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• AB/AM, AB/SM (1)
• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) (68)
• Master of Arts (AM) (8)
• Master of Engineering (ME) (2)
• Master of Science (SM) (4)

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African and African American Studies

American studies, anthropology, applied mathematics, applied physics, architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning, bioengineering, biological and biomedical sciences, biological sciences in public health.

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Graduate students.

Nicanor  Albornoz

Nicanor studies the history and theory of modern architecture. He is interested in the dissemination of French academic culture, particularly in Latin...

Daria Evdokimova

Icey Lin is a Ph.D. student in the Department of History of Art and Architecture...

Neesha Mewada

Neesha Mewada is a PhD student in Harvard University’s joint program in History...

Anthony Ortega

Anthony’s area of study revolves around the art, archaeology, and culture of ancient Greece during the eighth through fifth centuries BCE. His research...

Hiroki Takezaki

Hiroki conducts research on two subjects in early modern Japanese paintings. One...

Luci Williams

Luci Williams’ studies are animated by an interest in textiles: their design, production, and the lives of the people–and animals–that make them. She...

Nolan Boomer

Nolan studies the modern built environment, media, and cultural exchange across the Western Hemisphere. Their work looks at popular...

Natasha Coleman

Natasha’s research focuses on the visual cultures that emerged via the explosion of direct

contact between Western Europe and late imperial China from the early seventeenth century

until the fall of the Manchu Qing Empire in 1911.... Read more about Natasha Coleman

John DeVoy is a first-year PhD student interested in the peripheral regions of the Early Byzantine world and their representation of local heterodoxy versus imperial orthodoxy through miniatures, wall paintings, and icons. He is also interested in the influence these peripheral communities exerted across the Silk Road, particularly in the context of Manichaeism and so-called 'Gnostic' movements.... Read more about John DeVoy

Jordan Hallmark

Jordan’s research investigates networks of cultural transmission between France and Italy—outside the institutional venues of art academies—that led to the development of an increasingly homogenized visual language of European aristocratic and princely culture over the course of the seventeenth and eighteen th centuries.... Read more about Jordan Hallmark

Timothy Hampshire

Timothy Hampshire researches the visual culture of Western Europe in a time when “Rome” became an idea subject to...

April studies Buddhist art and visual culture of medieval East Asia. She is particularly interested in art's role in the visualization of processes that concern the conceiving and sustaining of life beyond the physical body. Her past projects have focused on Buddhist cave temples and devotional objects of medieval China and materials of early Japanese Buddhist art.... Read more about April Peng

Ayesha Shaikh

Ayesha Usman Shaikh’s research interests pertain to Indian Ocean and Red Sea material and cross-cultural interactions between Gujarat and Egypt during the 13th through 16th centuries. Prior to attending Harvard, she was a research fellow at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin and held a graduate internship at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York where she researched Indo-Egyptian textile fragments.

... Read more about Ayesha Shaikh

Catarina Flaksman

Catarina's research focuses on architecture, exhibitions, modernity, and national identity in the twentieth century. She is particularly interested in the...

Aziza Izamova

Aziza Izamova studies the history of the museums and the art of Soviet Central Asia. Her current interests include history of Central Asian art...

Kacper Koleda

Kacper works on the notions of health and disease, and their manifestations in art, architecture and their respective discourses. He is particularly...

Ebonie Pollock

Ebonie is interested in researching the cultural arts of the early-twentieth century African Diaspora, with particular emphasis on theories of the archive...

Raghunath Akarsh

Akarsh studies the trans-regional interactions of Buddhist material culture across the Indian...

Sandro Capo Chichi

Sandro Capo Chichi is a PhD candidate studying historical African arts with a focus on the Bight...

Rachel Hirsch

Rachel Hirsch studies the cultural history of early...

Trevor Menders

Nora Rosengarten

Nora Rosengarten (she/her) studies the history of printmaking from the 19th C to the present in Europe and the Americas. Her scholarship is animated by...

Colin Sanborn

Colin Sanborn received his B.A. in Art History from Oberlin College in 2019, where he concentrated on the art of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century...

Rebecca Selch

Rebecca Selch is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. Her research concerns the production and...

Rachel M Tang

Rachel M. Tang studies the history and theory of socially engaged art practices, with a particular interest in artists who touch upon issues of pedagogy...

Gabriella Wellons

Gabriella Wellons ’ research examines the visual and material cultures of Pre-Hispanic Latin America with a particular interest in polychrome mural...

Joseph Mizhakii Zordan

Joseph Mizhakiiyaasige Zordan is a doctoral candidate in the History of Art and Architecture Department at Harvard University. His work examines the...

Victoria Andrews

Victoria just completed her MA at the University of...

Alexandra Dennett

Alexandra Dennett studies modern art and the history of photography. Her dissertation examines how photographs both represent and misrepresent the...

Kéla Briana Jackson

Kéla Briana Jackson is a PhD student studying...

Elena Janney

Elena Janney works on the visual culture of the early modern Age of Encounter, with a particular focus on...

