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The UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design presents a series of public events throughout the year. Lectures offer the opportunity to hear about the new work of prominent architects, designers, theorists and historians and are presented in UCLA's Decafé (Perloff Hall, Room 1302), unless otherwise noted. Exhibitions feature innovative student and faculty work, as well as the work of local and national architects, artists and designers, and are presented in the Perloff Gallery (Perloff Hall, Room 1318) and the Perloff Main Hallway, unless otherwise noted. Hours are Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (closed on campus holidays).  

 

All events are free and open to the public. Programs are subject to change. For updated information and confirmation of events, call 310-267-4704 or visit www.aud.ucla.edu. All-day parking ($10) and short-term parking (payable at pay stations) are available in Lot 3 (enter the campus at Hilgard and Westholme avenues).  

 

EXHIBITIONS  

 

Sept. 25–Dec. 11

Free

 

Summer studio work "Of Mathematics and Minigolf," led by Jason Payne, adjunct assistant professor of architecture and urban design, focuses on coordination of surface topology with minigolf mechanics, using conceptual and technical agility in moving abstract topological diagrams to a working miniature golf course. This exhibition is made possible with support from Walt Disney Imagineering, Herta and Paul Amir, Joyce and Aubrey Chernick, and Ralph and Shirley Shapiro.

 

 

Oct. 3–31

ACE Gallery Institute of Contemporary Art

The Wilshire Tower, 5514 Wilshire Blvd. (2nd floor), Los Angeles 90036

Gallery hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

For information: 323-935-4411 or www.acegallery.net/live.php

 

This exhibition presents five experimental projects by architect and design scholar Hodgetts and collaborators from 1965 to 1978. Exploring a broad range of issues — new materials and technologies, prefabrication and housing, mass media and entertainment — the exhibition dramatizes the playful excitement that drove one of the most inventive periods in American architectural and design history. The event is organized by Hi-C, a collaborative group of UCLA Architecture and Urban Design doctoral and design graduate students.

 

 

 

Monday, Oct. 12

6:30 p.m.

Free

 

Kazuyo Sejima, co-principal of the Tokyo-based architecture firm SANAA, has received international accolades for work that is luminous and deceptively simple; sophisticated in its detail and fluid, non-hierarchical space; and highly original in its use of exterior facades as permeable membranes between interior and exterior, individual and community, and public and private experiences.

 

 

Monday, Oct. 26

6:30 p.m.

Neil Denari (principal, NMDA, Los Angeles)

Thom Mayne (principal, Morphosis, Los Angeles)

Free

 

Neil Denari and Thom Mayne are professors in UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design. Denari's work is dedicated to exploring the worlds of architecture, design, urbanism and global cultural phenomenon. Mayne co-founded Morphosis in 1972 as an interdisciplinary practice involved in rigorous design and research that yields innovative, iconic buildings and urban environments.