AUD’s career development opportunities take advantage of both our world-class faculty and the incredible range and depth of practitioners and practices in the Los Angeles metro area.
When you enroll at UCLA AUD, you become a part of the Los Angeles design community, which will inspire and enchant you throughout your studies. It’s also a place where professional and academic opportunities are nearly endless.
And when you graduate from UCLA Architecture and Urban Design, you join an incredible community of AUD alumni around the world who are leaders in shaping the future. Like AUD’s faculty, our alumni practice in offices large and small, spanning disciplines and geographies. Many have founded their own firms; many others teach in the academy or lead design institutions; others bring their design skills to new fields and industries. AUD alumni continue to push the boundaries of architecture and design, just as they began here on campus. AUD is proud to welcome returning alumni back to Perloff Hall each year to mentor and inspire our students.
True Bruins also continue to pay forward the support they received as students, by helping to foster the professional development of the next generation of students with support and mentorship. There are many ways to stay engaged with AUD after graduation, and by doing so, you can help to amplify the impact of our institution.
Where our graduates land
Each year, AUD graduates enter a range of exciting professional practices and opportunities around the world. In recent years, graduates have landed design roles at the following firms, among others:
Foster + Partners
Gensler
Bjarke Ingels Group
AERO COLLECTIVE
Pixelworks
Hassell
YANG Studio
Gensler
GGA+
Roche Bobois
Studio AR&D Architects
Kenneth Rodrigues & Partners
Pixelworks
AC Martin
CO Architects
Grimshaw
Creadits
RIOS
Corgan
Kilograph
Motorola Solutions
HOK
Where our faculty lead
Los Angeles is an incredible place for architecture and for architects–and our faculty are among the city’s and the nation’s design leaders. AUD faculty lead, and in many cases founded, the following design practices:
Atelier Hitoshi Abe I Hitoshi Abe
Young & Ayata I Vice Chair Kutan Ayata
Morphosis I Thom Mayne
FORMA | Miroslava Brooks
City Lab UCLA I Dana Cuff
Neil M. Denari Architects I Neil Denari
Patterns I Georgina Huljich
Greg Lynn FORM I Greg Lynn
Murmur I Heather Roberge
Kevin Daly Architects (KDA) I Kevin Daly
The LADG I Benjamin Freyiner
JK Design GmbH I Julia Koerner
Sharif, Lynch: Architecture I Mohamed Sharif and Todd Lynch
MNOffice I Narineh Mirzaeian
Özel Office I Guvenc Ozel
Formlessfinder I Garrett Ricciardi
ALLTHATISSOLID I Max Kuo
Gensler I Roger Sherman
Hodgetts + Fung I Craig Hodgetts
Ibañez Kim | Chair Mariana Ibañez
Career Programming and Professional Development at AUD
AUD convenes a series of on-campus events each year, including presentations and workshops from faculty, as well as networking opportunities at various scales–the cornerstone of which is our annual Career Fair, bringing dozens of offices and designers to Perloff Hall to network with students and source talent. We take full advantage of our proximity to and engagement with LA design culture, and source opportunities to both learn from and land employment with these practices, innovators, and leaders.