Tai Mitsuji

Tai Mitsuji is a writer and curator who is...

Sarah Molina

Sarah Molina graduated from the University of North...

Alejandro Nodarse

Alejandro Nodarse received his B.A. and M.A. in...

Michael Norton

Ji Mary Seo

Mary’s research is focused on the visual and...

Yingxue Wang

Yingxue Wang completed her BA in Art History and...

Tuğrul Acar

Tugrul is a PhD candidate in Harvard University’s joint program in the Middle Eastern Studies and History of Art and...

Rachel Burke

Rachel Burke is a PhD student studying American art and visual culture, with a focus on...

Bay Byrnesim

Aimé Cichero

Aimé Cichero received her BA in Art History from Brown...

Sarah Lund researches the visual culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe, with a focus on female artists and works on paper. Her...

Sarah Mallory

Isabel McWilliams

Isabel received her Bachelor’s degree in the History of Art and Architecture with minors in French and Chinese from...

Vaishnavi Patil

Jenny Peruski

Jenny Peruski's research focuses on material and visual cultures along the Indian-Ocean coast of Africa. Her research explores domestic architecture and...

Sarah C Rosenthal

Sarah primarily studies early modern northern European art. She is currently writing a dissertation on early-16th-century, Swiss...

María Salvador

María Salvador’s research focuses on medieval Japanese religious painting, specifically the art of the Kasuga cult...

Yue Xie received her B.A. in History of Art and Fine Arts from Bryn Mawr College. In 2015 she studied Arabic language and Islamic art at the American...

Isabel Bird

Isabel studies modern and contemporary art, with a focus on the relationship between art practice and pedagogy. She holds a BA in Art and History of Art...

Kirsten J. Burke

Hollie Buttery

Hollie Buttery graduated from the University of East Anglia with a BA in Art History and Literature in 2014, and also completing her masters there in 2016...

Louis Copplestone

Louis is a doctoral candidate studying South Asian art and architecture with a...

Destiny Crowley

Juliana Ramírez Herrera

Kaila Howell

Avantika Kumar

Julia Silverman

Julia is a PhD...

Annick Benavides

Hannah hyden, patricia manos, katherine mills.

Linda Mueller

Linda is a PhD candidate studying the art, architecture, visual, and material cultures of early modern Europe and the Atlantic world, with a special focus...

Damla Ozakay

Helen Swift

Helen’s research focuses on early-modern and modern Japanese art with an emphasis on painting and prints. Her dissertation on Meiji period (1868–1912)...

Chassidy Winestock

Ashley hannebrink.

Camran Mani

Chenchen Lu

Fabienne Helfenberger

Jaeun Cabelle Ahn

Mathilde bonvalot.

Özge Yildiz

Rahul Kulka

MA & PhD in Architecture

Ucla architecture and urban design offers two academic graduate degrees: the master of arts in architecture (ma) and doctor of philosophy in architecture (phd)..

The programs produce students whose scholarship aims to provoke and operate within architecture’s public, professional, and scholarly constituencies. Both programs are supported by the Standing Committee, made up of five faculty members: Michael Osman (interim program director), Cristóbal Amunátegui , Dana Cuff , Samaa Elimam , and Ayala Levin . A number of visiting faculty teach courses to expand the range of offerings.

Applications for the MA/PhD program (Fall 2024 matriculation) are completed via the UCLA Application for Graduate Admission , and are due January 6, 2024. Candidates will be notified of decisions in March 2024; admitted candidates who wish to accept the offer of matriculation must submit their Statement of Intent to Register (SIR) by April 15, 2024.

All MA and PhD students are required to enroll in a two-year colloquium focused on methods for writing, teaching, and researching in the field of architecture. The six courses that constitute the colloquium train students in the apparatus of academic scholarship. Over the two-year sequence, students produce original research projects and develop skills in long-format writing.

Research Opportunities

The intellectual life of the students in the MA and PhD programs are reinforced by the increasing number of opportunities afforded to students through specialized faculty-led research projects. These include cityLAB-UCLA and the Urban Humanities Institute .

MA in Architecture

This program prepares students to work in a variety of intellectual and programmatic milieus including historical research, cultural studies, and interdisciplinary studies with particular emphasis on connections with geography, design, art history, history of science and literary studies, as well as studio and design based research.

Beyond the core colloquium, MA students take a series of approved courses both at UCLA AUD and across campus. The MA program is a two-year degree, culminating in a thesis. The thesis is developed from a paper written by the student in their coursework and developed in consultation with the primary advisor and the standing committee. In addition to courses and individual research, students often participate in collective, project-based activities, including publications, symposia and exhibitions.

The program is distinguished by its engagement with contemporary design and historical techniques as well by the unusual balance it offers: fostering great independence and freedom in the students’ courses of study while providing fundamental training in architectural scholarship.

