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UCLA AUD is a champion of ideas and their articulate expression.

Our exceptional faculty teach students to engage the world around them, to see ideas as productive forms of response, and to leverage design as expressions of newly curated perspectives.

10/14/2026

Questions about applying to UCLA AUD? Tune in. 🎙️

This fall, join us for virtual Office Hours with members of the UCLA AUD Admissions team. Get personalized guidance on the admissions process and have your questions answered. Come to as many sessions as you’d like.

📅 All times Pacific
Wed, Nov 4 | 4–5 pm
Wed, Nov 11 | 9–10 am
Wed, Nov 18 | 4–5 pm
Wed, Nov 25 | 9–10 am
Wed, Dec 2 | 4–5 pm
Wed, Dec 9 | 9–10 am
Wed, Dec 16 | 4–5 pm
Sun, Jan 3 | 10–11 am

Register in advance via the link in our bio.

10/08/2026

🎉 Join us: Fall 2026 events at UCLA Architecture and Urban Design

We’re excited to share our fall season of conversations on architecture and design, bringing together voices from around the world as well as design leaders who shape our hometown, Los Angeles. All events are free and open to the public, and begin at 5:30 pm in Perloff Hall Decafe unless noted otherwise. Visit link in bio for updates and details.

📅 Mon, Oct 12 | cityLAB at 20: Panel Discussion and Block Party, Perloff Hall Decafe and Courtyard

📅 Thu, Oct 22 | Mauricio Pezo & Sofia von Ellrichshausen, Pezo von Ellrichshausen

📅 Thu, Oct 29 | Michael Kimmelman, Architecture Critic, The New York Times

📅 Mon, Nov 9 | Enrique Walker, Universidad de Chile

📅 Fri, Nov 13 | “Moving Things About: Architecture & Art, and the Conditions of Making,” a conference organized by Claus Benjamin Freyinger and Mariana Ibañez **9 am to 1 pm**

10/05/2026

This fall, we honor 20 years of cityLAB-UCLA 💙💛🎉

Since 2006, cityLAB cityLAB has devoted itself to research and solutions that shape our cities and improve public space. While cityLAB’s impact is global, some of the team’s key projects are found right here on campus.

In 2021, after cityLAB research revealed how many UCLA students were dealing with extreme commutes, the team intervened with “BruinHub”: a 24/7 space in UCLA’s John Wooden Center offering comfortable facilities to nap, stay overnight, study, and store belongings.

“BruinHub” features jellybean-shaped pods, designed by architect Marta Nowak and AN.ONYMOUS AN.ONYMOUS

The pods are finished with vibrant paint and upholstery, each containing full-length cushions, reading lamps, ambient lighting, power outlets, and curtains for privacy. Housed within the polka-dotted walls of a former squash court, the facility also provides WiFi, lounge areas, cafe-style workstations, and nearby showers.

After BruinHub was launched on September 23, 2021, a second BruinHub in UCLA’s Strathmore Building opened in 2023.

Join us next Monday as we celebrate two decades of cityLAB and reflect on game-changing projects like this.

📅 Monday, October 12, 5:30 pm (doors open 5:00 pm)
📍 UCLA AUD Perloff Hall (Decafe and Courtyard)
RSVP: Eventbrite link in bio

10/01/2026

Applications are now open for UCLA AUD’s graduate programs! 🎉

Graduate program applications (MArch, MSAUD, MA/PhD) are due January 6, 2027, and our Virtual Open House is Tuesday, October 27, 2026, 5:00 to 6:30 pm Pacific Time.

Check out the links in our bio to learn more. Here’s what’s coming up:

📅 Virtual Open House (MArch, MSAUD, MA, and PhD): Tuesday, October 27, 5:00 to 6:30 pm PT

🏛️ Open Studio Day at Perloff Hall: Monday, November 2, starting at 1:00 pm, offering a chance to browse our Fall 2026 midterm reviews and hear from Vice Chair Kutan Ayata. Email [email protected] to register.

💻 Online Info Sessions, Office Hours, and a Portfolio Workshop to help you prepare your application

Applying for the Architectural Studies B.A. (Fall 2027)? The UC application is due November 30, 2026, and the supplement is due January 20, 2027.

Visit the Admissions page and our event pages (links in bio) for the application link, event registration, and full details.
Questions? Email [email protected].

09/25/2026

With a heavy heart, we honor the memory and legacy of Heather Roberge, whom we lost on September 20.

