to be the predominating ones. It’s fascinating to think how these traits are different from each other yet compliment and complete one another. This design philosophy leads to the idea for interlocking abstraction. Through this project we’ve tried to recreate the classical design language that is Minimalist yet Contemporary.

03/22/2022

Technology seminar
THE MAP IS NOT THE TERRITORY // LAURE MICHELON

Exploring new methods to conceive, create and represent interactive environmental narratives through immersive 'gaming' technology, students created environments where multiple worlds coexist. Investigations during the course commenced with visions of urbanism and the history and methods of representation and gaming. Students were introduced to basic concepts of generative design through the creation and subsequent combination of complex environments, to weave together narratives that span space.

03/19/2022

3D PRINTING LAB
This course by Curime Batliner is related to the Urban Studies Studio, where students study novel approaches to architecture and construction, aimed at the mitigation of negative effects caused by the heating climate. In support, this seminar takes a deep dive into the principles of 3D printing and develops a workflow that pairs six-axis industrial robots with a clay extrusion process.

IDEAS, M.S.AUD program
Technology seminar, winter 2022

03/08/2022

Amazing new workflow for 3D printing clay developed by Curime in his new tech seminar using the robotics lab at the IDEAS campus. We can’t wait to see how the MS.AUD students from the Urban Strategy studio will apply this technology next! We’ll be watching! Congrats !!!