Recent MA Theses

• Jacqueline Meyer, “Crafting Utopia: Paolo Soleri and the Building of Arcosanti.”
• Joseph Maguid, “The Architecture of the Videogame: Architecture as the Link Between Representational and Participatory Immersion.”
• Meltem Al, “The Agency of Words and Images in the Transformation of Istanbul: The Case of Ayazma.”
• Courtney Coffman, “Addressing Architecture and Fashion: On Simulacrum, Time and Poché.”
• Joseph Ebert, “Prolegomena to a Poiesis of Architectural Phenomenology.”
• Jamie Aron, “Women Images: From the Bauhaus Weaving Workshop to the Knoll Textile Division.”
• Gustave Heully, “Moldy Assumptions.”
• Brigid McManama, “Interventions on Pacoima Wash: Repurposing Linear Infrastructure into Park Spaces.”

MA Typical Study Program

Phd in architecture.

This program prepares students to enter the academic professions, either in architectural history, architectural design, or other allied fields. PhD students are trained to teach courses in the history and theory of architecture while also engaging in studio pedagogy and curatorial work. In addition to the colloquium, PhD students take a series of approved courses both at UCLA Architecture and Urban Design and across campus. They select these courses in relation to their own research interests and in consultation with their primary advisor. The priorities for selection are breadth of knowledge and interdisciplinary experience that retains a focused area of expertise. To this end, the students identify Major and Minor Fields of study. The Minor Field is generally fulfilled by satisfactorily completing three courses given by another department and the Major Field by five courses offered by UCLA Architecture and Urban Design.

Once coursework is completed, PhD students move to the Comprehensive Exam, Qualifying Exam, and the writing of a dissertation, and final defense, if deemed appropriate by the doctoral committee. In the transition from coursework to exams, PhD students work on one paper beyond its original submission as coursework. The paper begins in the context of a departmental seminar, but often continues either in the context of an independent study, summer mentorship, or a second seminar with faculty consent. Upon the research paper’s acceptance, students begin preparing for their comprehensive exam. Before their third year, students must also satisfactorily complete three quarters of language study or its equivalent according to University standards. The particular language will be determined in consultation with the Standing Committee. The Comprehensive Exam is administered by at least two members of the Standing Committee and at most one faculty member from another Department at UCLA, also a member of the Academic Senate.

The Comprehensive Exam tests two fields: the first covers a breadth of historical knowledge—300 years at minimum—and the second focuses on in-depth knowledge of a specialization that is historically and thematically circumscribed. Students submit an abstract on each of these fields, provide a substantial bibliography, and prepare additional documentation requested by their primary advisor. These materials are submitted to the committee no less than two weeks before the exam, which occurs as early as the end of the second year. Students are encouraged to complete the Comprehensive Exam no later than the end of their third year of study.

The Comprehensive Exam itself consists of two parts: an oral component that takes place first, and then a written component. The oral component is comprised of questions posed by the committee based on the student’s submitted materials. The goal of the exam is for students to demonstrate their comprehensive knowledge of their chosen field. The written component of the exam (which may or may not be waived by the committee) consists of a written response to a choice of questions posed by the committee. The goal of this portion of the exam is for students to demonstrate their research skills, their ability to develop and substantiate an argument, and to show promise of original contribution to the field. Students have two weeks to write the exam. After the committee has read the exam, the advisor notifies the student of the committee’s decision. Upon the student’s successful completion of the Comprehensive Exam, they continue to the Qualifying Exam.

Students are expected to take the Qualifying Exam before the beginning of the fourth year. The exam focuses on a dissertation prospectus that a student develops with their primary advisor and in consultation with their PhD committee. Each student’s PhD committee consists of at least two members of the Standing Committee and one outside member from another department at the University (and a member of the Faculty Senate). Committees can also include faculty from another institution. All committees are comprised of at least three members of UCLA Academic Senate. The prospectus includes an argument with broad implications, demonstrates that the dissertation will make a contribution of knowledge and ideas to the field, demonstrates mastery of existing literature and discourses, and includes a plan and schedule for completion.

The PhD dissertation is written after the student passes the qualifying exam, at which point the student has entered PhD candidacy. The dissertation is defended around the sixth year of study. Students graduating from the program have taken posts in a wide range of universities, both in the United States and internationally.