Heather taught at UCLA AUD for more than two decades, and inspired countless students and colleagues. She directed the Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies program from 2007 to 2016, and then served as Chair from 2017 to 2020. She was a member of AUD’s Senate Faculty since then, and earlier this year was named AIA Los Angeles’s 2026 Educator of the Year.

Colleagues and students alike knew her as a rigorous and generous teacher, someone who pushed people to think more expansively about what buildings could be while remaining deeply attentive to craft, detail, and innovation. We are heartbroken by this enormous loss.

Please visit the link in our bio for our complete tribute to Heather. If you knew Heather and would like to contribute a memory or reflection, we welcome your submission via DM; we will publish a series of community reflections in the coming days.

Our thoughts are with Heather’s family, students, colleagues, and everyone who was fortunate enough to learn from her. 🤍

Photo 1: Courtesy The Ohio State University; Photo 2: Roberge at UCLA AUD, 2017; Photo 8: Roberge at UCLA AUD, 2025

09/18/2026

Altadena was one of the communities ravaged by the January 2025 wildfires in the Los Angeles area.

With “Cultural Anchors in Altadena,” Yanjie Zhao yanjie zhao and Weihan Zheng propose a strategy for post-disaster recovery here and beyond: build densely at first, clustering modular housing units on a single site so residents can return immediately, then gradually disperse those units across the community, allowing residents engage in dialogue about the future shape of their neighborhood.

The proposal resolves a core tension in disaster recovery: move too fast, and development becomes top-down and disconnected from community needs; move too slow, and residents may leave for good.

Zhao and Zheng completed the project for Professor Hitoshi Abe’s 2025-2026 Research Studio “Architecture of Mobility,” which explored how buildings can adapt, move, and evolve through cycles of construction, transport, and reuse. Recent proposals from Toyota and Google for mobile, self-driving architecture suggest moving spaces will soon reshape cities and everyday life.

AUD’s year-long Research Studios offer students the opportunity to dive deep into this sort of experimentation, applying their design skills to contemporary, real-world questions.

09/16/2026

Thinking about applying to UCLA AUD? Here’s where to start. 🏛️

We’re hosting four admissions events this fall, offering opportunities to meet our faculty and students, check out AUD’s studio culture, and get your questions answered before you apply.

📅 Tue, Oct 27: Virtual Open House for Graduate Programs
📅 Mon, Nov 2: Open Studio Day at AUD’s Perloff Hall
📅 Tue, Nov 17: Info Session, MArch Program
📅 Wed, Nov 18: Portfolio Preparation Workshop

Applications for MArch, MSAUD, and MA/PhD will open October 1, 2026, with deadline January 6, 2027. Undergraduate applicants: the UC application is due November 30, with the SlideRoom supplement due January 20.

Schedules and registration links are at the links in bio.

Questions? [email protected]

09/14/2026

Six weeks. A whole new design vocabulary 🎯

Our MSAUD program begins each August with Summer Studio, a six-week intensive that builds fluency in essential tools and software and offers the cohort a chance to bond and collaborate. Students tackle design questions from the start: how new methods change the way you think about the built environment, about systems, about how people actually inhabit space. Technical skill and design thinking develop together from Day One.

This year’s MSAUD cohort presented their Summer Studio work last week, and now move into year-long studios exploring speculative worldbuilding, architectural intelligence, material innovation, and urban strategy.

Applications for the MSAUD program (2027 matriculation) are completed via the UCLA Application for Graduate Admission, opening October 1, 2026. The application deadline is January 6, 2027. Visit and bookmark the links in our bio to learn more.

09/08/2026

“Rock n Roll” by Sara Kaplan, Keily Sarica, and Ellie Wiygul (all BA ‘26), completed for Claus Benjamin Freyinger’s 2025-2026 Senior Undergraduate Studio. Sara Kaplan elliemwiygul KEILY / Claus Benjamin Freyinger

The studio focused on the adaptive re-use of commercial buildings for newly designed co-living arrangements. The intended program: a 60,000-square-foot cooperative living dormitory and learning facility for an art school.

“Rock n Roll” is organized into three zones: high-density living, mid-density living and art/studio space, with communal programs suspended between them in section.

Density becomes both a formal and social ambition, shaping the structure’s circulation and collective life. The scheme transitions from a dense, rigid residential mass aligned to the grid into increasingly open creative work environments. Between these zones, a constructed interior landscape takes shape as a canyon of dirt and rock exposed to light, creating an environmental ecology within the building that supports both living and working.

The structural and sectional system proposes a tectonic logic that is openly machine-like, unconventional in its resolution and legible as a mechanism.

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