Photo gallery: Fall 2024 final reviews at UCLA AUD

Visit (or revisit) Perloff Hall with these moments from Fall 2024 final reviews, held December 9, 2024.

MArch Advanced Topics Studio, "Adaptive Mélange," with Georgina Huljich

In this studio, students investigated the adaptive reuse of architecture through the lens of history, geography, and material systems. The studio challenged students to creatively reimagine how existing sites, buildings, and landscapes can be transformed into innovative designs that engage both contemporary culture and enduring historical narratives. Drawing from Tuscany’s rich architectural heritage and a November 2024 visit to the region, the studio fostered a critical dialogue about the interplay between adaptation, sustainability, and cultural resonance.

MSAUD Entertainment Studio: Advanced Topics Studio, "Multitudes and Multiverses," with Liam Denhamer and Natasha Sandmeier

Worldbuilding is more than set dressing. It’s about creating a cohesive language between the space and the story it tells. This year, we are turning our attention to a single room as the locus for an entire universe of stories. A well-designed room allows the audience to feel the presence of time, the layering of experiences, and the evolution of the world outside its walls. The architecture of the room, the way the light falls across the floor, the view through the window—these are not just background elements; they are as crucial to the narrative as the characters who move through the space.

Undergraduate Studies: Studio II, "Building in a Building," with Katy Barkan

By imagining two buildings nested one inside the other, the studio interrogates not only the threshold between the building and the world, but the many thresholds that reside within the architectural object itself. The current indeterminacy between living and working brought about both by crisis and our increasingly “seamless” and “interconnected” work-anywhere and live-everywhere model, has radically altered our understanding of these boundaries. Binary distinctions between living and working, inside and outside, private and public, individual and collective, have become difficult to pin down. Arguably, adjudicating spatial boundaries is architecture’s most fundamental role; how then has this blurring problematized our understanding of space?

MArch Building Design with Landscape Studio (second-year core), with Samaa Elimam (co-coordinator), Narineh Mirzaeian (co-coordinator), and Jason Payne

MArch Advanced Topics Studio, "School for Sharing," with Takaharu Tezuka and Motomi Matsubara

I want you to design a school to share knowledge. The school is not a place to train children. There is no competition. There is a big difference between teaching and learning. The teaching is to give knowledge to children, but learning is the process for children to take spontaneously. The class is not going to be divided into age groups. Architecture is not a thing but a situation. The school needs to be the place to provide opportunities. There will be children having different learning speed. The children know when they are ready to learn. The school is not only about STEM. It needs to be the place to share and help each other. The only rule of the school is love and compassion. There will be about 100 children from age 3 to 18. Please find a way to put them together.