Recent PhD Dissertations

• Marko Icev, "Building Solidarity: Architecture After Disaster and The Skopje 1963 Post-Earthquake Reconstruction." ( Read )
• Anas Alomaim, "Nation Building in Kuwait, 1961-1991."
• Tulay Atak, “Byzantine Modern: Displacements of Modernism in Istanbul.”
• Ewan Branda, “Virtual Machines: Culture, telematique, and the architecture of information at Centre Beaubourg, 1968–1977.”
• Aaron Cayer, "Design and Profit: Architectural Practice in the Age of Accumulation"
• Per-Johan Dahl, “Code Manipulation, Architecture In-Between Universal and Specific Urban Spaces.”
• Penelope Dean, “Delivery without Discipline: Architecture in the Age of Design.”
• Miriam Engler, “Gordon Cullen and the ‘Cut-and-Paste’ Urban Landscape.”
• Dora Epstein-Jones, “Architecture on the Move: Modernism and Mobility in the Postwar.”
• Sergio Figueiredo, “The Nai Effect: Museological Institutions and the Construction of Architectural Discourse.”
• Jose Gamez, “Contested Terrains: Space, Place, and Identity in Postcolonial Los Angeles.”
• Todd Gannon, “Dissipations, Accumulations, and Intermediations: Architecture, Media and the Archigrams, 1961–1974.”
• Whitney Moon, "The Architectural Happening: Diller and Scofidio, 1979-89"
• Eran Neuman, “Oblique Discourses: Claude Parent and Paul Virilio’s Oblique Function Theory and Postwar Architectural Modernity.”
• Alexander Ortenberg, “Drawing Practices: The Art and Craft of Architectural Representation.”
• Brian Sahotsky, "The Roman Construction Process: Building the Basilica of Maxentius"
• Marie Saldana, “A Procedural Reconstruction of the Urban Topography of Magnesia on The Maeander.”
• David Salomon, “One Thing or Another: The World Trade Center and the Implosion of Modernism.”
• Ari Seligmann, “Architectural Publicity in the Age of Globalization.”
• Zheng Tan, “Conditions of The Hong Kong Section: Spatial History and Regulatory Environment of Vertically Integrated Developments.”
• Jon Yoder, “Sight Design: The Immersive Visuality of John Lautner.”

A Sampling of PhD Alumni and Their Pedagogy

Iman Ansari , Assistant Professor of Architecture, the Knowlton School, Ohio State University

Tulay Atak , Adjunct Associate Professor, Pratt School of Architecture

Shannon Starkey , Associate Professor of Architecture, University of San Diego

Ece Okay , Affiliate Research, Université De Pau Et Des Pays De L'adour

Zheng Tan , Department of Architecture, Tongji University

Pelin Yoncaci , Assistant Professor, Department Of Architecture, Middle East Technical University

José L.S. Gámez , Interim Dean, College of Arts + Architecture, UNC Charlotte

Eran Neuman , Professor, School of Architecture, Tel Aviv University

Marie Saldana , Assistant Professor, School of Interior Architecture, University of Tennessee - Knoxville

Sergio M. Figueiredo , Assistant Professor, Eindhoven University of Technology

Rebecca Choi , Assistant Professor of Architecture History, School of Architecture, Tulane University

Will Davis , Lecturer in History, Theory and Criticism, Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore

Maura Lucking , Faculty, School of Architecture & Urban Planning, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

Kyle Stover , Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, Montana State University

Alex Maymind , Assistant Professor of Architecture and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Architecture, University of Minnesota

Gary Riichirō Fox , visiting faculty member at Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and lecturer at USC School of Architecture

Randy Nakamura , Adjunct Professor, College of Arts and Sciences, University of San Francisco

Aaron Cayer , Assistant Professor of Architecture History, School of Architecture + Planning, University of New Mexico

Whitney Moon , Associate Professor of Architecture, School of Architecture & Urban Planning, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

Todd Gannon , Professor of Architecture, the Knowlton School, Ohio State University

Dora Epstein Jones , Professor of Practice, School of Architecture, the University of Texas at Austin

Sarah Hearne , Assistant Professor, College of Architecture and Planning, University of Colorado Denver

PhD Typical Study Program

*The choice of language to fulfill this requirement must be discussed with the Ph.D. Standing Committee

Our Current PhD Cohort

AUD's cohort of PhD candidates are leaders in their fields of study, deepening their scholarship at AUD and at UCLA while sharing their knowledge with the community.

Adam Boggs is a sixth year Ph.D candidate and interdisciplinary artist, scholar, educator and Urban Humanist. His research and teaching interests include the tension between creativity and automation, craft-based epistemologies, and the social and material history of architecture at the U.S.-Mexico border. He holds a BFA in Sculpture Cum Laude from the Ohio State University, and an MFA in Visual Art from the State University of New York at Purchase College. Prior to joining the doctoral program at UCLA he participated in courses in Architecture (studio and history) at Princeton University and Cornell University. His dissertation analyzes the history of indigenous labor during the Mexican baroque period to form a comparative analysis with the 20th century Spanish revival architecture movement in Southern California and how the implementation of the style along the U.S.-Mexico border might function as a Lefebvrian “thirdspace” that disrupts binary thinking. In Spring 2024 he will teach an undergraduate seminar course at AUD on the history of architecture at the U.S.-Mexico border as part of the CUTF program.

Hanyu Chen is a second-year doctoral student at UCLA AUD. Her research focuses on the intersection between (sub)urban studies, heritage conservation, and the genders of the space. Specifically, it concerns the dynamics of genders in (sub)urban areas and how these dynamics are conserved as heritage. Born and raised in China for her first 18 years, Hanyu chose the conservation of comfort stations in China as her master's thesis at the University of Southern California, where she earned her master’s degree in Heritage Conservation and officially started her journey in architecture. Her thesis discusses the fluidity and genders of comfort stations and how they survive in contemporary China’s heritage conservation policies.

