News and public events 2023

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 2023 public program of talks and lectures, as well as other upcoming news. 

AUD’s winter event series convenes guests who both enrich and expand the scope of the Department’s curiosities and mission. And, as the Department’s winter quarter wraps in late March, AUD looks forward to welcoming admitted students and families to campus on Tuesday, April 4 and Wednesday, April 5 for its annual spring open house. As with all winter 2023 events at AUD, these details are subject to change; please visit aud.ucla.edu for updates, especially as events are added to the program.

Finally, AUD is pleased to note the July 2023 dates and plans for its two Summer Programs (TeenArch and JumpStart), and is looking forward to announcing some new faculty appointments in the coming days and weeks. Follow us on Instagram at @uclaaud to stay tuned.

AUD’s winter 2023 public program includes:

Felecia Davis, PhD
Wednesday, January 25, 6:30pm
IDEAS Campus. Felecia Davis’ work in computational textiles questions how we live and she re-imagines how we might use textiles in our daily lives and in architecture. Davis is an Associate Professor at the Stuckeman Center for Design Computing in the School of Architecture at Pennsylvania State University and is the director of SOFTLAB@PSU. 

José Pablo Ambrosi and Loreta Castro Reguera
Monday, January 30, 6:30pm
Perloff Hall Decafe. Reguera is an architect, urban designer, and co-principal of Mexico City-based Taller Capital. She is a visiting instructor at AUD this winter.

Ana Miljački
Monday, February 27, 6:30pm
Perloff Hall Decafe. Ana Miljački is a critic, curator, and Professor of Architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she teaches history, theory, and design and serves as Chair of Architecture and Urbanism. Her research interests range from the role of architecture and architects in the Cold War-era Eastern Europe, through the theories of postmodernism in late socialism to politics of contemporary architectural production.

Book launch: Thom Mayne presents M³: modeled works [archive] 1972-2022
Monday, March 6, 6:30pm
Perloff Hall Decafe. Models that precede their buildings—masterworks made at scale—the work of Pritzker Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne and his firm Morphosis culminates for the first time across five decades in M³: modeled works [archive] 1972-2022. Mayne founded LA-based Morphosis in 1972 as a collective practice of architecture, urbanism, and design, rooted in rigorous research and innovation. Among other pedagogy, Mayne taught at AUD from 1993 to 2019. Mayne’s distinguished honors include the Pritzker Prize (2005) and the AIA Gold Medal (2013).

Lydia Kallipoliti
Monday, March 13, 6:30pm
Perloff Hall Decafe. Lydia Kallipoliti is an architect, engineer, and scholar, and is Assistant Professor at The Cooper Union’s Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture. Her research focuses on the intersections of architecture, technology and environmental politics and more particularly on recycling material experiments, theories of waste and reuse, as well as closed and self-reliant systems and urban environments.  

Spring 2023 open house for admitted students
Tuesday, April 4 and Wednesday, April 5
Perloff Hall