Winter 2022 public program

The Department of Architecture and Urban Design (AUD) at UCLA’s School of the Arts and Architecture (UCLA Arts) is pleased to announce its winter 2022 public program of talks and lectures. Among other themes, AUD’s winter 2022 program addresses design’s engagement with the physical realm, the digital realm, and the ongoing amalgamation of the two. The program presents a range of practitioners, theorists, technologists, and instigators who design and create across industries, disciplines, and mediums. 

While AUD’s Perloff Hall and IDEAS campus are open only to the UCLA community for the winter 2022 term, we welcome audiences from around the world via our virtual setting. Please note that all event details are subject to change; please visit AUD’s website, and individual event webpages below, for updates throughout the winter, especially as events are added to the program.

AUD’s winter 2022 public program includes:

Thursday, January 20, 12–1:30pm
Lunchtime Talks: Laure Michelon and Tucker van Leuwen-Hall
Laure Michelon is an architectural technologist and designer with a focus in architecture, machine learning, energy analysis, and fashion, and is a lecturer at AUD. Tucker van Leuwen-Hall is an architectural designer and educator whose work engages with urban planning, architecture, film, machine learning and is a lecturer at AUD as well. More.

Monday, January 31, 6:30–8pm
Lecture: Space Popular (Lara Lesmes and Fredrik Hellberg), “Portal Galleries”
Lara Lesmes and Fredrik Hellberg founded Space Popular in Bangkok in 2013 and have been based in London since 2016; they are teaching at AUD this winter. Space Popular creates spaces, objects, and events in both physical and virtual space, concentrating on how the two realms will blend together in the near future. More.

Tuesday, February 1, and Wednesday, February 2, 6:30–8pm
Exhibition opening: CURRENTS, winter 2022 
February 1: IDEAS Campus exhibition opening, with remarks by AUD’s Natasha Sandmeier
February 2: Perloff Hall exhibition opening, with remarks by AUD Chair Mariana Ibañez

Thursday, February 17, 12–1:30pm
Lunchtime Talks: Michael Osman and Kiel Moe
Michael Osman’s research in architectural history focuses on the 19th and 20th centuries, with a particular emphasis on buildings and cities in the United States; he is Associate Professor at AUD. Kiel Moe is an architect and most recently served as Gerald Sheff Chair of Architecture at McGill University. More.

Thursday, March 3, 12–1:30pm
Lunchtime Talks: Dana Cuff, Christopher Hawthorne, and Greg Lynn
Dr. Dana Cuff engages spatial justice and cultural studies of architecture as a teacher, scholar, practitioner, and activist; she is Professor at AUD, and is founder and director of UCLA’s cityLAB. Christopher Hawthorne is Chief Design Officer for the City of Los Angeles, and was the architecture critic for the Los Angeles Times from 2004 to 2018. Greg Lynn is founder and owner of Greg Lynn FORM, CEO and co-founder of Boston-based robotics company Piaggio Fast Forward, and Professor at AUD, designing at the intersection of the digital and physical in both architecture and design culture in general. More.

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