Hanyu also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in AMS (Applied Mathematics and Statistics) and Art History from Stony Brook University.

Yixuan Chen

Yixuan Chen is an architectural designer and a first-year doctoral student in the Department of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA. Driven by an impulse to demystify both the grand promises and trivial familiarities of architecture, her research embarks on the notion of everydayness to elucidate the power dynamics it reveals. She investigates the conflicts between these two ends and focuses on modernization across different times and places.

Prior to joining UCLA AUD, she was trained as an architect and graduated from the University of Nottingham's China Campus with a first-class honors degree. Her graduation project “Local Culture Preservation Centre,” which questioned the validity of monumental architecture in the climate crisis, was nominated for the RIBA President's Medal in 2016.

She also holds a Master of Arts degree with distinction in Architectural History from the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. Her dissertation, “Shijing, on the Debris of Shijing,” explores the vanishing shijing places, or urban villages, where rural migrant workers negotiate their urban identity in Chinese cities, revealing shifting power relations. Additionally, she authored an article in Prospectives Journal titled "Architectural Authorship in ‘the Last Mile,’" advocating for a change to relational architectural authorship in response to the digital revolution in architecture.

Pritam Dey is an urban designer and second-year doctoral student at UCLA AUD. His research interest lies at the intersection of colonial urbanism, sensorial history, and somatic inquiries. His architecture thesis investigated the crematorium and temple as sensorial infrastructure, and was presented at World Architecture Congress at Seoul in 2017. Previously Dey worked in the domain of urban design, specifically informal markets, as a shaper of urbanism in Indian cities. Prior to joining the AUD doctoral program, his past research focused on investigating the role of informal and wholesale markets in shaping up urbanity in the Indian city cores and co-mentored workshops on Urbanity of Chitpur Road, Kolkata with ENSAPLV, Paris which was both exhibited at Kolkata and Paris. He also co-mentored the documentation of the retrospective landscape of Hampi with the support of ENSAPLV and French Embassy. His investigations on the slums of Dharavi title ‘The tabooed city’ was published in the McGill University GLSA Research series 2021 under the theme: the city an object or subject of law?

An urban designer and architect, Pritam Dey pursued his post graduation from School of planning and Architecture, Delhi. During his academic tenure at SPA, he was the recipient of 2018 Design Innovation Center Fellowship for Habitat design allowing him to work on the social infrastructure for less catered communities in the Sub Himalayan Villages. In 2022 He mentored a series of exhibitions on the theme of Water, Mountains and Bodies at Ahmadabad.

He was the 2022-23 Urban Humanities Initiatives Fellow at UCLA and recipient of 2023 UCLA Center for India and South Asia fellowship for his summer research.

Carrie Gammell

Carrie Gammell is a doctoral candidate working at the intersection of architectural history, property law, and political economy. Her research focuses on claims, investments, and intermediary organizations in the United States, from the Homestead Act of 1862 to the Housing Act of 1934.

Carrie is also a Senior Research Associate at cityLAB UCLA, where she studies state appropriations for California community college student housing. In the past, she contributed to Education Workforce Housing in California: Developing the 21st Century Campus, a report and companion handbook that provides a comprehensive overview of the potential for land owned by school districts to be designed and developed for teachers and other employees.

Prior to joining AUD, Carrie worked as an architectural designer in Colombia and the United States, where she built a portfolio of affordable housing, multi-family residential, and single-family residential projects as well as civic and cultural renovations and additions. She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Rice University and a Master in Design Studies (Critical Conservation) from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Chi-Chia Hou

Chi-Chia Hou is a doctoral candidate in his sixth year at UCLA AUD. His working dissertation, “New Frontier: Architecture and Service 1893-1960,” explores his interest in architecture and wealth, changing ideas of profit and management, and social scientific discourses for measuring work and worker, self and others, and values of landed property.

His research locates moments of theorizing methodologies to manage income-generating properties in schools of agriculture, home economics, and hotel studies. The schools taught their students theories, while instilling the imminence of faithful direction of oneself, of self-as-property. The pedagogies, existing beyond the purview of Architecture, were of immense architectural consideration.

Chi-Chia Hou took a break from school in the previous academic year to learn from his daughter and has now returned to school to learn from his brilliant cohorts.

Adam Lubitz

Adam Lubitz is an urban planner, heritage conservationist, and doctoral student. His research engages the intersection of critical heritage studies and migration studies, with an emphasis on how archival information can inform reparations. His community-based research has been most recently supported by the Columbia GSAPP Incubator Prize as well as the Ziman Center for Real Estate and Leve Center for Jewish Studies at UCLA.

Prior to joining AUD, Adam worked at World Monuments Fund within their Jewish Heritage Program, and taught GIS coursework at Barnard College. His master's thesis applied field research with experimental mapping techniques in the old town of a municipality in Palestine. Adam holds MS degrees in Historic Preservation and Urban Planning from Columbia University and a BA in Urban Studies from New College of Florida.

José Monge is a PhD candidate in the Department of Architecture and Urban Design. His dissertation, titled Maritime Labor, Candles, and the Architecture of the Enlightenment (1750-1872) , focuses on the role that whale-originated illuminants, specifically spermaceti candles and oil, played in the American Enlightenment as an intellectual project and the U.S. as a country. By unravelling the tension between binaries such as intellectual and manual labor–the consumers that bought these commodities and the producers that were not able to afford them–the project understands architecture as a history of activities that moved from sea to land and land to sea, challenging assumptions about the static “nature” of architecture.

Kurt Pelzer

Kurt Pelzer is a fourth-year PhD candidate at UCLA AUD. Their research explores the relational histories, material flows, and politics of land in and beyond California in the long nineteenth century during the United States parks, public lands, and conservation movements.

Their current scholarship traces the settler possession and exhibitionary display of a Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) in the 1850s; an act that contested the ways Miwok peoples ancestral to California's Sierra Nevada knew and related to life and land. Their broader interests include histories of colonialism and capitalism in the Americas, environmental history, and Blackness and Indigeneity as a methodological analytic for political solidarities and possibilities.

Prior to arriving at UCLA, Pelzer worked at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in the Architecture and Design Curatorial Department participating in exhibitions, programming, and collections work. Pelzer completed a Master of Advanced Architectural Design in the History, Theory, and Experiments program from California College of the Arts in San Francisco, and earned their Bachelor's degree in Landscape Architecture from the College of Design at Iowa State University.

Shota Vashakmadze

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Shota Vashakmadze is a sixth-year PhD candidate at UCLA AUD. His dissertation traces the conjoined histories of architectural computing, environmental design, and professional practice in the late 20th century, adopting critical approaches to architecture’s technical substrates—the algorithms, softwares, and user protocols of computation—to examine their social and political dispositions. In his scholarship and pedagogy, he aims to situate forms of architectural labor within the profession’s ongoing acculturation to environmental crisis. Most recently, he has been leading the development of the interdisciplinary “Building Climates” cluster, a year-long course sequence at UCLA, and co-organizing an initiative dedicated to fostering discourse on climate change and architecture, including a two-day conference entitled “Architecture After a Green New Deal.”

His research has been supported by the Canadian Centre for Architecture and appeared in journals including Architectural Theory Review , The Avery Review, and Pidgin Magazine. He is currently completing a contribution to a collection on landscape representation and a chapter for an edited volume on architecture, labor, and political economy.

Shota holds an MArch from Princeton University and has a professional background in architecture, landscape, and software development. Before coming to UCLA, he researched methods for designing with point cloud data and wrote Bison, a software plugin for landscape modeling.

Alexa Vaughn

Alexa Vaughn (ASLA, FAAR) is a first year PhD student in Architecture + Urban Design and a Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellow , from Long Beach, California. She is a Deaf landscape designer, accessibility specialist, consultant, and recent Fellow of the American Academy in Rome (2022-23). She is a visionary speaker, thought leader, prolific writer and researcher, and the author of “ DeafScape : Applying DeafSpace to Landscape,” which has been featured in numerous publications.

Her professional work is centered upon designing public landscapes with and for the Deaf and disabled communities, applying legal standards and Universal Design principles alongside lived experience and direct participation in the design process. She is an expert in designing landscapes for the Deaf community (DeafScape) and in facilitation of disabled community engagement. Prior to joining the A+UD program, Alexa worked for several landscape architecture firms over the course of six years, including OLIN and MIG, Inc.

Through a disability justice lens, her dissertation will seek to formally explore the historical exclusionary and inaccessible design of American urban landscapes and public spaces, as well as the response (activism, policy, and design) to this history through the present and speculative future. She will also actively take part in activist- and practice-based research with cityLAB and the Urban Humanities Institute .

Alexa holds both a BA in Landscape Architecture (with a minor in Conservation and Resource Studies) and a Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture (MLA) from the University of California, Berkeley, with specialization in accessible and inclusive design. Much of her work can be found at www.designwithdisabledpeoplenow.com and on Instagram: @DeafScape.

Yashada Wagle

Yashada Wagle is a third year PhD student in Critical Studies at UCLA AUD, and a recipient of the department's Moss Scholarship. Her research focuses on imperial environmental-legislative regimes in British colonial India in the late nineteenth century. She is interested in exploring questions around the histories of spaces of extraction and production as they network between the metropole and the colony, and their relationship with the conceptions of laboring bodies therein. Her master's thesis focused on the Indian Forest Act of 1865, and elucidated the conceptualization of the space of the ‘forest’ through the lenses of its literary, legislative, and biopolitical trajectories, highlighting how these have informed its contemporary lived materiality.

Wagle holds a Bachelor in Architecture (BArch) from the Savitribai Phule Pune University in India, and a Master in Design Studies (History and Philosophy of Design and Media) from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She was previously a Research Fellow at the Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture and Environmental Studies (KRVIA) in Mumbai, India.

In her spare time, Wagle enjoys illustrating and writing poetry, some of which can be found here .

Dexter Walcott

Dexter Walcott is a registered architect currently in his fifth year with the Critical Studies of Architecture program at UCLA. His research focuses on the Latrobe family and early nineteenth century builders in the Mississippi and Ohio river valleys. He is interested in the role of the built environment in histories of labor, capitalism, steam-power, and industry.

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Joy is a fifth-year PhD student in architecture history. Her research explores geology as antiquity from early 19th – 20th century British colonial Hong Kong and China. She holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature with a focus in German from Middlebury College in 2017, and is a graduate of The New Normal program at Strelka Institute, Moscow in 2018. Previously, she has taught in the Department of Architecture at University of Hong Kong, as well as the Department of Design at Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

After working as a curatorial assistant at Tai Kwun Contemporary in 2019, she has continued the practice of art writing and translation, collaborating with many local Hong Kong artists as well as international curators such as Raimundas Malašauskas. In her spare time, she practices long-distance open water swimming. In 2022, she completed a 30km course at the South of Lantau Island, Hong Kong.

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Krzysztof Wodiczko and Julie Bargmann (MLA’ 87) among American Academy of Arts and Letters 2024 Architecture Award Winners

The American Academy of Arts and Letters recently announced the winners of its 2024 Awards in Architecture , an annual awards program totaling $60,000 in prizes that honor established and emerging architects. Krzysztof Wodiczko , Professor in Residence of Art, Design and the Public Domain, Emeritus, at the GSD, and Julie Bargmann (MLA ’87) are among the recipients this year of a $10,000 award.

According to a statement released by the Academy, Krzysztof Wodiczko is being honored as a visual artist who explores “ideas in architecture through any medium of expression.” Known for creating large-scale slide and video projections in both gallery and civic settings, Wodiczko has produced more than 90 projects around the world since 1980. The installations often feature politically charged images and texts projected onto architectural facades and monuments, creating startling juxtapositions that prompt critical reflections on historical trauma and the power dynamics embedded in public space. Through his art, Wodiczko has engaged with immigrants, war survivors, domestic abuse victims, and homeless veterans.

Wodiczko has created projections on the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (1988/2018); the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1989); Kraków’s City Hall Tower (1996); Boston’s Bunker Hill Monument (1998); Kunstmuseum Basel (2005); the Goethe-Schiller Monument, Weimar, Germany (2016); and the Admiral Farragut Monument in Madison Square Park, New York (2020). In 2021, the GSD exhibited the career-spanning Interrogative Design: Selected Works of Krzysztof Wodiczko at Druker Design Gallery. Coinciding with the retrospective, Harvard Art Museums presented the video-projection installation Krzysztof Wodiczko: Portrait .

Julie Bargmann (MLA ’87) is a landscape architect, founder of D.I.R.T. Studio (Dump It Right There), and Professor Emerita of Landscape Architecture at the University of Virginia. Her design practice rehabilitates contaminated and postindustrial sites, transforming neglected and abandoned lands into functional sites. Bargmann won the first Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize in 2021 for her dedication to addressing social and environmental justice through building regenerative landscapes. The Academy’s press release notes that Bargmann is an “American architect whose work is characterized by a strong personal direction.”

The Academy’s architecture awards program began in 1955 with the inauguration of the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize and has since expanded to include four Arts and Letters Awards. This year’s recipients were chosen from a group of individuals and practices nominated by the members of Arts and Letters. The members of 2024 selection committee include the GSD’s Toshiko Mori (chair), Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Architecture, and Marlon Blackwell , Robert P. John Portman Design Critic in Architecture. The committee also included Deborah Berke, Merrill Elam, Steven Holl, Michael Maltzan (MArch ’88), Nader Tehrani (MAUD ’91), and Billie Tsien.

The American Academy of Arts and Letters is an honor society of the country’s 300 leading architects, artists, composers, and writers. Each year it elects new members as vacancies occur, administers over 70 awards and prizes, exhibits art and manuscripts, funds performances of new works of musical theater, and purchases artwork for donation to museums across the United States.

The architecture awards will be presented alongside the art, literature, and music awards at Arts and Letters’s annual ceremony in May.

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Declaring that “Today will be a significant day in college sports history,” the Ivy League and the Big Ten announced that they would merge, effective in the 2025-26 academic year, and that the conference will institute relegation.

According to the blockbuster April 1 agreement, the eight Ivy schools—Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, and Yale—will join the 18 schools of the Big Ten (which next season will include former Pac-12 schools Oregon, Washington, Southern Cal, and UCLA) to form a coast-to-coast superconference. The Ivy schools will be permitted to offer athletic scholarships, reversing a policy that has been in effect since the league began play in 1956. Other changes in policy will include graduate students being eligible to participate on current Ivy teams, and Ivy teams being able to compete in football’s postseason, including the national championship series.

“This is huge,” said Tim Murphy, who recently retired after 30 seasons coaching Harvard football . “Postseason football was always the line in the sand for the Ivy schools, symbolizing our different stance on the sport.”

The merger is the latest, and most startling, instance of conference realignment that is remaking college sports. “Like the Soviet Union, the Ivy student-athlete model had a lifetime of seven decades,” said Robin Harris, executive director of the Ivy League. “But with all the recent changes in college sports—such as rulings allowing compensation for use of name, image, and likeness, and new rules regarding transfers—our presidents, A.D.s, coaches, student-athletes and alumni felt as a body that we were losing ground. As we have watched TV revenues rocket upward, particularly for football and men’s and women’s basketball, we decided that we owed it to our schools to re-enter the major college-sports arena.”

CBS, Fox, and NBC hold rights to broadcast Big Ten football games in a seven-year deal estimated at $7 billion. In 2021-22, the most recent year for which figures are available, Ohio State topped the conference, receiving $71.92 million from conference distributions, media rights, and postseason football. The school with the lowest distribution, Rutgers, reported $49.21 million. “We could not ignore the financial inducements offered by a return to big-time football,” said Harris. “We have iconic brands in major TV markets. Ivy football again will be a hot commodity. Our stadiums will be filled. Once again, we will be bowl-eligible. Once again, we will be in the football national championship picture.”

“We are thrilled to be allied with such prestigious universities,” said Tony Pettiti, commissioner of the Big Ten. “The Ivies and the Big Ten are a great fit, geographically as well as academically.” Pettiti predicted that “in five years the Penn-Penn State rivalry will be one of the five biggest in college football.”

Ivy League schools have been competitive in several major sports, even winning national championships in ice hockey and lacrosse. Football is the sport needing the largest upgrade. In the game’s early days, the future Ivy schools were preeminent football powers , with Yale, Princeton, and Harvard often being named national champions. Four future Ivy teams (Brown in 1916, Penn in ’17, Harvard in ’20, and Columbia in ’34) played in the Rose Bowl, while three early Heisman winners (Larry Kelley and Clint Frank of Yale in 1936 and ’37, respectively, and Dick Kazmaier of Princeton in ’51) came from future Ivy schools. But beginning in the mid-1950s and continuing to the present, the gap between Ivy football and the major college version has become a chasm. The last Ivy team to be nationally significant in the major-college rankings was Dartmouth’s 1970 squad, which finished its season No. 14.

Although many of the Ivy football stadiums are small or recently have been downsized, Harris said that financial campaigns will kick off at each school to rebuild and enlarge them. Likewise, so-called “collectives” will be activated to raise funds earmarked for enhanced student-athlete compensation. Reportedly the going rate for a Big Ten-worthy quarterback is $1 million and up. Harris is unfazed. “Our alumni have the deepest pockets in the world,” she said. The Ivy schools also will loosen academic standards to recruit student-athletes who otherwise would not qualify. As Erin McDermott, the Nichols Family director of athletics at Harvard, put it, “For certain applicants, we will focus more on their times in the 40 and their reps in the weight room than on their GPAs.”

A novel feature of the merger will be relegation—akin to that in European soccer. In ’25-26 there will be three divisions: two from the Big Ten, and a third containing the Ivy schools, which will be named the Teevens Division, in honor of late Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens. At season’s end the three top Ivy finishers will move up to the Big Ten for the following season’s play, while the Big Ten’s three bottom finishers will drop down to the Teevens. “This certainly will make those late-season games between, say, Maryland and Northwestern more exciting,” said Pettiti.

At least two Ivy coaches have history with their new foes. Tommy Amaker , Harvard’s men’s basketball coach, previously coached at Michigan. And Andrew Aurich, the Crimson’s new football coach , spent the past four seasons as the tight ends coach at Rutgers. When told that the merger was official, Aurich joked, “I thought I was through with those big dummies from Ohio State.” Turning serious, he added, “We’ll show up. I can’t wait for us to play in Michigan’s Big House, and for the Wolverines to come into the Stadium. Bring ’em on!”

Dick Friedman ’73, this magazine’s football correspondent, has spent recent weeks coping with the football off-season and his dismay at the college sport’s realignment (and newfangled innovations like the transfer portal), composing fantasies like this one.

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The Revival style that came to characterize a great deal of the buildings in Moscow during the latter half of the 19th century and into the 20th century came about as an extension of a greater architectural tradition that spanned the entirety of the nation during the 18th century. Neo-classicism came to dominate the cityscapes of Russia at in the 1700s, with a discernible Western European influence (French specifically) (3). The Neo-classicist style was infused into so many imperial Russian buildings, in fact, that the popular image (3) of the city has come to be remembered with it. 

The Gothic Revival period of Russia’s architectural history sprung from this Neo-classical tradition. Many of Russia’s architects and designers at this time sought their training in the West, but as the 19th century progressed, Russia sought to exude the nationalism that was felt among its people through the architecture of the city. With that, “the first attempts were made to imitate Russian wooden architecture… not so much [a] restoration of what had been lost as stylistic imitation—to search for national originality in architecture” (3).

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3. Shvidkovsky, Dmitry, and Antony Wood. "VI: The European Century, VII: The Soviet and Post-Soviet Eras." Russian Architecture and the West. New Haven: Yale UP, 2007. 291-386. Print.

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